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BBC
Shaken by Assad's sudden fall, Syria faces seismic turning point: The worst scenario for Syrians is that their country will spin into violent chaos, writes the BBC's Jeremy Bowen.
Israel carries out dozens of air strikes across Syria, reports say: Israel says it is acting to stop weapons falling "into the hands of extremists" following the end of Assad's regime.
What we know about the notorious Saydnaya Prison: Thousands of people have been executed and tortured in the secretive prison since the 1980s.
Syrian asylum seekers in limbo as countries stop applications: Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece have all said they will suspend asylum decisions for now.

CBC
Union says it met with Canada Post for first time since mediator suspended talks:

Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon faces first day of sex assault civil trial:

Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon's civil trial for sexual assault opened today at the Montreal courthouse with his lawyer portraying him as the scapegoat in a hunt to find Quebec's Harvey Weinstein.

He thought his car's crash-prevention technology would make him safer. Now he no longer trusts it:

Last month, CBC News reported on a Quebec man who blamed the lane-centring technology in his car for causing an accident. Following the story, CBC received more than two dozen emails reporting similar concerns, including one about repeated braking issues out of Ontario.

New York Times Science
When They Hear Plants Cry, Moths Make a Decision: A new study suggests that the insects rely on the sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide important reproductive choices.

NASA Artemis Moon Missions Delayed Until 2026 and 2027: It is unclear where the program to go back to the lunar surface will head after President-elect Donald J. Trump returns to the White House in January.

Mammoth: It’s What Was for Dinner: A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may have led to a mass extinction.

Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts: GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.

World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays an Egg at 74: Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, has outlived at least three mates and the researcher who outfitted her with a tracking band in 1956.


Visualizing Science

The oldest known human art is also the oldest known human attempt to record Nature.  This painting is 34,000 years old and was found in the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, which is the subject of Werner Herzog’s film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog used a 3D camera to capture how the shapes of the walls were incorporated into the paintings.

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