More than 200 people attended the European Mullet Festival in Quievrain, Belgium. The festival has been running since 2019, and hosts a mullet contest, conga dancing and a range of hairdressers on site. Festival spokesman Edgar Funkel said the festival inspired people to try it for the first time and that it helped people show...
Testimony from the star witness in Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial has repeatedly tied a 2016 hush-money arrangement back to the ex-president. On the stand, Michael Cohen said he spoke to Mr Trump immediately after wiring the $130,000 (£104,000) payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. It was one of many times he operated “at the direction...
Testifying just a few feet away from his former boss of a decade, Michael Cohen walked a Manhattan courtroom through the highs and lows of working behind-the-scenes for Donald Trump, a man for whom he once pledged to take a bullet. “The only thing that was on my mind was to accomplish the task, to...
But what’s interesting is that Vladimir Putin chose this moment to make the switch. The president had stuck by Shoigu in 2022 when Russia was suffering military setbacks in Ukraine. He’d stuck by him again in 2023 during the minister’s very public spat with the late Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had accused Shoigu...
Two Native American tribes in South Dakota have barred its governor, Kristi Noem, from their land as she doubles down on derogatory commentary against tribal leaders and reservation life. The latest bans add to existing exclusions from four other reservations this year. Ms Noem is now banned from nearly one-fifth of state territory. It comes...
One of Europe’s most notorious people-smugglers, Barzan Majeed, says he transported thousands of people across the Channel. Source link
Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said she will resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “This is not a decision I came to lightly,” Ms Gates wrote in a statement posted to X on Monday. Her last day of work will be 7 June. Ms Gates founded the foundation – the...
Vladimir Putin has begun his fifth term in office by nominating an economist as the country’s new minister of defence. Source link
The group say their names have been cited dozens of times during the trial of the media mogul. Source link
It wasn’t just the past they were remembering today. Beside the rows of fresh graves at Israel’s Mount Herzl military cemetery, new plots were still being marked out – too recent for a memorial stone, their empty shapes heaped with flowers. Next to them, the vacant space stretched, shadowed with the future losses of Israel’s...