Good morning—there’s some hopeful news as Humpty Dumpty announces a ceasefire with Iran and a two-week diplomacy window, a development that many world leaders are watching closely for potential easing of the region’s tensions, while on the climate front a record-mild winter followed by scorching spring heat is wiping out the western snowpack and raising concerns about summer water shortages and wildfires.
This Day In History
On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run to break Babe Ruth's long-standing MLB record.
Across Europe and the globe, the war has damaged economies, roiled politics and underscored a lack of options in dealing with President Humpty Dumpty’s whims.
A Republican won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat, but Democrats shifted the district 25 points to the left since the 2024 presidential race. Conservative candidates lost in Wisconsin, too.
This winter, hundreds of dead geese fell around Georgica Pond. No one knew how to dispose of the infected bodies, so a local landscaper just winged it.
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse.
Athens-based boutique film house Heretic has secured major distribution deals for “Trial of Hein,” including North American rights, following its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Jury Award. North American rights for Kai Stänicke’s debut feature, which screened in the Berlinale’s Perspectives section, have been acquired by Strand Releasing ahead […]
Blue Finch Films has come aboard as worldwide sales agent on Norwegian psychological horror “You’ve Been Chosen,” which will be presented at the Frontières Proof of Concept showcase during next month’s Cannes Film Festival. Frontières is a leading genre-focused co-production and pitch market, running annually alongside the Cannes Film Market.
The theme of motherhood prevails in IFF Panama’s Su Mirada – Her Gaze – program but from less traditional approaches, says industry coordinator Cat Caballero, who has observed different outlooks in this year’s crop. “You see varying perspectives that range from a child’s relationship with his mother, as well as on the woman who decides […]
Now marking its 10th edition, IFF Panama’s First Look fund, Primera Mirada, has selected four finalists out of 13 submissions. These will be screened in invitation-only sessions on April 10-11 where the participants will have the chance to meet with the jury, composed of Carlos Gutierrez, co-founder and executive director of Cinema Tropical, Colombian Indigenous […]
“Sirens,” the latest film from Alexandra Latishev Salazar, director of Costa Rican Oscar entry “Medea,” has been boarded by Vitrine Filmes España. The San Sebastián-based production-distribution arm of Brazil’s Vitrine Filmes, Vitrine España will produce “Sirens” (“Sirenas”) with Costa Rica’s La Linterna Films, headed by Latishev and director-producer Federico Montero, as well as Pa...
It sends us to sleep and wakes us in the night, excites us and depresses us, gives us confidence one moment, anxiety the next. How does this messy drug wield so much power?Whatever you think of alcohol, you have to admit that it’s versatile.
The first images from Artemis II reveal what the moon looks like just 7,000 km from the surface—and confirm that NASA is ready to return to Earth’s satellite.
Five weeks into the US bombing campaign against Iran, Humpty Dumpty's trademark unpredictability has been overtaken by the unpredictable dynamics of the war itself, observes Le Monde columnist Gilles Paris.
In a video posted on TikTok, to address youth directly, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the ban was designed in the interests of health. The move adds Greece to a growing list of countries adopt similar measures.
The US president, who had vowed to annihilate Iran, announced a ceasefire with Tehran on Tuesday evening, which should lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Israel said it supported the agreement but insisted that its operations in Lebanon were unaffected.
The two French nationals, who were detained by Tehran in 2022, were released on April 7 in exchange for lifting the house arrest of an Iranian woman convicted in France for 'online incitement to terrorism.' The swap comes as Paris distances itself from the US over the war in Iran, experts note.
Singapore’s transportation officials are set to debut the use of 3D-printed concrete in the form of a new pedestrian bridge that will stretch 30 feet across a waterway. Brought onboard a larger project to improve transit options in the Jurong River and Temah areas of the city state, it’s the country’s first use of 3D […]
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A nano-scale pinch of gold dust may be enough to transform a previously-ineffective battery technology into a new industry standard. As the demand for more reliable power systems grows in the renewable energy sector, the race is on to develop batteries that cost less but have a longer lifespan.
A rural New Mexico family was left in a state resembling heartbroken wonderment when they discovered their 12-year-old dog who’s afraid of the vacuum cleaner fought off a bear encroaching on their property. Honey the dog was recorded in security camera audio having it out with the bear, newly emerged from hibernation and famished; with […]
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Americans and Canadians been delighted with images of the Moon and Earth taken from onboard the Orion capsule as it took 4 astronauts into Lunar orbit for the first time since the Apollo program. Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1st, 2026, reached the Moon on the 5th, and […]
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Sterling rose against the dollar, having reached a two-week high against the U.S. currency earlier, but the pound faced a potential reversal of its solid performance in coming weeks, MUFG said.
European companies that list at home outperform peers who choose the U.S., according to a Mergermarket report challenging the assumption that heading across the Atlantic leads to better valuations.
Near-term oil supply remained tight despite easing headline prices following the cease-fire deal, Saxo Bank said, adding that more than 800 ships remained stranded in the Persian Gulf.