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Macron says melting glaciers are ‘an unprecedented challenge for humanity’
The French leader spoke at the Paris Peace Forum, an annual event.
Taiwan says 103 warplanes skirted airspace as China’s ‘harassment’ drills rise
Officials said 40 of the planes crossed the symbolic halfway point between mainland China and the island.
French president backtracks on negative comments about gamers
Emmanual Macron has extended an olive branch to video gamers after linking them to riots earlier in the year.
Bulgarian writer wins International Booker Prize for darkly comic memory novel
The book beat five other finalists to the prize, which recognises fiction from around the world that has been translated into English.
Andrey Kurkov and Maryse Conde on International Booker Prize list
The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a translated work of fiction published in the UK or Ireland.
Global floods and droughts worsening with warming, study suggests
Satellites were used to measure changes in Earth’s water storage – the sum of all the water on and in the land.
Twitter glitches as links and images fail to load
The network has seen an uptick in instability and bugs since Elon Musk cut its workforce.
Twitter outage sees users told they have exceeded post limit
Users first noticed the problem when they tried to send tweets and received a message saying they had reached their ‘tweet limit’.
World ‘has enough rare earth minerals to fuel shift to green energy’
Rare earth minerals, also called rare earth elements, are described as “relatively abundant” by the US Geological Survey.
Netflix knocks Disney+ off perch after summertime subscriber bounce back
Netflix has 223 million subscribers, enabling the company to at least temporarily reclaim the mantle as the world’s largest video streaming service.