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Stressed out, endlessly scrolling and never satisfied? Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, the Buddhist monk with off-the-charts levels of contentment, may have the answers … By some metrics, Buddhist monk Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is the happiest man on Earth. In brain scans, researchers noted that Mingyur’s neural activity showed off-the-charts levels of ...

What’s it like to live on the set of a soap opera? Or above Ted Lasso’s favourite pub? The residents of the homes made famous by hit TV shows tell all Half the world recognises the apartment that Carrie Bradshaw lives in. Or the New Jersey mansion where Tony Soprano ...

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the mainstreaming of Flock, media appearances, and Spotify’s AI move. EMANUEL: The news that Spotify will start tagging artists on its platform ...

Meta has filed a patent for its AI smartglasses that uses facial recognition to automatically detect who is in the frame, creates a video clip whenever one of those people does something — like picking an item up or walking around — and then generates a highlight reel of what ...

Police arrested a man in Texas early Wednesday morning for saying “bullshit” at a public city meeting a week earlier. Police in Fort Worth, Texas pulled over local radio host and political activist EJ Carrion just outside of his home and arrested him for “tumultuous behavior” related to a Commissioner’s ...

BBC’s Top Comment podcast has found a network of Instagram profiles glamourising the swim around the Morocco-Ceuta border fence. ...

Two families have been trapped in their homes in the occupied West Bank for several days. ...

Single-use grills pose a “significant risk to the public” in current drought and heatwave conditions, the government warns. ...

Iran’s recent reshuffle, as well as its shifting battlefield tactics, suggest it is adapting for a lengthening conflict with the US. Tehran has reordered its leadership in part because of repeated assassinations of its top brass by American and Israeli strikes. But recent moves point to how Iran is “preparing ...

Washington signaled it will ramp up economic and military pressure on Tehran, dashing hopes of any imminent respite to the conflict. The US Treasury secretary said he would soon unveil restrictions “that have never been seen,” while the country’s defense chief insisted a naval blockade could be maintained “indefinitely.” Yet ...