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After repeated explosions, new test for Musk's megarocket

The rocket's 10th test flight is set to launch as soon as Aug. 24 from the company's Starbase facility in Texas, SpaceX said on its website.

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‘Mencari Semar’: Teater Koma seeks ancient wisdom in the digital age

The play unfolds in the futuristic realm of the Nimacha Empire, where humans are gradually being overpowered by droids and robots. ...

1 year ago
Entertainment

Taylor Swift says 'Showgirl' album reflects joy of recent tour

Swift appeared on the New Heights podcast hosted by her boyfriend, National Football League player Travis Kelce, and his brother, Jason Kelce. "Showgirl" will be released October 3, the singer said on the episode aired on Wednesday.  ...

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The ‘joki’ Strava phenomenon: Faking running stats for flex

Another craze has crept up alongside running workouts on the popular fitness tracking app: Meet “joki Strava”, runners for hire who log kilometers for others' online clout.

1 year ago
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Artistic heritage meets modern beats at 2025 ‘Pagelaran Sabang Merauke’

Music director Elwin Hendrijanto says the show will fuse contemporary arrangements with traditional sounds like Kalimantan’s Karungut and the Batak song “Rambadia”.

1 year ago
Entertainment

Taylor Swift announces 12th album for 'pre pre-order'

Her online shop displayed blurred images of a record, CD and cassette tape overlaid with a glittery orange lock, explaining the album artwork would be "revealed at a later date."

1 year ago
Science & Tech

Scientists find possible artefacts of oldest known Wallacean hominids in Sulawesi

Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut little animals and carve rocks, under the soil in the region of Soppeng in South Sulawesi. Radioactive tracing of these tools and the teeth of animals found around the site were dated at up to 1.48 million years ago.

1 year ago
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KUNTARI’s new album ‘Mutu Beton’ digs traditional roots to pave new frontiers

What sets Mutu Beton apart from its predecessors is how far deep the duo is now mining the country’s ancestral rhythms, embedding the gamelan-inspired tonalities into a tight, industrial ambience.

1 year ago
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Raisa's 'ambiVert': An album of love and wisdom

Raisa's latest studio album is the singer-songwriter’s “wisest” to date, featuring love songs grounded in dignity and self-respect.

1 year ago
Science & Tech

US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97

Lovell travelled to the Moon twice but never walked on the lunar surface, but he is considered one of the greats of the US space program after rescuing the Apollo 13 mission that teetered on the brink of disaster.

1 year ago
Science & Tech

NASA astronauts depart space station after five-month mission

US astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, the Crew-10 commander, boarded the gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule on Friday afternoon along with Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov ahead of a 17.5-hour trek back to Earth to a splashdown site off the California coast.

1 year ago
Science & Tech

NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars

A new NASA directive -- first reported by Politico and seen by AFP on Tuesday -- calls for the appointment of a nuclear power czar to select two commercial proposals within six months, framing the push as crucial to outpacing a joint Chinese-Russian effort.

1 year ago
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'Kebaya': Living history, modern elegance

At the 1928 Indonesian Women’s Congress in Yogyakarta, over a thousand women in kebaya (traditional blouses) came together to champion national unity and women’s rights, as they blended tradition with bold calls for change.

1 year ago
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LIFEs 2025 explores national identity through art and literature

The Literature and Ideas Festival returns from Aug. 8-16 with "Menjadi Indonesia", featuring over 35 performers.

1 year ago
Entertainment

Man dies after falling at Oasis gig in London

Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, who brought the iconic Britpop band back together for a blockbuster world tour this year, told the BBC they were "shocked and saddened" by the fan's death at the Saturday evening gig. 

1 year ago
Science & Tech

AI search pushing an already weakened media ecosystem to the brink

"The next three or four years will be incredibly challenging for publishers everywhere. No one is immune from the AI summaries storm gathering on the horizon," warned Matt Karolian, vice president of research and development at Boston Globe Media. 

1 year ago
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In 'LUAP', Nyoman Paul reaches into the deep

In his debut studio album, singer-songwriter and AMI Award winner Nyoman Paul explores his inner depths as he gives voice to what is underneath.

1 year ago
Science & Tech

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with International Space Station

As part of their stay, the Crew-11 astronauts will simulate Moon landing scenarios that could be encountered near the lunar South Pole under the US-led Artemis program.

1 year ago
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Romantic drama ‘Sore’ captures hearts, rakes in over 2 million views

Passing the 2 million mark since it premiered on July 10, Yandy Laurens's genre-blending flick has moviegoers coming back for the romantic drama-sci-fi feature with a runtime of just under 2 hours.

1 year ago
Science & Tech

Artists, scientists breathe life into prehistoric woman

Reborn via a close partnership between science and art, Mos'anne's bust was created at Belgium's Ghent University as part of a project to explore how the region's last hunter-gatherers lived during the Mesolithic era.

1 year ago
Science & Tech

Chinese sub discovers deepest-ever creatures 10 kilometers undersea

The discovery in Earth's deepest underwater valley suggests that there could be much more life thriving in the hostile conditions at the bottom of our planet's largely unexplored oceans than previously thought, the China-led team of scientists said.

1 year ago
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'A Normal Woman': A skin-crawling feature on a female experience

Lucky Kuswandi’s A Normal Woman, which premiered on Netflix on July 24, is an insidious investigation into the price one woman pays to maintain a conforming existence.

1 year ago
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Visinema to produce epic ‘Perang Jawa’, directed by Angga Dwimas Sasongko

The project is currently in the pre-production stage with podcaster and former trade minister Gita Wirjawan on board as executive producer. "Perang Jawa" is set for theatrical release in 2028.

1 year ago
Environment

World's smallest snake makes big comeback

A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to have been "lost" to science.

1 year ago
People

Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dead at 71

Hogan's wrestling skills and magnetic personality as a heroic all-American in the ring transformed the sport into mainstream family entertainment, attracting millions of viewers and turning the league into a multi-billion-dollar empire.

1 year ago
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‘Beyond Unsettled Past’: Revisiting Indonesia’s colonial legacies

The exhibition, held at in Erasmus Huis in Jakarta, reexamines colonial legacies through a distinctly Indonesian lens. Curated by historian Sadiah Boonstra and artist Sukiato Khurniawan, the show features powerful works by six artists that confront the lingering imprints of colonialism on society.

1 year ago
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Dancing in harmony: 75 Years of Indonesia-Thailand diplomacy

From the graceful Thai Blessing Dance to the vibrant Indonesian Puspa Mekar, the performance blended traditional melodies and symbolism, captivating the audience with a shared spirit of peace and unity.

1 year ago
People

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath's bat-biting frontman, dies aged 76

Osbourne kicked off his career in the early 1970s as singer on Black Sabbath's hits, from "Paranoid" to "War Pigs" to "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath". Those plus a string of solo releases saw him sell more than 100 million records worldwide.

1 year ago
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Diponegoro lives on, two centuries after the fact

Although the Java War started two centuries ago, the story of Diponegoro's heroism remains fresh to Indonesians today thanks to many serious scholarly works as well as the products of pop culture which advertise his trials and tribulations. The following is a non-exhaustive list of scholarly works and popular retellings of Diponegoro's life.

1 year ago
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Back on the reel: Arkipel 2025 channels ‘Years of Living Dangerously’

The organizer took the theme, reflecting on the current geopolitical situation, that colonialism persists, particularly in Palestine, some 70 years after the conference. 

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