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Marcus Fakana died in a crash just three months after being freed from a Dubai prison/ Image: X A driver has admitted causing the death of Marcus Fakana, the British teenager whose imprisonment in Dubai drew international attention, after a police pursuit ended in a fatal crash in north London. The guilty plea comes just…
ChatGPT stuns veteran investor when asked what a normal person should do to become rich/ Image: Youtube When people ask ChatGPT how to get rich, they usually expect something vague or fantastical. What surprised listeners of The Diary of a CEO was not that the question came up, but how closely the AI’s response matched…
Is Europe ready to boycott the 2026 World Cup over Trump’s threats to Greenland?? AI Image Five months before the first ball is kicked, the 2026 World Cup is already being pulled into a geopolitical argument that has nothing to do with football. The trigger is not the tournament itself, but a widening rupture between…
Ricky Gervais stars in a TV series_Afterlife (Netflix) When Ricky Gervais joked in 2021 that he wanted his body fed to the lions at London Zoo, he assumed the line would land and disappear. Instead, it turned into a headline, a public response from the zoo, and a recurring bit that has followed him for…
Orwell vs Huxley: Why ‘2026 is the new 2016’ trend is more dangerous than you think In 1949, shortly after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the British dystopian novel that remains widely read and relevant today, George Orwell received a letter from his former French teacher at Eton: Aldous Huxley. Huxley begins by praising the…
‘2026 Is the New 2016’: Why everyone’s engaging in performative trend-hopping The moment we realised the “2016 is back” thing had slipped out of our hands was not when journalists started writing explainers, or when social media filled up with throwback posts, but when Charlie Puth, now well into his thirties, posted a selfie video…
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) have found a new layer under Greenland’s ice sheet that could let ice flow to the ocean faster than previous models thought. The results suggest that Greenland’s contribution to rising sea levels in the future may speed up in warmer conditions, even in places…
Residents in West Sumatra, Indonesia have been urged to stop collecting and drinking water from a newly formed sinkhole after authorities found it was contaminated with E. coli, a bacteria linked to serious gastrointestinal illness.The incident unfolded in Limapuluh Kota Regency, where a large ground collapse drew crowds of locals who believed the water pooling…
Stranger Things Gets ‘Sequels, Prequels, Requels and Spin-Off’—and Episode 9 ‘Conformity Gate’ in New SNL Sketch A few weeks after Stranger Things ended, Saturday Night Live opened its first episode of 2026 by leaning into something viewers had already been joking about online: the idea that the show might be finished, but the franchise clearly…
NYC’s new delivery worker law takes effect January 26, 2026, as Zohran Mamdani sues one app and warns 60 others of shutdowns/ Youtube New York City has escalated its confrontation with delivery app companies, filing a lawsuit against one operator it accuses of widespread wage theft while simultaneously warning more than 60 platforms that tougher…
