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Students at the WA College of Agriculture are getting a hands-on farming experience and reducing bushfire risks thanks to a partnership with Water Corporation

SINGAPORE: The Argentina national football team, including eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi, will visit Singapore in the first quarter of 2026 for an exhibition match. The team will also play an exhibition match in India in October this year. The matches are part of a new one-year partnership between the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and HSBC, the bank said on Wednesday (Mar 26). “This collaboration bridges the worlds of banking and sport, marking the first time a banking institution has collaborated with the Argentine national football team in Singapore and India. Through this agreement, HSBC will hold branding and activation rights…

Users of 23andMe, a direct-to-consumer genetic testing site, are being urged to delete their personal data from the website following the company’s bankruptcy filing in the United States on March 23. Here’s why it matters. What happened to 23andMe? If 23andMe’s bankruptcy goes through, it will soon be up for sale after years of financial troubles. Since its founding in 2006, the company has amassed the genetic information of about 15 million users – a dataset that is now potentially up for sale to the highest bidder. 23andMe offered services related to family ancestry and genetic traits, gradually expanding into…

Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine skeptics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.Parents in Gaines County, Texas, the center of a raging measles outbreak, have increasingly turned to supplements and unproven treatments to protect their children, many of whom are unvaccinated, against the virus.One of those supplements is cod liver oil containing vitamin A, which Mr. Kennedy has promoted as a near miraculous cure for measles. Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who…

A relatively unknown artist living in Colorado was recently thrust into the spotlight when President Trump criticized her work, a portrait of himself that had been hanging in the State Capitol for about five years.Mr. Trump said on social media that the oil painting, by Sarah Boardman, which depicts the president with softened features in a dark suit and red tie, was “truly the worst” and that it had been “purposefully distorted.”“In any event, I would much prefer not having a picture than having this one, but many people from Colorado have called and written to complain,” he wrote on…

When Mike Wallace interviewed Salvador Dalí in 1958, the painter seemed to believe that he might live forever. Asked what he believed would happen to him when he died, the Surrealist replied, “Myself not believe in my death.””You will not die?””No, no. Believe in general in death, but in the death of Dalí? Absolutely no, not.”Dalí did die, in 1989. But in a way, he was right. The artist lives on at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Dalí Museum, in St. Petersburg, Florida. CBS News The collection chronicles his career through more than 2,400 of his works,…

William_potter | Istock | Getty ImagesThe U.S. on Tuesday added dozens of Chinese tech companies to its export blacklist in its first such effort under the Donald Trump administration, as it doubles down on curtailing Beijing’s artificial intelligence and advanced computing capabilities.The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security added 80 organizations to an “entity list,” with more than 50 from China, barring American companies from supplying to those on the list without government permits.The companies were blacklisted for allegedly acting contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, the agency said, as part of its efforts…

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s push to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally funded news organization that was born out of the American efforts to counter Soviet propaganda during the Cold War.The judge, Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, issued a temporary restraining order, saying that the Trump administration cannot unilaterally shut down RFE/RL, even if the president has ordered the closure.Judge Lamberth said the administration cannot overrule Congress, which gave the news outlet a statutory mandate to promote the freedom of opinion and expression, with “one…

A nanny in Martha’s Vineyard has been charged with manslaughter after allegedly leaving two young children who were under her care inside her SUV for several hours, resulting in the death of one of the children. Aimee Cotton, 41, was arrested on March 13 by authorities on charges of assault and battery on a child with injury and reckless endangerment, according to an arrest report from the Massachusetts State Police. She was later charged with manslaughter when one of the children, a 3-year-old, died on March 19. The child has not been named. “A CHILD CALLED ‘IT’” AUTHOR SAYS CONNECTICUT HOUSE OF HORRORS…

“Our city is in an incredibly strong position right now.” Mayor Jyoti Gondek is bullish on her city, despite talks of trade, tariffs and an uncertain partner in Parliament taking leadership in little more than a month.“We’ve done the groundwork to ensure we’re a strong inland port… we’re developing solutions locally to keep our supply chains strong,” Gondek said.Gondek delivered a wide-ranging but generally optimistic speech at her annual State of the City address Tuesday, hosted by the Rotary Club of Calgary.Her address touched on new economic activity created by the future Prairie Economic Gateway, an industrial hub along the…