CCTV video footage confirmed what many people in the music industry knew was brewing: a moment of reckoning for one of the most influential hip-hop artists in history. The clips of Sean “Diddy” Combs kicking his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura – as she lay motionless on the floor – cemented his downfall, despite his apology...
Louisville police will investigate if policies were correctly followed in the arrest of world number one Scottie Scheffler at the US PGA Championship. The 27-year-old was detained on Friday, 17 May after trying to drive into Valhalla Golf Club in heavy traffic and has seen his arraignment date rescheduled to Monday, 3 June. Scheffler was...
The investigation will look into how the Friends actor got the ketamine found in his system when he died. Source link
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken said he was “committed” to working with Congress to respond to the court. Source link
It is not unusual for criminal defendants to choose not to take the stand, legal experts say. Testifying under oath would have opened Mr Trump up to aggressive questioning from prosecutors, as well as other elements of his background including unfavourable verdicts in his recent civil trials. Mr Trump faces 34 felony charges of falsifying...
German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize. Their novel Kairos follows the destructive love affair between a 19-year-old student and a married man in his 50s who meet on a bus in East Berlin around 1986. Their relationship comes to embody the German Democratic Republic’s “crushed idealism” and...
The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville spent a month with revolutionary forces at jungle bases and on front lines in Myanmar. Source link
Jerry, a passenger on Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore, described the moment the plane plunged as it went through severe turbulence. The flight was diverted to Bangkok and landed at 15:45 local time (08:45 GMT). Singapore Airlines said the flight experienced “sudden extreme turbulence” over Myanmar. A 73-year-old British man died, and...
Most turbulence occurs in cloud with up- and downdrafts of wind, says BBC Weather’s Simon King. Source link
The AP decries the seizure of its camera, which Israel says was producing footage used by Al Jazeera. Source link