August 15: $62,991
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Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. "Bitcoin is back," declares Yahoo Finance:

The token held near $86,000 on Tuesday after a stunning multisession rally... [Fundstrat head of digital assets Sean Farrell told Yahoo Finance on Monday] "I think the crypto winter is over, although that does not necessarily mean the path higher will be linear." For now, momentum is on crypto's side, with bitcoin jumping more than 5% on Friday and another 6% on Monday. "We believe crypto is in the early innings of a new bull market and we see few signs of overheating," Compass Point analyst Ed Engel wrote on Tuesday.

The move looks "like a combination of renewed ETF demand and a large short squeeze," Nicolai Søndergaard, senior research analyst at Nansen, said as traders betting against bitcoin are forced to buy it back, adding further fuel to the rally.
Bitcoin got bad news and then good news last week. After the U.S. Congress failed Thursday to pass a cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act', America's Securities and Exchange Commission instead announced a tokenized-stock experiment. It's a five-year "innovation exemption" that "creates a path for tokenized U.S. stocks to trade through automated market makers on public blockchain," according to CoinDesk. Yahoo Finance notes that Bitcoin and other altcoins surged after the announcement.

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After missing three rounds with a wrist injury, Isack Hadjar will compete in this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Esteban Ocon claims he is "definitely a free agent for next year" amid speculation about his Formula 1 future with Haas, adding that "I've got a lot more to give to this sport".

„Maar Ben, wat vind jij er nou eigenlijk zélf van?” Als ik een seminar verzorg waarin veel research voorbijkomt, wordt die vraag vaak gesteld.

Het is de laatste jaren tot het laatste moment spannend of Daniel Barenboim de bok nog kan beklimmen. Hij is ziek en broos. Maar dinsdagavond leidde hij ‘zijn’ bijzondere West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in het Amsterdamse Concertgebouw.

Two leaders could discuss tech safety issues and US-China trade ties but may skip over climate emergency

• Analysis: AI looms large over Trump-Xi meeting

The leaders of the world’s two superpowers are meeting in the US this week. It is Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the US in more than a decade. The last time the Chinese president was hosted in Washington (by Barack Obama in 2015), the issues on the agenda included cybercrime, technology, the climate crisis and human rights. The star of the day was Ne-Yo, who serenaded Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, with Peng reportedly singing along at the state dinner.

This time, Xi is meeting Donald Trump, who has overhauled the world order and recalibrated the US-China relationship. Trump is contending with a China that is in a much stronger position than it was 10 years ago. Here are five things to look out for at this week’s US-China summit.

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Discovery of Gallo-Roman period structure hailed as ‘major breakthrough’ by French culture ministry

An ancient wall discovered beneath Paris has been described as a “major breakthrough” by France’s culture ministry, with the archaeological find possibly confirming the location of the city’s original settlement.

A roughly 20-metre (65ft) stretch of wall dating from the Gallo-Roman period was discovered in Paris this summer beneath a building on the Île de la Cité, near Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of the French capital.

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Whip up a curry mayonnaise and turn your leftovers into a semi-instant classic

It was my gran’s funeral a few weeks ago, so today’s recipe seems rather fitting, because coronation chicken was one of the few savoury dishes she cooked, and also one I loved. This homage to her glorious personality and astonishingly sweet tooth (add extra mango chutney for sweetness) is a wonderful way to use up leftover chicken from a roast, barbecue or whatever. I make the mayo from scratch, because I don’t keep mayonnaise in my larder, but I do have eggs and extra-virgin olive oil.

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Before Anthony Hopkins’ Dr Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Brian Cox played a cannibalistic killer in Mann’s pioneering Red Dragon adaptation

Five years before The Silence of the Lambs, there was writer-director Michael Mann’s pioneering Thomas Harris adaptation Manhunter, now on re-release in a director’s “final cut” for its 40th anniversary. It was his version of Harris’s 1981 novel Red Dragon, a movie which features Dr Hannibal Lecter (here spelt Lecktor) in a relatively minor part, and played in a much more coolly matter-of-fact and downbeat way by Brian Cox, who is first discovered in his cell lying down with his back to the camera.

It has long been a haughty, hipster film-bro affectation to claim that Cox is better in the role than Anthony Hopkins. (Lecktor’s early acoustic stuff was great, you see, before he went electric as Lecter.) I think that’s a bit obtuse, for all that Cox is of course very good. Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs is the definitive version: face it. But I will concede that Cox is more interesting than Hopkins by the time the latter came to make the 2002 adaptation of Red Dragon, at which stage the franchise had become a bit tired. Manhunter itself is a very interesting and watchable movie, but feels a little unevolved compared to Jonathan Demme’s masterly guignol spectacle, although Demme clearly inhaled Mann’s excitement at jets, ’copters and military hardware deployed at speed to bring down just one man.

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Housing rights campaigners decry landlord’s ‘barbaric behaviour’ after apartment Maricarmen had lived in for 71 years was bought by a developer

There were violent scenes in Madrid on Wednesday as riot police fought with protesters trying to prevent the eviction of a disabled 87-year-old woman from her apartment in the El Retiro district of the city.

Hundreds of protesters had gathered, many of them overnight, in an effort to block the fourth attempt to carry out the eviction. Activists from the Madrid and Barcelona tenants’ union, and celebrities including the actor Carlos Bardem and the singer and actor Ana Belén, also joined the protest.

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Ofcom says site’s age-checking regime may not be ‘highly effective’, as required by the Online Safety Act

One of the world’s most visited pornography websites is being investigated by the UK’s communications watchdog over concerns it can still be accessed by children.

Pornhub’s age checking regime may not be “highly effective”, according to Ofcom, and could be in breach of online safety laws requiring strict measures to prevent under-18s from accessing sexually explicit content.

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HAARLEM (ANP) - IKEA wil volgend jaar een aantal kleinere winkels in Nederland open. Dat bevestigt een woordvoerder van de meubelketen na berichtgeving van het AD. In de nieuwe winkels, met het formaat van een supermarkt, zal onder meer servies en verlichting te koop zijn.

De nieuwe kleinere winkels zullen tussen de 2000 en 2500 vierkante meter worden. Ter vergelijking, de grote IKEA-vestigingen in Nederland zijn tussen de 35.000 en 40.000 vierkante meter groot. Daarom is er in de kleine winkels ook geen plek voor een showroom of een zelfbedieningsmagazijn, legt een woordvoerder uit.

De nieuwe winkels zullen halverwege volgend jaar openen. Een precies aantal kan de woordvoerder niet noemen, maar het gaat om rond de vijf vestigingen.

Waar de nieuwe winkels komen, is ook nog niet duidelijk. IKEA heeft nu dertien grote winkels in Nederland. Wel heeft de woonwinkelketen een paar plekken op het oog. "We hebben nu een goede spreiding, maar er zijn wel plekken waar het langer duurt voor je bij een winkel bent."

In de nacht van 24 op 25 oktober wil Jordi de Heer zijn persoonlijke record vestigen tijdens het hardlopen. Een beetje valsspelen zit er wel bij. Hij loopt namelijk precies tijdens het uur, waarin de klok vanwege de wintertijd terug wordt gezet. Vijf vragen aan de organisator van 'De langste minuut van het jaar'.