A South Korean court has ordered gaming tycoon Kwon Hyuk-bin to pay his ex-wife 2.55tr won ($1.87bn; £1.38bn) in assets, marking the largest divorce settlement in the country’s history. Kwon, who founded South Korea’s third-largest video game company Smilegate, is one of the country’s richest men. Bloomberg puts his net worth at $3bn. Smilegate was
The creators of South Park, the animated TV show, have announced that its new series will be named South America, in an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump’s attempts to rename a lake and a gulf. “Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park
Explanation: Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud since discovery in 1987 in data taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts, which quickly flew past the ringed world in the early 1980s. Now, recent observations of Saturn by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal a slightly different geometric cloud pattern around the South Pole: a decagon (10 sides).
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Out-of-form Marnus Labuschagne has been named in the Australia squad for next month’s three-Test tour of South Africa. Number three Labuschagne, 32, who was born in South Africa, has failed to score a century since 2023 and struggled in two Tests against Bangladesh last month. Having scored one, 31 and four, he was then left
Middlesex captain Leus du Plooy will leave the club at the end of the season, after opting to recommit in international cricket to his native South Africa. His deal, which was due to expire in 2027, relied on him being qualified as a local player, and he had previously expressed an interest in playing for
