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Search teams have recovered more than 700 bodies across Nepal and Tibet, five days after glacial floodwater tore through the border districts. Six Australians are among 261 foreign nationals still listed as missing on the Chinese side of the frontier.

Residents' phones lit up with fresh flood warnings on Sunday morning as water rose again on the Bhotekoshi River. Crews near Galchhi are still clearing the Kathmandu highway, where homes, tractors and cars lie buried under thick grey sediment.

Voters in Iceland have rejected restarting EU talks, with the "no" side leading 52.5% to 47.5% as counting neared its end. Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir's coalition had campaigned hard to reopen accession negotiations that collapsed back in 2015.

Overnight, broadcaster RUV called it, closing a second national attempt to settle Iceland's long argument with Brussels. Fishing rights, the euro and diluted influence inside a 28-nation bloc dominated a campaign fought under Trump's threats toward nearby Greenland.

A 22-year-old woman was killed and five others wounded in a shooting at a rave near Zurich overnight. Police in the canton of Aargau launched a manhunt before dawn and have offered no motive so far.

Five wounded partygoers, all in their twenties, were taken to hospital during the night. Swiss authorities have confirmed few details publicly, and investigators still have no description of the gunman to release.

Israeli settlers carried out an assault on Palestinians in the West Bank on Saturday severe enough to draw a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself. Settler violence has become one of the sharpest flashpoints in Israel's relations with allies pushing for restraint.

About 4,000 residents of Hirosaki, Japan, gathered to drag their historic castle across its grounds using hikiya — a centuries-old technique of moving buildings with ropes and rollers. The castle needs foundation repairs, and heritage tourism is doing the rest of the lifting.

A federal trial opened over claims that Expedia profited from Cuban land seized decades ago from families who fled the revolution. Dozens of similar suits have piled up since Trump opened the door to Helms-Burton Act claims during his first term.

The Treasury Department denied press credentials to specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg ahead of next week's G20 finance meeting in Asheville, N.C. The affected bureaus were still granted access through other correspondents.

Los Angeles police released body-camera footage showing officers beating and restraining a handcuffed Jose Carlos Hoyoz-Munoz in July, minutes before he was found dead in a jail cell. He'd been arrested after a family altercation and restrained for what officers described as combative behavior.

A California privacy measure protecting immigration aid workers became a national flashpoint after it was nicknamed for Nick Shirley, a right-wing YouTube personality. Democrats say the uproar has been driven by misinformation about what the bill actually does.

Higher rates got a fresh defence from Fed chair Kevin Warsh at Jackson Hole, along with a much higher bar for standing pat. Lifting rates three weeks before the midterms would anger the White House, while holding steady would revive every doubt about his strategy.

OpenAI plans to end model access through the coding startup Cursor on Nov. 12, citing concerns after SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of the company. It's the Musk-Altman rivalry escalating straight into commercial infrastructure.

Anglo American and Teck have combined into Anglo Teck, a roughly $53 billion merger of equals built around global copper supply. Glencore is playing hardball over Chile, where the pair promised investors $1.4 billion in extra annual profit from their combined mines.

Rutgers researchers say there's a low but real risk of a vision side effect associated with GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound. With tens of millions of prescriptions written, even rare complications add up to a lot of patients worth warning.

Researchers have found that dysfunctional mitochondria in senescent "zombie" cells help switch on inflammatory genes, and blocking a protein called SLC25A1 reduced the activity. That's a new target for age-related inflammation, which underlies conditions from arthritis to Alzheimer's.

SpaceX static-fired the Super Heavy booster for Starship's upcoming Flight 14, a critical test after a rocky year. A clean flight puts SpaceX back on schedule for its Mars-class ambitions.

Pittsburgh is shipping tackle Broderick Jones to Dallas after declining his fifth-year option and drafting Max Ihenachor in the first round. Cowboys get a young lineman to plug a hole. Steelers get draft capital and a fresh start up front.

The Raiders are expected to name 38-year-old Kirk Cousins their Week 1 starter over No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza. Las Vegas is betting a veteran floor beats a rookie ceiling while Mendoza learns the offense from the bench.

Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong hit three home runs in a win over the Reds, extending a historic August that has vaulted him into the NL MVP conversation. He's putting together the kind of month that decides awards.

During his final night guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jelly Roll tore into politicians on both sides and addressed his 2024 photo with Donald Trump, saying "a handshake is not an endorsement." The 3x Grammy winner had previously dodged politics at the February Grammys.

The 83rd Venice Film Festival opens today, firing the starting gun on a long autumn of campaigning and Oscar arithmetic. Robert Pattinson, George Clooney and Penélope Cruz are among the names expected on the Lido over the coming days.

Madison Square Garden hosted the opening night of Harry Styles's 30-show residency, and he could not resist a dig. Reminding the crowd that the arena "also do weddings," Styles nodded to Taylor Swift's July wedding to Travis Kelce there.

What it is: The recorded music business is in the middle of a reckoning with AI-generated music. Some major labels are suing AI generators, while others are licensing to them. At least one is doing both at once. Labels want to protect catalogs built over decades without surrendering a potentially lucrative technology to competitors.

The detail: Universal, Sony, and Warner filed suit last year against generators including Suno and Udio, accusing them of training on copyrighted catalogs without permission. Since then, several labels have opened licensing conversations with the same startups they're litigating against, hoping to turn a legal weapon into a revenue stream. Deals could establish payments for training models while giving AI companies legitimate access to enormous libraries of professionally produced music. That would shift the argument from whether copyrighted recordings can be used toward how much that access should cost.

Why it matters: AI-generated tracks are already flooding streaming platforms, competing with human artists for the same finite pool of subscriber royalties. If courts side with the labels, the AI music industry could quickly inherit a licensing framework. If startups prevail, recorded music economics could shift toward machines capable of producing unlimited tracks cheaply. Either outcome could reshape who gets paid when software creates music, from labels and performers to songwriters and producers. Musicians also face a broader question: whether inexpensive synthetic tracks eventually take listening time away from human-made work.

What to watch: The next twelve months should bring initial court rulings in the Suno and Udio cases, along with clarity on whether majors can strike catalog-wide licensing deals. Watch whether Spotify and Apple Music begin labeling AI tracks, and whether artists' unions seek statutory protections. A major settlement could become the template for AI music, much as early streaming agreements helped establish today's digital music economy.

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