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I hope you've enjoyed a weekend of watching influencers at Coachella and astronauts splashing down from space.
I guess you could call it Katy Perry’s dream weekend.
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The quote: “The proceedings have been brought against Prince Harry and Mark Dyer, identified through evidence as the architects of that adverse media campaign, which has had significant viral impact and triggered an onslaught of cyber-bullying directed at the charity and its leadership.”
A charity co-founded by Prince Harry in honour of his late mother Princess Diana, which he quit following a high-profile dispute, is suing him for libel (defamation) at the High Court in London. It claims Prince Harry and his friend Mark Dyer both led an “adverse media campaign” that caused “operational disruption and reputational harm to the charity, its leadership, and its strategic partners”.
The stat: 4,499. The number of refugees the U.S. has taken in since October. Of the total, all but three are from South Africa.
The big question:
Would you be comfortable with your employer using AI to monitor your productivity if you were clearly told it was happening?
Friday’s results: 35% of you said that you were satisfied with the depth of your social connections right now. 23% of you said that you were very satisfied, while another 23% of you said your social connections could be deeper. 19% of you said you feel quite disconnected (sending hugs!). [1,654 votes].
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Some headlines from this morning:
Overnight, President Trump announced the U.S. Navy would “immediately” implement a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, and attack any Iranian vessel preventing this plan. It comes after U.S. negotiators failed to reach an agreement with Iran in Pakistan after a lengthy face-to-face meeting to permanently end the war. U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that his team was leaving Islamabad after not reaching a deal with Iran despite 21 hours of negotiations. Vance cited shortcomings in the talks and said Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including not to build nuclear weapons. He said: "We need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. That is the core goal of the president of the United States, and that's what we've tried to achieve through these negotiations." In a statement, the spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baqaei, said the “intensive” talks failed because the U.S. issued “excessive demands and unlawful requests” that neglected Iran’s “legitimate rights and interests”.
Gout Gout has become the first Australian to legally break the 20-second mark over 200m, beating his own national record in the process. The 18-year-old ran 19.67 at Sydney Olympic Park at the Australian Athletics Championships to win back-to-back 200m national titles on Sunday. It is the first time Gout has run sub-20 legally, having done so with an ‘illegal tailwind‘ last year. His main rival in the 200m, Lachlan Kennedy, withdrew from the event after clocking 9.96 for the second time in as many days to win his first national 100m title. In the women’s 200m final, Lakara Stallan became the national champion with a time of 23.25 seconds.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has declared the emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal endangered.
The penguin population has decreased by around 10% from 2009 to 2018, while the number of seals has reduced by 50% from 1999 to 2025.
The IUCN attributed the reclassification to sea-ice changes and reduced food availability due to climate change.
Red List
The IUCN maintains the ‘Red List of Threatened Species’, which shows which animals are at risk of going extinct.
Species are assessed on a seven-level rating system, including three categories of ‘threatened’ risk.
Endangered is defined as “very high risk of extinction in the wild.”
New species
Last week, the IUCN reclassified two Antarctic animals on the Red List as endangered: Antarctic fur seals, and emperor penguins (the ones from Happy Feet).
Projections show the emperor penguin population will halve by the 2080s, which the IUCN said was the basis of its decision to move the species from ‘Near threatened’ to ‘Endangered’.
Between 2009 and 2018, 10% of the population died and was not replaced – equivalent to 20,000 adult penguins. It is also projected to halve by 2080.
The Antarctic fur seal has been reclassified from ‘Least concern’ to ‘Endangered’.
The species’ population has decreased by more than 50% from 1999 to 2025, from an estimated 2,187,000 seals to 944,000.
“The declines of the emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal on the IUCN Red List are a wake-up call on the realities of climate change,” IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar said.
Aguilar called Antarctica the planet’s “frozen guardian” that offers “untold benefits to humans, stabilising the climate and providing refuge to unique wildlife.”
Reporting by Emily Donohoe.
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On Friday (local time), four astronauts safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, completing the first crewed lunar mission in 50 years.
Over a ten day period, Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen flew deeper into space than humans have ever gone before.
Following the splashdown, Wiseman said: "Before you launch, it feels like it's the greatest dream on Earth. And when you're out there, you just want to get back to your families and your friends. It's a special thing to be a human, and it's a special thing to be on planet Earth."
Context
When Artemis II lifted off in early April, it made history as the first human mission to the moon in over 50 years.
The journey acted as a dress rehearsal to make sure NASA's Orion spacecraft could handle the distance before astronauts attempt to actually set foot on the moon in 2028.
During a flyby of the far side of the moon, the mission explored new views of the hidden lunar surface and observed a total solar eclipse.
The astronauts described the eclipse as “spectacular” and “surreal,” adding, “there's absolutely no words to describe what we are looking at out this window.”
The crew also asked mission control to name a bright lunar crater after Carroll Wiseman, the late wife of Commander Reid Wiseman.
Along the way, they broke the record for the farthest distance any human has ever travelled from Earth, surpassing the mark set by the Apollo 13 crew back in 1970.
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen marked the moment by saying: "We most importantly choose this moment to challenge this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long-lived."
Splashdown
The Orion capsule reentered Earth's atmosphere on Friday at a speed of 40,000 km/hr, creating air temperatures of 10,000°C — roughly twice the temperature of the Sun.
For six minutes, even NASA lost radio contact as a fireball formed around the capsule, blocking all signals in and out. This was a planned and expected part of the process.
The whole sequence, from hitting the atmosphere to hitting the water, took just 13 minutes.
Reflecting on the mission, Koch said: "Honestly, what struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it.”
The next lunar mission, Artemis III, is scheduled for launch in mid-2027. That mission will not have a human crew – the next time humans will touch the moon is on Artemis IV in 2028.
Reporting by Elliot Lawry.
Give me some good news
The teenage birth rate in the U.S. has fallen to a historic low.
According to new data published by the National Center for Health, the fertility rate for female teenagers aged between 15-19 fell by 7% in 2025 to 11.7 births per 1,000 females.
The teen birth rate in 1991, by comparison, was 61.8 births per 1,000.
TDA titbit
‘The Housemaid’ author Freida McFadden is not… Freida McFadden.
In an exclusive with USA TODAY, the bestselling author revealed her real name is actually Sara Cohen.
Cohen is a doctor who treats brain disorders (save some achievements for the rest of us!).
She told USA TODAY she created the pseudonym to avoid career conflicts. However, in 2023 she stepped back from healthcare, now only working once or twice a month. Cohen also wears a wig as McFadden, and her real glasses.
She added her coworkers found out and kept her secret, but now she’s “at a point in my career when I’m tired of this being a secret.”
“Even though I haven’t told my real name… I feel like I have shared the real me all along… I’ve always been genuine with my readers.”
Reporting by Anju Dhanushkodi.
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