A volunteer-run archive in Seoul has withdrawn its support for a new film after spotting 11 seconds of donated religious broadcasts in the trailer. The director says the footage was cleared; contributors say their consent covered preservation, not a cinema release.
A Christchurch market purchase has overturned a 35-year-old result after a buyer found a finish-line photograph and a timekeeper’s original note hidden inside its frame. Esther Heuer, long listed as runner-up in the national 10,000m, has now been recognised as champion.
A court ruling has uncovered how Saxony’s flood-recovery office used rainfall readings from outside a hard-hit district to reject hundreds of compensation claims. The decision could force officials to reassess 312 applications and reopen scrutiny of a €46 million public fund.
An Austrian court has halted an emergency reservoir plan just as scientists warn that a deepening drought could cut harvests across six Danube-basin countries. Officials say household supplies are secure; researchers say the food risk is already being understated.
A playback failure sent an unapproved ending of Ghanaian film The Last Exchange to screens in Accra and Kumasi, escalating a dispute with the fictional state of Teren. The film’s distributor has suspended screenings as cinemas check whether their systems hold the wrong version.
A lawsuit over a Ukrainian government computing contract has brought an undisclosed, eight-year payment commitment of up to ₴14.6 billion into public view. The arrangement could guarantee revenue to a private AI venture even if state agencies use far less computing power than planned.
A South African football club has sued its league over lost revenue from a 16-month spell playing away, just as it prepares to return to its Cape Town ground. Sports-law experts say the case could force leagues to rethink who pays when a club is uprooted — and whether homecoming matches can repair the damage.
A new canal in Rajasthan delivered barely a thread of water at its opening ceremony, as scientists warn that a five-year dry spell could put next year’s harvest across northwestern India at risk. Officials say national food stocks are sufficient; researchers say those reserves cannot shield farmers and markets from a prolonged failure of rain and irrigation.
A sudden loss of low-cost cloud storage has pushed Mexican universities and libraries to connect their own servers into a vast searchable archive. The network, launched this week, is the largest of its kind in Latin America, according to a specialist register.
A burst of deep tremors and a sudden heat plume have put Brazil’s remote Trindade Island on an emergency footing, with scientists warning an eruption could begin within days. Officials say the mainland is not in danger, but worst-case models show ash threatening South Atlantic flight routes and shipping lanes.
A software accident has revealed that a Philippine start-up’s drought-prediction app counted duplicated rain readings as separate proof of its accuracy. The company won ₱48 million (about €740,000) in public contracts on the strength of forecasts it said were right 96% of the time.
Ireland has suspended 23 specially equipped clinic rooms after a viral video showed their air-quality screens reporting clean air while a handheld meter nearby registered much higher pollution. The rooms were meant to shelter adults with breathing conditions during smoke alerts; officials now say some monitors were measuring air too close to the filters.