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Death Valley in California - the hottest place on Earth and the driest place in North America - is currently carpeted in wildflowers in what is shaping up to be the best bloom in a decade.The National Park Service (NPS) officially categorised this as an above-average bloom year on 22 February, with low-elevation flowers blooming throughout the park. It is the best event the site has seen since 2016, with swaths of the desert transformed and covered in…

He disclosed then-President Richard Nixon had a recording system in the Oval Office. Source link

Col Randrianirina, who seized power last year, did not give a reason for dissolving his government. Source link

The jump in shipments puts the world's second largest economy on track to top the record-breaking annual trade surplus it saw in 2025. Source link

In an earlier update, over the weekend, Tisch told reporters the protest outside the mayor's residence was organised by Jake Lang, a far-right influencer and pardoned 6 January rioter. That group was outnumbered by the counter-protest, which had over 100 participants. Source link

In a CBS interview on Sunday, defence secretary Pete Hegseth outlined a next phase of the US-Israeli operation that included using more powerful ordnance. "The ability for us to be up over the top and hunting with more conventional munitions, gravity bombs, 500-pound, 1,000-pound, 2,000-pound bombs on military targets," he said, "we haven't even really begun to start that effort of the campaign." Source link

Prosecutors accused the brothers of using their wealth to lure women to parties and luxury homes, then taking advantage of them. Source link

After the G7 meeting, the chancellor told the House of Commons that the best way to help consumers would be a de-escalation of military tensions. The markets have read that into President Trump's comments. Even if the war stopped today, there is still havoc in supply chains, and damage done to energy infrastructure, that will take weeks to unpick. Source link

"It formalises an ideological framework related to a 'common consciousness of the Chinese nation' across education, religion, history, culture, tourism, mass media and the internet and directs that this ideology be integrated into urban and rural planning and economic development," said Human Rights Watch China Researcher, Yalkun Uluyol. Source link

Is the backlash against Timothée Chalamet about more than his views on ballet and opera? Source link

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, enters power as the Islamic republic faces its most serious crisis. Source link