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A rare and endangered orchid plant species has bloomed in the UK for the first time.The Florida Ghost Orchid, distinctive for its frog-like shape, could be seen on display in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew Gardens in London on Thursday.There were concerns the orchid might not flower because of the cooler British climate, with its usual bloom requiring high humidity and mild temperatures.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Thursday, following the destruction of a dam in southern Ukraine that compromised a key source of water used to cool the plant's reactors.Energoatom, Ukraine's nuclear energy company, said in a post on Telegram that Mr. Grossi and a team from the I.A.E.A., the United Nations' nuclear agency, had arrived at the Russian-occupied plant.

Sweeping out discarded Russian rations, shattered glass and broken furniture was a daunting task.In the four and a half months that Russian forces had occupied a village in eastern Ukraine, the troops had used the local bar as a small outpost, gutting it in the process.The physical destruction of the watering hole of Velyka Komyshuvakha was only part of what the Russians left behind.

The director general of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Monday he was en route to Ukraine to assess the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after a dam breach depleted water levels in the reservoir it uses to cool reactors and spent nuclear fuel.The director, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said he would meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and present a plan for assistance in the aftermath of floods unleashed by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam last week.

Ukraine claimed small advances on Monday in its counteroffensive in the southeast of the country, hunting for a place to drive a wedge through Russian defenses, a key to its hopes for recapturing wide swaths of territory lost to the Russian invasion last year.After a week of fierce combat with infantry, artillery and tanks, across a mostly agricultural landscape, Ukrainian forces, newly armed and trained by Western allies, have retaken seven small villages and settlements, Hannah Malyar, a deputy defense minister, wrote on the messaging platform Telegram, including one that the military said it had captured on Monday.

Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed along a sprawling, 600-mile front line Saturday, while Ukrainian rescue workers searched fetid floodwaters for survivors even as Russia continued to bombard evacuation points and coastal communities.The Ukrainian military, which guards battlefield information closely, offered only broad acknowledgment of the clashes playing out along the front Friday night into Saturday.

Lebanon's Sursock Museum has reopened to the public, three years after a deadly explosion in Beirut's port set off by tons of improperly stored chemicals reduced many of its treasured paintings and collections to ashes.The reopening Friday night offered Beirut residents a rare bright spot in a country reeling from a crippling economic crisis that has left around three-quarters of Lebanon's population of 6 million in poverty.

New harmful illicit drugs are inundating a flourishing market for traffickers amid violence and corruption hurting local communities across Europe, the EU's agency monitoring drugs and addiction said Friday.The grim finding was part of the agency's annual report.It also said that drug users in Europe are now exposed to a wider range of substances of high purity as drug trafficking and use across the region have quickly returned to pre-COVID 19 pandemic levels.

I live near a group of beautiful, mature trees that spread across a corner of two residential roads; they are a community hub, providing a shady place to sit and chat.They are much loved, all covered by tree protection orders, and provided as a gift in perpetuity to the community in the 1980s as a planning condition for the creation of a business park.

The UK will provide an extra 16 million of humanitarian aid to Ukraine after a dam collapsed in the south of the country.Flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam near Kherson has directly affected 32,000 people.Ukraine has accused Russia of blowing up the dam.The money consists of 10 million for the Red Cross Movement, 5 million for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and 1 million for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

Final Fantasies XV, IX, X Square Enix I love Final Fantasy, and sometimes love makes you do drastic things.When the first trailer for Final Fantasy 16 dropped in late 2020 I made the inspired decision to play and rank every mainline entry before it came out.I had finished most of them already, but why not relive the magic once more?

The emptying of the vast reservoir along the Dnipro River in Ukraine as a result of the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam last week has left mudflats littered with skeletons, according to footage posted online, in a reminder of the region's violent past.Videos taken on Ukrainian-held and Russian-occupied sides of the Dnipro where the reservoir used to be, show skulls scattered in the ooze, one wearing a second world war helmet.

The last reactor still producing energy at Europe's largest nuclear power plant, in southern Ukraine, was put into a cold shutdown a state in which it no longer generates electricity as a safety precaution after the destruction of a nearby dam threatened the facility's water supply, Ukrainian energy officials said.

Rishi Sunak will raise his concerns about Joe Biden's green subsidy plan when the pair meet in Washington for talks on Thursday.The prime minister arrived in the US for two days of meetings with business leaders and senior politicians, culminating in discussions with the US president at the White House.

Find it, target it, shoot it.The drill is the same for Ukraine's air defense crews as they work round the clock to combat the relentless barrage of missiles the Russians launch at Kyiv, mostly foiling the most intense bombardment of the capital since the first weeks of the war.In the month of May alone, Russia bombarded Kyiv 17 times.

Three years after near-record high lake levels decimated parts of Chicago's shoreline, some beaches are making a comeback.Robin Mattheus, a coastal geologist with the Illinois State Geological Survey, said that after the Chicago Park District closed a few beaches due to severe erosion, establishing dune fields to stabilize the sand and encouraging plant growth allowed beaches like Rainbow and 63rd Street to stabilize.

Sp The receipt for property that was seized during the execution of a search warrant by the FBI at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, is photographed on August 12, 2022.Jon Elswick/AP/File Special counsel Jack Smith has been overseeing the Justice Department's criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump's resort and into parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a cement mixing company that seeks to bypass federal labor law and sue a union in state court for the destruction of property caused by striking workers.The court said the dispute could continue in state court for now, a move that could chill workers' decisions to strike for fear that unions would now have to face potentially costly litigation in state court for misconduct during federally protected strikes.

The driver of a U-Haul who crashed into a security barrier in Lafayette Square near the White House Monday night was arrested on multiple charges, including threatening to kill or harm a president, vice president or family member, according to US Park Police.The truck crashed into security barriers on the north side of Lafayette Square at 16th Street just before 10 p.m., and officers detained the driver, the US Secret Service said.

No one wants to be described as "hostile" - especially not in terms of their parenting style.But hostile parenting is a lot more than just routine physical punishment and punishing kids erratically or unpredictably, or isolating children for long periods of time when they misbehave.Other signs you're a hostile parent can be much more subtle, especially when it comes to psychological hostility, says Melissa Huey, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the New York Institute of Technology.

No one likes to deliver bad news, particularly to a spouse.Whether it's a diagnosis or loss of money, the admission can make you look weak or foolish.But somehow the words come out because you know that's the best way forward.But when the news is that you cheated, the path is rockier.There's no sharing this load.

A barrage of attack drones were downed over Moscow on Tuesday, the first time civilian areas of the Russian capital have been touched directly by the Ukrainian conflict and a signal that a distant war may soon begin to feel somewhat less so for ordinary Russians.The physical damage was minimal, limited to shattered apartment windows and some minor injuries in an upscale neighborhood, but the psychological impact may prove far bigger for a citizenry that to date has been able to go about daily life with little thought for the bloodshed taking place over the border.

Today is something of a curtain raiser for the U.S. National Parks system, ushering in its busiest season.Last year, nearly 312 million people visited the parks, hiking across the Grand Canyon, posting Instagram stories from Joshua Tree and waiting for Old Faithful by Yellowstone's rainbow pools.(Reminder: Don't touch the bison calves!)

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's re-election grants him five more years to deepen his conservative imprint on Turkish society and to realize his ambition of increasing the country's economic and geopolitical power.Turkey's Supreme Election Council named Mr. Erdogan the victor after a runoff election on Sunday.

Shiv (Sarah Snook) has made her choices and she will live with them.HBO The gist of it Matsson's alliance with Shiv fell apart, thanks to Greg sniffing around a meeting where Matsson revealed his actual choice for the new U.S. CEO: Tom.Kendall managed to get the siblings united in a plan to kill the GoJo deal and anoint him CEO, but when it came right down to it, Shiv chose not to go along.

A shareholder rebellion against the board of Shell secured a fifth of votes at a stormy annual general meeting on Tuesday where climate protesters tried to rush the stage.Security staff linked hands to shield chairman Sir Andrew Mackenzie and chief executive Wael Sawan as a handful of activists made for the top table.

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