The United States launched attacks on Iran for the 11th consecutive night late Tuesday, as Tehran warned the United States not to attack its nuclear facilities. The US Central Command (Centcom) said the wave of attacks was “designed to continue to degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping” in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state
The then Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Sobotka, stated that the building should be demolished and a new one erected in its place. It was an echo of an earlier offer from a Russian MP who said he wanted to buy the house and blow it up. But there was a storm of criticism, with
She discovered that she was fast and her new records prove it. In the women’s standing block category, where an ax is used to quickly chop a vertical block of wood, she cut 9 inches (22.8 cm) of white pine in 19.38 seconds. The previous record was 21.17 seconds. In the women’s underhand cut, where
Rebel Wilson has been cleared of allegations she defamed a young Australian actress, a Sydney court has found. Charlotte MacInnes, who starred in Wilson’s film The Deb, is suing the Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect actress for allegedly damaging her reputation in Instagram posts in 2024 and 2025. In the posts, Wilson accused MacInnes of retracting
South Korean prosecutors have requested a one-year prison sentence for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported. Ants are not among the 10 species of insects approved for human consumption under the country’s laws. The approved list includes grasshoppers, locusts and two-spotted crickets, among others.
France’s parliament passed a law to ban social media for under-15s from January 2027, making it the first European country to block young people from the platforms. The law will mean everyone in France will have to verify their age to access social media and comes at a time when the UK and EU are
