Gaza’s civil defence agency said ‘Israeli gunfire’ had killed 22 people at one site and four at another
Israeli troops opened fire on Saturday toward crowds of Palestinians seeking food from distribution hubs run by an Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, killing at least 32 people, according to witnesses and hospital officials, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
The two incidents occurred near hubs operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. In other violence, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, health officials said.
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I think I’ve only just recovered from the drama of Thursday’s clash between Sweden and England. What a match! Here is how England fans reacted to the outcome…
We’ve started to lose overs, but the afternoon forecast has improved and it looks increasingly likely that there will be some cricket.
The forecast is less apocalyptic after lunch, so there’s still a decent chance of a reduced-overs game. Hard to see anything happening for at least another couple of hours though.
A former City Hall official claims she was seriously hurt when she lit a Bath & Body Works candle and it exploded, sending "searing" hot wax into her face and arms.
Big spenders, low tippers? New York and New Jersey rank near the bottom in a new tipping study, which weighs tip percentage against income. Experts blame “tip fatigue,” rising costs and better base pay for waitstaff.
At least 20 people were injured when a driver plowed into a crowd standing outside an East Hollywood nightclub on Friday night, according to officials.
With vacations of up to 14 weeks on the continent, education can suffer – although on the plus side childcare and holidays are much more affordable
Remember the summer holidays of your childhood – the seemingly endless, sunny days many of us look back on fondly? Those six “precious” weeks look very different when you’re a parent. Having to feed, entertain, look after and fund your offspring during the extended break can sometimes make the summer seem endless for all the wrong reasons.
Parents in England where, as in Scotland and Wales, the school summer break is six weeks, have complained that this is too long, and are backing a reduction to four weeks. Pity then the parents in mainland Europe: French school holidays last for eight weeks. In some regions of Italy, summer is a whopping 14-weeks long. Having birthed and brought up my five children in France, only moving back to England in April last year when my eldest was 14 and my youngest nine, I’ve experienced summers on both sides of the Channel. And it will be no surprise that I prefer the six-week version.
Gillian Harvey is an author and mother of five living in Norfolk. She is the author of The Village Café in the Loire
The days of cramming travel-sized shampoo bottles into plastic bags could soon be over. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hinted that the longstanding liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage could be lifted. Read More
Los Angeles fire department says up to five people are in critical condition after incident on Santa Monica Boulevard
A vehicle has driven into a crowd in east Hollywood, injuring more than 20 people, the Los Angeles fire department has said.
Up to five people were in critical condition and a further eight to 10 were in serious condition after the incident on Santa Monica Boulevard, the department said on Saturday.
Former Arsenal player wins admiration for his taste in books, but admits one novel defeated him
Héctor Bellerín’s summer holidays look a little different from your typical footballer. Rather than pictures from a recent jaunt to Ibiza clubs such as Ushuaia or questionable birthday parties, his Instagram is dominated by books.
Images of paperbacks he’s read are all over his feed, a mix of classics and contemporary novels, with a majority from Spain and South America.
Vegetarians are less concerned with benevolence and security and are more power-oriented than meat eaters, says a new study, but one meat eater blasts labels as "lazy."
After a life shaped by grief and resilience, Singh began running at 89 and became an icon of endurance and joy
The first 20 miles of a marathon are not difficult, Fauja Singh once said. When it came to the last six miles, however, “I run while talking to God.”
The fact that he was attempting the distance at all might seem, to some, proof of divine assistance. Singh was 89 when he first took up distance running, having stumbled across a TV snippet of people running a marathon, and decided to give it a go. By his mid-90s he was a marathon veteran, a record holder for his age group and even a poster model for Adidas; aged 101 – or at least so he believed, since he never had a birth certificate – he became the oldest person ever to run the distance.
George Strus founded Breaking the Binary Theatre, one of the only theatrical spaces in the US created for and run by gender-expansive artists, in 2022
For George Strus, theater was one of many roving interests during their childhood in northern New Jersey.
First, there was baseball. Then, a short stint in ice skating. “I was really into Webkinz for like, two months,” said the 27-year-old during a phone interview. A fixation on Sillybandz, the brightly colored, animal shaped rubber bracelets, soon followed.
The lawyer turned motivational speaker fills arenas with her promise that you can always turn things around – even if her ideas aren’t exactly new. What is it about her that makes people listen?
‘Putting yourself in this room today,” booms Mel Robbins from the stage of a sold-out London theatre, “is a decision that’s going to change the trajectory of your life.” Rows and rows of (almost exclusively) women gaze at the podcaster and self-help superstar, her image on a huge screen behind her. It’s the final day of Robbins’s first tour, this one to promote her latest book and viral sensation, The Let Them Theory – her tool for helping people detach from other people’s dramas. Outside forces, she teaches, from annoying relatives to strangers in a traffic jam, are not in your control; nor are you responsible for what they do, feel or think (so long as they are not your children). It’s a waste of time, energy and emotion to even try. Instead, you should just say to yourself: “Let them.”
Robbins is bounding around, sparkling with charisma and no-nonsense charm, first in a comfy tracksuit (available from her website for £150), then in boss-lady blazer and sexy denim. For nearly two hours, she commands the stage – occasionally joined by her two grown-up daughters, one of whom, Sawyer, is the book’s co-author – and the women in the audience smile, nod, hug each other and cry. By the finale, when the confetti cannons go off and yellow ribbons rain down to Coldplay’s booming A Sky Full of Stars, I have promised myself I will (in no particular order) lose my perimenopause tummy, be nicer to my children and care less what other people think. I am, I decide, beaming to myself, ready to change the trajectory of my life.
Couples and singles let us into their idealised love lives online, but our role as viewers makes it more of a ménage à trois
Sitting in a hospital bed, pregnant Campbell Puckett, known as “Pookie”, is handed a Craie Kelly Epsom 25 Hermès bag (retailing around £20,000) by her husband, Jett. “It’s time for her push present,” he says behind the camera. The husband and wife are arguably the internet’s favourite heterosexual couple at the moment, and if they are anything to go by, the standards for modern romance are high.
Jett recently gave Pookie a single instruction on one of their European getaways: “Do not leave Paris without a Birkin.” Luxury unboxings are a staple on their page.These #relationshipgoals have increasingly influenced viewers’ standards and expectations in their own relationships. The spectacle of lavish gifts and experiences can shift expectations and expressions of love towards the more demonstrable aspects of romance.“If my husband doesn’t get me a Hermès Kelly as my push present, he will be fired,” reads one TikTok comment.
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