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India’s city dwellers are cutting spending on everything from cookies to fast food as persistently high inflation squeezes middle class budgets, threatening the country’s brisk economic growth. Slowing urban spending over the past three to four months has not only hurt the earnings of largest consumer goods firms, it has raised questions about the structural nature of…

Harvey’s book Orbital takes place over a 24-hour time frame as astronauts orbit the Earth 16 times. It was described by the judges as having “beauty and ambition”. British author Samantha Harvey has won this year’s Booker Prize with her book Orbital. The novel, which is about astronauts on the International Space Station as they orbit the…

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev kicked off the climate conference with a wide-ranging speech in which he hit out at critics of his country’s fossil fuel industries. The president of Azerbaijan, who is hosting climate summit COP29, has hailed oil and gas as “a gift from God” as he lambasted Western media and climate activists. President Ilham Aliyev…

Five passengers and six crew members suffered minor injuries after the Boeing 747-8, which was travelling from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt, experienced severe turbulence. Eleven people have been left injured after a Lufthansa flight was hit with severe turbulence while en route from Argentina to Germany. The Boeing 747-8 was travelling from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt when…

John Krasinski has been named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2024. The big announcement was made during Tuesday’s episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The “Jack Ryan” star confessed he thought he was “being punked” when he learned he won the title. “Just immediate blackout, actually. Zero thoughts,” he told the magazine in his…

YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul had to wait an extra four months for his high-profile match with 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. The delay from the original plan for July was caused by Tyson having a medical episode on a plane and needing time to recover from a stomach ulcer. The rescheduled bout is set for Friday night…

Members of the public paid their respects Wednesday to people killed by a driver who rammed into people exercising a sports complex in southern China, as the country mourned, but little information was available about the suspect or the victims in the attack. The crash Monday night in Zhuhai killed 35 people and severely injured 43 others,…

Volkswagen Group (VW) and Tesla rival Rivian have launched a joint venture, with the German car giant increasing its investment in the partnership. The two companies say the deal is now worth $5.8bn (£4.55bn) – up from an initial pledge from VW of $5bn. Shares in the US electric vehicle (EV) maker jumped more than 9% in…

Before the east and west coast rap beef of the 1990s boiled over with the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG, legendary producer Quincy Jones called a secret meeting at which he appealed for an end to the violence. As hip-hop rose from the streets to the mainstream in the 90s, the rappers and hustlers that…

Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say. A study conducted in Mossel Bay, South Africa involved towing seal-shaped boards fitted with different configurations of lights behind a boat to see which attracted the most attention. The researchers from Macquarie University in New South Wales say…

“Squid Game” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk said money was his main motivation for making Season 2 of the hit Netflix series, despite losing “eight or nine” teeth from stress while filming the show’s debut. In a June 2022 interview with Variety after the roaring success of “Squid Game” Season 1, Hwang revealed that six of his teeth fell…

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Elon Musk to a role aimed at creating a more efficient government, handing even more influence to the world’s richest man who donated millions of dollars to helping Trump get elected. Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead a newly created Department of Government Efficiency, an entity…

An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in this vast body of water. Many of the people who gathered to see the giant marine mammal on the coast of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku have never seen…

The message that was transmitted from Mars had travelled for 16 minutes through space before being received by three observatories in the US and Italy. A confusing alien-like signal was beamed from Mars in May last year. It featured an underlying message which was sent by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a spacecraft of the European Space…

Bernard Arnault’s French newspapers claim they are due payment from social media site Europe’s richest man is suing Elon Musk’s social media network X, claiming the platform is using his newspapers’ content without paying for it. Bernard Arnault is taking the social media site to court as part of legal proceedings jointly brought by Le Parisien and…

The American Meteor Society received 36 reports of a fireball in the skies over four states. An expert says it was probably a Starlink satellite disintegrating in the atmosphere A dazzling fireball that lit up the sky over four US states is thought to be caused by the fiery reentry of a SpaceX Starlink satellite. Dozens of…

A man has said he can’t believe his wife was ready to “throw away our entire life” after filing for divorce over his vote for Donald Trump. The distraught husband wrote on social media that he has been left without words that the marriage could fall apart over politics – and that the divorce papers could be…

An ally of Vladimir Putin has accused the U.S. and the U.K. of intending to sabotage underwater internet cables and planning to destabilize the maritime energy trade. In reporting the comments by Nikolai Patrushev, the Telegram channel Crimean Wind posted, “it would be funny, but such statements often sound like a cover for their own intentions.” When…

The issue has come to the fore again amid campaigning by Dame Esther Rantzen and while some countries already have assisted dying legislation, the issue is deeply divisive with strong opinions on both sides. Details have been revealed of a planned assisted dying law that supporters say would offer the toughest safeguards in the world. It could…

A Russian navy warship equipped with hypersonic cruise missiles has conducted drills in the English Channel, Russian news agencies have reported. The ship – the Project 22350 frigate Admiral Golovko – passed through the channel to carry out tasks in the Atlantic Ocean, according to state news agency TASS. It is reportedly equipped with Zircon hypersonic anti-ship…

Washington deliciously steals every scene in this rousing heir to the Oscar-winning classic, with director Ridley Scott doing some of the best work of his storied career. Ridley Scott may never stop making movies, and on the basis of Gladiator II, that’s a very good thing. Following two imposing historical epics (The Last Duel, Napoleon), the prolific…

The title for Tom Cruise‘s eighth “Mission: Impossible” movie has finally been revealed, along with the first trailer. “The Final Reckoning” is now the official title for “Mission: Impossible 8,” which was originally slated to be the “Part Two” to 2023’s “Dead Reckoning.” It’s scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025. The film originally was set…

A FRESH push to scrap Shakespeare from schools has been slapped down by the Education Secretary. Bridget Phillipson blasted a top teacher’s suggestion that the Bard be replaced with works Gen Z pupils can relate with – like studying Instagram posts. Freddie Baveystock, the head of English at Harris Westminster, said “our obsession with Shakespeare needs discussion”…

It comes as tensions between the two countries soar, with the North flying thousands of trash balloons into the South in recent months. South Korea has accused North Korea of disrupting GPS signals from border areas, affecting dozens of flights and ship operations. North Korea’s GPS signal jamming took place on Friday and Saturday and was detected…

Paris police said Sunday that 4,000 officers and 1,600 stadium staff will be deployed for a France-Israel soccer match to ensure security in and around the stadium and on public transportation a week after violence against Israeli fans in Amsterdam. France and Israel are playing in a UEFA Nations League match on Thursday that French President Emmanuel…

The company also named it’s two-year package “Mid-Term Selection”, referring to the upcoming 2026 midterm elections Just days after President-elect Donald Trump emerged victorious in the 2024 elections, a cruise line company is offering a four-year package that would allow customers to “Skip Forward”. “Residents have the flexibility to join their customized journey at any port during…

Police said the fire was quickly extinguished, and riot officers cleared the square, though it was not clear who started the unrest or whether it was related to last week’s violence. Riots broke out on Monday evening in one of the suburbs of Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, with protesters destroying public infrastructure. The riot in Nieuw-West comes…

The incident occurred on Friday (November 8) onboard flight KE658, traveling from Bangkok, Thailand to Seoul in South Korea. The passengers were in a state of panic as the passenger tried to open the emergency exit mid-air. : A video has recently gone viral on social media in which it can be seen that a male passenger attempted…

Afghan Taliban officials will attend a major United Nations climate conference that starts next week, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time they have attended since the former insurgents took power in 2021. The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku will be among the highest-profile multilateral events attended by Taliban administration officials since…

Speaking on stage at the MTV Europe Awards in Manchester, host Rita Ora described Liam Payne as “one of the kindest people” she ever knew. The pair collaborated on For You, a song from the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack, in 2018. MTV Awards host Rita Ora paid a poignant tribute to her friend Liam Payne on stage…

Barbora Krejcikova hit out at Jon Wertheim for what she called “coverage that focused on my appearance rather than my performance”. A tennis analyst has been taken off air after making “deeply regrettable comments” about Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova’s appearance. The Czech player, 28, called out Jon Wertheim for what she called “coverage that focused on my…

Foreign leaders are looking at the US to see how the upcoming change of administration will affect America’s stance on Israel and Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump “see eye to eye” on Iran. Israel’s prime minister said he has spoken to the US president-elect three times since the election with the aim of tightening…

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting that marred homecoming week at Tuskegee University. One person has been killed and 16 others were injured in a shooting at a US university. Homecoming week at Tuskegee University, in Alabama, was marred early on Sunday by the attack on campus. An 18-year-old man died in…

Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated his 50th birthday on Saturday night with a star-studded, private party. A spy told Page Six: “The night kicked off with an intimate dinner catered by Nobu,” and that, “the scene was nothing short of star-studded” with lots of the star’s longtime collaborators. Guests spotted at the celebration, we hear, included DiCaprio’s “Catch Me…

At the risk of stating the obvious, AI is absolutely everywhere lately. There’s AI in your car, AI in your messaging app, AI in your glasses. I’ve gotten pretty desensitized to it all as a hazard of the job, but it was Spotify’s AI DJ that actually got my attention. I’ve listened to a top 40 radio…

The last time Chaw Su saw her husband was in March, when he was forcibly conscripted to fight for the army in Myanmar’s civil war. Four months later, she found out he had been killed at the frontline. “We were always poor and struggled,” she says. “But life was much more bearable with him.” The 25-year-old widow,…

When dairy farmer Patrick Holden sat down at his kitchen table to read his emails one day in July, he couldn’t believe his luck. A buyer, who claimed to represent a French supermarket chain, wanted to buy 22 tonnes of Hafod, his specialist cheddar. “It was the biggest order for our cheese we’ve ever received,” he recalls,…

More than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina last week have now been recovered unharmed, officials said Sunday. Twenty-four monkeys were captured on Sunday, a day after another of the 43 escaped monkeys was recovered. A “sizeable group” remains active along the compound’s fence line and bedded…

A children’s book written by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been withdrawn from sale after it was criticized for causing offense to Indigenous Australians. The Guardian newspaper reported Saturday that the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation blasted “Billy And The Epic Escape,” which was published earlier this year, for employing a series of…

Coco Gauff pays attention to what people say about her online and occasionally takes pleasure in clapping back, so it should not be a surprise that she took to social media to type out a message after wrapping up 2024 by winning the WTA Finals and the $4.8 million check that came with it. “lol safe to…

Authorities have urged Israeli fans to skip Thursday’s (Nov 7) France-Israel football match in Paris, after violence in Amsterdam following a match between an Israeli team and a local one. The Paris fixture will take place one week after the clashes – condemned as “anti-Semitic” by Israeli, Dutch and European leaders – followed a game between Israeli…

The alleged plot against Donald Trump is a clear casus belli Since Donald Trump was re-elected as US president, the Left in the US and Europe have gone into meltdown. But nobody will feel a greater sense of foreboding than the leadership of the West’s enemies in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Most immediately, the return of Trump…

The cryptocurrency climbed as much as 4.3 per cent to an unprecedented $79,771 on Sunday and remained near $79,000 as of 2:05 pm in Singapore. Smaller tokens like Cardano and meme-crowd favorite Dogecoin also rallied. Trump vowed on the campaign trail to put the US at the center of the digital-asset industry, including creating a strategic Bitcoin…

Russia and Ukraine both launched record drone attacks on each other overnight, as the Kremlin said it saw “positive signals” from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over his desire to strike a deal to end the conflict. Trump’s election to the White House has the potential to upend the almost three-year conflict and has thrown into question Washington’s…

The arrested individual goes by the name Inderjeet Gosal. He is reportedly ‘the coordinator for SFJ in Canada’. SFJ or Sikhs for Justice is a terrorist organisation which seeks to carve out Khalistan from Indian territory. Canada’s Peel Regional Police have made a fifth arrest in connection to the Brampton temple attack case that took place on…

Tourists in Rome won’t be allowed to toss coins over their shoulders into the Trevi Fountain, following tradition, though an elevated walkway now gives limited access to the monument during maintenance work. Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri inaugurated the steel walkway on Saturday, saying it will provide tourists with a close-up view of the fountain and calling it…

The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that. Stroke was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than half a million Americans have a stroke every year. But up…

Bobby Allison, founder of racing’s “Alabama Gang” and a NASCAR Hall of Famer, died Saturday. He was 86. NASCAR released a statement from Allison’s family that said he died at home in Mooresville, North Carolina. A cause of death wasn’t given, but Allison had been in declining health for years. Allison moved to fourth on NASCAR’s Cup…

An American nurse’s trip to her “happy place” turned to tragedy when she was killed this week by a man she met at a nightclub in Hungary, police said Friday. A manhunt erupted when Kenzie Michalski, 31, from Portland, Oregon, vanished from the Budapest night scene on Nov. 5, and police immediately suspected she had been murdered,…

Engineers have found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of a lighthouse in the south of Scotland. The bottle was found inside the Corsewall Lighthouse at the most northerly point of the Rhins of Galloway. The “once in a lifetime” find is understood to be the first message in a bottle ever discovered…

A hologram of a young sex worker haunts Amsterdam’s red light district. Dressed in faded denim hotpants, a leopard-print bra, with a tattoo snaking up her stomach and across her chest, the 3D computer-generated image reaches out and appears to knock on the window to attract attention. She leans forward, breathes on the glass and writes the…

Someone moved the UK’s oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why. Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa’s east coast to relay communications for British forces. When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later,…

Kate Middleton appeared in good spirits as she attended the Festival of Remembrance Saturday after completing her cancer treatment. The Princess of Wales, 42, joined her husband, Prince William, at the Royal Albert Hall, marking the first time she has appeared at a major event since announcing she had completed her chemo on Sept. 9. For the…

Kim Kardashian is reflecting on the “sad part about motherhood.” The SKIMS founder shared an emotional quote in her Instagram Stories Saturday, just two weeks after a report claimed Kanye West doesn’t spend very much time with their four children. “The sad part about motherhood is that you’re raising the one person you can’t live without… to…

Researchers have known for a while that spending too much time on social media can lead to unrealistic beauty standards and poor self-image. Among young men, platforms like TikTok and Instagram can pressure guys to keep working towards a more muscular physique, even if they are already fit. A recent study published in New Media & Society…

Chelsea right-back Lucy Bronze is taking on Liverpool on Sunday, followed by Manchester City next week. England footballer Lucy Bronze has told Sky News that 99.9% of female players couldn’t afford to retire and live off their earnings. The Chelsea player, 33, said that while she has been “smart with my money” and could afford to “retire…

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia on Saturday over regional authorities’ handling of devastating floods that killed more than 220 people in one of Europe’s worst natural disasters for decades. In the latest demonstration over the floods, protesters filled the centre of Valencia demanding the resignation of regional government leader…

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof will miss the COP29 climate summit after clashes in Amsterdam this week between Israeli soccer fans and pro-Palestinian protesters as his government investigates if warning signs from Israel were missed. “I will not be going to Azerbaijan next week for the UN Climate Conference COP29. Due to the major social impact of…

A patch of snow in the Scottish Highlands typically lingers year-round. This year is only the 10th in more than three centuries that it has melted away. A patch of snow in the Scottish Highlands dubbed the Sphinx typically lingers year-round, staying frozen through the summer. But it has melted away for the fourth consecutive year —…

America’s military leaders are engaging in informal discussions about how they would respond if President-elect Donald Trump issued orders to use active-duty U.S. troops against civilians and aid his mass deportation plans, according to a report. Trump talked on the campaign trail about using military forces to quell protests in cities and said that one of his…

Canadian police and migrant aid groups are bracing for an influx of asylum-seekers fleeing President-elect Donald Trump’s United States at the same time Canada deals with record numbers of refugee claimants and is trying to bring in fewer immigrants. The former and now future U.S. president swept to power this week in part on a promise to…

President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House announced on Saturday. The meeting will be held at 11 a.m. local time, according to the statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Mr. Biden extended the invitation for the meeting. Such a meeting is customary between the outgoing president and the…

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, revealing our strengths and weaknesses through their own clever behaviors, organ systems and genetic code. The bare-faced primates with expressive eyes…

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made of their bodies, like a mother holding a child and two women embracing as they die. But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as…

South Korea’s military said North Korea disrupted GPS signals from border areas for the second-straight day on Saturday, affecting an unspecified number of flights and vessel operations. Tensions between the rival Koreas have escalated as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un flaunts his advancing nuclear and missile program and engages in electronic and psychological warfare, such as…

Smog starts slow. At first, you cannot see it but you can smell it. It smells like something is burning. And it intensifies as the temperature drops. Then the smoke and fog start to envelop you and the city around you. Now you can see it. You are walking through the smoke, a thick ceiling of it…

Tony Todd, an American actor known for leading the “Candyman” horror franchise as its eponymous hook-wielding ghost, died Wednesday at his home in Marina Del Rey, Calif. He was 69. Todd’s death was confirmed by a representative for the actor. A cause of death was not disclosed. A reliable presence in genre fare across four decades, Todd’s…

Beyoncé just earned herself another sash. As numbers go, she is easily the queen of the rodeo that is the 2025 Grammy nominations, racking up 11 nominations for her “Cowboy Carter” album and its attendant singles. That’s a personal high for her, besting the 10 nods she got back in 2009. But Beyoncé has to share the…

British supermodel Georgina Cooper — known for her iconic gapped-tooth Cool Britannia look — has died unexpectedly at age 46, according to her friends and multiple reports. According to the Daily Mail, Cooper was hospitalized after falling ill while vacationing with her husband of several months, Nigel, on the Greek island of Kos. They were reportedly staying…

Elon Musk knows how to stay in the news. He was extremely vocal about his support for Donald Trump in the run-up to the US presidential election, even joining him at a campaign rally. The election night saw him use his social media platform X extensively. And now that Trump has won, he is likely to make…

Video shows National Crime Agency officers flooding into Amanj Hasan Zada’s Preston terrace house and arresting him. A people smuggler who helped migrants cross the Channel on small boats and posted videos from successful customers has been jailed for 17 years for immigration offences. Amanj Hasan Zada, an Iranian national living in Preston, advertised on social media…

The retired all-rounder was on a fishing trip with his former nemesis when he tripped and fell from a boat into the Moyle River in northern Australia. England cricket legend Sir Ian Botham was rescued by a former Australian rival after he fell off a boat into water “infested” with sharks and crocodiles. The retired all-rounder was…

Many of the message recipients are university students, with the first texts sent the morning after the US presidential election. Dozens of black Americans have received text messages telling them they had been “selected” to pick cotton “at the nearest plantation”. The messages invoking slavery were sent to university students from colleges including Ohio State University, Clemson…

Streaming site Mubi called the banning of Mubi Fest Istanbul 2024’s opening film Queer, just hours before it was due to start, “a direct restriction on art and freedom of expression”. A film festival in Istanbul has been scrapped in protest at a reported ban on their opening film, Queer, starring Daniel Craig. Streaming service Mubi say…

Internet users joked that Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has a personal “SID (Samosa Investigation Department)” at his disposal to look into his missing evening snack The “samosa mix-up” in Himachal Pradesh has got the internet laughing out loud. And after the CID in the Congress-ruled state responded to the controversy on Friday, social media has…

Superstar singer Beyonce topped the list of Grammy Award contenders unveiled on Friday, earning 11 nods including an album of the year nomination for her venture into country music, “Cowboy Carter.” Behind Beyonce, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone tied with seven nominations each. Pop phenomenon Taylor Swift and newcomers Chappell Roan and Sabrina…

An investigation by India’s antitrust body found food delivery giants Zomato and SoftBank-backed Swiggy (SWIG.NS), opens new tab breached competition laws, with their business practices favouring select restaurants listed on their platforms, documents show. Zomato (ZOMT.NS), opens new tab entered into “exclusivity contracts” with partners in return for lower commissions, while Swiggy guaranteed business growth to certain…

A plumber’s truck exploded on a quiet residential street in Queens Friday morning – damaging several homes and nearby cars, according to fire officials and sources. Wild videos showed the unoccupied Infiniti QX56 exploding into bright orange flames while parked on 133 Street in South Ozone Park around 6:45 a.m.. Shocked residents were seen gawking at the…

In a surprising twist that challenges popular climate solutions, scientists have discovered that planting trees in the Arctic and northern boreal regions could actually accelerate global warming rather than help combat it. In other words, researchers have a simple message: stop messing with the landscape of the Arctic, it’s making things worse. The findings, published in Nature…

CORRECTS final sale price in headline and paras 1-2. Sotheby’s revised its figure A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing became the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching more than $1.0 million on Thursday. The 2.2-metre (7.5-foot) portrait “A.I. God” by “Ai-Da”, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, went for $1,084,800,…

A sick newly proposed age of consent law would allow old men in Iraq to marry children as young as nine years old, and “legalise child rape” activists claim. Ultra-conservative Shia Muslim parties have launched a bid to pass a new law that would slash the existing age of consent in the pariah nation in half from…

Beyoncé made Grammys history Friday by becoming the most nominated artist. The music icon, who released her debut country album, “Cowboy Carter,” this year, received 11 nods, bringing her career total to 99. From Sabrina Carpenter to Chappell Roan, female artists behind some of this year’s biggest hits also received industrywide recognition from the Recording Academy, which…

Donald Trump’s got a new pack watching his back … ’cause new video shows robot dogs keeping a close eye on the president-elect. New video taken at Mar-a-Lago shows the robotic rovers prancing across the lawn … check it out, they’re patrolling outside the club, looking for danger. No need for the dogs to go feral on…

Amsterdam has banned demonstrations for three days after Israeli soccer fans were beaten and injured in violent clashes in the city overnight, which Dutch authorities condemned Friday as antisemitic. Dutch police said they had launched a major investigation into multiple incidents following the Europa League soccer game Thursday night between Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch side…

Around 50 European leaders on Thursday called for a stronger defense posture across the continent that no longer necessitates a fundamental dependence on Washington as they gave a guarded welcome to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who spoke to Trump after the election result, also had warm words to say about him. However, he…

Football analyst Kirk Herbstreit announced Thursday that his beloved dog, Ben, died at age 10. Ben was a golden retriever who gained fame for regularly accompanying Herbstreit to games and even appearing on set and the sideline. Herbstreit, who calls college football on ESPN and NFL games on Amazon Prime Video, posted on X that cancer had…

South Korea’s president has apologised for a string of controversies surrounding his wife that included allegedly accepting a luxury Dior handbag and stock manipulation. Addressing the nation on television, Yoon Suk Yeol said his wife, Kim Keon Hee, should have conducted herself better, but her portrayal had been excessively “demonised”, adding that some of the claims against…