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In 1972, a millionaire built an artificial island in the Pacific to create a tax-free country, but it disappeared before becoming a nation

What if you could build your own country, write your own laws and never pay taxes again? That was the extraordinary vision behind the Republic of Minerva, a self-declared nation founded on an artificial island in the South Pacific in the early 1970s. Backed by wealthy investors and libertarian ideals,…

The Times of India

Eclipse review – W1A creator’s dark comedy about matters of life and death in Devon

John Morton’s debut as a playwright is a finely crafted family drama with shades of Alan Ayckbourn

The Guardian - UK

Five food supplement adverts banned over women’s health claims

Ads from 22 Balance Me, Lunera, Minerva, and Nova Menopause Vitality were banned

The Independent UK

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Food supplement adverts claiming treatment for menopause banned

Ads for 222 Balance Me, Lunera, Minerva and Nova Menopause Vitality all claimed their products could prevent, treat or cure menopause symptoms.

Evening Standard

It Walks Around the House at Night review – jump scares and spine tingles as a pretend ghost gets really spooked

Award-winning writer Tim Foley’s frightfest brings an out of work actor to a country manor to burnish the myth of its resident wraith. Beware of the silhouetted hands!

The Guardian - UK

Minerva Stock Rises After Securing $200M for Schizophrenia Drug Trial

Minerva Neurosciences Inc (NASDAQ:NERV) shares are climbing Tuesday after the company announced up to $200 million in funding to support development of roluperidone for schizophrenia.

Benzinga

Safe Space review – lively campus comedy wrestles with the culture wars

Jamie Bogyo’s debut play recounts the renaming of a Yale University college with broadstroke humour and some exquisitely sung a cappella interludes

The Guardian - UK

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Hamlet review – Giles Terera dives deep into the prince of Denmark’s torment

Justin Audibert’s lucid production is classically considered, with a fine cast making full unsettling use of the intimate space

The Guardian - UK

John Gale obituary

Theatre producer of the longest running comedy of all time, No Sex Please, We’re British, who was also a great talent spotter

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s counter-terror cuts will harm fight against far right, experts warn

Scale of cuts undermines US president’s own promises of ending stateside terrorism and curtailing antisemitism

The Guardian - US

Chichester Festival theatre announces first Hamlet, starring Giles Terera

Justin Audibert’s production with the Hamilton star is part of season including Top Hat, Natalie Dormer’s Anna Karenina and new play Safe Space

The Guardian - UK

The next level of super-luxe travel: what a $100,000 vacation looks like

From a private island to an exorcism at the Vatican, "as long as it's legal we'll try to make it happen."

Fortune

The 1920s desecration of a Gutenberg Bible shocked the US – but miraculously gave a Jewish family new life in Australia

Michael Visontay discovered that a ‘crime against history’ in the book world set off a chain of events that led to his family’s delicatessen in 1950s Sydney

The Guardian - AU

The Cat and the Canary review – 1920s mystery stuffed with preposterous pleasures

Colourful characters gather for a will reading in this horror-comedy, given a larky update with stylish sequences

The Guardian - UK

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Report Links Meatpacking Companies To 'War On Nature' In Brazil

A report by environmental and rights NGOs Tuesday linked three major meatpacking companies to illegal deforestation in Brazil, where farmers are accused of spraying herbicides from the sky to clear huge tracts of land.

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Viamedia Integrates Its Parrot Ad Decisioning System With Minerva

MSOs get more efficient programmatic capabilities

The Guardian - UK

The Promise review – high drama of Labour landslide collapses into argufying

Paul Unwin reconstructs the first days of Clement Attlee’s government in 1945 and moves through momentous history without finding a real focus

PC Gamer

AI is listening: Omnipresent robo-moderators are the latest online anti-toxicity strategy

Do the mods dream of electric sheep?

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The Guardian - UK

The House Party review – teenage debauchery brings Strindberg to Saltburn

Writhing and retching while sandwiched between spectators, revellers navigate class, sex and power at Miss Julie’s 18th birthday celebration

The Guardian - UK

Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds

Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in production

The Guardian - UK

Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? review – an affecting memoir of a thwarted playwright

Rakie Ayola is superb in a story about the exploitation of a Black female playwright by the great and the greedy of London’s theatreland

The Guardian - UK

A look at some of the corporations that dominate the Amazon

From mining to cattle ranching and soya farming, some of the world’s largest companies exploit the region, though many also claim to be giving something back

The Guardian - UK

The multinational companies that industrialised the Amazon rainforest

Analysis shows handful of corporations extract tens of billions of dollars of raw materials a year – and their commitments to restoration vary greatly

The Guardian - UK

More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand

Investigation involving Guardian shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming in Brazil

The Guardian - UK

‘Ancient’ vase repatriated from UK to Greece faces fresh forgery claim

Exclusive: Archaeologist says 5th-century BC wine vase with modern decoration widely regarded as fake

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