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In 2020, Peloton instructor Jenn Sherman sat on her stationary workout bike and faced an empty studio, dumbbells in hand, as a bass-heavy beat blared in the background. “This song is from the soundtrack of a movie called ‘Tenet,'” Sherman said, asking the empty room, and the hundreds of loyal Peloton users most likely streaming the class from home, whether they had seen it. “Did anybody see this besides me?” she begged. “’Cause I need a manual. Someone’s got to explain this. I’m not kidding.” Sherman continued her spiel, saying it would take a neuroscientist to understand the movie. “And…

The former president has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling in Colorado that he is ineligible to appear on the state primary ballot because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A group of House Democrats on Thursday called on conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a case involving former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on Colorado’s Republican primary ballot. Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado court ruling last month that disqualified him from appearing on the ballot over his conduct leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.…

Ryanair has hit out at several online travel agents for taking its flights off their platforms without warning. The airline said larger sites such as Booking.com, Kiwi and Kayak suddenly removed its flights in December. It comes after an Irish High Court ruling banned screenscraper Flightbox from gathering Ryanair flight information for online travel agents. Ryanair said the websites’ removal of flights would increase empty seats by 1% or 2% in December and January. It said that while ticket revenues may also be affected, the move was unlikely to “materially affect” its full-year passenger numbers or profit expectations. The no-frills…

The power of the magnitude 7.5 quake in Japan can be seen in just how much the ground moved. It rose up by more than 4m (13ft) in places and moved sideways by over a metre. Earthquake-prone Japan is hugely advanced in monitoring what happens when the ground shakes. That’s why it can make such precise measurements. There’s a network of GPS stations dotted at strategic points right across the country. When an earthquake strikes, scientists can tell exactly how much each one has moved, showing how the landscape has buckled and shifted. This system shows that the land moved…

Flood-hit farmers are calling on the government to invest more in river defences in rural areas to protect UK food production. Thousands of acres of crops and productive farmland are now sitting under rainwater left by Storm Henk. The NFU says farmers who are expected to let fields of crops flood to protect towns should also be compensated. A government spokesperson said £221m was being spent on maintaining flood defences in 2023/24. Persistent wet weather over the Christmas period and New Year has caused further damage to farms that had already been hit by Storms Babet and Ciaran in the…

Olivia Dean forced herself to embrace chaos. By nature, the 24-year-old Brit School graduate is a perfectionist. Her guiding principle: “If you don’t love it, don’t do it.” As an aspiring musician, that approach paid off. Her throwback pop-soul sound and pillowy, jazz-toned vocals were so compelling that she sold out a European tour, gained two million Spotify followers and became a Chanel ambassador before she’d even released an album. Then, she started to worry she’d set the bar too high. “When it came to my debut album, I put real pressure on myself for it to be brilliant,” she…

The woman who appeared in a famous photograph of a couple kissing on the street in Paris has died aged 93. Francoise Bornet was one half of the young couple seen in The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, taken in 1950 by photographer Robert Doisneau. The black-and-white picture of the pair embracing on the street became a huge commercial success in the 1980s. However, it also prompted a legal row after other couples claimed to be the people featured in the photo. The image looked as if it could have been taken spontaneously – capturing a moment of romance…

Singer Elvis Presley is set to be brought back to life virtually as part of a new immersive concert experience. Elvis Evolution will use AI and feature holographic projections of the star, created from thousands of his personal photos and home-video footage. The show is set to open in London in November before moving to Las Vegas, Berlin and Tokyo. It follows the success of Abba Voyage, a virtual concert with avatars of the Swedish pop band. British immersive entertainment specialists Layered Reality have secured the global rights for Elvis Evolution. The company has previously produced immersive experiences including The…

In 2018, India set for itself the lofty goal of eliminating pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by 2025 – five years ahead of the deadline set by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In March 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated this commitment at the One World TB Summit, held in the northern city of Varanasi. But the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Global Tuberculosis Report paints a different picture – every two minutes, one person dies of the disease in India. According to the report, India accounted for the highest global TB burden, with 27% of the 10.6 million people diagnosed with the infection in…

Bosses of Britain’s biggest companies will earn more by lunchtime than the typical worker will all year, research claims. By 13:00 GMT on Thursday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £34,963 annual median wage for full-time workers, the High Pay Centre says. Including pensions, top bosses’ average reward amounts to £3.81m per year, the centre says. That works out to £1,170 per hour – 109 times the average full-time worker. Top city lawyers will have to wait until the beginning of next week to surpass the median worker’s annual pay. Executives at companies listed on the…