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#space-travel

Technological developments, from air travel to the internet, have broken down barriers in time and space.Time travel still isn't possible, however; but that's not stopping one trend predictor from calling the colour of year for 2025 already.It says that based on emerging trends in society, the colour of 2025 will be the aptly named 'Future Dusk', an alluring hue sitting between dark violet and midnight blue (see our jargon-free guide to colour theory if you need to brush up).

Fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88, it has been announced.Rabanne, whose real name was Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo, founded the renowned fashion house named after him in 1966.Alongside French designers Pierre Cardin and Andre Courreges, he helped upset the status quo of Paris fashion of the time, earning him the moniker of enfant terrible.

I hate to say "I told you so" unless, of course, I turn out to be right.When Elon Musk called himself a "free speech absolutist" in announcing his intent to purchase Twitter, I wondered how long it would take for his absolutism to evolve into "absolutely not."Less than two months after his acquisition was completed for $44 billion in October, amid Musk's bumpy ride as Twitter's owner and CEO, he hasn't softened his "free speech" rhetoric, although his restrictive actions sometimes have spoken louder than his words - or tweets.

Scientists and government representatives meeting at a conference in France have voted to scrap leap seconds by 2035, the organisation responsible for global timekeeping has said.Similar to leap years, leap seconds have been periodically added to clocks over the last half century to make up for the difference between exact atomic time and the Earth's slower rotation.

5 minutes ago5 minutes ago Moscow and New Delhi are seeking to boost trade ties.India is also one of the few countries not to have criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he discussed the joint production of modern weapons with his Indian counterpart during talks in Moscow on Tuesday.