The holiday spirit did not apparently stop a tense scene between Bill Belichick’s current beau and his ex last December at a Nantucket, Massachusetts party. Linda Holliday confronted Jordon Hudson on the dance floor after asking the organizers of the shindig to remove her from the gathering, TMZ reported on Tuesday night. According to a...
Residents of the mid-north coast of New South Wales have described anxious waits for rescue in the dark as unprecedented flooding has struck the Manning river and inundates homes and businesses across the region.
The State Emergency Service has warned another 200mm of rain was predicted in the next 24-48 hours, further swelling the Manning river which has already surpassed its 1929 record flood level.
Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests
The destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level ever recorded in 2024, driven by a surge in fires caused by global heating, according to “frightening” new data.
From the Brazilian Amazon to the Siberian taiga, Earth’s forests disappeared at a record rate last year, losing an area the size of Italy to agriculture, fires, logging and mining, according to analysis from the University of Maryland hosted on Global Forest Watch.
Average spend of £757 includes tickets, accommodation, £75 on food and drink, £60 on merchandise plus travel and new outfits
Oasis fans are expected to splash out more than £1bn on the reunion tour including tickets, accommodation, food, drink, outfits and merchandise, according to research that found a quarter of ticket holders would have been happy to spend even more.
The band’s comeback concerts after a 15-year hiatus are expected to be the most popular, and profitable, run of gigs in British history.
The Sicilian fishing village is watching the salvage of Mike Lynch’s superyacht for answers to the causes of the tragedy
Some say that the late tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht, Bayesian, sank because it was vulnerable to high winds that drove the vessel past its point of stability. Others insist that a chain of human errors led to the incident that claimed seven lives, including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah.
But in the quiet Sicilian fishing village of Porticello – where on 19 August 2024 the Bayesian was caught shortly before dawn in a violent storm while anchored off coast – everyone knows the truth lies 50 metres below the surface, in the wreckage of a yacht that divers, floating cranes and underwater drones are still struggling to bring back from the depths of the ocean.
There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics
‘The boys are alt-right.” This seems to be the new consensus on far-right politics propagated in numerous articles and podcasts. But the media’s obsessive focus on the young men allegedly fuelling the rise of the far right isn’t just empirically flawed – it misses a much more significant shift in public opinion among young people. While many surveys show a large gender gap in support of far-right parties and policies, it is young women who stand out as the more politically interesting demographic, as they are turning in ever greater numbers towards the left.
The idea that young people in general, and young men in particular, disproportionately support the far right has been around for a while.In a classic 2012 study, the German political scientist Kai Arzheimer characterised the “typical” voter of far-right parties in Europe as “male, young(ish), of moderate educational achievement and concerned about immigrants and immigration”.It is frequently used to explain the rise of Donald Trump, while in Europe there has been an explosion of articles claiming that young people, particularly young men, are “driving far-right support”. But is the recent rise of Europe’s far right truly due to the disproportionate support of young men? And are young people really becoming more rightwing?
Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, and author of The Far Right Today
The global food system has been captured by a few rapacious companies that profit from public ill-health. We need a radical overhaul
Our food system is killing us. Designed in a different century for a different purpose – to mass produce cheap calories to prevent famine – it is now a source of jeopardy, destroying more than it creates. A quarter of all adult deaths globally – more than 12 million every year – are due to poor diets.
Malnutrition in all its forms – undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight and obesity – is by far the biggest cause of ill-health, affecting one in three people on the planet. Ultra-processed foods are implicated in as many as one in seven premature deaths in some countries.
Exclusive: Married volunteer diggers discover stone relief at site of Roman fort Vindolanda in Northumberland
A striking Roman depiction of the winged goddess of victory has been discovered near Hadrian’s Wall by volunteers helping archaeologists on an official excavation.
The stone relief was found by a Merseyside couple at Vindolanda, the site of the important Roman fort near Hexham, Northumberland.
From Elon Musk to his own board, anyone who has come up against the OpenAI CEO has lost. In a gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy, writer Karen Hao says we should all be wary of the power he now wields
The short-lived firing of Sam Altman, the CEO of possibly the world’s most important AI company, was sensational. When he was sacked by OpenAI’s board members, some of them believed the stakes could not have been higher – the future of humanity – if the organisation continued under Altman. Imagine Succession, with added apocalypse vibes. In early November 2023, after three weeks of secret calls and varying degrees of paranoia, the OpenAI board agreed: Altman had to go.
The drama didn’t stop there. After his removal, Altman’s most loyal staff resigned, and others signed an open letter calling for his reinstatement. Investors, including its biggest, Microsoft, got spooked. Without talent or funding, OpenAI – which developed ChatGPT and was worth billions – wouldn’t even exist. Some who had been involved in the decision to fire Altman switched sides and within days, he was reinstated. Is he now untouchable? “Certainly he has entrenched his power,” says Karen Hao, the tech journalist whose new book, Empire of AI, details this saga in a tense and absorbing history of OpenAI. The current board is “much more allied with his interests,” she says.
More information about the brutal beatdown, including if the assault was random, was not immediately known with investigators still unable to interview her, police said.
Matthew Lee Johnson’s death by lethal injection came 13 years to the day after he set great-grandmother Nancy Harris, 76, on fire during a convenience store robbery.
An out-of-state resident who attended the Colombian singer's sold-out Los Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour on May 15 was recently diagnosed with the highly contagious virus.
NEW YORK — George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy Cheers and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in Art, Hairspray and Elf, has died. He was 76. Read More
The delay comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom withdrew his request for the parole board to evaluate the brothers for clemency as they seek their freedom after 35 years behind bars for killing their parents.
Wednesday night that conference finals drought — the league’s third longest — ends with Game 1 against the Pacers at Madison Square Garden, a gift to the Knicks diehards who wondered if they would die before such a day would come.
Taku Etō’s remarks drew fury as cost of rice has nearly doubled in a year amid soaring food prices
Japan’s agriculture minister has resigned after saying he never buys rice because he gets it free, a remark that drew public fury in a country facing soaring food prices.
Taku Etō’s resignation has added to pressure on the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, whose failure to rein in soaring rice prices and address a wider cost of living crisis has angered voters ahead of upper house elections in July.
A tourist says four people holding pistols and a machine gun boarded the boat and forced passengers to drain their bank accounts
A Spanish tourist has recounted how an armed gang calling themselves “river pirates” robbed her and her family aboard a boat travelling down the Amazon River in Peru.
In a video on TikTok, one of the tourists, Elisabet de la Almudena, said she experienced the “worst day of her life” on 14 May, when four armed assailants holding pistols and one machine gun boarded the boat she was travelling on with her parents and six-year-old daughter. She said the gunmen forced them to open banking apps on their phones and empty their accounts.
A crucial cog in the global semiconductor industry, Malaysia aims to build high-end chips. It will have to contend with President Trump’s trade policy first.
Workers at in a factory in Penang, Malaysia, last year. The Southeast Asian country wants to move from assembling and testing semiconductors into chip design and cutting-edge manufacturing.
In a March 24 email, Joe Kent, chief of staff to Tulsi Gabbard, said that it was necessary to “rethink” the intelligence assessment, according to multiple people who described it.
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey was ousted Tuesday in a stiff Democratic primary challenge from Corey O'Connor, who also outraised and outspent the incumbent on the campaign trail.
Corey O’Connor had positioned himself as a pragmatic candidate who would get the city working again while it tried to rebuild a tax base devastated by the pandemic downturn in commercial real estate.
A health report commissioned by President Trump has been causing angst within the agriculture industry who fear the chemicals will be identified as a driver of childhood disease.
A Republican senator on Tuesday pointedly instructed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to interfere with the livelihood of American farmers by suggesting certain pesticides are unsafe.
Philadelphia Democrat District Attorney Lawrence Krasner survived a primary challenge from Judge Pat Dugan on Tuesday, but the two could potentially face a rematch in November.
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