Elbahrain.net Jamie Foxx is recovering after an incident at a restaurant during his birthday dinner on Friday left him with injuries.

“Jamie Foxx was at his birthday dinner when someone from another table threw a glass that hit him in the mouth,” a spokesperson for Foxx said. “He had to get stitches and is recovering. The police were called and the matter is now in law enforcement’s hands.”

The Beverly Hills Police Department said it responded to “a reported possible assault with a deadly weapon at Mr. Chow restaurant, located at 344 N. Camden Drive.” The incident happened just after 10 p.m., police said, though the department does not mention Foxx by name.

“Upon investigation, officers determined that the reported assault with a deadly weapon was unfounded,” BHPD said. “Instead, the incident involved a physical altercation between parties. The BHPD conducted a preliminary investigation and completed a report documenting the battery. No arrests were made.”

CNN has reached out to Mr. Chow for comment.

The incident comes days after the Hollywood star detailed the struggles he had with his health last year in a Netflix special titled: “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was.”

Foxx released a statement on social media Sunday morning thanking his supporters and pushing people toward his Netflix special.

“The devil is busy… but I’m too blessed to be stressed,” the post says. “The devil is a lie. Can’t win here… thank you to everybody that pray and check on me… when your light is shining bright… they try to bring you darkness … but they don’t know that you’re built for it… the lights have been shining bright…”

‘I don’t remember 20 days’

In the Netflix special released Tuesday, Foxx said he had a brain bleed that led to a stroke during a medical emergency he faced last year.

“It is a mystery,” the Oscar-winning actor said in the Netflix special. “We still don’t know exactly what happened to me.”

“April 11, I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin. And I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f**k to do,” he said on Netflix.

“Before I could get the aspirin I went out,” he said. “I don’t remember 20 days.”

Foxx thanked his sister, who he said was “4 foot 11 of nothing but pure love,” for driving him around Atlanta to find a hospital.

They ended up at Piedmont Hospital, where a doctor told them Foxx was having a brain bleed that had led to a stroke and that he would die without an operation, the actor says on the Netflix special.

After the operation, doctors said Foxx might make a full recovery, “but it’s going to be the worst year of his life,” Foxx said on Netflix.

Elbahrain.net The remaining five Australians from the infamous heroin-trafficking “Bali Nine” gang have returned home after Canberra struck a deal with Indonesia to end their two decades of imprisonment overseas.

“I am pleased to confirm that Australian citizens, Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Matthew Norman, Scott Rush and Martin Stephens have returned to Australia this afternoon,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wrote on X on Sunday.

The five, who were serving life sentences, belong to a wider group of nine who were caught attempting to smuggle more than 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) out of Bali’s international airport and into Australia in 2005.

The botched plot has long been a point of tension between the two countries with the Australian government advocating for their return for decades.

Indonesia executed the group’s two Australian ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in 2015, prompting then Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to call it “a dark moment in the relationship.”

Last month, Albanese raised the men’s case to Indonesia’s newly sworn in President Prabowo Subianto on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Peru, Reuters reported. Indonesia’s Law Minister had confirmed at the time that it had agreed to return the remaining men, the agency said.

“I thank President Prabowo Subianto for his compassion,” Albanese wrote on X on Sunday.

The five members are now set to be free, Nine News reported.

In a separate joint statement with Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke on Sunday, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said, “The men will have the opportunity to continue their personal rehabilitation and reintegration in Australia.”

The Bali Nine were arrested in 2005 by Indonesian police following a tip from Australian authorities.

Four of them were arrested at Denpasar International Airport with over 8 kilograms of heroin strapped to their bodies, while another four were found at a hotel on the island of Kuta. Chan, one of the ringleaders, was captured after boarding a plane to Sydney.

Chan and Sukumaran were sentenced to death while the other seven were eventually handed a life sentence after an appeal.

The only female member of the group, Renae Lawrence, was freed in 2018 after serving 13 years of her 20-year sentence. Lawrence had initially been sentenced to life in prison, but later her punishment was commuted to 20 years and she was released early on good behavior.

Another member, Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, died of kidney cancer in 2018 while in custody, Nine News reported.

The case of the Bali Nine highlighted the strict laws on drug trafficking in Indonesia, where several foreigners are currently detained on similar charges.

Elbahrain.net Not many children can say they took their first steps on board a yacht in the Arctic’s northwest passage. But Tom can. He spent three of the first four years of his life at sea, with his parents Ghislain Bardout and Emmanuelle Périé-Bardout — ocean explorers and founders of Under The Pole, an organization on a mission to document the deep.

The Bardouts estimate that both their children — Tom and Robin, now aged 8 and 12 respectively — have spent around half their lives aboard the family’s expedition schooner, “The Why.”

They’ve explored the furthest reaches of the planet, from polar ice to tropical reefs, as part of a mission to document the ocean’s mesophotic, or “twilight,” zone, an area that lies between 30 and 150 meters (100 and 490 feet) below the surface.

When on land, the family is based in Concarneau, a small coastal town in Brittany, northwestern France. When at sea, the 18-meter-long yacht becomes their home, shared with around 10 other people, including scientists, doctors, a cook and a teacher.

Despite their unusual setup, Emmanuelle insists they still have a normal routine. “We work like normal people and have kids at school,” she says.

However, most ordinary people don’t do the same work as the Bardouts. In fact, few have seen what they have seen in the deep ocean – and that’s the point.

While oceans cover 70% of the planet, they remain some of the least explored and understood ecosystems on Earth. Less than 30% of the global seafloor has been mapped in any detail and experts estimate that up to 91% of marine species are still unknown to science.

What is known is that these ecosystems are coming under increasing stress, threatened by a rise in sea temperature, leading to mass bleaching events, as well as pollution and overfishing. The Bardouts believe that by documenting what lies beneath the surface, they may be able to raise awareness of the threats and aid its recovery.

“We go to places where nobody has been before,” says Emmanuelle. “I think when you are doing exploration like we are doing, it gives us a huge responsibility.”

Mediterranean forests
Most recently, the family were exploring waters a bit closer to home, in the Mediterranean Sea. For Under The Pole’s DeepLife program, which is part of the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, they went on a series of two to three-month missions, searching for what they call “marine animal forests” in Greece, Italy and France.

These are diverse ecosystems in the deep ocean, full of sponges and corals such as red gorgonia and black coral, that form something like a terrestrial forest, with its own microclimate that provides a refuge for a range of species

“When you find a marine animal forest, you find an oasis, you find life, you find a very rich ecosystem that is living all together,” says Ghislain. “It’s really this oasis of life we want to show to the world.”

Over the weeks that followed, they collected data on every aspect of the ecosystem, from currents and acoustics to bacteria and sea life. They plan to collate all of this research and present their findings in June 2025 at the United Nations Ocean Conference in France. By proving the importance of these ecosystems, they hope to persuade governments to protect these areas and take action against the fishing practices that are damaging them.

Deep diving
It is only in recent decades that technology has advanced enough to enable dives into the twilight zone, and it is still an incredibly specialist operation, requiring years of training. Divers use “rebreathers,” originally designed for military purposes, which absorb carbon dioxide from exhalations and recycle it as oxygen. This allows them to stay underwater far longer than with scuba tanks, and because it doesn’t create bubbles, it causes less disruption to the sea life.

The Greenland shark is known to be elusive, for years effectively hiding its most astounding traits. The sluggish creatures lurk primarily in the deep, cold waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, and are the only sharks to withstand the freezing temperatures year-round. Some individuals of the species might have been swimming there since colonial times — and researchers are just beginning to unravel how.

Due to the marine animal’s slow metabolism, scientists long suspected that the Greenland shark had an unusually lengthy lifespan, but there was no way to determine the exact magnitude until recently. Research published in 2016 determined the sharks are the longest-living vertebrates, likely living to be around 400 years old, with the estimate ranging from 272 years old to over 500 years old. Now, a different study aims to understand the mechanism behind that longevity.

An international team of scientists has become the first to map the Greenland shark’s genome, sequencing about 92% of its DNA and providing insight into the inner workings of the long-lived fish. Not only does the assembly, the computational representation of its genome, add to what’s known about the sharks’ structure and how their bodies function, but it also provides clues to why the animals have such staying power, the researchers said.

“Only with the genome assembly we can really understand which, for instance, mutations have accumulated in the shark that led to this enormous lifespan,” said Dr. Steve Hoffman, senior author of new research on the Greenland shark and a computational biologist at the Leibniz Institute on Aging in Germany. “To this end, this genome is some kind of a tool, if you will, that allows us, and of course also other researchers, to look into these molecular mechanisms of longevity.”

The study authors released their findings as a preprint — a scientific paper that has not gone through the peer-review process — as they invite more scientists to study the genome and conduct their own analysis of the shark’s DNA, Hoffman said.

There are few species of animals that live longer than humans do, particularly in comparison with our body weight and size. By studying the longevity mechanisms of the Greenland shark, scientists could also gain more insight into how to potentially extend the human lifespan, the authors said.

Greenland sharks grow at an extremely slow rate of less than 1 centimeter (0.4 inch) a year but eventually can reach more than 6 meters (about 20 feet) in length, and they don’t reach sexual maturity until they are more than a century old. It’s suspected that the oldest of the species could survive over half a millennium.

The study authors found the shark’s genome to be extraordinarily large, twice as long as a human’s and bigger than any other shark genome sequenced to date. The researchers are analyzing the genome to explore what its large size may mean for the shark’s longevity. One reason for a longer genome might come down to the shark’s ability to repair its DNA, a trait that has commonly been seen in other species with exceptional lifespans, including the naked mole rat, the longest-living rodent that endures up to 30 years or more, and certain species of tortoises that can live to be more than 100.

Elbahrain.net A male humpback whale has made an extraordinary journey from South America to Africa — traveling more than 13,046 kilometers (8,106 miles) — the longest migration recorded for a single whale, a new study found. The intrepid marine giant’s trek also marks the first documentation of an adult male humpback traveling between the Pacific and Indian oceans.

The humpback was first spotted off the coast of Colombia in 2013 and seen again a few years later not far from his original location. But in 2022, the whale was unexpectedly detected in the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar, off the coast of East Africa.

The typical migration route for humpback whales can exceed 8,000 kilometers (4,971 miles) in a single direction, making this one’s journey close to two times that of most whales, according to the study that published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

“These animals are distinct individuals, and they’ll do surprising things,” said study coauthor Ted Cheeseman, a marine biologist at Southern Cross University in Australia. “These oceans are very much connected spaces, and whales travel beyond borders.”

To track the whale’s migration patterns, the study authors used a platform called Happy Whale, which Cheeseman cofounded. It allows citizen scientists, researchers and whale watchers to contribute photos of their whale sightings.

An unusual journey
Humpbacks live in oceans around the world and are known for completing some of the longest migrations of any mammal, but this whale’s travels are special due to his movement between two breeding grounds.

Humpback whales typically return to specific breeding locations each year because whale populations tend to be geographically distinct.

For example, one of the humpback populations in the North Pacific migrates to feed in waters around Alaska during the summer and spends the winter in waters around the Hawaiian Islands to breed, birth and nurture calves, while two populations in the North Atlantic feed all the way from the Gulf of Maine to Norway and migrate to the waters of the West Indies and Cape Verde off the coast of Africa in the winter.

This whale, however, migrated between two distinct breeding stocks in different oceans.

“Our dogmatic thinking is that (whales) always go to the place where they came from,” said Ari Friedlaender, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. “But there has to be some movement where you get some (animal) explorers that decide, for whatever reason, to follow a different path.”

Humpbacks also navigate with remarkable precision, according to Cheeseman, and since this whale isn’t a juvenile, it’s unlikely he would have ventured out of his breeding zone because of disorientation.

Instead, social or environmental factors may have propelled this migration, Cheeseman said.

The whale had likely been in competition with other males for mates in Colombia, according to Cheeseman, and it’s possible he traveled to look for a less aggressive environment. He also suggested that food scarcity in the region could have played a role in this unusual migration.

Every whale has a unique identifier — the underside of its tail — that helps in the tracking.

“When (whales) dive, they lift their tails, and anyone taking a picture of their tail can record the identity of the animal,” Cheeseman said.

While this recognition technique has been used since the 1970s, the platform Happy Whale enables researchers and citizen scientists to contribute to a global catalog of whales, paving the way for international collaboration.

“(Happy Whale) is going to bring more opportunity for sharing and networking to make our global research partnerships more inclusive,” Friedlaender said.

The database currently includes around 109,000 individual whales, according to Cheeseman.

Until this whale is spotted again, his exact whereabouts are unknown. However, Happy Whale’s system allows for the ongoing tracking of whales, which may provide further insight into current and future migratory patterns.

“With every photograph we receive we’re looking for every whale we know,” Cheeseman said.
Whaling in the 20th century killed nearly 95% to 99% of the humpback whale population in the Indian Ocean, according to Cheeseman.

As a result, little information remains about the behavior and lives of humpback whales in that region.

“We’re looking at their behavior like going into a kindergarten classroom,” Cheeseman said. “There’s maybe one adult, someone who’s middle-aged and a whole bunch of children.”

With young humpback whales predominating in the Indian Ocean, the population and culture of whales in the area are undergoing a major transition.

When a humpback — such as this male — migrates outside of usual patterns, it’s uncertain whether the whale will be accepted or rejected by others in the new breeding ground due to the creature’s “foreigner” status.

However, if exceptions to standard migratory patterns continue, Cheeseman suggests that humpback whales may adopt behaviors from other populations.

“These different paths can connect populations that we otherwise would never think would be in touch with each other to share information and genes that make these populations into more of a global community,” Friedlaender said.