Japan broke a record for tourism in 2024, with people from all over the world visiting the island nation. But the country has even bigger tourist goals for the years ahead.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will shell out $10 million over the next five years researching the long-term health ramifications of the 2023 train derailment that unleashed toxic chemicals into East Palestine, Ohio.
Catholic faith gains popularity as Father Tidd explains Delbarton School's approach of proposing faith connects with young men seeking meaning amid loneliness.
Stream exclusive footage of the Trump assassination attempt, Cabinet member meetings, and behind-the-scenes campaign moments in Fox Nation's "The Art of the Surge" docuseries.
The recommendations were inspired by two incidents on Southwest Airlines flights, when engines malfunctioned after bird strikes and poured smoke into the cabins.
As more parents dress like their kids – and more children dress like grownups – some are asking if our offspring have become style inspirations … or even accessories
The Princess of Wales and her 10-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, seemed to have shared not just a carriage but also outfit notes at trooping the colour last weekend, since they were both wearing neighbouring blues on the colour wheel. They do it a lot, this so-called “mini-me dressing” – via tartans and tiaras, nautical details and nifty colour accents.
She’s not the only one. Kim Kardashian does it with her kids, Beyoncé does it with Blue Ivy. In fact, it tallies with the whole vibe of nepo babies, who are now appearing in the public eye wearing outfits that are sartorial embodiments of the relationships that will privilege them for life.
Abbott, 69, was found dead with tape over her mouth in London flat and police said missing Rolex could be linked to stabbing
A 66-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead at home in north London with tape over her mouth.
The body of Jennifer Abbott, 69, who was known professionally as Sarah Steinberg, was discovered in her Camden flat on 13 June. She was last seen three days earlier, walking her pet corgi nearby.
Iranian dissidents are speaking out over Whoopi Goldberg’s "offensive" claim that life for Black Americans is equivalent to living under Iran’s brutal autocracy.
Along with joy and relief at finding three-year-old Claire Bell alive in eastern Ontario after four days of searching come questions of how she survived and why she was alone at the side of a rural highway 150 kilometres from her home in Montreal. Read More
A congressionally mandated ban on the app was initially due to take effect in January, but the app went dark in the US for just 14 hours before Trump issued a reprieve.
The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln
When Billy Porter talks, people listen. They have no choice. The actor, fresh from a stint as Emcee in the London run of Cabaret, and about to reprise the role on Broadway, speaks in a poised, purposeful, regal fashion. Each word is selected with care and weighed in his hand as if it were an avocado in the fruit and veg aisle, the gaps between words so lengthy that it isn’t always clear when he has finished speaking. Seated around the table in the south London studio where Porter is overseeing rehearsals for This Bitter Earth, which marks his UK directorial debut, are the playwright Harrison David Rivers and the actors Omari Douglas (It’s a Sin) and Alexander Lincoln (Emmerdale). Everyone maintains an attentive silence while Porter is speaking, until there can be no doubt that he has completed his thought.
“The … beautiful … part of this play,” he says, easing his feet out of a pair of marshmallow-soft cream-and-ebony moon boots and nudging them to one side, “is we get to watch two people who love each other try … time … and time … and time … and time again … and they never give up … on themselves … or on love. There is hope … We don’t have to be divided. Having conversations that are complicated is what makes the healing happen … without blame … without shame.”
Minnesota shootings targeting state lawmakers spark fear in Congress, prompting security discussions as officials work to protect representatives and families from rising threats.
At #NoKings protests, radical 'Palestine Contingents' chanted 'Globalize the intifada' while socialist and communist groups with $204 million in revenues promoted anti-American messages
Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners than before. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
An unprecedented planetary-scale seismic event caused the earth to vibrate for nine days straight back in 2023, but the reason why was unclear. Scientists initially had more questions than answers, labelling the event an unidentified seismic object and undertook a mammoth scientific collaboration across multiple countries and institutions to get to the bottom of what really happened. Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks into the mystery at the heart of this scientific investigation
Nezza, the Latina singer who performed the national anthem in Spanish at a recent Dodgers game as a form of protest against ICE, said she has received death threats.
Lewis-Skelly to be one of world’s best-paid teenagers
Thomas Partey is at an impasse with Arsenal in talks over a new contract as the midfielder weighs up whether to extend his stay. Partey, whose deal expires at the end of this month, has been offered a deal on slightly reduced terms.
The 32-year-old and his representatives are believed to want a similar pay structure to the one in the contract he signed when he joined from Atlético Madrid in 2020 for £45m, after he played an integral role last season, making 52 appearances.
Two serving officers and one former officer to face hearing after woman was also handcuffed and put in spit hood
Two serving Metropolitan police officers and one former officer will face a gross misconduct hearing after a 90-year-old woman with dementia was targeted with a Taser, the police watchdog said.
The woman was also handcuffed and put in a spit hood during the incident in Peckham, south London, in May 2023, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.
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