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March smashes heat records for continental US

March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. And the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some

Cannes Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup (Updating Live)

The 79th edition of Cannes Film Festival will favor the auteurs this year, with Nicolas Winding Refn, Asghar Farhadi, Pedro Almodóvar, Paweł Pawlikowski, Laszlo Nemes and Ryusuke Hamaguchi among the directors expected to premiere new films on the Croisette. After a 2025 edition

Africa: Gulf Shock, African Shield

[Independent (Kampala)] Cairo, Egypt -- Africa's multilateral lender, African Export-Import Bank, has approved a $10 billion emergency facility to shield African and Caribbean economies from the fallout of escalating tensions in the Gulf, as policymakers race to contain a fresh

9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971

More than a century after women’s suffrage in the United States, it’s not enough to bone up on the platforms of female primary candidates (though that’s an excellent start). A Twitter user and self-described Old Crone named Robyn urged her fellow Americans to take a good long

House prices and rents went up in Q4 2025

In the fourth quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU rose by 5.5%, while rents increased by 3.2% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024. Compared with the third quarter of 2025, house prices increased by 0.8% and rents by 0.6%. This information comes from data on house