October 4, 2023

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Netflix plans to raise the price of its ad-free service a few months after the actors strike ends....The size of the increases or when they’ll take effect couldn’t be learned. Netflix declined to comment. This is one of several price hikes by the U.S.’s largest streaming platforms. Warner Bros. Discovery today said the monthly price of the ad-free version of its Discovery+ streaming service was rising to $8.99 from $6.99.

An Italian banker wore the cape of a real-life hero after he saved the life of a three-year-old girl falling from the fifth floor of a building in central Turin. The incident happened on Saturday, August 26, when 37-year-old Mattia Aguzzi was on his way to a bakery with his girlfriend in the morning. "I heard a man scream when he saw the little girl leaning out on the ledge. The little girl kept leaning more and more and climbed over the ledge, she held on only with two arms and her legs were in the air," Aguzzi narrated the incident to Sky24. He added: "I started yelling at her to stay still and to go back inside but she didn't hear. When I saw her fall I stepped in the way, closed my eyes and hoped that everything was going to be for the best, I blocked her by cushioning the blow and we both fell to the ground...Initially I didn't feel any sign of life, then the baby started crying and I breathed a sigh of relief."

The rate on the 30-year mortgage is soaring — hitting 7.53%, the highest rate since December 2000, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data out Wednesday morning. "The rapid rise in rates pushed an increasing number of potential homebuyers out of the market," MBA's deputy chief economist said in a release. Mortgage applications for home purchases are at the lowest level since 1995.

Scientists may create a new astronomical category after discovering dozens of cosmic objects that are neither stars nor planets.

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