What with the war in Ukraine, the spiralling cost of living crisis, and petty disagreements already bubbling on Strictly, there’s quite enough to worry about right now. But as we all know, if it’s not one thing it’s another, and so now we’re suddenly awash with asteroid disaster stories. An asteroid […]
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It’s the multi-million-dollar blunder that no-one wants to talk about, but it has left NRL club bosses seething. Two years ago, NRL supremo Peter V’landys handed Foxtel one of the biggest sweetheart deals in Australian media history and now the AFL is poised to cash in. Having just announced a […]
Borrowing costs rocket on fresh rate hike fears: Central banks set to step up fight against inflation despite risk of recession By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 22:17 BST, 26 September 2022 | Updated: 22:17 BST, 26 September 2022 Government borrowing costs rose sharply around the world as […]
A man known as the ‘Ringo’ of the so-called ‘ISIS Beatles’ by prosecutors for slaughtering four American hostages has avoided spending the rest of his life at a supermax prison. El Shafee Elsheikh, 34, will allegedly not be jailed in solitary confinement at the ADX Florence prison in Colorado – but instead […]
Anthony Albanese meets Japanese PM ahead of Shinzo Abe funeral Anthony Albanese has held a bilateral meeting with Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida while he is in Tokyo for Shinzo Abe’s funeral. His office has released the public opening remarks: Well, thank you very much for the welcome on my […]
TORONTO — Luis Severino’s second start back from the injured list didn’t finish on the high note that his first one did. The right-hander’s penultimate postseason tuneup got off to a strong start but ran into trouble in his fourth and final inning, after his defense let him down, in […]
View gallery Image Credit: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Emily Ratajkowski, 31, is no stranger to dating in the spotlight. The gorgeous model has gotten attention for her love life over the years and it includes two previous boyfriends, a husband in Sebastian Bear-McClard, and a new “friend” in actor Brad Pitt. She’s […]
Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Sept 26 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden, 39, fled the United […]
Andrew Tate was relatively unknown until 2022 but in the past few months his profile has exploded. However greater attention has led to greater scrutiny. In late August Tate was banned from the full gamut of social networks — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twiter and Twitter — dealing a painful […]
Insurance terms are anything but straight forward, yet they’re essential to understanding when buying a policy, whether that’s for your car, next trip, home or pet. And sometimes, different terms are used to refer to the same thing, adding more confusion into the mix. We’ve got you covered. On this […]
The gas pipeline, which connects Russia to the rest of Europe, appears to have been sabotaged following a sudden drop in pressure. Nord Stream 2 suffered a reported gas leak which was then followed by a drop of pressure on Nord Stream 1. German officials have suggested the pipelines were […]
SAN DIEGO — The fugitive defense contractor nicknamed “Fat Leonard” who orchestrated a huge bribery scheme involving dozens of U.S. Navy officials, has requested asylum in Venezuela, a law enforcement official said Monday, nearly a week after he was captured in the South American country. Leonard Glenn Francis slipped away […]
It was a cosmic smash-up watched around the world. A NASA spacecraft intentionally slammed into an asteroid Monday in a historic test of humanity’s ability to protect Earth from a potentially catastrophic collision with a space rock. The agency’s DART probe, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, carried out the […]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian police were investigating a report that a purported hacker had already released the stolen personal data of 10,000 Optus customers and was demanding a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency, the telecommunications company’s chief executive said on Tuesday. The Australian government has blamed lax cybersecurity at […]
We will meet again: at the Khalifa International Stadium, Doha in eight weeks’ time as a matter of fact. In the meantime, if this really is to be a final trip to Wembley for Gareth Southgate as England manager then it was at least a fun, loose, slightly wild Nations […]
Bella Hadid has gone to the dark side. Just in time for spooky season, the supermodel shared a series vampy selfies while in Italy for Milan Fashion Week. In Instagram photos posted on Sept. 25, Bella served up major Mortica Adams vibes while wearing a black long-sleeve gown that featured a plunging […]
For beacons meant to ward off disaster, lighthouses in fiction typically aren’t places you want to end up. Whether we’re talking about movies like 2019’s The Lighthouse or 2018’s Annihilation, the entrance to the nightmarish city of Rapture in BioShock, or the place you’re ambushed by gunships in Half-Life 2, […]
“Treasure State” by C.J. Box (Minotaur) Former police officer turned Montana private detective Cassie Dewell has two bizarre mysteries on her hands. First off, a wealthy matron who’d been bilked by a conman needs her help — not to find the conman but locate the private eye she originally hired […]
The most affected areas are the south east of Majorca and the access roads to some popular beaches around the island. The resort of Cala Santanyí, Cala Figuera, Campos and Portocolom were some of the areas which saw over 100 litres of rain per square metre and other parts of […]
The Philippines will stop operations of 175 offshore gambling firms and deport about 40,000 Chinese workers, a justice ministry official said on Monday, part of a crackdown on the notoriously opaque online gaming industry. The sector emerged in the Philippines in 2016 and grew exponentially, as operators capitalized on the […]