Nardine Saad,Los Angelesand Regan Morris Reuters A California doctor who sold ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to eight months of home detention and three years of supervised release, making him the second person to be sentenced in the actor’s death. Dr Mark Chavez is among five people – including another doctor […]
Continue Reading32-year-old Nick Reiner is said to have killed his parents.Image: keystone December 16, 2025, 8:45 p.mDecember 16, 2025, 8:45 p.m After the violent death of “Harry and Sally” director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, the suspected son Nick Reiner cannot initially appear in court. Nick Reiner does not yet have medical clearance to be […]
Continue ReadingWhite House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has disputed portions of a Vanity Fair article in which she paints an unflattering picture of the Trump administration and many of its top officials. In the interview, Wiles described Donald Trump as having an “alcoholic’s personality” and Vice President JD Vance as having been a “conspiracy theorist” […]
Continue ReadingUpdated: 16/12/2025 – 20:29 GMT+1 Thousands of dinosaur footprints have been found in a national part in northern Italy known as the Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio Branchi. Experts say they are from enormous herbivores that lived there 210 million years ago in the Triassic period. …More
Continue ReadingDonald Trump is not advancing peace the way he imagined.Image: keystone The American president is looking for a compromise after four years of war in Ukraine. But Kyiv and Moscow do not agree. Is Trump now losing patience? December 16, 2025, 8:28 p.mDecember 16, 2025, 8:28 p.m Renzo Ruf, Washington / ch media The first […]
Continue ReadingVanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News Online Getty Images US President Trump signed an executive order classifying fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” The United States has designated a notorious drug-trafficking organisation in Colombia as a terrorist group. The US Treasury Department added the group, known as Clan del Golfo or Gulf Clan, to […]
Continue ReadingFormer Clan del Golfo leader Dairo Antonio Usuga (center right), aka “Otoniel,” during his extradition to the United States from Bogota, Colombia, May 4, 2022.Image: keystone December 16, 2025, 8:10 p.mDecember 16, 2025, 8:10 p.m The US government has designated Colombia’s powerful crime syndicate, the Clan del Golfo (Gulf Clan), as a terrorist organization. This […]
Continue ReadingVideo: watson/Emanuella Kälin December 16, 2025, 7:12 p.mDecember 16, 2025, 7:12 p.m In the middle of Turkey’s granary, the ground is cracking. In central Anatolia, sinkholes are spreading at an alarming rate. In a comprehensive study, the Turkish Civil Protection Authority (AFAD) mapped a total of 684 of these subsidences. The provinces of Konya, Karaman […]
Continue ReadingA rebel leader in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo says his fighters will withdraw from a key city at the request of the US. Corneille Nangaa’s statement came days after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the capture of Uvira by rebel forces violated a peace deal, and the US would “take action to […]
Continue ReadingThe European Union (EU) has watered down its plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2035. Current rules state that new vehicles sold from that date should be “zero emission”, but carmakers, particularly in Germany, have lobbied heavily for concessions. Under the European Commission’s new plan, 90% of new cars […]
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