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Beyoncé is bringing ‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’ to US theatres on December 1. Soon after wrapping her final show on the mammoth global jaunt in support of her seventh studio album in Kansas City on Sunday (01.10.23), the ‘Single Ladies’ hitmaker debuted the trailer for her concert film. The synopsis reads: “It is about […]

PHOENIX, ARIZONA — After a summer of extreme heat, Arizona’s most populous city is in the record books again. This time Phoenix is notching a record for dry heat. The National Weather Service said the monsoon season this year in the arid Southwest dropped only 0.15 inches (.38 centimeters) of rainfall from June 15 to September […]

In pockets of Europe’s Alpine mountains, glaciers are abundant enough that ski resorts operate above the snow and ice. Ski lifts, resorts, cabins and huts dot the landscape — and have done so for decades. But glaciers are also one of the most obvious and early victims of human-caused climate change, and as they shrink […]

The House has passed a bipartisan bill to avert a government shutdown just hours ahead of a midnight deadline, setting up a Senate vote over funding the US federal government for another 45 days. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the proposal Saturday morning, following weeks of in-fighting between House Republicans. The bill, which includes the […]

BEIJING — China’s factory activity in September recorded its first expansion in six months, an official survey said Saturday, providing another sign that the world’s second-largest economy is gradually improving after its post-pandemic malaise. According to the government statistics bureau and an official industry group, the monthly purchasing managers’ index rose to 50.2 this month from […]

A teenager has cut down a world-famous tree in northern England. The 16-year-old boy has been arrested and released for cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree that stood alone along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland county. The tree, which was several hundred years old, was cut down Wednesday, in what Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Kim […]

MEXICO CITY — The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. Latin American feminists have spent decades fighting to roll back strict prohibitions, although there are still few countries with a total ban, like El Salvador and Dominican Republic. […]

India’s moon lander and rover, which made a historic landing on the south pole of the moon, have not “woken up” after being put in sleep mode earlier this month to survive the freezing lunar night temperatures. Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization have not succeeded in reestablishing communication with the Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover, which […]

Billie Eilish has opened up about writing What Was I Made For for the Barbie film. During an interview with Allure for their latest cover story, the singer/songwriter shared that she and her brother Finneas, who she often co-writes songs with, were feeling less than creative when they penned the heart-wrenching ballad. “We wrote it […]

WASHINGTON — Iranian naval forces repeatedly aimed a laser at an American military helicopter during a routine flight in international airspace over the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military said Thursday. The helicopter — an AH-1Z Viper — is attached to a unit deployed on the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship, which was sent to the region […]