Large forest fires burned out of control in south-western France and central Spain on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate an estimated 200,000 people from their homes. Dozens of firefighters were injured, authorities said, but no deaths were reported in either country. Some 141,000 fled homes in the Gironde and Landes departments in France, the Interior […]
Continue ReadingSarah Ferguson’s charity has been shut down following scrutiny of her links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Sarah’s Trust which introduced philanthropists to good causes in need of funding was formally wound up last month after being first registered with the Charity Commission in 2018. The commission’s website lists the trust as being “removed”, […]
Continue ReadingSpain’s government has declared a national emergency after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid, while in southern France tens of thousands fled their homes to escape two major blazes. The national emergency in Spain means that the nation’s interior ministry, which controls police and security forces, has […]
Continue ReadingFlooding in India’s north-eastern state of Assam has killed at least 50 people and displaced 700,000 after days of heavy monsoon rain that overflowed the Brahmaputra River, officials said. The river, one of Asia’s largest that originates in the Tibet region and flows about 560 miles through Assam, flooded villages, swept away homes and forced […]
Continue ReadingA huge, stray piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, travelling at about 8,700km/h, is expected to crash into the moon in August and leave a crater on the lunar surface. The upper stage booster launched in January 2025, carrying lunar landers from Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace, was supposed to burn up in […]
Continue ReadingA South Korean court has ordered billionaire SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won to pay his ex-wife 944 billion won (£485 million) in a case that the national media dubbed the “divorce of the century”. The Seoul High Court’s ruling came months after the Supreme Court ordered a further review by the appellate court of the […]
Continue ReadingSpain’s government has declared a national emergency after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid, while in southern France tens of thousands fled their homes to escape two major blazes. The national emergency in Spain means that the nation’s interior ministry, which controls police and security forces, has […]
Continue ReadingDonald Trump has suffered a setback in his $10 billion dollar defamation case against the BBC after a judge ruled the US president must turn over financial records sought by the broadcaster. The American leader’s legal team had attempted to block the move, claiming it was “premature, improper, and especially burdensome”. Trump is seeking substantial […]
Continue ReadingChatGPT maker OpenAI has said that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the firm called an “unprecedented cyber incident”. “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI start-up Hugging Face […]
Continue ReadingA grandfather who was injured when he was rammed and thrown into the air by a bison has said hitting the ground was the worst part. Carl McDaniel, 65, suffered multiple bone fractures in the July 10 attack in Yellowstone national park but lived to tell the tale, as seen in a video he recorded […]
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