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A conservative Thai political party is seeking to woo voters ahead of next month's general election with a pledge to legalize sex toys, pointing to the fiscal -- and frisky -- benefits.

Despite its reputation for being one of Southeast Asia's most sexually liberated countries, Buddhist-majority Thailand remains conservative and vibrators, dildos and other intimate devices are illegal.

Alessandra Korap Munduruku first turned to activism as she watched advancing agriculture devastate her Indigenous territory in Brazil, but it was her battle to drive out mining giant Anglo American that landed her in the spotlight.

On Monday, the 38-year-old will be one of six people in the world presented with a Goldman Environmental Prize for efforts against the British multinational's efforts to set up in Indigenous territories in the Amazon.

Canadian singer Grimes put the word out Monday that she is fine with her voice being used for AI-generated songs, as long as she gets half the royalties.

The 35-year-old songwriter, producer and performer said in an Instagram post that she would treat an artificial intelligence hit using her voice as she would a collaboration with any artist.

Tucker Carlson became a free agent Monday, and at least one suitor may have already emerged for the controversial right-wing cable host.

Russia Today, the state-run television network that broadcasts in the U.S. and around the world as “RT,” hinted that it could be a landing spot for Carlson after his surprising dismissal from Fox News.

Most Britons want to keep the monarchy but King Charles III lacks support from young people, a new poll suggested on Monday, less than two weeks before his coronation.

Fifty-eight percent of respondents backed retaining the monarchy, compared to 26 percent in favour of an elected head of state and 16 percent who "don't know", according to the YouGov survey.

Experts were on Monday exhuming the remains of the founder of Spain's fascist Falange party from a grandiose basilica, where the body of former dictator Francisco Franco once lay, ahead of their removal to a low-key family grave.

The operation comes six months after Spain passed the so-called democratic memory law which is designed to tackle the legacy of the 1936-39 civil war and the decades of dictatorship that followed.

Peru's former president Alejandro Toledo was jailed on Sunday, hours after arriving back in his homeland following extradition from the United States to face charges of money laundering and corruption during his mandate.

The 77-year-old, who served as Peru's president from 2001 to 2006, was flown in the evening by helicopter to the Barbadillo prison, journalists witnessed.