
China Must Avert ‘Hard Decoupling,’ Ex-PBOC Adviser Says
China needs to prevent any “hard decoupling” from the global economy as the world becomes more politically divided,
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The Sudden Downfall of Changpeng Zhao, the Crypto Titan Behind Binance
Changpeng Zhao had long cultivated the image of the rugged pugilist of the cryptocurrencies world. When his rival
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Diddy faces fresh trouble as Revolt TV podcaster Dawn Montgomery departs after Cassie's rape allegations
Diddy and Cassie have settled the lawsuit, with the former's lawyer emphasizing it is 'in no way an admission of wrongdoing'
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Jack Ma Reverses Plan to Trim Stake After Alibaba Share Tumble
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. founder Jack Ma is walking back plans to trim his stake after the Chinese
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Andrew Tate compares 'pure' women to 'rare and nearly extinct animal' as he urges men to pursue them, Internet says 'you are the problem'
Encouraging men to seek 'pure' partners from his perspective, Andrew Tate said, 'Men are avoiding marriage because deceitful females will financially destroy them'
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'Legend in my book': Internet lauds Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao as he steps down to save crypto firm's future
Changpeng Zhao stepped down amid a substantial $4 billion settlement with US regulatory agencies over anti-money laundering violations
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Harry Maguire calls for Premier League overhaul over 'ridiculous' penalties
Manchester United and England defender Harry Maguire spoke on officiating controversies and wants Premier League referees to make it harder for teams to be awarded penalties.
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'So true of him': Swifties convinced that Jason Sudeikis played ‘cupid’ for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Fans believe 'Ted Lasso' star and Kansas City native Jason Sudeikis helped bring Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift together
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South Africa's October inflation rises near top of central bank target
By Bhargav Acharya JOHANNESBURG South African inflation quickened more than expected in October, approaching the upper end of
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Internet mocks Joe Biden after ‘Fox & Friends’ hosts react to ‘Operation Bubble Wrap’ as POTUS turns 81
The ‘Fox & Friends’ hosts also claimed that Joe Biden is 'not a commanding presence' as they mocked the POTUS
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Brad Pitt called 'despicable' and a 'world class a**hole' by adoptive son in explosive Instagram post
Brad Pitt has reportedly come under fire from his adopted son in a scathing post on Instagram. Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, the 19-year-old adopted son of Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is said to have hit out at the actor by calling him an "awful human being" and a "world-class a**hole". The post is said to have been posted on Father’s Day in 2020, when Jolie-Pitt was just 16. He reportedly wrote at the time: "Happy Father's Day to this world-class a***hole"! "You time and time and again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person. "You have no consideration or empathy toward your 4 youngest children who tremble in fear when in your presence. You will never understand the damage you have done to my family because you are incapable of doing so. "You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant hell. You may tell yourself and the world whatever you want, but the truth will come to light someday. "So, Happy Father's Day, you f***ing awful human being!" Pax was adopted from a Vietnamese orphanage near Ho Chi Minh City in 2012. He is one of six children the former couple have together, along with Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox. The comment was reportedly posted to Pax’s Instagram story, with resurfaced screenshots having gone viral this week, MailOnline reports. Pitt and Jolie split after six years of marriage in 2016. Jolie cited “irreconcilable differences” between them when filing for divorce. Pitt was also investigated by the FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services over child abuse allegations following an elleged altercation with son Maddox on a private jet five days before Jolie filed for divorce. Pitt denied any allegations of any abuse against his children, a source close to the actor said at the time. Pitt was subsequently cleared by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services after being investigated. Then, in 2022, a detailed account of what transpired on the private plane was made public after FBI records were leaked to the press. According to the documents, Jolie told investigating officers that Pitt’s actions during the flight from France to Los Angeles frightened their children, aged between 8 and 15 at the time. Jolie also said that Pitt allegedly lunged at one of their kids after they called him a “prick”, adding she had to hold him back “in a choke hold”. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter How to join the indy100's free WhatsApp channel Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings
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Scientists discover giant missing blob of water in the middle of the Atlantic
To the uninitiated, there isn’t much to water. Sure, the world’s oceans are filled with monsters, marvels and mysteries but, otherwise, they’re just vast, singular expanses of liquid. Right? Wrong. Far from being uniform everywhere, ocean water is a patchwork of interlinked layers and masses which mix and split apart thanks to currents, eddies, and changes in temperature or salinity. Indeed, beneath the surfaces of our great seas, there are waterfalls, rivers and even gigantic blobs, stretching thousands of miles, that somehow manage to evade detection. Now, scientists have discovered one of these massive blobs in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; extending from the tip of Brazil to the Gulf of Guinea. Until the discovery of this water mass – which has been named the Atlantic Equatorial Water – experts had seen waters mixing along the equator in the Pacific and Indian oceans, but never in the Atlantic. "It seemed controversial that the equatorial water mass is present in the Pacific and Indian oceans but missing in the Atlantic Ocean because the equatorial circulation and mixing in all three oceans have common features," Viktor Zhurbas, a physicist and oceanologist at The Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, told Live Science. "The identified new water mass has allowed us to complete (or at least more accurately describe) the phenomenological pattern of basic water masses of the World Ocean." As the name suggests, the Atlantic Equatorial Water is formed by the mixing of separate bodies of water by currents along the equator. To distinguish such masses from the water surrounding them, oceanographers analyse the relationship between temperature and salinity across the ocean — which determines the density of the seawater. Back in 1942, this charting of temperature-salinity led to the discovery of equatorial waters in the Pacific and Indian oceans, as Live Science notes. Because they are created by the mixing of waters to the north and south, the Indian and Pacific Equatorial waters share similar temperatures and salinities curving along lines of constant density, which make them easy to distinguish from the surrounding water. And yet, for years, no such relationship could be spotted in the Atlantic. However, thanks to data collected by the Argo programme – an international collection of robotic, self-submerging floats which have been installed across Earth’s oceans – the researchers spotted an unnoticed temperature-salinity curve located parallel to the North Atlantic and South Atlantic Central waters. This was that elusive Atlantic Equatorial Water. "It was easy to confuse the Atlantic Equatorial Water with the South Atlantic Central Water, and in order to distinguish them it was necessary to have a fairly dense network of vertical temperature and salinity profiles covering the entire Atlantic Ocean," Zhurbas explained in his email to Live Science. The discovery is significant because it offers experts a better understanding of how oceans mix, which is vital to how they transport heat, oxygen and nutrients around the world. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings
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