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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed the possibility of extending human life to 150 years and the prospects of “biological immortality” at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, Bloomberg reports. Technology and immortality Vladimir Putin, born 7 October 1952, is 72. Xi Jinping, born 15 June 1953,Continue Reading

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“The war has entered a new phase,”  declared  Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior official in Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, after Israeli jets streaked across the Arabian Peninsula to  kill  the group’s prime minister and a swath of his Cabinet in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. The senior official from Ansar Allah, the movementContinue Reading

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It’s been nearly 20 years since the last feature by meticulous animation maestros the Brothers Quay — identical twins Stephen and Timothy, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in 1947. Combining childlike stop-motion and the garish morbidity of gothic horror, the duo’s macabre flourishes set them apart from the storybook charms ofContinue Reading