Scientists who studied almost 10,000 French men and women who lived past 105 have found that after the age of 108 our chances of dying no longer increase. Instead, we have about a 50-50 chance of making it through each of the following years. “The increasing number of supercentenarians makes it possible that the maximum reported age at death will rise to 130 years during the present century,” the scientists wrote in the Royal Society Open Science journal.
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Danish museum rejects art
A Danish artist who was given £62,000 by a museum to use in a work of art has delivered two blank canvases, entitled Take the Money and Run. The director of Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg said when they spoke to the artist about making the piece earlier this year, he agreed to the contract and “he indicated a fairly easy job”. They are now asking him to return the money.
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Film reviews: ‘Send Help’ and ‘Private Life’Feature An office doormat is stranded alone with her awful boss and a frazzled therapist turns amateur murder investigator
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Movies to watch in Februarythe week recommends Time travelers, multiverse hoppers and an Iraqi parable highlight this month’s offerings during the depths of winter
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ICE’s facial scanning is the tip of the surveillance icebergIN THE SPOTLIGHT Federal troops are increasingly turning to high-tech tracking tools that push the boundaries of personal privacy
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Israel retrieves final hostage’s body from GazaSpeed Read The 24-year-old police officer was killed during the initial Hamas attack
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China’s Xi targets top general in growing purgeSpeed Read Zhang Youxia is being investigated over ‘grave violations’ of the law
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Panama and Canada are negotiating over a crucial copper mineIn the Spotlight Panama is set to make a final decision on the mine this summer
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Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mineThe Explainer The country’s natural landscape makes the task extremely difficult
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Iran cuts internet as protests escalateSpeed Reada Government buildings across the country have been set on fire
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US nabs ‘shadow’ tanker claimed by RussiaSpeed Read The ship was one of two vessels seized by the US military
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How Bulgaria’s government fell amid mass protestsThe Explainer The country’s prime minister resigned as part of the fallout
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Femicide: Italy’s newest crimeThe Explainer Landmark law to criminalise murder of a woman as an ‘act of hatred’ or ‘subjugation’ but critics say Italy is still deeply patriarchal
