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Sydney Sweeney attends Sydney Sweeney In Conversation With Josh Horowitz at 92NY on March 20, 2024 in New York City.

Sydney Sweeney takes on double duty for horror 'Immaculate'

The "Euphoria" and "The White Lotus" actress plays young American nun, Sister Cecilia, who enrols in a convent in rural Italy. While she struggles to understand what seems off about the establishment, she suddenly finds herself pregnant.

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Frontman of Jakarta-based indie rock band Sore, Firza Achmar Paloh, also known as Ade Paloh, died on March 19, 2024.

Fellow musicians mark passing of Sore's Ade Paloh

The vocalist and left-handed guitarist was best known for writing and arranging some of the most memorable baroque pop compositions from the early 2000s recorded for the band's critically acclaimed albums Centralismo and Ports of Lima.

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Singer, songwriter and lyricist Firza Achmar Paloh, also known as Ade Paloh, died on March 19, 2024, of an unspecified illness.

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Ade Paloh, early aughts indie rock icon, dies at 48

Sore Band confirmed the death on Tuesday in an Instagram post.

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A taxi driver walks past a taxi parked in central Sydney on March 18, 2024. Australian taxi drivers impacted by the rise of ridesharing giant Uber have won US$178 million in compensation, lawyers said on March 18 after settling a gruelling legal battle.

Australian taxi drivers win $178 million payout from Uber

More than 8,000 taxi drivers and hire car owners banded together to launch legal action in 2019, arguing they lost substantial income when Uber entered Australia in 2012.

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“Banda“ painted by QMR ver Huell and Jobard in 1824, shows the Dutch Fort Belgica-Eiland on Banda Neira Island in present day Maluku province.

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New book offers new perspective on Banda massacre

A recently published book captures not only VOC governor-general Jan Pieterszoon Coen's cruelty in his attempt to monopolize the nutmeg trade in Banda, but also emphasizes the side of the story from the Bandanese diaspora who fled prior to the horrific Banda massacre in 1621.

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The tail of a Humpback whale is seen at the Gerlache Strait, which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, in Antarctica on January 19, 2024. A team of scientists have been working since 2014 on the elaboration of a catalog based on the visual analysis of cetacean tails, both in the confines of the continent and in the Colombian Pacific.

Environment

Whale of a tail: Scientists track unique humpback 'fingerprint'

Photograph inventory allows scientists to track the movement of specific whales, which is crucial for conservation initiatives.

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Streaming giant Spotify adds music videos

"The beta version of music videos on Spotify begins rolling out today...," the company said in a statement.

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Young guns: Sinemaku Pictures is set to premiere three films in 2024. From left to right: Temurun, Bolehkah Sekali Saja Kumenangis and Perayaan Mati Rasa.

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How Sinemaku Pictures has signaled a new era for Indonesian cinema

A new dawn is upon the Indonesian film industry, and studio founders and filmmakers Prilly Latuconsina and Umay Shahab are ready to embrace it.

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Archeologists found the Datu Ronggur inscription in Toba regency, North Sumatra in 2021. The inscription was carved on a cave wall and contains advice for its people to pray, which would be granted by 'opung' (ancestors in the Batak language).

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Discovery of ancient inscriptions adds new story to beginning of Batak script

Three ancient inscriptions found in North Sumatra show the possible transition from the ancient Sumatran script to the currently known Batak script.

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Environment

In Southeast Asia, protecting the environment is its own hazard

In 2022, at least 16 environmentalists were killed in Asia, including 11 in the Philippines and three in Indonesia.

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Spot the dog: Gugug peeks out of a vase in ‘Hiding with Care’, an acrylic painting by its creator Muhammad “Emte” Taufiq that was displayed along with other artworks featuring the titular character of the serial comic strip in Gugug! The Impawsible Exhibition, which ran from Jan. 27 to Feb. 25 at Slab by Rachel Gallery in Menteng, Central Jakarta.

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Gugug: A free-spirited, silent observer of everyday life

An exhibition to celebrate 25 years of comic strip ‘Gugug!’ embodies the canine character’s free and adventurous spirit.

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(L-R) British director Christopher Nolan and British producer Emma Thomas hold their Oscars for Best Picture “Oppenheimer“ at the 96th Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 10, 2024.

Christopher Nolan stamps unique mark on Hollywood

The British-American filmmaker -- an obsessively punctual, tea-swilling perfectionist, who is known for combining inventive, intellectual playfulness with an emphasis on realism -- was named best director at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

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(L-R) Jack Quaid, Florence Pugh, Ellen Mirojnick, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Ludwig Göransson, Charles Roven, Robert Downey Jr., Luisa Abel, Emma Thomas, Hoyte van Hoytema, Ruth De Jong, Christopher Nolan, Josh Hartnett, Ashley Everett and Claire Kaufman accept the Best Picture award for “Oppenheimer“ onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California.

'Oppenheimer' crowned best picture at the Oscars

Director Christopher Nolan's film starred Irish actor Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the US effort in the 1940s to create a weapon devastating enough to end World War Two.

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Culture

Arts Practitioners Hope Cultural Endowment Fund to be Maintained

The government's innovation through the disbursement of the Indonesian Fund has received positive responses from cultural figures and artists. They hope that the Indonesian Fund, sourced from the Cultural Endowment Fund, will be maintained. Especially by the upcoming government.

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This illustration picture shows artificial Intelligence (AI) smartphone app ChatGPT surrounded by other AI apps in Vaasa, Finland, on June 6, 2023.

AI tools generate sexist content, warns UN

The biggest players in the multibillion-dollar AI field train their algorithms on vast amounts of data largely pulled from the internet, which enables their tools to write in the style of Oscar Wilde or create Salvador Dali-inspired images.

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Rupert Murdoch attends a gathering at the United States Open in New York in a September 2017 file photo.

Rupert Murdoch is engaged once again at 92

Murdoch has been married four times before.

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Baihaqi Ibnu Haizan, a 12-year-old student, observes the Sun through a telescope at Taman Ismail Marzuki in Central Jakarta on March 1, 2024. Baihaqi attended an event to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Jakarta Planetarium and Observatory.

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From meteor showers to ‘shadowless moments’, some astronomical events in 2024

Indonesians will be able to see various astronomical phenomena this year, ranging from meteor showers to "shadowless moments".

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Spotify to increase prices in France over new tax

The government last year decided, starting from this year, to slap a 1.2 percent tax on the revenue streaming companies make in France to help finance music creation.

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Gonzalo Garcia, son of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014), is seen next to his father´s portrait at the Gabriel Garcia Marquez House of Literature, where over one hundred letters found recently in the archive of the Garcia Marquez Barcha family are exhibited, in Mexico City on June 15, 2022.

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Final novel was huge challenge for Garcia Marquez

"Until August," the final book by the Nobel prize winning giant of Latin American "magical realism," is being released in its original Spanish as "En agosto nos vemos" on March 6, and in English later this month.

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Meta suffers global Facebook, Instagram outage

At about 12:00 US east coast time (1700 GMT), the sites seemed to be returning to normal, about two hours after the outage reports first emerged.

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Endi Suhaendi, a 28-year-old owner of a family green mussel cultivation business, checks the shelled mussels in Dadap village, Kosambi, Tangerang regency, Banten, on Jan. 23, 2024. Endi said his team had to go as far as Bidadari Island to find a clean enough environment to grow green mussels.

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Once hailed as top protein source, green mussels unsuitable for consumption

Green mussels are a common dish in eateries and recent news of pollution in Jakarta Bay has not put the cultivation and consumption of the mollusk to an end.

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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin speaks during the JFK Space Summit, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, on June 19, 2019.

Bezos dethrones Musk to reclaim title of world's richest man

Bezos' net worth stands at $200 billion, according to the tracker, surpassing the Tesla chief's $198 billion.

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Universal-TikTok feud ramps up as more songs come down

The result of the closely watched negotiations could have significant ripple effects across the industry, as two of the most powerful players in the music and tech industries jockey for leverage in a landscape rife with uncertainty over artificial intelligence.

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United States singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs onstage on the first night of her “Eras Tour“ at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the US, on March 31, 2023.