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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Most units of time are based on nature. A day is one rotation of the Earth. A month is the moon’s orbit. A year is the Earth’s path around the sun.But a week? There’s no natural explanation for it. (See the video at the top of this article.) That’s why ancient cultures defined the week in vastly different ways: four days in West Africa, 10 in Egypt, 15 in China. THE SECRETS OF A MEANINGFUL AND LIFELONG GRANDPARENT-GRANDCHILD BONDIn the 1930s, the Soviets tried to eliminate the seven-day week entirely — first replacing it…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Legal & General, one of Europe’s largest asset managers, is merging two investment units and culling about 70 roles as part of a broader restructuring to cut costs and refocus the business on higher-profit markets.The FTSE 100 company, which runs £1.1tn in assets, is merging its £500bn index funds unit with its £12bn ETF division to create a more global team, according to two people familiar with the plans. As part of the merger, L&G’s London-based global head of Index and ETFs…

Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uncovered $4.7 trillion in untraceable Treasury Department payments. Prior to the discovery, Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) identification codes were optional for $4.7 trillion in Treasury Department payments, so they were often left blank and were untraceable. The field is now required to increase “insight into where the money is actually going,” the Treasury Department and DOGE announced in February. “Of the 1.5 billion payments that we send out every year, they are required to have a TAS, a Treasury Account Symbol. We discovered that more than one third of those payments did…

The film is inspired by dissident director Jafar Panahi’s own experience in jail.An Iranian thriller film that explores corruption and state violence in the country has won the the Palme d’Or, the coveted top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It Was Just an Accident, directed by dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, was crowned at the world-famous festival on Saturday, hours after a power outage briefly threw the event off course. The festival’s crowd burst into a roaring standing ovation for Panahi, who has endured years of travel bans and prison terms in Iran due to his provocative cinema, often…

Kaden Groves got it all right to prevail in the sprint finale to the 14th stage as the Giro d’Italia had a warmly greeted stopover in Slovenia – but, alas for the Queensland speedster, it was only enough to earn him the runner-up prize for the day.For 16 seconds up ahead in the finale to the stage at Nova Gorica on Saturday, Denmark’s Kasper Asgreen, who’d got into an early breakaway, escaped on his own to steal the win which had looked tailor-made for the sprinters.Groves, who had been looking for another win in the 108th Giro after victory on…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Five people, including four teens, have died following a multi-vehicle crash in southwestern Ontario. Ontario Provincial Police say the crash happened around 4:30 p.m. Friday in Middlesex County near London, Ont.Investigators say an SUV carrying five people collided with a transport truck, then hit a second SUV, at the intersection of Thorndale Road and Cobble Hills Road.Three of the first SUV’s passengers, two 17-year-old girls and a 16-year-old girl, were pronounced dead at the scene. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Caitlin Clark threw up her arms, yelled at WNBA referees and punched the air in frustration after a controversial no-call cost her team a chance to knock off the defending champions Saturday. In the final seconds of the Indiana Fever’s 90-88 loss to the reigning champion New York Liberty, Clark took the ball with a chance to tie or win the game. New York’s Natasha Cloud was defending Clark and leaned into the superstar enough to knock the ball out of Clark’s hands and knock Clark back slightly.  Caitlin Clark (22) of the Indiana…

Star projectors have become a must-have gadget for a wide range of consumers, captivating everyone from space enthusiasts and movie fans to gamers and party hosts.Users often want to create an immersive environment, to add another dimension to the atmosphere, and these handy little gadgets have given us a means to do this quickly, easily and more affordably than ever before.We’ve reviewed a ton of models, and they all offer different ways to change the vibe of a room. Some just project lasers, some combine lasers and pretty LED patterns. Some come with speakers, in-built ‘white noise’ sounds and even…

We’ve rounded up the best camera phone accessories for photography and video, including phone tripods, that can give your smartphone content an edge, and help improve the quality of your photos and video. Smartphone photography has become the predominant medium for taking photos. Advancements in technology, the ease of social media and the size and convenience of phones have transformed the ubiquitous smartphone into the everyday camera for the masses. And the widespread popularity of smartphone photography has, of course, also given rise to a new range of accessories to use with your device to help you take better photos.…

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico in spite of his fears of being harmed there.The man, who is gay, was protected from being returned to his home country under a U.S. immigration judge’s order at the time. But the U.S. put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead, a removal that U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy found likely “lacked any semblance of due process.”Mexico has since returned him to Guatemala, where he is in hiding, according to court documents. An earlier court…