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Officials said many killed at popular tourist site were young, with more people reported injured or missing
At least 30 people, many of them young, have died and dozens more are reported to have been injured after a crush at a mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti that is a popular tourist spot.
Jean Henri Petit, the head of civil protection for the country’s Nord department, said the incident took place on Saturday at Citadelle Henry, also known as Citadelle Laferrière, a large 19th-century fortress built shortly after the Caribbean country’s independence from France.
Continue reading...Last year’s drop may reflect rising unemployment and improved right to request flexible working, experts say
The number of workers in Great Britain taking their bosses to employment tribunals over remote working fell last year for the first time since Covid hit, with a tightening labour market making some more reluctant to leave roles despite return-to-office mandates.
There were 54 employment tribunals decided in England, Scotland and Wales in 2025 that cited remote working, according to an analysis of records by the HR consultants Hamilton Nash: down 13% compared with 2024.
Continue reading...New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it
In 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has nicknamed its excretions “slop”. The CEOs of AI companies prance about on stage like supervillains, bragging that their products will eliminate vast swathes of work. Generative AI requires sacrificing the world’s water to feed its hideous data centres. Around the globe, chatbots induce schizophrenic delusions and urge teens to kill themselves – all while turning users brains to mush.
Who could have predicted this? Artists, that’s who.
Continue reading...Use of interns by Plum Sykes, an ex-assistant of Anna Wintour whose family owns a Yorkshire estate, reignites debate about creative industries
She is said to have been the inspiration for a character in The Devil Wears Prada and was a personal assistant of Anna Wintour, so Plum Sykes knows a thing or two about the arduous and often unglamorous life of being a fashion industry intern.
But that recognition does not, it appears, extend to paying her own interns a fair wage. Or, indeed, any wage at all.
Continue reading...It’s a high-wire act and the risk of an embarrassing failure can weigh heavily – but that’s no reason to avoid writing about sex, argues Black Bag author Luke Kennard
Are straight male writers scared of writing about sex? If you read modern fiction it’s hard to conclude otherwise. Maybe we’re worried that the very presence of a sex scene in our book would feel somehow exploitative or gratuitous. Or maybe we feel our gender has simply said enough on the subject so we should shut up.
Women writing about straight relationships don’t seem as nervous. In fact, sex is often a central element of narrative, and of nuanced portrayals of masculinity; from the slow-burn tenderness and awkwardness of intimacy in Sally Rooney’s work, to the surreal celebrations of and lamentations for the erotic in Diane Williams’s extraordinary short stories.
Continue reading...The ‘Council of Andrews’ started as a bit of fun – but has led to friendships, financial help and even fiances…
It’s a rough time to be called Andrew. In recent years, notorious figures such as Andrew Tate and the former prince have dominated the headlines, giving us a bad name. Even the CEO caught up in that Coldplay scandal was an Andy. It’s been a bad run. As an Andrew myself, I wanted to unearth some better representatives, so I recently set out on a mission: to find some fellow Andrews doing good in the world.
That’s how I stumbled upon thousands of Andrews at once.
Continue reading...A university researcher and a property manager may have found (some) common ground on leaving the EU – but what about affordable homes?
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Graham, 76, Pangbourne
Occupation Property manager
Continue reading...Rodney Harrison formed taskforce that later identified Rex Heuermann as a suspect in the string of New York murders
Rodney Harrison was not in the courtroom in Riverhead on New York’s Long Island last week when serial killer Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to the murders of seven women and volunteered that he’d also murdered an eighth.
But as the New York police department’s former chief of detectives, who was brought in to be police commissioner of Suffolk county – the area where Heuermann had dumped his victims – it was Harrison who pulled together a taskforce that came to crack the case.
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@Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo, Japan
昭和記念公園は春爛漫。
菜の花、チューリップ、ネモフィラ。
チューリップ、いろいろな色がしていましたが、一番お気に入りの色はこれ。
ピンクと白でかわいいなと思います！
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@Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo, Japan
昭和記念公園にある休憩所。
新緑がとても綺麗でした。
なんか、休憩所の雰囲気がジブリっぽいなって思いました。
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