Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged modern classics.

© Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

The industry has long prioritized projects with quick and reliable payback. Trump is pushing for a return to risk.

© Pedro Mattey/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Chinese-made electric vehicles are almost invisible in Canada and the United States, but elsewhere around the globe they are a huge hit, dominating international production and sales for battery-powered cars. Read More

Anti-ICE violence escalates in Minneapolis with federal officers attacked and vehicles vandalized as President Donald Trump weighs military deployment options under Insurrection Act.

The last 20 days in Iran have been deadly, violent, and unbearable to witness. The authoritarian regime in Tehran has indiscriminately targeted peaceful protesters with guns and live ammunition, cut off internet access, and imprisoned thousands. Read More

Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI

Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty – or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the answer.

The figures are staggering: an estimated $2.9tn (£2.2tn) being spent on datacentres, the central nervous systems of AI tools; the more than $4tn stock market capitalisation of Nvidia, the company that makes the chips powering cutting-edge AI systems; and the $100m signing-on bonuses offered by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to top engineers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Merten Snijders/Getty Images

© Photograph: Merten Snijders/Getty Images

© Photograph: Merten Snijders/Getty Images

I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger

When I was a little girl, there was nothing scarier than a stranger.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, kids were told, by our parents, by TV specials, by teachers, that there were strangers out there who wanted to hurt us. “Stranger Danger” was everywhere. It was a well-meaning lesson, but the risk was overblown: most child abuse and exploitation is perpetrated by people the children know. It’s much rarer for children to be abused or exploited by strangers.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

© Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Megan Jayne Crabbe was diagnosed with anorexia at 14. When she hit her ‘goal weight’ and still didn’t feel happy, a supportive online community showed her a new way to live

Megan Jayne Crabbe’s transformation goes beyond the physical. “My ‘before’ was trying to make myself as small as possible in every conceivable way: my body, voice, emotions, opinions,” she says. “My ‘after’ is allowing myself to be my biggest self, however that looks.”

Crabbe, 31, became aware of diets before she turned 10. As she entered puberty that intensified and she became fixated on magazine articles about how to change her body, eating as little as possible as a way to manage anxiety about school and growing up.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Guardian

© Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Guardian

© Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Guardian

M&S, Morrisons and Ocado among retailers bringing out ranges targeting shoppers taking Wegovy or similar

Veganuary and dry January are among the new year health kicks enthusiastically endorsed by supermarkets, but this year the buzz is around “Jab-uary” as pricey diet foods aimed at people on weight-loss drugs hit the shelves.

Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Asda, Ocado and the Co-op are among the big names targeting shoppers who use weight-loss injections, known as GLP-1 agonists, but better known by brand names such as Wegovy and Mounjaro.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: PR

© Photograph: PR

© Photograph: PR

Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.

© Tsai Hsin-Han/Reuters

One year into the president’s second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by the whims of one man.

© Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times

A study shows that 18-hole rounds provide superior blood sugar and cholesterol benefits compared to walking, demonstrating the sport's exercise effectiveness.

Network news coverage of ICE operations in Minneapolis shows media bias as ABC, CBS, and NBC frame Democratic opposition as nonpartisan while downplaying protester violence.

⚽ Premier League updates from the 12.30pm GMT kick-off
⚽ Ten things to look out for | Latest scores | Table

Manchester United, without a permanent head coach or European football and knocked out of both domestic cups at the first time of asking, are facing another bleak season. In the almost 13 years since Sir Alex Ferguson left, the club have struggled to find stability, with his shadow stretching down from the directors’ box to the dugout, emphasised by the stand named in his honour staring back.

Manchester City arrive at Old Trafford on Saturday in the opposite position, having had Pep Guardiola in post for a decade, amassing 18 major trophies. Michael Carrick will take charge of United for the first time since being appointed until the end of the season at a club who appear to be without a functioning long-term plan. This will be a campaign of only 40 competitive games for United, their fewest since 1914-15, with some fans thankful for being able to cut down on trudging visits. So is this, in the post-Ferguson era, the lowest of the lows?

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Conor Molloy/ProSports/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Conor Molloy/ProSports/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Conor Molloy/ProSports/Shutterstock

Get a 20% first deposit match up to $1,500 in sports bonus with BetMGM for Saturday's NFL Playoff games.

Chaos in Iran could create an American chokehold on the energy that China’s industry — and military — needs to operate.

‘Hands off Greenland’ rallies have been organised in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense and Nuuk

Demonstrators have begun gathering in front of City Hall in Copenhagen as part of a series of actions planned throughout Denmark and Greenland in protest of Donald Trump and his plans to take control of Greenland.

The plan in Copenhagen is march to the US embassy in the Danish capital. Other rallies are set to begin later Saturday in Greenland and in other parts of Denmark.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images

The nationwide demonstrations that have roiled Iran for weeks appear to have been largely quelled after a brutal government crackdown.

© via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In the run-up to the Oscar nominations, a chat with a reporter who has followed every twist and turn of the race.

U.S. NATO ambassador Matthew Whitaker defends American focus on Greenland amid European backlash, calling Arctic security crucial for continental defense.

This week a judge of the B.C. Supreme Court (reminder: that’s a superior trial court, not an appellate court) heard a case that has the potential to further expand the Canadian empire of assisted suicide. The new battleground is “institutional religious objections,” or IROs, which is what the pro-euthanasia forces call them because they love acronyms so much. Most Catholic hospitals (and some hospices) have rules against administering euthanasia on the premises, which sometimes leads to very sick people undergoing what Dying with Dignity calls “forced transfers” to other facilities at the eleventh hour. The parents of one such patient are now suing B.C.’s Providence Health Care, the umbrella agency that operates the province’s legacy Catholic health institutions. Read More

Comedian Sal Vulcano opened up about the evolution of his comedy, the impact of fatherhood and his plans beyond "Impractical Jokers" during a sit-down interview with Fox News Digital.

Canadians have not heard much about why negotiations with the United States seem to have gone nowhere. One has to ask: was Mark Carney really the best choice to negotiate with Donald Trump? All signs point to "absolutely not." Read More

The violent cavalcade of events in Iran is starting to reveal the new range of aggressive-responsive policy options that U.S. President Donald Trump has developed to replace the obsolete concept of most of his recent predecessors. For 80 years from 1941 the basic framework was defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt in two addresses he gave at the beginning and end of that year in the Congress. In the State of the Union message in January, he warned against those who, “With sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal would preach the 'ism' of appeasement.” Read More