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Swiatek beats Rybakina in straight sets to win her first title of a turbulent season
Iga Swiatek secured her first WTA title of the season with a straight-set win over Elena Rybakina in the Canadian Open final, capping a tournament run the Polish player had described beforehand as coming during the toughest season of her career. The result offers Swiatek momentum heading into the final major of the year.
The moment an earthquake shook a Japanese hospital mid-operation, and what it reveals about disaster-ready care
Security camera footage from Kumamoto General Hospital shows surgeons shielding a patient on the operating table as a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook the building last month. The video has renewed attention on how hospitals in seismically active regions design operating rooms, staff protocols and building infrastructure to keep surgery safe during a disaster.
Fannie Bay Gaol: the frontier prison that held Australia's Northern Territory for nearly a century
For nearly a hundred years, Fannie Bay Gaol served as the principal prison of Australia's Northern Territory, holding everyone from cattle rustlers to condemned murderers behind walls built from local stone, timber and corrugated iron. Its gallows carried out the territory's last executions before the prison closed in 1979, leaving behind one of Australia's most complete surviving frontier penal sites.
You can now turn off Google Gemini's visible AI watermarks. Here is what that actually changes
Google now lets users toggle off the visible watermark that normally appears on images, videos and music generated with Gemini and its Nano Banana and Omni models. The invisible SynthID watermark and embedded metadata remain in place regardless, meaning the content stays technically traceable as AI-generated even when it no longer looks that way.