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1. With a 96 metascore, Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is the highest rated game of 2026  Top Gear
2. Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Gets a Native PC Port Through Static Recompilation  TechPowerUp
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has revived the midnight game launch – but was it worth the wait?  The Guardian
4. Ocarina of Time review: Does Nintendo's Zelda remake match its original?  BBC
5. Ask the Developer Vol. 24: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — Part 1  Nintendo

1. With a 96 metascore, Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time is the highest rated game of 2026  Top Gear
2. Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Gets a Native PC Port Through Static Recompilation  TechPowerUp
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has revived the midnight game launch – but was it worth the wait?  The Guardian
4. Ocarina of Time review: Does Nintendo's Zelda remake match its original?  BBC
5. Ask the Developer Vol. 24: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — Part 1  Nintendo

University of Ottawa - Theory predicting an older Universe without dark matter or dark energy passes key cosmological tests, warranting further investigation  Education News Canada

University of Ottawa - Theory predicting an older Universe without dark matter or dark energy passes key cosmological tests, warranting further investigation  Education News Canada

Ankara aims to make electricity account for 35 percent of global energy demand by 2035.

White is a close friend of Trump and has endorsed him for president, but has never held a government position.

LONDON (AP) — Russell Brand faces a reckoning Monday for sexual abuse that occurred just offstage from a public life built around boasts of his erotic exploits.

Brand, 51, faces a significant prison term after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.

The British actor-comedian known for outrageous stand-up routines and battles with drugs and alcohol asserted that he was innocent and all his encounters were consensual.

But a jury of eight men and four women did not buy his defense and found him guilty of attacking four of six accusers on allegations dating back to 2004. He was cleared of two counts of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault.

Brand was partly damned by his own words about his obsession with sex and his well-documented life of promiscuity.

Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones called Brand a ruthless, calculating, manipulative “sexual predator” who treated women as a “disposable commodity.”

She quoted from his 2007 memoir “My Booky Wook” to illustrate how his insatiable sex drive led him to cross the line.

“If I want something — whether it’s a job or a woman — I will determinedly, resolutely, remove anything that’s in the way, until I possess the object of my desire,” he wrote.

The accusers came forward following a 2023 investigation by The Times and Channel 4 that aired accusations from women who said they had been sexually abused and degraded by Brand.

Brand was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman during a birthday party at a London bar in 2004, but cleared of orally raping her in a restroom.

He was also found guilty of kissing and groping another woman at a London radio station in 2004 or 2005 and of anally raping a fan at his home after meeting her backstage at one of his comedy shows in 2009.

The final conviction was for sexually assaulting a different woman who says the comedian demanded a massage and pressed his face into her groin during the recording of an advertisement in 2009.

Brand was acquitted of raping another woman in a hotel room during the Labour Party’s annual conference in the seaside town of Bournemouth in 1999, and of attempting to indecently assault a woman by dragging her into the men’s bathroom at the London office of music channel MTV.

The Associated Press doesn’t name victims of alleged sexual violence, and British law protects their identities from the media for life.

Brand, who was known for edgy stand-up routines and battles with drugs and alcohol, rose to prominence in the early 2000s hosting television programs and his own BBC radio show. He appeared in Hollywood films including “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him to the Greek” and was briefly married to pop star Katy Perry.

In recent years he has moved away from mainstream media, relocated to Florida and built a large online following with videos mixing wellness, conspiracy theories and discussions of his religious devotion.

This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/russell-brand-facing-significant-prison-050213431.html

Minister says Labour hoping to offer bed to every rough sleeper in England but cites chronic housing shortage

Andy Burnham’s pledge to tackle rough sleeping by getting “everyone in for Christmas” is in jeopardy amid rising numbers of people on the streets and a severe housing shortage.

Official figures show an increase of nearly 1,000 people sleeping rough in England between January and June, the latest month for which figures are available.

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She was the world No 1, whose fight for equal prize money changed women’s lives. As competitive as ever in her ninth decade, she discusses sexuality, tenacity and what it was like to finally graduate college this year

Every day, Billie Jean King tries to come up with a “gratitude list” in her head, identifying the people who have played a part in making her life so fulfilling. On the day we speak, the list includes her nephew and her wife, Ilana Kloss, who like her is a decorated former tennis player. And, as ever, Susan Williams, who was in King’s fifth grade class at school in Long Beach, California, when she was 11 years old.

“Do you want to play tennis?” Williams asked one day. “What’s tennis?” King responded. She had always been a sporty child, and her parents, unusually for the time, encouraged her athletic ambitions just as much as they did her brother’s (he later became a major league baseball pitcher). Although basketball was a big part of her early childhood, Williams was the first person to tell her about tennis. “She said: ‘You get to run, jump and hit a ball.’ And I went: ‘Oh, three of my favourite things.’”

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Rachel Ojuromi and her stylist friend Debby Fasingha recreated high-end designs in effortlessly cool videos shot around the city. Then the fashion house came calling

Before Paris, there was Lagos, with its busy markets, roadside stalls and maze of disorderly streets. And then there was Rachel Ojuromi, sashaying through it all and turning the everyday into an unlikely catwalk.

For the past six months, Ojuromi has taken social media by storm, transforming the vibrant streets of Lagos into her personal runway, showcasing designs made from secondhand, thrifted clothes and scraps mostly sourced from local open-air hubs such as Yaba market.

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Coffee shop chain targets growth north of London with extra 500 outlets in big boost for youth employment

Starbucks has set out plans to hire 7,500 new baristas over the next five years, in a boost to youth employment as the chain pins hopes for future growth on the north of the country.

The US coffee shop chain, which employs more than 18,000 people in the UK, said the hiring spree would focus on the Midlands, north of England, Wales and Scotland, as it targets growth north of the M25.

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The writer and podcaster on why politics is made to seem more complicated than it is and his mission to unpack world events for everyone

Why did you get into comedy?
My mum was a professional dancer and always encouraged me to perform. Given that I have zero rhythm, comedy was my other option. She wrote me a poem called Mrs Brown’s Moggy, about a cat that was often very soggy, for my school’s talent show. Because you can’t tell the difference between real and polite laughter at the age of six, I assumed I’d killed my first gig and convinced myself I was born to do nothing else.

Where do you find your material?
In a world where Robert Jenrick claims Nigel Farage has “probably done more than almost anybody to stand against racism”, the answer is that my material is presented to me on a silver platter each morning.

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1. Weber ‘fortunate to play’ with 2026 Hockey Hall of Fame inductees  NHL.com
2. Bergeron, Class of ‘26 in awe of company at Hall of Fame ring ceremony  NHL.com
3. Price reflects on his HOF career, says he's most proud of being a Hab the whole way  TSN
4. Monday Habs Headlines: Carey Price at home among the game’s greats  Habs Eyes on the Prize
5. Carey Price Hall Of Fame Interview: Canadiens Legacy, Fowler Advice  RG.org

1. Weber ‘fortunate to play’ with 2026 Hockey Hall of Fame inductees  NHL.com
2. Bergeron, Class of ‘26 in awe of company at Hall of Fame ring ceremony  NHL.com
3. Price reflects on his HOF career, says he's most proud of being a Hab the whole way  TSN
4. Monday Habs Headlines: Carey Price at home among the game’s greats  Habs Eyes on the Prize
5. Carey Price Hall Of Fame Interview: Canadiens Legacy, Fowler Advice  RG.org

New petrol or diesel cars are due to be phased out by 2030 and by 2035 all new cars must be zero emission.

A member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps at a military training center for ordinary citizens at Tajrish Square in Tehran, Iran, on November 2. - Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters

US President Donald Trump has offered his clearest indication yet that intensified diplomacy could avert another major round of fighting with Iran, in the wake of his party’s disastrous midterm election results.

Trump told CNN on Sunday that renewed US military attacks are “highly unlikely” if Tehran makes progress toward an agreement on its nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. He also told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he was “not looking to” escalate the war.

Iran and the United States have quietly been negotiating a sensitive agreement that could avert a return to all-out war and open the door to broader talks.

But hopes of a deal are being tempered by Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying Sunday that he “wouldn’t say we’re on the verge of a breakthrough.” Trump has also made clear the military option remains on the table.

Both sides and Qatar, which is mediating, have revealed little about the discussions even as diplomatic activity has accelerated since Tuesday’s midterms.

What’s changed since the midterms?

The Republican losses in the elections have added another dimension to the negotiations, with Vice President JD Vance saying aftewards that the war was among the reasons Republicans lost.

Trump told “60 Minutes” that he did not disagree with Vance’s assessment, acknowledging that voters “didn’t like the war.” But he strongly defended the decision to attack Iran, saying that if he had to make the decision again, his answer would be “an emphatic yes.”

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Iran, meanwhile, has sought to use the election results to press its negotiating position. “American voters have made their choice. Time for the White House to make its own,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday.

Trump continues to project confidence about the US military position, while Iran has repeatedly threatened to expand the war geographically if it is attacked again.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, third left, attends a meeting with high-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, as the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei, second left, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, third right, listen in Tehran, Iran, on October 26 - Iranian Presidency Office/AP What is being discussed?

Both sides have several key demands that are on paper non-starters to the other.

Trump seeks to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, which Tehran sees as a matter of national sovereignty.

Publicly, Iran is posturing, insisting it will not negotiate with Washington over the program or reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz unless seven preconditions are met —including ending the war on “all fronts” and lifting a maritime blockade. The specifics are yet to be made public.

Hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium – the material needed to produce a nuclear weapon – remain hidden somewhere in Iran. Tehran has used this stockpile as leverage in its talks with the US. Reports indicate Washington wants the uranium diluted or transferred to another country for safekeeping. It is unclear how far the two sides have progressed on that point.

Iran has contended that its nuclear program is for generating energy and not military purposes.

For Iran, aside from not ceding ground on its nuclear program or Hormuz, there are key economic goals.

As one of the world’s largest oil producers, Iran has found it increasingly difficult to sell crude on global markets under US sanctions. Billions of dollars in Iranian assets held in foreign banks also remain frozen. Washington appears to be weighing relief on these restrictions, a move that could help Tehran ease the severe economic strain on its population amid record inflation.

Iran also wants compensation from the US for the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his top military commanders by the US and Israel at the start of the war in February.

Qatar is mediating between the two sides and circulating a framework document that both Washington and Tehran are amending. The process has been underway for weeks, possibly months, but has intensified in recent days amid fears of fresh strikes.

Trump is expected to meet Qatari Prime Minster Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani in Washington on Monday.

Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on October 12. - Stringer/Reuters What’s stopping a deal?

So far neither side has been willing to budge on its demands.

Before leaving Sunday for the Group of Seven foreign ministers meeting in Paris, Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested the two sides remained far from an agreement.

“Right now, it hasn’t been very productive because the Iranian demands are simply not just unacceptable, but in some cases outrageous and ridiculous and really not realistic.”

After successive rounds of open conflict, Tehran’s trust in Washington has almost vanished. Iran has not forgotten that the conflict began while nuclear talks with the US were underway.

Iran is concerned that relinquishing any leverage could invite the US and Israel to strike again, leaving it exposed and without effective negotiating tools. If Iran is attacked after opening the Strait of Hormuz and relinquishing control over the enriched uranium, it would be left even more exposed and in a weaker negotiating position.

Trump is balancing his ties with Arab partners and Israel – both of which view the Islamic Republic as a threat – and faces scrutiny if he walks away from the war without a major concession from Iran. Tehran also wants to protect its regional proxies and allies in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. Those militias have fought on behalf of the Islamic Republic regionally and are loyal to Tehran, but have come under existential pressure over the past three years.

In September, Iran’s ally in Yemen, the Houthi rebels, launched a lighting offensive capturing another key maritime chokepoint on the Red Sea – Bab Al Mandeb – and giving Tehran potential influence over another waterway. The Houthis have since ramped up attacks on Saudi Arabia in response to Riyadh giving the Yemeni government military support.

The US wants Iran not to have capabilities to build a nuclear weapon, including advanced equipment that could allow it to do so.

Iran’s Arab neighbors are divided over any agreement that would hand Tehran too much power and cement its desired hegemony. Iran wants to administer the Strait of Hormuz, the maritime corridor through which wealthy Arab states export most of their oil and gas. Control of the waterway would give Tehran decisive influence over what enters and leaves the region. This too would go against the demands of the US, which wants to see open waterways and would be loath to cement one of Iran’s key gains from the war.

Colorful tree and flower decorations remain on the walls of a rubble-strewn classroom at Shajareh Tayyebeh school, in Minab, southern Iran, on September 7. More than 100 people were killed in a US airstrike on Feb. 28, according to Iranian authorities. - Vahid Salemi/AP So, will war resume?

There have been some attacks but both sides have played them down, a sign perhaps that neither wants to derail talks.

Some outlets report that talks between the two sides have moved closer to agreement. The New York Times has indicated that Iran is willing to re-engage in nuclear negotiations.

There has been no independent confirmation but any concessions from Iran on its nuclear program, or even willingness to discuss the topic, would be considered a breakthrough.

Yet, despite reports of progress, the risk of an all-out war remains real. The US still has a vast military presence in the Middle East that could launch a major assault on Trump’s orders.

Vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz with oil and gas continue to come under Iranian attack.

The US is offering a reward of up to $20 million for information on Iran’s nuclear program and has launched a task force aimed at blocking Tehran from using land routes to move advanced weapons and other materials – signs that Washington is intensifying pressure rather than easing it.

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Meanwhile, Iranian hardliners who believe Tehran has already emerged victorious in its war with the US are seizing on Trump’s midterm losses to demand that he pay a steeper price for an exit from the conflict. Should a deal be reached by the more reformist-minded Iranian leaders involved in talks they could face opposition at home.

Over the past weeks, Iranian military commanders have stepped up their warnings claiming Iran possesses weaponry capable of striking more targets and inflicting even greater damage than before.

So, even if Trump is willing to reach deal, it is far from clear if Iran is ready to accept.

CNN’s Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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This article originally appeared on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/09/middleeast/iran-us-talks-explainer-intl

Cyberattacks on fridges in supermarkets and a wave of bomb threats are testing Europe’s ability to withstand disruption to crucial infrastructure.

Glaucoma Incidence, Progression Risk Lower With Statin Therapy  Ophthalmology Advisor

Glaucoma Incidence, Progression Risk Lower With Statin Therapy  Ophthalmology Advisor