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Australian authorities have released a recording of the emergency call made by heroic teen Austin Appelby after he swam for hours in rough seas to seek help from his family. In a recording released by Western Australia Police on Wednesday, 13-year-old Austin can be heard calmly explaining the situation and requesting a helicopter to search for his mother and two siblings. The family was paddleboarding and kayaking off the coast of Quindalup, Western Australia, on January 30th when they were swept out to sea. Austin swam 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) to shore and then ran along the beach to reach…
Hollywood groups are objecting to a new AI video model called SeaDance 2.0, claiming it has quickly become a tool for “blatant” copyright infringement. ByteDance, the Chinese company that recently closed a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations (it retains a stake in the new joint venture), launched Seedance 2.0 earlier this week. According to the Wall Street Journal, this updated model is now available to Chinese users of ByteDance’s Jianying app, and the company says it will soon be available to global users of its CapCut app. Similar to tools like OpenAI’s Sora, Seedance allows users to create videos…
Luxury brands from Harry Winston to Loewe are going all out with their Lunar New Year collections to attract Chinese customers. Ahead of the Year of the Horse, which begins on Tuesday, Harry Winston has unveiled a limited-edition $81,500 rose gold watch with a diamond bezel and a red lacquer horse. Luxury fashion brand Chloé unveiled a capsule collection that ranges from a $250 silk scarf to a $5,300 snakeskin and leather shoulder bag with a horsebit chain connecting the head and tail of a horse. Many other brands, including Loewe, Gucci and Loro Piana, have introduced new bag charms…
Dhaka Reuters — Bangladesh’s opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a landslide victory in Friday’s parliamentary elections, returning it to power for the first time in nearly 20 years, with leader Tariq Rahman set to become prime minister as the country emerges from months of unrest and economic turmoil. Rahman, the son of former prime minister Khaleda Zia and assassinated former president Ziaur Rahman, faces the pressing task of restoring political stability, restoring investor confidence and rebuilding key industries, including the garment industry, after the prolonged turmoil that followed the fall of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s government in 2024.…
Charlie Hull won the season-opening Ladies European Tour event by one shot with an impressive final-round 65 at the LET’s PIF Saudi Ladies International in Riyadh.With what ultimately proved to be a tournament-clinching birdie on the 18th hole, England’s Hull, who had already made an eagle on the par-5 12th, finished the final round on seven under par, giving him a 19-under clubhouse lead for the tournament. South Africa’s Cassandra Alexander, still on the course, had a chance to deny Hull altogether or force a playoff from her 19 under par position, but she bogeyed the 17th hole and was…
Shoppers in New York City lined up in Greenwich Village on Thursday for the grand opening of free grocery store Polimarket. The market, perhaps named after New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani’s proposed municipal grocery store, will only be open until 7pm on Sundays. But its eponymous sponsor, a prediction market that allows users to trade yes or no on the outcome of real-world events, from Super Bowl coin flips to Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, appears to be here to stay. That doesn’t necessarily seem to be the case. In 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission fined Polymarket $1.4…
Last week was a tale of two markets. While industrial stocks soared, financial and technology stocks slumped as concerns about artificial intelligence weighed on. Mixed economic data further complicates matters. On Friday, the S&P 500 rebounded slightly on inflation reports that supported the possibility of lower interest rates in the future, but it wasn’t enough to push the index into the green this week, and it wasn’t enough to convince investors that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month. The S&P 500 index fell 1.4% for the week, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2%. Despite falling 1.2% for…
Crisencio Somerville didn’t blush for West Ham as he came off the bench to score the winning goal in extra time against Burton in League One, sending Nuno Espirito Santos’ side into the last 16 of the FA Cup with a 1-0 victory.Somerville cut in from the left in the 95th minute of a poorly contested game, beat two defenders and fired a shot that deflected Terence VanKooten and beat Brad Collins for six of his last seven goals. The Hammers may have renewed their hopes of avoiding relegation by winning three of their last five Premier League games, but…
India will authorize a $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital program that will channel government funds to startups through private investors, redoubling efforts to fund high-risk areas such as artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and other sectors commonly referred to in the industry as deep tech. The Rs 1,000 billion fund, first outlined in India’s finance minister’s January 2025 budget speech, received cabinet approval this week (more than a year after the speech), allowing the government to proceed with deployment. The previous program, launched in 2016, committed 100 billion rupees to 145 private funds and invested more than 255 billion rupees (about…
Momo Production | Digital Vision | Getty ImagesFor homeowners who sell their homes later in life, the timing may come at a cost, a new study suggests.According to a study summary released in January by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston University, when sellers reach around age 70, their homes start to sell for less than younger homeowners.The study found that 80-year-old homeowners pay 5% less for a home they own for about 11 years than sellers in their 40s or 50s. If the typical home price is $405,400 (the national median sales price in December, according to the…