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A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed Sunday in the country's northwestern mountains, state media said, worsening the turbulence that has gripped the nation on both the international and domestic fronts in recent months.Mr Raisi, 63, was traveling from Iran's border with Azerbaijan to inaugurate a joint dam project. The helicopter, carrying Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, state media said, crashed near the town of Varzaghan around 1pm local time in bad weather and thick fog.Search and rescue teams searched an area of ​​high mountains and dense forests in rain and fog for more than 10 hours. At one point authorities called off the aerial search due to bad weather, sending infantrymen, elite Revolutionary Guards ...

There is now a good body of research on the neuroscience of meditation, showing that it improves self-awareness, emotion regulation, self-control, and many other things. Most people, if they are honest with themselves, adopt some sort of habit of dealing with the situation when they feel stressed or down. Think about food, alcohol, fate, entertainment, shopping, even overwork and excessive exercise. Most adults have never received formal education on what to do with negative emotions.Addiction isn't just about substance use. It's about trying to avoid a feeling. It's about trying to escape. You know it's not good for you, but you do it anyway because you don't like the current state you're in, whether it's feeling pain, sorrow, loss, or shame.Why? Because...

Revelers in Spain and Portugal ventured out into the temperate spring evening on Saturday, hoping for a memorable night. No one expected a visitor from space to explode above their heads.At 11.46pm in Portugal, a fireball streaked across the sky, leaving behind a smoldering trail of glowing graffiti. Footage shared on social media shows jaws agape as the dark night briefly turns to day, blazing in shades of snowy white, otherworldly green and arctic blue.Rocky asteroids cause sky-high streaks as they self-destruct in Earth's atmosphere with some frequency. But over the weekend, the projectile hurtled toward Earth at a remarkable speed: about 100,000 miles per hour, more than double that expected from a typical asteroid. Experts say it had a strange trajectory, not matching that nor...

As in the United States, TikTok is popular in Taiwan, used by a quarter of the island's 23 million residents.People post videos of themselves buying trendy clothes, dressing up as video game characters, and playing pranks on their roommates. Influencers share their choreographies and discuss whether sticky rice dumplings are better in northern or southern Taiwan.Taiwanese users of TikTok, owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, are also being served the kind of pro-China content that the US Congress has cited as a reason to pass a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in America.A recent example is a video showing a Republican congressman, Rob Wittman of Virginia, stoking fears that a vote for the ruling party in Taiwan's January election would prompt a surge in American arms ...

When pro-Palestinian student protesters took over Columbia University's Hamilton Hall last month and renamed it “Hind's Hall,” the banner they unfurled featured images of a cartoon character created over 50 years ago who symbolizes the resilience of the Palestinians.On either side of the text were two images of a barefoot boy with tattered clothes and spiky hair, his back to us.The character is called Handala (variously transliterated as Hanzala or Handzala), a name derived from a native plant that is deeply rooted, persistent, and bears bitter fruit, and has become a powerful symbol of the Palestinian struggle. The image was created in 1969 by Palestinian political cartoonist Naji Al-Ali, one of the most read cartoonists in the Arab world, who was murdered in London in 1987. (The...

Overdose deaths in the United States fell slightly last year, the first decline in five years, according to preliminary federal data released Wednesday.The rare good news in the decades-long addiction crisis is attributable mostly to a decline in deaths from synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl, said researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics, who compiled the numbers.But the full picture of the drug death toll remains bleak. Although deaths from opioids have decreased, deaths from stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine have increased. And some states, including Oregon and Washington, continued to see sharp increases in overall overdose deaths.Overall overdoses in 2023 were estimated at 107,543, down from 111,029 in 2022, a decline of 3%. Opioid deaths decreased by 3...

Russia and Ukraine targeted each other's territories on Sunday with drone attacks and airstrikes that hit urban centers and energy facilities, as both sides look for ways to inflict damage beyond the battlefield.The Russian military said it shot down nearly 60 Ukrainian drones over the Krasnodar region in southwestern Russia, which Ukraine has increasingly targeted in recent weeks because it hosts energy and military facilities supporting combat operations .Local Russian officials said an oil refinery was hit in the attack. A Ukrainian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, said Ukrainian drones hit the refinery and a military airfield in the region. Russian officials have not commented on the reported attack at the airport.Ukrain...

For the past year and a half since ChatGPT was released, a frightening question has hovered over the heads of major online publishers: what would happen if Google decided to overhaul its main search engine to give greater prominence to generative artificial intelligence – and in would it interrupt our business in the meantime? ?The question speaks to one of the most fragile dependencies in today's online media ecosystem.Most large publishers, including the New York Times, get a significant share of traffic from people who go to Google, search for something, and click on articles about it. That traffic, in turn, allows publishers to sell ads and subscriptions, which pay for the next wave of articles, which Google can then show to people searching for the next thing.The whole symbiotic...

Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel's war cabinet, presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an ultimatum on Saturday, saying he will leave the government if he does not soon develop a plan for the future of the war in Gaza.While Gantz's departure would not overthrow the country's emergency wartime government, the move would further strain a fragile coalition that has provided Netanyahu's far-right government with a boost of international legitimacy, and would make the prime minister once again more dependent on the government. its intransigent partners.“If we choose the path of fanatics, dragging the country into the abyss, we will be forced to leave the government,” Gantz said in a televised news conference. “We will turn to the people and build a government...

It takes a lot of energy to grow a baby – ask anyone who's been pregnant. But scientists are only now finding out how much.In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, Australian researchers estimated that a human pregnancy requires nearly 50,000 food calories over the course of nine months. That's the equivalent of about 50 pints of Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream, and much more than the researchers expected.Previous estimates were lower because scientists generally assumed that most of the energy involved in reproduction ends up stored in the fetus, which is relatively small.But Dustin Marshall, an evolutionary biologist at Monash University, and his students found that the energy stored in a baby's tissues represents only about 4% of the total energy c...