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• A KLM Boeing 777 flying from the Netherlands to South America turned around over the Atlantic Ocean.
• The passengers were traveling to the small nation of Suriname but ended up back in Amsterdam.
• Diverting back to an airline's hub can make it simpler to reroute passengers or make repairs.

A KLM plane U-turned

• Climate change poses a threat to US national parks like Yellowstone.
• Warmer temperatures and extreme weather impact both ecosystems and visitors.
• Advocates hope witnessing changes to the parks will inspire visitors to help protect them.

Each year, over 300 million visitors explore the hundr

• Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan had her appeal against the death sentence rejected.
• She was found guilty of embezzlement, bribery, and violating banking rules.
• Judges said her sentence may be reduced if she paid three-quarters of the $12 billion she embezzled.

A Vietnamese real

• Elon Musk hit out at a Delaware judge's latest rejection of his mega pay package.
• The Tesla CEO said the ruling was "totally crazy" and "absolute corruption."
• Musk and Tesla supporters have criticized the ruling in posts on social media.

Elon Musk hit out at a Delaware judge's latest rejection of his mega pay package.

In posts on X, his social

• BlackRock has agreed to buy private credit firm HPS Investment Partners.
• HPS is another major private markets deal for the $11.5 trillion money manager.
• BlackRock, known for its ETFs, is hoping a shift to private markets will drive growth.

Larry Fink is looking to close 2024 as he started it — by announcing a big acquisition that

• Damage to two internet cables caused outages in Finland, GlobalConnect said.
• The overland cables both linked Finland and Sweden, reports said.
• They are the latest cuts to cables in the Baltic region that power the internet.

The severance of two overland fibreoptic

• Margot Robbie described slapping Leonardo DiCaprio in her audition for "The Wolf of Wall Street."
• Robbie said she thought she'd gone too far, and worried someone would call the police.
• She said: "I was thinking, 'I'm going to get arrested, I'm pretty sure that's assault or battery.'"

Margot Robbie said she

Stephen Colbert has some strong words for Donald Trump's new FBI director pick, Kash Patel, who clearly isn't a big fan of media types.

"We're gonna come after the people in the media," says Patel in an interview clip from Dec. 2023 that Colbert played on The Late Show on Monday night. "Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out. But yeah, we're putting you all on notice."

Colbert

• Victoria Blinova worked in Dubai for four years at a boutique marketing firm and later at Nestlé.
• She grew up in Cyprus and moved to the UAE in 2013 to attend NYU in Abu Dhabi.
• Expats don't pay taxes, but Blinova found saving in Dubai hard because of the luxury lifestyle.

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Apple has quietly delayed its plans to support robot vacuums in HomeKit. After announcing earlier this year that Apple Home would finally support robot vacuums with iOS 18, MacRumors has spotted that Apple has updated its HomeKit website to note that the robot vacuum integration won’t be available until early 2025.

The website had previously

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