What to know about the Israel-Hezbollah conflict

A guide to recent developments in the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

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'Heroes' save animals after land 'sacrificed' in floods

The owner of a smallholding believes her property was flooded because drainage pools for a nearby main road were not being properly managed.

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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Trump or Harris? In a crisis-hit world, diplomats resigned to either

Behind the scenes at the United Nations, insiders tell the BBC they don't see major change whoever wins the White House.

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Modern Benchmarking Tooling for JavaScript

Show HN: Modern Benchmarking Tooling for JavaScript
4 by evnwashere | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I always had a sweet tooth for how easy it is to use google/benchmark, but when working with js, current libraries didn't feel right and some were not even accurate enough, so I decided to create my own library to make JavaScript benchmarking tooling better. With more free time, I finally implemented all features I wished for in 1.0.0 and made a lightweight C++ single-header version for moments when google/benchmark is too much. Hope this library helps you as much as it does me.

Iran warns Hezbollah leader's blood 'will not go unavenged'

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announces five days of mourning in response to the “martyrdom" of his ally.

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Met officers improperly accessed Sarah Everard files

Met Police officers face misconduct hearings for unnecessarily looking at files about Ms Everard.

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NYC mayor charged with taking bribes and illegal campaign funds

Eric Adams is accused of illegally accepting foreign campaign donations and $100,000 in luxury travel benefits from Turkish nationals.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Could Latinos sway the US election?

The vote could highlight the political power of the country’s largest minority group

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Brook's first ODI century keeps England in series

Captain Harry Brook hits a superb first one-day international century as England beat Australia in the third match to keep the series alive.

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Monday, September 23, 2024

Watch: The Monday Night Club

Mark Chapman and guests debate the weekend's football.

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Israel and Hezbollah urged to step back as UN warns of 'catastrophe'

Israel says it will continue military action, as UN chief raises the risk of Lebanon becoming "another Gaza".

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Swearing punishment could speed up F1 exit - Verstappen

Max Verstappen says issues such as his punishment for swearing may "decide my future" and are "really tiring".

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Change is coming, PM says on eve of Labour conference

Labour activists are gathering on the eve of the party's autumn conference in Liverpool.

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Friday, September 20, 2024

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform

Show HN: Inngest 1.0 – Open-source durable workflows on every platform
26 by tonyhb | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! I’m Tony, one of the co-founders of Inngest ( https://inngest.com/ ) Inngest is an open-source durable workflow platform that works on any cloud. Durable workflows are stateful, long running step functions written in code, which automatically retry on failure. It abstracts everything about queues, event streams and state for you, letting you focus on code. Some examples of uses: managing stateful AI chained step functions; managing search/rag indexes and data pipelines; integrations and webhooks; billing and payment flows. Technical details: unlike other solutions, we put lots of effort into designing our SDK’s step.run APIs to make them extremely easy to use — developer experience is the most important thing for us. We had to design and build our own queueing system to work with multi-tenancy, batching, and debouncing, and we’re iterating on this as we move to FoundationDB. It’s largely all Go in the backend, with a bunch of caching, clickhouse, event streams, and coordination on our behalf. Workers are shared nothing, and run based off of the queue and execution state. We did a post last year as we iterated on our TS SDK. The product has changed a lot since then and wanted to show the community what’s changed as we reach 1.0: * Golang, Java, and Python SDKs with cross-language function invocation (across clouds, too) * Multi-tenant aware flow control (concurrency, throttling, debounce) * Batching, grouping many events into a single function call * Much improved dashboard, with tracing and metrics built in * Advanced recovery tools like function replay, temporary pausing, bulk cancellation (with optional expressions). No more dead letter queues! * Branch deploys built in, with staging env support out of the box * Full local testing with production parity There's a ton on the roadmap, with more launching next week. We’re hiring systems & infra engineers, too — it’s a fun job with lots of challenges! Wanted to say thank you to the HN community for feedback so far! Happy Friday :)

Tornado in Hampshire damages properties and blows over trees

Footage of the tornado in Aldershot was captured on residents' doorbell cameras.

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Best shots from Head's 'excellent' 154 as Australia win first ODI

Watch the best shots from Travis Head's unbeaten 154 as Australia beat England by seven wickets at Trent Bridge in the first ODI.

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'They were smiling': Witness recalls last look at Titan crew

OceanGate specialist Renata Rojas said she saw five smiling faces boarding the sub before it began its descent to the Titanic.

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Which prisoners are being released early from jail and why

A scheme allowing the early release of thousands of prisoners in England and Wales has begun.

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Pager and Walkie-Talkie Explosions in Lebanon

And a row over Sue Gray's pay.

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Video appears to show pager explosion at Lebanon supermarket

BBC Verify has examined dozens of videos after reports of thousands injured and several killed by handheld pagers exploding in Lebanon.

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Monday, September 16, 2024

EU firefighting planes to help tackle Portugal wildfires

Several fires broke out across Portugal over the weekend, forcing residents to flee and motorways to shut.

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US regain Solheim Cup with victory over Europe

The United States claim the Solheim Cup for the first time since 2017 after a tight victory over Europe in Virginia.

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Norris 'still hopeful' of good result in Baku

McLaren’s Lando Norris says he is “still hopeful” of a good result in Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix despite starting the race in 16th place.

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Friday, September 13, 2024

'I've never heard a net booed before' - Fluke winner dashes Evans' hopes

An untimely net-cord winner sets Tomas Martin Etcheverry on his way to victory against Dan Evans in Great Britain's opening match against Argentina at the Davis Cup in Manchester.

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Government will not fund Casement for Euro 2028

NI secretary says there is "a significant risk that it would not be built in time" for Euro 2028.

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Brigitte Macron makes Emily in Paris cameo appearance

The wife of French President Emmanuel Macron features in new episodes released by Netflix on Thursday.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Grandmother who stole £70,000 from school jailed

Wendy Gill took the money from the school to help fund her partner's drug habit, a court hears.

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Monday, September 9, 2024

Kane set for 100th cap - the numbers behind his success

Captain Harry Kane will become just the 10th man to make 100 England appearances when the Three Lions face Finland in the Nations League at Wembley on Tuesday.

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Woman and child die at property in Cornwall

Police were called to the property by the ambulance service following a welfare check.

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Saturday, September 7, 2024

GB's Wiggs and Henshaw win Paralympic canoe golds

Britain's Emma Wiggs and Charlotte Henshaw both win canoeing gold medals at the Paris Paralympics.

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Starmer's 'blame the Tories' strategy will not hold forever

The government’s message has focused on its challenging inheritance - but responsibility and blame will ultimately shift.

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Friday, September 6, 2024

Newscast: Rebel MPs, leadership dreams and parliamentary pets

And, what’s happening at Green Party Conference?

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Who is Margarita Simonyan, Putin's propagandist-in-chief sanctioned by US?

RT editor-in-chief has presided for 20 years over what the US now calls Russia's principal propaganda outlet.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Scotland's struggle to tackle poverty while cutting services

John Swinney will set out plans to cut child poverty, 24 hours after his finance secretary wielded the axe on many government programmes.

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Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Sony takes new game offline two weeks after release

Concord reportedly spent eight years being made but it is being taken offline soon after launch.

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Man found frozen in US cave identified after 47 years

A body was found frozen in a Pennsylvania cave in 1977. Its identity remained a mystery - until now.

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Monday, September 2, 2024

Landlord MP should stand down, renters' union says

Jas Athwal says he is "sickened" by the state of his rental flats and pledged to resolve the issues.

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Has ticket row taken the shine off Oasis reunion?

The Gallagher brothers received backlash after ticket prices shot up as fans waited in an online queue.

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Shehzadi in Peril – My first ever game

Show HN: Shehzadi in Peril – My first ever game
10 by sh4jid | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN! This is the first game I ever built. It's very simple, but I'm still kind of proud of it because all the pixel art is original. Thanks for taking a look! GitHub link: https://ift.tt/j2aRiGt

Woman charged with murder of six-year-old boy

A 41-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of a six-year-old boy.

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