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Why a Vogue cover created a controversy for Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska
Some viewers have a visceral reaction to juxtaposing the idea of "Vogue" — with its historic connections to elitism, fantasy, wealth and frivolity — and the reality of war. It looks, they say, tasteless. Especially given some of the magazine's missteps in the past
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Climate change worsened Britain's heat wave, scientists find
Record temperatures in Britain last week would have been "highly unlikely" without the influence of human-caused climate change, a new report by the Imperial College London has found
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US economy shows another decline, fanning recession fears
News of the back-to-back contractions heightened a debate in Washington over weather a recession had begun and, if so, whether President Joe Biden was to blame
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US tech titans stumble after pandemic boom
As people are freed from pandemic lifestyles that had them relying on the internet for shopping, playing, working and learning, inflation is pushing up prices and Covid-19 is causing temporary shutdowns of factories in China relied on by tech firms
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Instagram sidelines TikTok-like features after Kardashian-Jenner, user complaints
Celebrity sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner were some of the most vocal users to have posted messages on social media this week calling for the company to "make Instagram Instagram again" and stop trying to be like TikTok
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Russia's war has killed 75,000 in Ukraine: US
The Biden administration is quietly circulating an estimate of Russian casualties in Ukraine that far exceeds earlier US estimates, telling lawmakers that more than 75,000 members of Russia's forces had been killed or injured
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SpiceJet told to cut fleet after safety incidents
SpiceJet will now be subject to "enhanced surveillance" by the DGCA after inspections of the carrier's operations prompted the regulator to cut the airline's approved fleet numbers by 50 percent for eight weeks
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Earth Overshoot Day: We're now in a resource deficit for 2022
The date—dubbed "Earth Overshoot Day"—marks a tipping point when people have used up "all that ecosystems can regenerate in one year", according to the Global Footprint Network and WWF
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In US, even the definition of 'recession' is controversial
As the spectre of recession looms over the US economy, defining exactly what one is and when it begins has sparked furious debate—based as much around politics as economics
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COVID-19 after effects: Long-lasting loss of smell, taste in 5% of Covid cases: study
The study found that six months after contracting the virus, four percent of patients had not recovered their sense of smell, while two percent had not recovered their sense of taste
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Facebook parent Meta posts first-ever revenue drop
Meta had long delivered seemingly endless upward growth but after this income miss — and reporting earlier this year its first decline in global daily users — the company sounded a more modest tone