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Georgia Oakley's Sense and Sensibility, in US theatres from 16 October, makes Elinor and Marianne's bond the real love story. Reviewers praise the earthy look and the two leads, split on the romances, and keep tripping over the dancing.
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Super pollutants drive around half of today's warming, yet a first global mapping found they received just $9 billion in 2023 — 1 in every 200 dollars of climate mitigation finance. Methane got 4 per cent of what the Global Methane Pledge target requires.
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Installation began on 19 October 2026 on around 30 tonnes of glulam roof frames at Sunshine Coast Airport — the defining feature of a A$170 million terminal that will be Australia's first mass-timber engineered terminal when complete.
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Two agreements signed on 9 October 2026 cover 30,190 items from the Eugène Dubois Collection — including Homo erectus material and 427 ancestral remains — plus 20 colonial-era cultural objects, from the Banjarmasin Diamond to a Quran manuscript linked to Teuku Umar.
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Paramount Street Fighter opened at No. 1 with 31 million dollars in North America and 51.1 million worldwide - a franchise record that still trails Mortal Kombat II and leaves an 82 million dollar budget to earn back.
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A new paper argues that even a safe, free and universally accepted technology for making people behave morally would cost too much: the free will that makes a good act a choice at all.
A smouldering grass fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright turned, in under a minute, into one of Canada's worst peacetime military tragedies - four soldiers dead, 39 in hospital, 19 of them critical. What investigators still cannot say is how it started.
A month of school protests over missing teachers met a country squeezed by prices, and on Saturday 17 October France had its worst unrest in years — a town hall burned, thousands of shops looted, some 2,400 people arrested. The government now has to calm the streets with an empty treasury.
Georgia Oakley's Sense and Sensibility, in US theatres from 16 October, makes Elinor and Marianne's bond the real love story. Reviewers praise the earthy look and the two leads, split on the romances, and keep tripping over the dancing.
Installation began on 19 October 2026 on around 30 tonnes of glulam roof frames at Sunshine Coast Airport — the defining feature of a A$170 million terminal that will be Australia's first mass-timber engineered terminal when complete.
The first major European retrospective of Ruth Asawa opened at the Fondation Beyeler on 18 October - some 200 works, six decades, and a career that runs from Black Mountain College to San Francisco's fountains. Europe is late to Asawa. The show makes the lateness hard to defend.
Nearly a decade after Pachinko, Min Jin Lee returns with a vast novel about a family that stakes everything on education. It moves at the speed of saving money — slowly, stubbornly, then all at once.
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