Police have charged a 45-year-old man with attempted murder after two Jewish men were stabbed in north London on Wednesday. Essa Suleiman has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a bladed article in a public place over the incident in Golders Green, the Metropolitan Police said. Suleiman, […]
Continue ReadingPop star Britney Spears has been charged with drink and drug driving. The 44-year-old singer was charged with driving under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs on Thursday, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said. The charge comes just weeks after the chart-topper voluntarily checked herself into rehab. Britney Spears was arrested in March […]
Continue ReadingUS President Donald Trump has urged ABC to fire the late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, saying: “It better be soon.” Trump made a further call for the presenter of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to be sacked in a post on Truth Social after previously calling for the US network to “immediately” fire him on Monday. […]
Continue ReadingMyanmar’s detained former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been moved from prison to house arrest, state television announced. The news was also released in a short text message to journalists from the government’s military information team. It was accompanied by a photo showing the 80-year-old sitting on a wooden bench in a skirt and […]
Continue ReadingTV presenter Gloria Hunniford is to receive The Freedom Of The City Of London at an event in the city’s historic Guildhall. The Northern Irish star, who is best known for her work on shows such as Rip Off Britain, Loose Women and The One Show, will receive the honour on May 14. She said: […]
Continue ReadingTraders were feeling a tad less confident on Thursday that the European Central Bank would hike interest rates as early as June, as policymakers weigh the trade off between rising inflation and the hit to growth from higher energy prices. The ECB held rates at 2 per cent, saying that the risks of both higher […]
Continue ReadingUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking details of a short-term ceasefire Russia has proposed to US President Donald Trump, he said in a post on Telegram. Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a ceasefire on May 9 to coincide with Victory Day in Russia in a phone call with Mr Trump, according to the Kremlin. “We […]
Continue ReadingAlmost all of Europe experienced above-average heat in 2025, a year that broke records for wildfires, sea temperatures, and heatwaves as climate change worsens, EU scientists and the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. At least 95 per cent of Europe experienced above-average temperatures, while wildfires burnt more than 1 million hectares of land – […]
Continue ReadingMeta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram were charged on Wednesday with breaching landmark EU tech rules and must do more to block children under 13 from accessing the social networks, EU regulators said. The charges or so-called preliminary findings under the Digital Services Act, which requires Big Tech to do more to tackle illegal and harmful […]
Continue ReadingOpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman have arrived for Tuesday’s opening statements in a high-stakes trial revolving around a bitter feud between the former friends that could reshape the future development of artificial intelligence. The bickering billionaires’ early-morning appearances at the federal court in Oakland, California, foreshadow the start of a legal drama that […]
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