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Elon Musk has taken over the @x Twitter account without paying its owner as part of the social network’s ongoing rebrand. Gene X Hwang, a photographer in San Francisco, was behind the social network’s “@x” handle until Tuesday night when it was changed to the official account for X, Mr Musk’s new name for Twitter. Mr Hwang had said he had been willing to entertain a sale of the @x account, which w

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Old people in Japan should kill themselves to avoid burdening the state, a professor at Yale University has said. Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics, has also suggested that euthanasia could be made compulsory. Last year, official statistics in Japan revealed that over-75s accounted for 15 per cent of the country’s population for the first time. Those over 65 account for 29.1 per c

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Russian servicemen stand guard in front of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. A soldier camping in a toxic forest nearby has reportedly been killed by radiation poisoning Credit: Russian Defence Ministry/Shutterstock Radiation from the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine has reportedly killed one Russian soldier after his unit camped in a toxic area known as the Red Forest. The soldier wa

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Dr Van Kerkhove said several alternatives have already been dismissed, including naming variants after Greek gods and goddesses New coronavirus variants could be named after star constellations once letters of the Greek alphabet are exhausted, a senior World Health Organization official has suggested. In an interview with the Telegraph Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical chief for Covid-19, sa

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A musician claims he was cut from the Olympic opening ceremony because he was black, as organisers face a third staffing row in a week. Latyr Sy, a Senagalese percussionist based in Japan for 20 years, accused organisers of racism after he was booked and then cancelled for inclusion at the curtain-raiser. “It’s totally racist,” Mr Sy reportedly said: “I was told they said ‘Why this guy? Why this A

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A Japanese musician who boasted about abusing mentally-ill classmates when at school has quit his role as part of the creative team for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony after outcry at his appointment. Keigo Oyamada, better known by his stage name Cornelius, was last week named as one of the music composers for the opening ceremony after a career spanning more than 25 years. That announcement s

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William Adams has been formally identified as the first English person to set foot in Japan An Englishman who became shipwrecked in Japan in 1600 and later rose the ranks to become a Samurai: the tale of William Adams' life sounds like the plot of an adventure story. Now, the remains of Adams - the first English person to set foot in Japan - can be formally identified today, the 400th anniversary

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Troops are stationed across Asian countries, including at Osan Air Base in South Korea AP Photo/Susan Walsh The defence ministers of South Korea and China have agreed to develop their security ties to ensure stability in north-east Asia, the latest indication that Washington’s long-standing alliances in the region are fraying. On the sidelines of regional security talks in Bangkok on Sunday, Jeong

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A man holds an imperial flag as he visits the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in August on the 74th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two Credit: KIM KYUNG-HOON/ REUTERS South Korea has condemned Japan’s refusal to ban images of the former imperial flag of the rising sun from the Tokyo Olympic Games next summer, as relations between Seoul and Tokyo continue to sour. South Korea’s foreign min

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Harvard student Obasi Shaw created a rap album as his final year thesis. Credit: AP A Harvard student has become the first in the university's history to submit a rap album for his senior thesis. Student Obasi Shaw, who will graduate from the prestigious university next week, produced his album Liminal Minds while other classmates wrote novels, poems, and short stories. The 10-track album is the f

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Increased multiculturalism will see the 'th' sound vanish because it is difficult for foreigners to pronounce Visitors expecting to hear the Queen’s English spoken on the streets of London in 50 years may need to "fink" again. By 2066, linguists are predicting that the "th" sound will vanish completely in the capital because there are so many foreigners who struggle to pronounce interdental conson

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Displaced people from the Yazidi religious minority, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, ride trucks as they are evacuated Credit: Reuters It’s a level of pastoral care few universities can boast of providing. A chemistry professor at Lund University dispatched a team of elite mercenaries into an Islamic State warzone to free one of her doctoral students and his

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Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the heart-shaped button and that it would be getting rid of it “soon” Twitter is planning to remove the ability to "like" tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network. Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the heart-shaped butt

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Yuka Ogata, 43, was ordered to leave Kumamoto Municipal Assembly in southern Japan last year after bringing her seven-month-old baby to work Credit: KYODO/REUTERS The Japanese politician who was censured for bringing her baby to work has been kicked out of another local government meeting – this time for sucking cough sweets. Yuka Ogata, 43, attracted global headlines when she was ordered to leave

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Among the new artefacts revealed to the public today for the first time is "Porgy", the teddy bear Turing used to practice his speeches on, and a replica rebuild of Delilah, the secret speech system that Turing began developing for the war effort in 1943. The exhibition, at the Buckinghamshire mansion where Turing was stationed during the war, will also include a poignant letter written by academi

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Avital Ronell giving a lecture in 2017. She has been suspended by NYU after the university upheld accusations of sexual harassment A celebrated female professor at New York University has been found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate, prompting a host of leading feminists to spring to her defense. Avital Ronell, a world-renowned professor of German and comparative literature

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Google has changed and introduced a host of emojis as part of its inclusivity drive Credit: Twitter/Jennifer Daniel Google is removing the egg from its salad emoji as part of a drive to make it more inclusive for vegans. The emoji is being edited in the Android P Beta 2 software update, which is due to come out this summer, along with a host of other emoji alterations. Jennifer Daniel, the UX Mana

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The falling birth rate in Japan comes despite financial and other incentives designed to encourage young couples to have children Credit: SOPA/LightRocket A politician from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has issued a reluctant apology after suggesting that single women are a burden on the state. Kanji Kato, 72, was accused of sexism for telling newlyweds that they need to have at least th

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Pupils sitting GCSE and A-level exams complained they struggled to read the correct time Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said. Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue

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The British offices of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. It is understood that competition watchdogs gained access to the company’s offices in Hammersmith, west London, early on Tuesday to seize documents and computer records. The full details of the confidential investigation, which is

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A survey found the photo-sharing app negatively impacted on people's body image, sleep and fear of missing out Credit: Cultura RM/Alamy Instagram is the worst social media site in terms of its impact on the mental health of young people, a report has suggested. The #StatusofMind survey found the photo-sharing app negatively impacted on people's body image, sleep and fear of missing out. However, t

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A final theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes was completed by Stephen Hawking shortly before he died, it has emerged. Colleagues have revealed the renowned theoretical physicist’s final academic work was to set out the groundbreaking mathematics needed for a spacecraft to find traces of multiple big bangs. Currently being reviewed by a leading scientific journal, the paper

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Allowing disgruntled staff to stab voodoo dolls of their boss could help them feel less resentful and improve the quality of their work, a new study has suggested. According to the Health and Safety Executive, more than 12 million Britons are forced to take time off work each year because of stress and anxiety, often caused by pressure from overbearing or abusive managers. But rather than allowing

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Oxfam is weather a storm of criticism that its staff used prostitutes while delivering aid in Haiti Credit: Nick Ansell/PA The Oxfam sex abuse crisis deepened last night after it emerged that British aid agencies were warned 10 years ago of an “urgent problem” and the Haiti president accused charities of covering the attacks up. A report presented to charities in 2008 claimed that children as you

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A spirit of terror stalks the land which leaves no one – or certainly no male – living or dead, free from the possibility of retrospective guilt. Latest in the firing line are the kind of Victorian academic painters who until now have been considered guilty of nothing more heinous than being irredeemably boring and stuffy. On Friday, Manchester Art Gallery removed without warning John William Wate

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'If we don't like the uniform, we needn't do the job' - grid girls line up after the qualifying session for the Formula One Grand Prix at the Monaco racetrack in May 2017 Credit: Frank Augstein/AP I’ve always been a motorsports fan. I grew up watching them with my dad, who taught me the meaning of being black-flagged and pointed out the backmarkers. So when I saw a job casting for a ‘grid girl’ wh

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A celebrated painting JW Waterhouse has been removed from display at the Manchester Art Gallery, in an act the museum says aims to "challenge this Victorian fantasy" of "the female body as either a 'passive decorative form' or a 'femme fatale'". Inspired by Greek mythology, Waterhouse's 1896 painting Hylas and the Nymphs shows a young man being abducted by nude water nymphs, and usually hangs in a

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Strava Labs heat map reveals the locations of millions of users - including those on military bases Credit: Strava labs A global map showing the distribution of people using personal fitness devices risks giving away troop movements and secret military facilities around the world, according to defence analysts who have already used it to pinpoint bases in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The Ameri

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Kane Gamble arrives at the Old Bailey in London, where he will be sentenced for hacking top ranking US officials A 15-year-old gained access to plans for intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be the head of the CIA to gain access to his computers, a court has heard. From the bedroom of the Leicestershire home he shared with his mother, Kane Gamble used “social engineerin

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