Twin towers in the Chinese city of Chengdu were illuminated with characters from the movie “Ne Zha 2” during a light show on Saturday. The animated feature has become the highest-grossing film of all time in China.
Eric Adams cultivated a close relationship with President Trump. Now, U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan have been told to drop the corruption case against the New York City mayor.
The test vote indicated that despite early reservations even among some Republicans, the former Democratic congresswoman had the necessary support to be confirmed in a vote expected by Wednesday.
Britain’s ambassador to Washington says Starmer government can influence president and UK’s economic future depends in large part on investment from the US
Britain must respect Donald Trump’s “strong and clear mandate for change”, Peter Mandelson has said, but Keir Starmer’s government could “always make our views known privately and directly” to the US president.
Lord Mandelson, Britain’s ambassador to Washington, said that in dealing with Trump, the government must “understand what drives him”.
Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries
Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties, according to a study which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy.
“Radical right populists are using misinformation as a tool to destabilise democracies and gain political advantage,” said Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, a co-author of the study with Juliana Chueri of the Dutch capital’s Free University.
In a case of life imitating art, a 100-metre-wide asteroid has triggered global planetary defence procedures for the first time, after telescope observations revealed it had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. To find out what happens now and how worried we should be, Ian Sample hears from Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at MIT and inventor of the Torino scale, which is used to categorise the threat posed by objects such as asteroids and comets
When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened?
In 2019, Shahnaz Akhter, a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick University, was chatting to her sister, who mentioned a documentary that had aired on Channel 4 in the mid-1990s. It was about human radiation experiments, including one that had taken place in 1969 in Coventry. As part of an experiment on iron absorption, 21 Indian women had been fed chapatis baked with radioactive isotopes, apparently without their consent.
Having grown up in Coventry’s tight-knit South Asian community, Akhter was shocked that she had never heard of the experiment. When she looked into it, she found an inquiry by the Coventry Health Authority in 1995 conducted soon after the documentary aired. The inquiry examined whether the experiment put the subjects’ health at risk and whether informed consent was obtained. But the only mention of the women’s perspectives was a single sentence: “At the public meeting, it was stated that two of the participants who had come forward had no recollection of giving informed consent.”
In August 1990, two hikers sent photos of a strange diamond-shaped aircraft to the press – but the story never appeared. Was it a prank, a hoax, an optical illusion or something else entirely?
On a misty evening in August 1990, two men hiking on the moors surrounding Calvine, a pretty hamlet in Perth and Kinross, claimed to have seen a giant diamond-shaped aircraft flying above them. It apparently had no clear means of propulsion and left no smoke plume; it was silent and static, as if frozen in time. Terrified, they hit the ground and scrambled for cover behind a tree. Then a Harrier fighter jet roared into view, circling the diamond as if sizing it up for a scuffle. One of the men snapped a series of photographs just before the bizarre craft shot away vertically and disappeared.
Craig Lindsay was a press officer at the RAF base in Pitreavie Castle in Dunfermline, 50 miles away, when the Daily Record got in touch a few days later. The hikers, who worked as chefs at Fisher’s Hotel in Pitlochry, had sent six photos of the diamond to the newspaper and told their story. The Record’s picture editor, Andy Allen, sent Lindsay the best of the bunch.
Exclusive: Lord Garnier’s comments come after allegations about the ‘absent leadership’ of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
The former solicitor general and conservative peer Lord Garnier has said the situation at the miscarriage of justice watchdog is “beyond a joke” and leaves “a big hole in our criminal justice fleet”.
Following revelations in the Guardian about the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)’s spending on expensive French business courses for its chief executive and allegations about its “absent” leadership, Garnier said it was time to ask the justice secretary: “Have you got a grip on this?”
ESPN analyst Ryan Clark weighed in on the Travis Kelse retirement topic on Monday’s “NFL Live” comparing the situation to the crossroads that his older brother Jason found himself in last year before retiring in March.
Jalen Brunson, devoted fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, said he draws inspiration from a Super Bowl run that was forged after very loud doubting of the quarterback and coach.
A senior New South Wales police officer was caught on camera drinking and dancing with colleagues before he left a Sydney venue and crashed a work car into a barrier on the NorthConnex tunnel before fleeing the scene.
The officer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was fined $1,500 and handed a two-year community corrections order at Sydney’s Downing Centre local court on Tuesday after being convicted of mid-range drink-driving.
Raid on Educational Bookshop branches described by rights groups as attempt to create ‘culture of fear’ among Palestinian intellectuals
Israeli police have raided the leading Palestinian-owned bookshop in occupied East Jerusalem and detained two of its owners, arrests that rights groups and leading intellectuals said were designed to create a “culture of fear” among Palestinians.
Police officers ransacked two branches of the Educational Bookshop on Sunday afternoon, using Google Translate to examine the stock, then detaining Mahmoud Muna, 41, and his nephew Ahmed Muna, 33, on suspicion of “violating public order”.
Atlanta, Charlotte, NC, Raleigh, NC, and Dallas are all experiencing surging home sale prices and demand, according to a new data analysis from John Burns Research & Consulting.
Sarita Choudhury is one chill friend. Although it was freezing on Saturday, the actor wore an unseasonably sheer white camisole and floaty pants to her pal Prabal Gurung’s show in the historic Surrogate’s Court. “I was like, I’m going to be cold for him and wear something super white, not warm and promote him,” she...
New Yorker Onijah Robinson’s bizarre trip to Karachi spawned a stream of Instagram and TikTok videos as social media users became fascinated by her story
A private jet owned by Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil crashed into another jet at Scottsdale Airport after its landing gear failed. One person was killed and three others injured.
"Today you will hear about the depraved men behind these gutless, evil acts," Mace said. "These men didn’t just harm their victims; they recorded their depravity as if it were a badge of honor."
Serena Williams' surprise cameo during Kendrick Lamar's halftime show at Super Bowl LIX has led Stephen A. Smith to say he would divorce her if they were married.
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