The Tamil Nadu Governor has asked TVK chief Vijay to produce letters demonstrating support from at least 118 MLAs before staking a claim to form the government. The has extended the support of its 5 MLAs to the fledgling party. The math, however, is not adding up for TVK as it is still short by 7 legislators.

Atmospheric are contributing to global warming, says a new study published in Nature. Researchers at Fudan University have found that their contribution to global warming was significantly higher than previously estimated. Produced from a variety of sources such as textile fibres and tyre abrasion, these tiny particles are prevalent across land, sea and air, with land-based sources releasing 20 times more of this pollutant than the sea.

Italian author and linguist Umberto Eco had allegedly won it, and in 2017 American intellectual was awarded the Gold Medal for Philology (the study of linguistics) before an audience of 200 guests that included Nobel Prize winners, French politicians and decorated academics. The award was bestowed by an International Society for Philology linked to an American university. It turned out to be a massive hoax perpetrated by Florent Montaclair, a little-known French academic and the self-declared 2016 winner of the award.

The Russian pavilion at the Biennale was temporarily forced to shut down after the activist group Pussy Riot staged a protest against Russia's official participation in the art festival. Russia's presence has been controversial given the ongoing sanctions against the country, with the European Commission having told the Italian government and the biennale's organisers that allowing the Russian delegation to participate would breach EU sanctions.

is paying a $250 million settlement for promoting features that were either delayed or never shipped. The settlement is the outcome of a class action lawsuit that alleged the tech giant had promoted "AI capabilities that did not exist at the time, do not exist now, and will not exist for two or more years". This amounts to roughly $95 per eligible customer.