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In the News
- The New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly in the French legislative election but does not achieve a majority.
- In Iran, the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian (pictured) is elected president in the second round of the presidential election.
- The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election and Keir Starmer becomes prime minister.
- Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 15 people dead in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
Did You Know...
- ... that a human toe used for cocktails (pictured) is one of many body parts that are tourist attractions?
- ... that a novel about Madagascar's colonization, which the author was aware was impossible to publish under colonial rule, was finally published decades after his suicide?
- ... that working broadcast journalists were used as extras for the portions of the Doctor Who episode "73 Yards" that were filmed at the BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House?
- ... that plans to shoot the Beijing-set portions of the 1989 Japanese film Beijing Watermelon on location were cancelled after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre occurred mid-production?
- ... that the Radcliffe Telescope was the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere when it was completed in 1948?
- ... that the marine fungal species Parengyodontium album only breaks down polyethylene plastics that have been exposed to ultraviolet light?
- ... that author Ron Chernow was reluctant to write a biography of John D. Rockefeller until being shown a 1,700-page transcript of three years' worth of private interviews with him?
- ... that the Green Bay Packers once defeated a team of all-stars chosen from the rest of the league?
- ... that on February 3, 1986, African Independence Party leaders Adama Touré and Adama Touré were released from detention?