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Amelia Earhart mystery: Is this Pacific island the key?
2Oct By Europe WorldNo Comments
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Amelia Earhart mystery: Is this Pacific island the key?

Amelia Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the globe at the equator ended in mystery when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937. With the 90th anniversary of her disappearance on the horizon, a new expedition is setting out to finally determine what happened over the vast Pacific. This expedition has what it believes is crucial new evidence. TheĀ team from Purdue University in Indiana and the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) is scheduled to depart for the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro on Saturday to determine if an anomaly in the island's lagoon is Earhart's missing plane. Part of the low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati, Nikumaroro has long been considered the place where Earhart and Noonan died. The pai...
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Amelia Earhart mystery: Is this Pacific island the key?
2Oct By Europe WorldNo Comments
Life Style, World

Amelia Earhart mystery: Is this Pacific island the key?

Amelia Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the globe at the equator ended in mystery when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937. With the 90th anniversary of her disappearance on the horizon, a new expedition is setting out to finally determine what happened over the vast Pacific. This expedition has what it believes is crucial new evidence. TheĀ team from Purdue University in Indiana and the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) is scheduled to depart for the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro on Saturday to determine if an anomaly in the island's lagoon is Earhart's missing plane. Part of the low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati, Nikumaroro has long been considered the place where Earhart and Noonan died. The pai...
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South Park satirist pushes for justice in Cornell rape case
30Sep By Europe WorldNo Comments
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South Park satirist pushes for justice in Cornell rape case

Toby Morton, who wrote several episodes of the animated comedy series South Park,Ā launched a website seeking accountability in connection with an alleged 2024 sexual assault case involving seven fraternity members at Cornell University in the US. The site names seven men accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman who was allegedly unconscious after being given drugs and alcohol at a Cornell fraternity house, and collects personal data and photos of the members involved. "I've received messages reminding me I'm not a journalist, I'm 'just a satirist,'" Morton wrote in a September 27 Instagram post regarding the creation of his website TheCornell7.org. "This is true, but it makes me more dangerous," he added, saying he has "nobody to tell me I've gone too far." The case has recentl...
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Eurovision wants a bigger stage. Can it escape politics?
30Sep By Europe WorldNo Comments
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Eurovision wants a bigger stage. Can it escape politics?

"Bringing the world together through music has always been an incredibly powerful idea and has stood the test of time for 70 years,"Ā Eurovision Song Contest director Martin Green told DW on the sidelines of the event's annual European Broadcasting Union (EBU) workshop held in mid-September.Ā "And I think the more difficult the world gets around us, the more important these shows of unity, these shows of togetherness become." While Green is intent on promoting the unity of the international music contest that celebrated its 70th anniversary in May, the 2026 event was also infamously marked by unprecedented backlash. Political boycotts over Israel's inclusion amid the war in Gaza led to a significant low point in participation and viewership, dropping from 166 million viewers in 2025 down t...
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Eurovision wants a bigger stage. Can it escape politics?
30Sep By Europe WorldNo Comments
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Eurovision wants a bigger stage. Can it escape politics?

"Bringing the world together through music has always been an incredibly powerful idea and has stood the test of time for 70 years,"Ā Eurovision Song Contest director Martin Green told DW on the sidelines of the event's annual European Broadcasting Union (EBU) workshop held in mid-September.Ā "And I think the more difficult the world gets around us, the more important these shows of unity, these shows of togetherness become." While Green is intent on promoting the unity of the international music contest that celebrated its 70th anniversary in May, the 2026 event was also infamously marked by unprecedented backlash. Political boycotts over Israel's inclusion amid the war in Gaza led to a significant low point in participation and viewership, dropping from 166 million viewers in 2025 down t...
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Munich Oktoberfest: Staff call for more respect
30Sep By Europe WorldNo Comments
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Munich Oktoberfest: Staff call for more respect

"The first week went by peacefully," Oktoberfest Director Christian Scharpf saidĀ at the festival's half-way point. Munich's Deputy Mayor Verena DietlĀ praised the "good, harmonious atmosphere."Ā  The city's police force also delivered a positive report half-way through the event in Munich. But if you take a closer look, all is not peachy at the Wiesn. Service personnel are among those painting a very different picture. And they're the ones at the heart of the action. The situations they encounter often go unreported and don't appear in the statistics, but sometimes, a line is crossed, withĀ racist, discriminatory comments, for example. In response, a group of service staff have launched an initiative calling for "mutual respect at the Wiesn." In a video posted on Instagram and TikTok, sta...
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Eurovision seeks to expand brand despite frictions
30Sep By Europe WorldNo Comments
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Eurovision seeks to expand brand despite frictions

"Bringing the world together through music has always been an incredibly powerful idea and has stood the test of time for 70 years,"Ā Eurovision Song Contest director Martin Green told DW on the sidelines of the event's annual European Broadcasting Union (EBU) workshop held in mid-September.Ā "And I think the more difficult the world gets around us, the more important these shows of unity, these shows of togetherness become." While Green is intent on promoting the unity of the international music contest that celebrated its 70th anniversary in May, the 2026 event was also infamously marked by unprecedented backlash. Political boycotts over Israel's inclusion amid the war in Gaza led to a significant low point in participation and viewership, dropping from 166 million viewers in 2025 down t...
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Harvey Weinstein resentenced to 15 years for sexual assault
29Sep By Europe WorldNo Comments
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Harvey Weinstein resentenced to 15 years for sexual assault

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was resentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006. Once one of Hollywood's most powerful kingpins, churning out hits such as "Pulp Fiction", "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chocolat," Weinstein's fall from grace came when sexual assault allegations compounded against him in 2017, spiraling into Hollywood's #MeToo movement. Accounts of several women who worked with him across the years showed a pattern of abusing his power in Hollywood and ability to make or break careers to extract sexual favors and sexually assault women. What do we know about Haley's case? Weinstein was found guilty of forcibly performing oral sex on Haley in 2006. The former producer said she had accepted an ...
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India: LPU suspends classes after unrest over alleged rape
29Sep By Europe WorldNo Comments
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India: LPU suspends classes after unrest over alleged rape

Punjab's Lovely Professional University (LPU) has suspended classes starting Monday and postponed mid-term examinations after a protest over an alleged rape turned violent on Sunday with protesters clashing with the police and vandalism being reported.Ā  The private university located in the city of Phagwara witnessed massive student unrest after claims spread on social media that a female university student was allegedly raped within the campus premises by an outsider and had later died by suicide.Ā  The protests grew to be violent when the protesters clashed with the police, pelted stones at the security personnel, smashed windows and set fire to some objects within the university complex, reports said. Some students later claimed in social media posts that the vandals were not students...
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Satirist launches site targeting Cornell rape lawsuit
29Sep By Europe WorldNo Comments
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Satirist launches site targeting Cornell rape lawsuit

Toby Morton, who wrote several episodes of the animated comedy series "South Park," launched a website seeking accountability in connection with an alleged 2024 sexual assault case involving seven Cornell University fraternity members. The site names seven men accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman who was allegedly unconscious after being given drugs and alcohol at a Cornell fraternity house and collects personal data and photos of the members involved. "I've received messages reminding me I'm not a journalist, I'm 'just a satirist,'" Morton wrote in a September 27 Instagram post regarding the creation of his website TheCornell7.org. "This is true, but it makes me more dangerous," he added, saying he has "nobody to tell me I've gone too far." The case has recently drawn a su...
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