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Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published recently.

Planet-warming emissions from 180 major cement, oil and gas producers contributed significantly to all of the heat events considered in the study, which was published in the journal Nature and examined a set of 213 heat waves from 2000 to 2023.The polluters examined in the study include publicly traded and state-owned companies, as well several countries where fossil fuel production data was available at the national level.

Collectively, these producers are responsible for 57% of all the carbon dioxide that was emitted from 1850 to 2023, the study found.

“It just shows that it’s not that many actors… who are responsible for a very strong fraction of all emissions,” said Sonia Seneviratne, a climate professor at the Swiss university ETH Zurich who was one of the study’s contributors.

The set of heat waves in the study came from the EM-DAT International Disaster Database, which the researchers described as the most widely used global disaster repository.The Nature study examined all of the heat waves in the database from 2000 to 2023 except for a few that weren’t suitable for their analysis.

Global warming made all 213 of the heat waves examined more likely, the study found.Out of those, 55 were 10,000 times more likely to have happened than they would have been before industrialisation began accelerating in the 1800s.The calculation is equivalent to saying those 55 heat waves “would have been virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, the authors wrote.

“Many of these heat waves had very strong consequences,” said Seneviratne.She said the series of heat waves that struck Europe in 2022 that was linked to tens of thousands of deaths

sticks out in her mind as one of the events with particularly grave consequences.

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Drink-spiking is when someone puts alcohol or drugs into someone else’s drink without their knowledge or consent.

This may have happened to you if suddenly, everything goes black and you barely remember what happened.

The nightmare of memory loss, loss of control and shame can be caused by what are variously known as date rape drugs, knockout drops and roofies.

Whatever they are called, their effects are insidious, barely detectable and act quickly.

But there are ways you can try and establish whether you have fallen victim to drink-spiking, what the typical symptoms are and what to do in the case of an emergency, says Germany’s central and state Police Crime Prevention Unit head Tina Elsner.

She shares what to do if you suspect a drink has been spiked in the below Q&A.

After all, the better informed you are about the potential dangers, the better you can protect yourself and others.

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Imagine music soaring under a canopy of stars, with the rustle of a two-million-year-old rainforest and the gentle lap of waves as your orchestra.

That’s the essence of Opera In Paradise, a signature event at Pangkor Laut Resort that merges world-class opera talent with tropical serenity.

First launched in October 2023, Opera In Paradise was conceived as a tribute to the late Luciano Pavarotti, who famously called the island “paradise”.

What elevates the event isn’t just its line-up, but the setting.

Only a fraction of the land on this private island resort is developed, so guests are surrounded by lush rainforest and sea, with architecture that blends seamlessly into the natural landscape.

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What happens when Mozart’s infamous seducer, Don Giovanni, is torn from 17th-century Seville (Spain) and thrust into the glittering towers and shadowy backstreets of modern-day Kuala Lumpur?

That’s the bold vision Kuala Lumpur City Opera (KLCO) brings to life in its upcoming retelling of the timeless masterpiece Don Giovanni, taking the stage at Pentas 1, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) from Oct 23-26.

It’s likely KLCO’s most mischievous production of the year – one that follows a season of celebration with The Golden Age Of Broadway and Young Mozart Voyager lighting up its 10th anniversary. And the festivities continue next month, as KLCO readies Ravel 150, a double-bill performance marking the 150th anniversary of composer Maurice Ravel.

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Hermes chief menswear designer Veronique Nichanian is to step down after 37 years in charge and will present her final show for the luxury house in January, the company announced on Friday (Oct 17).

Hermes announced the change “with heartfelt emotion”, paying tribute to Nichanian’s “eye, her vision, her generosity, her energy and her curiosity” in a press release.

“It is time to pass the torch,” the 71-year-old designer told Le Figaro newspaper, adding that she still has “ideas” but wants to dedicate more time to herself, particularly to fulfil “a long-standing dream” of spending several months in Japan.

She said she was leaving the house “with joy and pride”, after enjoying “37 years of creative freedom”.

“The success of the men’s universe owes much to her,” the hugely profitable French luxury giant added in its statement about Nichanian, who was poached from Cerruti in 1988 by Jean-Louis Dumas, president of Hermes from 1978 to 2006.

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Should you meet a turtle basking on a log in the sun, you might reasonably conclude that the turtle is in a good mood.

Granted, there has been little scientific evidence that reptiles experience such emotional richness – until now, at least.

Researchers in England identified what they describe as “mood states” – emotional experiences that are more than momentary – in red-footed tortoises by administering cleverly designed tests that use responses to ambiguity as windows into the psyche.

The results of the study, published in the journal Animal Cognition, could apply to many more reptiles and have profound implications for how people treat them.

“There was an acceptance that reptiles could do these short-term emotions,” said Oliver Burman, who studies animal behaviour at the University of Lincoln in England and is an author of the paper.

“They could respond to positive things and unpleasant things. But the long-term mood states are really important.” As for why it took so long to show this in reptiles, Burman said, “maybe we just haven’t asked them correctly.”

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Eight friends once shared an annual holiday ritual, marked by enthusiastic planning and deep camaraderie, a spirit exemplified by their first annual trip to Sabah.

However, as time passed and life’s demands grew over the last 15 years, the commitment from some waned, creating a wistful atmosphere.

Now, as they plan an ambitious driving adventure to Tibet from Chengdu, there’s a collective yearning for the group’s original fire to be rekindled, a hopeful anticipation for the return of their shared spirit for the journey ahead.

This is my story. Those are all my friends. We named ourselves G8. The eight of us once had a pact.

It was less of a promise and more a desperate declaration against the inevitable drift of adult life: a week-long trip, every year, no matter what.

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We tend to think of simple shirts – button-ups or even tees – as neutral variables in an outfit, the thing you wear with, or as a base for, another garment that is the star.

This is especially true with suits, since the shirt is just there to go underneath. Once you abandon the suit, however, the shirt becomes the main event.

That can be disconcerting because it seems decontextualised.

That does not mean the shirt is not ready for its close-up, however.

It means (to continue a somewhat strained metaphor) you have to stop thinking about it as a supporting character in your wardrobe, or something from another wardrobe era, and think about it as a star.

In other words, it’s more about adjusting your own expectations than adjusting the items of clothing you already own.

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A large new study shows that poor sleep habits may make the brain look physically about a year older on average.

For the study, the researchers from China, Sweden and Britain examined brain scans and sleep patterns of more than 27,000 middle-aged and older adults in Britain.

The study, published in the journal eBioMedicine, used advanced brain imaging and artificial intelligence to estimate “brain age” based on over 1,000 brain features.

Meanwhile, to measure sleep quality, the researchers looked at five factors:

• Whether someone is a morning or night person
• How many hours they sleep (with seven to eight considered best)
• Whether they have insomnia
• Whether they snore, and
• Whether they feel very sleepy during the day.

Based on these traits, they gave each person a sleep score.

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A team of investigators at France’s state food agency has discovered that some glass bottles have more microplastics in them than other containers, including those made of plastic.

The “surprising finding” came about in tests carried out by the Anses Laboratory for Food Safety, whose researchers fingered paint on bottle caps as the likeliest culprit for the counterintuitive outcome.

“The level of microplastics was found to be higher in glass bottles than in other containers,” the team said, with glass bottles of cola, lemonade, iced tea and beer having at least five times the amount of particles than plastic bottles or cans.

“We were expecting the opposite result when we compared the level of microplastics in different drinks sold in France,” said Iseline Chaïb of the Aquatic Food Safety Unit in Boulogne-sur-Mer, which carried out the study at the Anses Laboratory for Food Safety. 

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