Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a critical but stable condition in hospital after he was shot five times on Wednesday. He had been greeting a small crowd of people in the town of Handlova, when the attack happened, in what his colleagues described as a politically motivated attack. The alleged assailant has not...
Savannah Gankiewicz has been crowned Miss USA 2023 after her predecessor, Noelia Voigt, recently resigned citing mental health issues. UmaSofia Srivastava, Miss Teen USA, also stepped down. Both their mothers spoke out saying their daughters had been “ill-treated, abused, bullied and cornered”, and asked for an apology from the Miss Universe Organization. Ms Gankiewicz, who...
Donald Trump’s attorney levelled a blow against prosecutors Thursday, accusing the case’s star witness of lying about a key conversation with Mr Trump. Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s former fixer, previously said he called the ex-president’s bodyguard 24 October 2016 to tell Mr. Trump about a hush-money payment to an adult-film star. But attorney Todd Blanche...
Around 2,500 British fans are expected at the Kingdom Arena on Saturday and a good few hundred were at Thursday’s news conference at the Boulevard venue, although at times they were drowned out by a significantly smaller number of Usyk fans. Drones hovered above in the clear Riyadh night sky, as the world’s sweat-drenched media...
A man is arrested and police say there is no risk to local residents or the wider public. Source link
Thirty thousand rare oysters are being reintroduced to the Firth of Forth having been wiped out by overfishing and pollution. Once native to Scotland, it has been estimated that 30 million European flat oysters were being harvested towards the end of the 1800s. But by 1957 they were declared extinct in the area. So far,...
An ambitious US maritime corridor is due to start operating off Gaza’s coast in the coming days. Source link
The ICJ ruling has come under intense scrutiny, centring on the word “plausible”. What did the court mean? Source link
A British diplomat has been given a week to leave Russia in an escalation of a diplomatic spat over spying. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement the removal of Adrian Coghill was in response to “unfriendly anti-Russian actions” from Britain. On 8 May, external, the Russian defence attache was expelled from London for...
New video shows the crash that left a truck hanging from the Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky, on 1 March 2024. The dashcam footage shows an oncoming pickup truck swerve out of its lane to avoid a stalled vehicle before it crashes into the truck, sending the cabin of the vehicle and the driver...