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Remember When David Crosby Released a Spacey Solo Album in 1971?
David Crosby’s 1971 debut solo album, *If I Could Only Remember My Name*, marked a deliberately unconventional departure from the accessible sound associated with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Created after the death of Crosby’s girlfriend Christine Hinton and amid strained relations within CSNY, the record channelled grief into atmospheric, experimental music rather than commercial…
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Amazon MGM Studios Exec Carina Walker Named Head of YA
Amazon MGM Studios has promoted Carina Walker to head of young adult programming, completing global TV head Peter Friedlander’s senior creative leadership team. The appointment underlines Amazon’s push to make YA a priority, particularly as it develops adaptations of popular BookTok properties and projects led by distinctive creative talent. Walker replaces Alex Weinberger, who left…
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Fourteen babies die in Islamabad hospital fire as Dolly Parton dies aged 80
DNA testing is needed to identify the infant victims of a Pakistani hospital blaze, while India confirms its first Gaganyaan test launch this year, Waspi women await Burnham’s pension pledge, and County Fermanagh celebrates a barn owl breeding boom.
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15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
The Seattle-based startup Interlune has developed a lab technique to simulate lunar regolith exposed to billions of years of solar wind, tackling a key obstacle in its plan to mine helium-3 from the Moon. Helium-3, a rare isotope embedded in lunar soil by the solar wind, has long-term promise for fusion energy and nearer-term uses…
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Murderers ‘tried to cut Urfan Sharif’s throat in cell with a tin lid’ in suspected revenge attack for killing daughter Sara, court told
Two convicted murderers allegedly attempted to kill Urfan Sharif, the father of murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif, in a planned attack at HMP Belmarsh on New Year’s Day 2025, a court has heard. Steven Sansom and Adam Watson are accused of luring Sharif into a cell under the pretext of friendship before attacking him from behind…
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SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast
SpaceX has proposed investing $100 billion in a Louisiana spaceport intended to support thousands of Starship launches each year, with construction planned from 2027 and a first launch targeted for 2029. The project would significantly expand the company’s launch infrastructure, but its scale depends on Starship reaching orbit and demonstrating dependable reusability, neither of which…
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Sky Orders “Second Chapter” of Rafe Spall-Starring Crime Drama ‘Under Salt Marsh’
Sky has commissioned a second series of its crime drama Under Salt Marsh, with Rafe Spall returning as the enigmatic Detective Eric Bull. In the new instalment, Bull relocates to a remote Scottish mining village where a murder investigation draws him closer to secrets from his own past. The renewal follows a strong debut for…
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Metro 2039 Reforged by War: Ukrainian Developer Creates Series’ Darkest Chapter
Ukrainian studio 4A Games has substantially reworked Metro 2039 following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, resulting in what the developer describes as the darkest instalment in the franchise’s history. Executive producer Jon Bloch has said the team’s direct experience of the war forced them to abandon their original vision and rebuild the narrative from…
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Metro 2039 Dev Reveals How the Ukraine War Led to the Series’ Darkest Game Yet
Metro 2039’s developers say Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine forced them to rebuild much of the game’s story around the human consequences of war. The result is intended to be the series’ darkest entry: creative director Andriy Shevchenko calls it “a game without heroes”, with its protagonist driven by personal motives rather than altruism. Due…
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Stephen couldn’t find a free space so he parked his car on the grass… then came the $345 fine from council: ‘Greedy’
A Brisbane man has criticised Brisbane City Council after being fined $345 for parking his car on a grassed area near a full car park. Stephen Allthorpe, 63, said he had visited Shaw Park in Wooloowin as usual to walk his dog when he found no regular spaces available, prompting him to leave his SUV…