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Seven crew members who were taken to hospitals after a South Korean-flagged tanker capsized off Japan have died, according to officials. Among the nine crew members who were rescued from the stricken vessel, one was still alive, while the other’s condition was unknown, Ryoto Katamura, an officer at Moji Coast Guard Office, told CNN, adding that two people were still missing. A search is ongoing. The Keoyoung Sun, with 11 crew on board, capsized on Wednesday off the coast of Mutsure Island in Japan’s southwestern Yamaguchi prefecture, Katamura said. This included two South Koreans, eight Indonesians and one Chinese national. The chemical tanker capsized…

With no winner of the Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday, the jackpot for Friday’s drawing has climbed to an estimated $977 million, according to the lottery. While there was no big winner Tuesday, four players won at least $1 million, Mega Millions said. Tuesday’s winning numbers were: 24, 46, 49, 62, 66 and Mega Ball 7. The Megaplier was 2X. Ticket prices start at $2, and players can win prizes between $2 and the whole jackpot. A winner in Friday’s drawing could take home a one-time lump sum of $421.4 million or an immediate payment followed by 29 annual paymentsMega Millions drawings are…

Delhi was the most polluted capital city in the world in 2023, a Swiss-based air-quality monitoring group has found. India, of which Delhi is the capital, was also ranked as the world’s third-most polluted country after neighbours Bangladesh and Pakistan, IQAir said. The country’s air has worsened since 2022, when it was the eighth most polluted country, it added. Air pollution is a serious problem in several Indian cities. Experts say that rapid industrialisation coupled with weak enforcement of environmental laws have played a role in increasing pollution in the country. India has seen a lot of development in the…

Kensington Palace isn’t just the home of the Prince and Princess of Wales. It is a carefully managed brand under the parent company of the British Monarchy, which has a millennium of practice spinning a good yarn. That’s partly why so many people find the palace’s PR strategy around the Case of the Missing Princess hard to comprehend. Kensington Palace’s attempts to quell that speculation have only made it worse at times – particularly, after it released a Mother’s Day image on March 10 (the Brits do Mother’s Day early), showing the princess and her three children in a photo…

With a new mural that appeared in London on Sunday, and which only makes sense from a distance, the elusive British street artist is playing with our perspective. In a grey North London street on Monday, people gathered aimlessly, pointing their phones at a wall. Up close, however, the artwork on the wall they were photographing didn’t make much sense. That’s the point of Banksy’s latest offering – it demands distance. When attempting a selfie, jostling for a solo spot in an Insta-crowd, that’s hard to achieve. Yet stand too close, and it just looks like you’re taking a selfie in front…

A council has successfully bid for £3.6m so it can have more public electric vehicle (EV) chargers. Oxfordshire County Council made an application to the Department for Transport for funding towards its Oxfordshire Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure programme. The local authority said as a result of the award it would be tripling the number of EV chargers in the county. More than 1,300 public chargers are to be delivered by the end of 2025. The council said the money would kickstart a “rollout of infrastructure worth over £10m” that would be the “largest deployment of public EV charging infrastructure ever…

The owner of Novo Nordisk, the drugmaker that gave the world Ozempic and Wegovy, is funding a new supercomputer powered by Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology with a key aim of discovering new medicines and treatments. The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded France’s Eviden a contract to build what the computing company says will be one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, able to process vast amounts of data using AI. It should provide “unprecedented potential to accelerate groundbreaking scientific discoveries in areas such as drug discovery, disease diagnosis and treatment,” Cédric Bourrasset, Eviden’s head of quantum computing, said in a statement. The supercomputer…

Beyoncé is taking bets and raising them in hopes that her highly anticipated upcoming country album will render any race-related stigma in that music genre and beyond as “irrelevant.” The “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer on Tuesday unveiled a new image for “Cowboy Carter,” which she has dubbed as the “act ii” album to her hit 2022 record “Renaissance,” writing in the caption that her latest project “was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t.” “But, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of…

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is giving away $640 million to 361 nonprofits, her organization — Yield Giving — and Lever for Change announced Tuesday, after an open call for applicants. More than 6,000 nonprofit organizations had applied for the funding. Scott ended up giving more than double what the original open call planned for, which was 250 awards of $1 million each, according to Lever for Change, the organization that managed the open call. “In light of the incredible work of these organizations, as judged by their peers and external panelists, the donor team decided to expand the awardee pool and the award amount,” according to Lever for…

Hong Kong’s legislature unanimously passed sweeping new powers on Tuesday that critics and analysts warned would align the financial hub’s national security laws more closely with those used on the Chinese mainland and deepen an ongoing crackdown on dissent. The lengthy national security bill – the first draft ran to 212 pages – was rushed through the city’s opposition-less Legislative Council with unusual haste at the request of city leader John Lee and debated over just 11 days. Coming into effect on Saturday, the law introduces 39 new national security crimes, adding to an already powerful national security law that was directly imposed by Beijing on Hong…