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Hogwarts Legacy: Harry Potter video game gets bumper sales despite LGBTQ backlash
Many accused author JK Rowling of transphobia for emphasizing biological sex over notions of gender. She denies the charge. The video game's release has prompted some to call for a boycott but thanks to pre-orders it is already sitting at the top of the sales charts
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Bone Appetit: Now canine cafes and restaurants are catering for doggie diners
The attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to an animal has whetted the appetite of entrepreneurs eager to carve out a place for themselves in a dog food market
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Berlin is giving young people €50 to go to museums, theatres, and nightclubs
Berlin's Jugendkulturkarte, or Youth Culture Card, is a prepaid card offering young people €50 to spend on the cultural experience of their choice, valid from February 1. They can choose to use this allowance to visit 200 cultural venues in the city for free
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Animal rights advocate Pamela Anderson will now host a plant-based cooking show
Pamela Anderson is set to return to the small screen in support of a cause that has long been close to her heart. The long-time advocate for animal rights has just landed a vegan cooking show on a Canadian TV network
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Salman Rushdie releases new novel, six months after knife attack
Written before the US knife attack that nearly took the Indian-born author's life, his novel 'Victory City' purports to be a translation of a historical epic originally written in Sanskrit
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'Upending the world': Swiss teachers take on ChatGPT
The release of ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic human writing, has sparked concerns in schools worldwide of a looming cheating epidemic
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Hijabi 'indie mothers' embraced by young Indonesian music fans
Originally formed 47 years ago as a Koran recital group, the all-female Nasida Ria band now numbers a dozen performers, fusing Arabic and traditional Indonesian dangdut music, which was once thought tacky and dated in cosmopolitan circles
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How the Russian authorities have contemporary art in their sights
The Russian authorities are increasingly interfering with the programs of the country's museums and art galleries to ensure that they reflect national values
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Is 'rage applying' the new 'quiet quitting'?
'Rage applying" consists in applying to several job offers following an episode of professional disappointment. A phenomenon that refers to a common sentiment among employees in the working world: One deserves a better salary and better conditions
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How chefs are driving the transition to a more plant-based diet
A recent survey, carried out by the German food processing giant GEA, reports that the presence of plant-based foods in the restaurant business is increasing. 92 percent of the chefs surveyed use at least one alternative to meat or dairy products
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Pandemic to paradise: Chinese tourists return to Bali after three years
Exploring "turtle island", taking day trips to neighbouring Lombok and hitting Bali's famed beaches, the world's biggest-spending tourists were back after the Lunar New Year kicked off and Beijing reopened to the world last month