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Volume 20, Issue 14 — 2024-10-19 News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins! Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night Book review: The Editors Humour: The Newspaper Editors Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug

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Yahya Sinwar Yahya Sinwar (pictured), the leader of Hamas, is killed in a firefight with Israeli forces in Gaza. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their comparative studies of prosperity between nations. The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. Kenyan Ruth Chepng'etich breaks the women's marathon world record at the Chicago Marathon. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Ginés González García Garbis Aprikian Sukh Dev Robert Fulford Barbara Owen George Negus

Featured picture for April 15, 2008

Picture of the day Gilbert and Sullivan created fourteen comic operas, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado, many of which are still frequently performed today. However, events around their 1889 collaboration, The Gondoliers, led to an argument and a lawsuit dividing the two. In 1891, after many failed attempts at reconciliation by the pair and their producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan's music publisher, Tom Chappell, stepped in to mediate between two of his most profitable artists, and within two weeks he had succeeded. This cartoon in The Entr'acte expresses the magazine's pleasure at the reuniting of D'Oyly Carte (left), Gilbert (centre), and Sullivan (right).Image credit: Alfred Bryan