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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, warned on Friday that Moscow’s nuclear weapons are in “full combat readiness.” Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, tensions between North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries and the Kremlin have continued as NATO leaders have increasingly warned that direct conflict with Moscow is a realistic…

Under a pioneering law set to be implemented next year, large social media platforms will be obligated to remove deceptive content. California Governor Gavin Newsom has escalated his ongoing feud with Elon Musk, threatening to take legal action against the Tesla CEO over his use of memes and deepfakes, which he claims are damaging to democracy. Musk…

Combs’ public image projected wealth and achievement, but the indictment that led to his arrest paints a more sinister picture of his private life. For decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs presented the image of a wealthy, Black music mogul, one who broke business barriers, threw lavish parties and even created iconic TV moments. But behind the scenes, prosecutors…

In a closely watched New York Democratic primary in June, centrist George Latimer ousted incumbent Jamaal Bowman by a wide margin of 58.7% to 41.3%. Ahead of the vote, two 19-year-old college dropouts in Manhattan conducted a poll that accurately predicted the results within 371 votes. Their secret? They didn’t survey a single person. Instead, they asked…

This is real. Is it true? JD Vance told Tucker Carlson in an interview two days ago that the Trump campaign gave him a Rent-a-Dog. Carlson said, “That’s weird. You’re weird.” Carlson — who’s already weird — couldn’t believe it. Maybe Vance is kidding. But it seems true, strangely. The dog doesn’t seem to know Vance at…

The company bought the land in 2017 to ‘make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible’ for Trump to build a US-Mexico border wall. Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX for allegedly trespassing on and damaging its property in Texas. The company behind the card game is asking for $15 million in damages, according to its complaint against…

The killing of a Japanese schoolboy in the Chinese city of Shenzhen has sparked worry among Japanese expats living in China, with top firms warning their workers to be vigilant. Toshiba and Toyota have told their staff to take precautions against any possible violence, while Panasonic is offering its employees free flights home. Japanese authorities have repeated…

Sri Lanka election 2024: This is Sri Lanka’s first election after its economy collapsed in 2022 and holds importance for India amid growing influence of China. The island nation of Sri Lanka will vote for a new President on Saturday, September 21, in it’s first election after the economic collapse in 2022, with 38 candidates vying for…

Kamala Harris has told Oprah Winfrey that anyone who breaks into her home “is getting shot” as she tried to win over gun rights supporters before the US presidential election. Ms Harris, the US vice president and the Democratic Party’s nominee, who backs stricter gun control laws, confirmed on a star-studded livestream event fronted by the former…

Prosecutors said the former prime minister faced a bill of just under £3,000 for repairs to broken roof tiles. But the judge concluded the evidence was “so tenuous” that no court would convict them. A judge has thrown out charges against four Greenpeace activists who scaled Rishi Sunak’s home in protest at the expansion of oil and…

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are being used to “enable abuse”, according to one campaigner and former assistant to disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. “It all begins with an NDA.” A former personal assistant of Harvey Weinstein sums it up quite nicely. What is going wrong in the workplace when it comes to widespread sexism, harassment, and bullying, particularly…

The London-born star was hailed as a “legendary” actor as he brought to life characters from some of the UK’s favourite TV shows, including Doctor Who and Thunderbirds. David Graham, whose voice featured in some of the UK’s favourite TV shows, including Thunderbirds and Peppa Pig, has died. The London-born star was 99. Jamie Anderson, the son…

Just a week ago, before deadly floods swept through central Europe, the Czech Republic looked on track to become the first country in the region since COVID-19 to pull its budget deficit firmly below the 3% of GDP cap set by European Union rules. Now that small victory for public finances hangs in the balance as the Czech Republic…

 Polish army helicopter pilots have been putting skills they learned preparing for combat into fighting floods that have left a trail of destruction across central Europe. While many towns have seen residents’ possessions strewn across the streets amid piles of mud and other debris, other areas of Poland have been spared the worst of the floods thanks to the…

Artem, a 22-year-old IT student in Moscow, has no regrets about shelling out more than $3,000 to see his favourite singer perform. Around the world, fans of Taylor Swift – “Swifties” – are used to paying eye-popping prices to attend her concerts. But in Russia, there are other challenges in the quest to catch the superstar on…

  Russell Bentley, a U.S. national who went missing in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine early this year, is believed to have been tortured to death by Russian soldiers who are now set to go on trial, Russia’s top investigative body said on Friday. Bentley died in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in April, Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia’s…

(This Sept. 19 story has been corrected to remove reference to lawyer Vladimir Kuzmanov, who has no link to Norta Global Ltd, and was misidentified.) Bulgaria and Norway became new focal points on Thursday of a global hunt for who supplied Hezbollah with the thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon this week in a deadly blow…

Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to press on with a new military campaign until it is able to secure the area around the Lebanese border. The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Ibrahim Aqil had been killed…

Sonic booms shook buildings over Beirut during the televised speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as Israeli jets flew over the Lebanese capital. Hezbollah’s leader has accused Israel of carrying out “massacres” with pager and walkie-talkie explosions, saying it wanted to kill “5,000 people in two minutes”. Lebanon has blamed Israel for the blasts on Tuesday and…

The Stallones are headed to the Hamptons! Sylvester Stallone is in contract to buy his three daughters — Sophia, 28, Sistine, 26, and Scarlet, 22 — a $24.95 million mansion in East Hampton, The Post reported Thursday. The “Rocky” star reportedly offered all cash for the eight-bedroom abode, which boasts nearly 12,000 square feet of living space…

Eminem isn’t done taking shots at Sean “Diddy” Combs. On “Fuel – Shady Edition,” included on the freshly released “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce): Expanded Mourner’s Edition,” the rapper resurfaces accusations that Combs had something to do with the murders of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, claims he previously made on the original…

Google employees liberally labeled their emails as “privileged and confidential” and spoke “off the record” over chat messages, even after being told to preserve their communications for investigators, lawyers for the Justice Department have told a Virginia court over the past couple of weeks. That strategy could backfire if the judge in Google’s second antitrust trial believes…

“One village, two countries” used to be the tagline for Yinjing on China’s south-eastern edge. An old tourist sign boasts of a border with Myanmar made of just “bamboo fences, ditches and earth ridges” – a sign of the easy economic relationship Beijing had sought to build with its neighbour. Now the border the BBC visited is…

Hezbollah’s leader has said bomb attacks using thousands of the Lebanese armed group’s pagers and radios “crossed all red lines”, and accused Israel of what he said represented a declaration of war. In a much-anticipated speech, Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged Hezbollah had suffered an “unprecedented blow”, but he vowed it would continue fighting and inflict a “just punishment”.…

A Japanese handheld radio manufacturer has distanced itself from walkie-talkies bearing its logo that exploded in Lebanon, saying it discontinued production of the devices a decade ago. At least 20 people were killed and 450 injured after hundreds of walkie-talkies, some reportedly used by the armed group Hezbollah, exploded across Lebanon on Wednesday. The devices, according to…

Only a month after Thailand’s adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable. Fans unable to make the two-hour drive to Khao Kheow Open Zoo from the Thai capital Bangkok to see her in person can watch her video clips online, or simply scroll through social media to savor meme after meme. Zookeeper Atthapon…

Israeli warplanes carried out late on Thursday their most intense strikes on southern Lebanon in nearly a year of war, heightening the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah amid calls for restraint. The White House said a diplomatic solution was achievable and urgent, and Britain called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The…

The 43-year-old, from Newcastle, donned disguises to avoid being recognised as she targeted shops across the North East over decades. A prolific shoplifter who has racked up 171 convictions has been banned from all but three stores across a huge area of the North East. Tanya Liddle, 43, has been arrested almost 400 times by Northumbria Police…

The convicted con artist, who swindled Manhattan’s elite out of huge sums and spent time in jail, made her dancing debut this week. Convicted con artist Anna “Delvey” Sorokin has made her debut on Dancing With The Stars – sporting a sparkly ankle monitor. The so-called “fake heiress”, who swindled Manhattan’s elite out of huge sums, took…

One passenger was left “hanging upside down” and it took an hour to get the passengers out of the water, but Stephen Ross said he couldn’t be sure if the vessel or its hull had been safety-checked afterwards. The Titan submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on…

A U.N. committee on Thursday accused Israel of severe breaches of a global treaty protecting children’s rights, saying its military actions in Gaza had a catastrophic impact on them and are among the worst violations in recent history. Palestinian health authorities say 41,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military campaign in response…

In June 1981, six children between the ages of 10 and 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them on a stony hilltop near the village of Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The children said she had shared messages of peace and prayer with them. The visionaries, as the group became known, say that the Virgin…

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition government wants to look tough on law and order. Italy moved on Wednesday toward legalizing chemical castration, with MPs approving the creation of a committee that could draft laws on treating violent sex offenders with androgen-blocking drugs. The lower house of parliament in Rome passed a motion which said the treatment…

His vainglorious $44bn takeover backfired on investors, employees, users – and the world’s richest man himself. “He has no clothes on!” shouted the little boy, pointing to the emperor, and what everyone in the crowd had thought, they began to say among themselves. Then again, he was just a little boy, and they were grown-ups, and the…

Attendees to Donald Trump’s rally in Arizona have reported sustaining mystery eye problems from the event. The rally in Tucson, Arizona, on September 12, which drew over 2,000 people in 100 degree heat, resulted in a number of Trump supporters going to the emergency room. The Trump campaign has said it is investigating the event. The Secret…

Sordid new details have emerged of the so-called sex rooms that Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly kept in his Miami mansion — filled with sex toys, bondage gear, hidden cameras and lingerie, according to a federal source, who said the disgraced rapper is “as bad as Epstein.” One of the Department of Homeland Security agents who helped raid…

Lebanon has been rocked by a second day of communication device explosions, believed to be orchestrated by Israeli intelligence services. The attacks, intended to target members of Hezbollah, have left at least 20 people dead – two of them children – and thousands injured. Those on the ground injured in the chaos have been left asking how…

Diddy should watch his back in prison … ’cause a former warden at the facility he’s in says there are a whole lot of inmates who would see killing him as a badge of honor. As you know, Diddy’s currently being held in MDC Brooklyn — a notorious federal detention facility in NYC — without bail. Sources…

JD Vance’s insinuation that pets are being swiped and eaten by Haitian immigrants has hit yet another embarrassing snag. Vance’s campaign, responding to scrutiny over the hoax, shared a police report with the Wall Street Journal this week that detailed a Springfield, Ohio, resident’s claim that her cat mysteriously vanished in August. Vance’s team suggested the report…

The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching American territory. Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, have come close to Alaska in the past week…

Adults under age 50 have been developing breast cancer and colorectal cancer at increasingly higher rates over the last six decades, and alcohol use may be one factor driving the trend, according to a scientific report published on Wednesday. The report, by the American Association for Cancer Research, highlights scientific breakthroughs that have led to new anticancer…

Multiple Delta Air Lines passengers are recovering from bloody noses and burst ear drums suffered during a terrifying cabin pressure issue. Passengers quickly began to experience pain after the Sept. 15 flight from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Portland, Oregon, got into the air. “I looked over at my husband, and he had both of his hands over his…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that his “Victory Plan”, intended to bring peace to Ukraine while keeping the country strong and avoiding all “frozen conflicts”, was now complete after much consultation. Zelenskiy pledged last month to present his plan to U.S. President Joe Biden, presumably next week when he attends sessions of the U.N. Security Council…

Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged and raped by dozens of men recruited by her husband, on Wednesday called the men standing trial “degenerates” while attempts from some defence lawyers to question her credibility caused outrage in the courtroom. The trial in the southern French town of Avignon of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men accused of raping…

When it comes to our experience of the internet, “the times, they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan would say. You can’t quite recall how, but the internet certainly feels different these days. To some, it is “less fun and less informative” than it used to be. To others, online searches are made up of “cookie cutter” pages…

Did Earth once look a lot more like Saturn? Scientists believe the answer is yes! In a groundbreaking study, researchers in Australia are proposing that Earth may have once sported its own spectacular ring system. This provocative idea, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, offers a novel explanation for a puzzling period in our…

Lauren Sánchez is being sued for allegedly stealing the concept of her new children’s book, “The Fly Who Flew to Space,” according to a complaint obtained by Page Six and filed by her ex-yoga teacher Tuesday. Alanna Zabel — who says she taught Sánchez privately from 2007 to 2011 — alleges that she engaged in “oral and…

Oprah Winfrey paid a fortune to Apple TV + chiefs to buy back the rights to a documentary about her life, Page Six can reveal. Apple announced with great fanfare Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald would be directing the documentary about the talk show host turned media mogul back in 2021. However, sources tell Page Six that Macdonald,…

Milan designers dipped into neutrals and muted tones for next summer — reflecting both a conservative streak in troubled times and a move toward thoughtful production of garments that can anchor any wardrobe. Boss revamped its trademark suiting with a more relaxed, even deconstructed, vibe that can take men and women from day to after hours. Antonio…

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized Republican Donald Trump ‘s promise to deport millions of people who are in the United States illegally, questioning whether he would rely on massive raids and detention camps to carry it out. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s annual leadership conference that the nation can…

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday said the kingdom would not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state and strongly condemned the “crimes of the Israeli occupation” against the Palestinian people. “The kingdom will not stop its tireless work towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and we affirm…

Demi Moore became the highest paid female actor in the world when she landed a $12.5 million payday for 1996’s “Striptease,” and that’s when the backlash against her started. During a discussion on The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast while promoting “The Substance,” the actor recalled people trying to tear her down as soon as she…

The race to find the maker of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon has taken an unexpected turn – towards a Taiwanese company few had heard of until this morning. At least 12 people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured in Tuesday’s explosions targeting members of the armed group Hezbollah, which set off a geopolitical storm in…

Last week, the Indian government announced that Russia had discharged dozens of the 91 Indians who were duped into fighting for Russian forces in the country’s war with Ukraine. Several of them have since returned home, while the process to bring others back is under way. The BBC’s Neyaz Farooquee spoke to some of the men about…

Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary number of people. Both attacks, which are widely believed to be carried out by Israel, have hiked fears…

Hand-held radios used by armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon’s south in the country’s deadliest day since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel nearly a year ago, stoking tensions after similar explosions of the group’s pagers the day before. Lebanon’s health ministry said 20 people were killed and more than 450 injured on…

A federal judge has denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ effort to be free until his trial on sex trafficking and other charges. In an almost two hour hearing in a New York City courtroom, Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky agreed with the argument put forth by the U.S. Attorney’s office that Combs is a danger to the public…

Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others who included fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut. Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary condemned the late-afternoon detonation of the pagers – handheld devices that Hezbollah and others in Lebanon use to…

In a year marked by financial worries and political tension, a new survey has uncovered the staggering impact of stress on everyday Americans. The average person feels their head “spinning” from stress a whopping 156 times per year, translating to about three times a week. This alarming statistic is just one of many eye-opening findings from a…

A Cape Air flight from Boston to Maine landed safely on what appeared to be one wheel after a landing gear problem forced the small plane to return to Logan Airport Tuesday. Flight 1833 to Bar Harbor had three people on board. Cape Air said the pilot “was alerted to a landing gear anomaly shortly after take-off.”…

Scientists have found a planet where they believe ancient oceans once flowed, massive volcanoes towered above the landscape, and mysterious structures are hidden beneath the surface. This isn’t some strange world in deep space — astronomers say these amazing discoveries are actually waiting for us on Mars! A new study is giving us a peek beneath the…

Donald Trump’s bid to become a ‘crypto bro’ has got off to a bad start as the 78-year-old couldn’t answer simple questions during a live X Spaces. Donald Trump has struggled in a ‘painful’ interview on cryptocurrency – and he kept trying to change the topic. The former president has spoken about changing the ‘old’ financial system…

A man suspected of hiding for nearly 12 hours in an apparent attempt to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course was charged with two gun-related crimes on Monday, a day after authorities say he was spotted in the bushes with a rifle as the former U.S. president played nearby. The suspect never had the Republican…

Floodwater surged into homes, stranded vehicles and forced water rescues in coastal North Carolina on Monday after a tropical storm-like system dumped historic amounts of rain in a matter of hours. “It’s probably the worst flooding that any of us have seen in Carolina Beach,” Town Manager Bruce Oakley told CNN of the tourist town not far…

Emily Gold was a part of the Los Osos High School dance team, a dance troupe that reached the quarterfinals of the hit talent competition America’s Got Talent A school in California has been shaken up by the untimely death of a popular student that happened shortly after her dance group impressed judges on America’s Got Talent.…

Billionaire Elon Musk sent out a controversial post on Sunday following the attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump. Following the attempted assassination on the GOP nominee, Musk took to X, formerly twitter, where he claimed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have not had to face assassination attempts. On Sunday, Secret Service shot at…

Deadline can reveal that Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has purchased the rights to Charles Pellegrino‘s forthcoming book Ghosts of Hiroshima. Cameron has committed to use that, and the 2015 Pellegrino book Last Train From Hiroshima, as the basis for a film he will shoot as soon as Avatar production permits. Cameron shared with Deadline that the two…

President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make it the second largest in the world after China’s. In a decree published on the Kremlin’s website, Putin ordered the overall size of the armed forces to…

Speaking publicly for the first time since the latest apparent attempt on his life, Mr Trump praised the Secret Service and said it was a “much better result” than the first assassination attempt in July. Donald Trump has described being grabbed by Secret Service agents after “four or five” gunshots were heard during an apparent assassination attempt…

In a Muslim graveyard in Delhi, a tombstone stands out. It has an inscription written in the Urdu language, but beneath it lies the name of a German-born Jewish woman – Gerda Philipsborn – followed by the epithet ‘Aapajaan’ or ‘elder sister’. This is an unusual sight as the graves of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia…

Facebook owner Meta says it is banning several Russian state media networks, alleging they use deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations and evade detection on its platforms. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign…

“Chroming,” also known as “huffing” or “bagging,” has become a notorious – and potentially fatal – trend. Chroming is a form of recreational drug use that involves inhaling cheap and accessible but highly dangerous substances and solvents, such as deodorant aerosols, paints, and permanent markers. Sniffing the chemicals gives an immediate euphoric high – but it comes…

Monday was the first day of a hearing, expected to last two weeks, looking into the implosion of the Titan submersible. One of the final messages from the Titan submersible crew said they were “all good here” before it imploded, killing all five on board. British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood…

The rapper is facing a wave of lawsuits alleging sexual assault as well as an ongoing federal investigation. Rapper turned music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been arrested, according to the US attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). The 54-year-old was arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel in New York, a representative said, although…

Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned in a new study that offers the first detailed map of a woman’s brain throughout gestation. The transition to motherhood, researchers discovered, affects nearly every part of the brain. Although the study looks at only…

The next generation of Buffetts — Howard, Susie and Peter — is poised to become one of the most powerful forces in philanthropy when their 94-year-old father, the legendary businessman and leader of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, eventually passes away. But it wasn’t always going to be that way. Buffett announced in June that he would donate…

UK media have jumped on a Sunday morning message from the British Royal Family wishing Prince Harry a happy 40th birthday, as a sign of a slight thawing in the chill between London and Montecito. Harry turns 40 today and the Royal Family’s official social media account posted a message, along with a picture of the smiling…

As right-wing rioters attacked communities with racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old climate activist Cressie Gethin sat in a prison cell. Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating fossil fuel — in the North Sea. In late July, a London court found Gethin…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Secret Service agents spotted and fired on a gunman in bushes near the property line of the golf course, a few hundred yards…

A Russian-guided bomb struck a multi-storey apartment building on Sunday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, triggering a fire and killing one person and injuring 42, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the latest attack underscored the need for Ukraine’s Western partners to provide weapons and air defence systems and permission to use weaponry on targets deep inside…

It comes as French authorities rescued some 200 people off the coast of Calais over a 24-hour period between Friday and Saturday night. At least eight migrants have died off the coast of France while attempting to cross the English Channel – as new data reveals 801 people arrived on the UK’s shores yesterday. The latest government…

Trump’s rant comes just days after the singer informed her 284 million Instagram followers that she planned to vote for Kamala Harris. Donald Trump has said he hates Taylor Swift – just days after the pop mega-star endorsed his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris. In an all-caps posting on his Truth Social media account, Mr Trump wrote: “I…

Prosecutors have requested the sentence over the 2019 incident, in which a vessel carrying more than 100 migrants was stranded at sea for 19 days. Prosecutors have asked judges to jail Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini over his 2019 decision to stop a ship carrying more than 100 migrants from landing in the country. Prosecutors in…

If you think hearing loss is something only the elderly deal with, think again. Americans are finding themselves caught in a cycle of misunderstanding, with the average person asking, “What did you say?” a staggering 1,095 times per year. This insight comes from a recent survey conducted by Talker Research on behalf of Audien Hearing, shedding light…

Candice Bergen and Selena Gomez took aim at Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s widely-mocked “childless cat ladies” comment at the Emmys. While presenting during the show, Bergen brought up her series “Murphy Brown,” saying: “In one classic moment, my character was attacked by Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the…

It’s noisy, smelly, shy — and New Zealand’s bird of the year. The hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, won the country’s fiercely fought avian election on Monday, offering hope to supporters of the endangered bird that recognition from its victory might prompt a revival of the species. It followed a campaign for the annual Bird of the Year…

Two young women were killed on Sunday after a speeding BMW hit them, main accused arrested. Initial investigations by the police in the BMW hit-and-run case that killed two young women in Indore revealed that the accused driver drove in the wrong direction in a rush to deliver a birthday cake to his friend. The Indore police…

When the news broke that Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, would be performing in China on Sunday, the elation of many of his fans was mixed with another emotion: confusion. Why would the notoriously prickly Chinese government let in the notoriously provocative Ye? Why was the listening party, as Ye calls his shows, taking…