Dancer with MND performs on stage again through digital avatar
A ballerina with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) says she was able to dance again after her brainwaves were used to power an avatar live on-stage in Amsterdam. Breanna Olson, a mother of three, found out two and a half years ago she had ALS, the most common form of motor
Sinner into last eight after 37-set record snapped
Jannik Sinner dropped a set at an ATP Masters event for the first time in 186 days but he still managed to book a spot in the Monte Carlo quarter-finals with victory over Tomas Machac. The Italian has lifted the past three Masters 1000 titles – at Paris, Indian Wells
US inflation jumps to highest level in almost two years
Inflation in the US accelerated last month to its highest rate in nearly two years, as surging oil prices triggered by the US-Israel war in Iran started to spill over into the wider economy. Consumer prices climbed 3.3% over the 12 months to March, picking up from 2.4% in February,
Taiwan opposition leader meets Xi Jinping in Beijing
China’s President Xi Jinping received Taiwan’s main opposition party leader on Friday, in a rare meeting which saw both sides stress a desire for cross-strait peace. Cheng Li-wun is the Kuomintang’s (KMT) first sitting leader to visit China in a decade. In 2016, Beijing cut off high-level communications with Taiwan
The high-stakes diplomacy that led to Pakistan hosting US-Iran peace talks
As Pakistan celebrates its success in helping negotiate a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, its leaders are preparing to host the peace talks. A two-day holiday was declared in the country’s capital of Islamabad ahead of the talks, which are due to begin on Saturday. Whether or not
Businesses scramble to get noticed by AI search
For many businesses their website is a vital shopfront, so losing 140 million visits in a single year would be a big problem. That’s what happened to HubSpot, and the cause was AI. The company provides sales, marketing and customer service tools for business-to-business companies. Like many firms, HubSpot, has
Arsenal’s big summer: Arteta contract and Nwaneri and Lewis-Skelly futures
For Arsenal, it’s all about the here and now. Seven games from winning their first Premier League in 22 years and within touching distance of the Champions League semi-final. Mikel Arteta is on course to come good on his mantra: “trust the process”. That said, there is no sense that any
‘One of the harshest places on Earth’: The 1960s green ‘Utopia’ that tried to reinvent the world
In an extreme environmental and political climate in the Colombian savannah, one maverick village has relied on its homegrown inventions to survive, down to adapting children’s see-saws to draw water for the community. None of the village’s inventions are patented, but they have nonetheless made their mark on the wider
‘Faithful wife’, virgin or tragic martyr?: Why this 16th-Century masterpiece is not what it seems
Overpainted images found hidden inside Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn help unlock the mystery behind it. They also show the ways that the image of the ideal woman has been carefully controlled by men through the centuries. What do you get when you cross a mythical
Euphoria Season 3 review: ‘The show has lost its zeitgeisty edge’ ★★☆☆☆
Four years on, the provocative HBO drama is back, with Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney all returning. Unfortunately, though, “it has become a series with very little to say”. Of all the twists you might have anticipated for Euphoria’s third and (rumoured) final season, turning Rue’s (Zendaya) story into