A major search is under way for a grandmother and five-month-old baby swept away as they tried to escape floodwater in Italy. The child’s mum and dad and his grandfather were rescued from the roof of their holiday home in Pisa province, the fire service said. More than 100 people – as well as divers,
A toy company must pay $71.5m (£53m) for making dolls infringing the name and likeness of a US teen pop group. OMG Girlz sued MGA Entertainment over its LOL Surprise! OMG dolls, arguing the company had copied their look and brand. On Tuesday, the group finally won the long-running intellectual property case after a California
As night draws across the eastern front medical teams wait nervously behind the frontline. They know it will be a busy night – every night is busy these days as Russia intensifies its attacks in the Donbas. The chief medic, Yaroslav, takes the first call of the shift. His face is filled with concern as
Around 700 UK troops are deploying to Cyprus to be ready to help evacuate British nationals from Lebanon as fears grow of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. Defence Secretary John Healey – who chaired a meeting of the UK’s emergency Cobra committee earlier – has urged all Britons to leave the crisis-torn country “now”.
It was not the high note Joe Biden would have hoped for in his last speech at the UN. With the world in crisis on so many fronts in the dying months of his presidency, there was little hope of that. President Biden has built so much of his political career in foreign policy and
Eighty days into government after a landslide election win, Sir Keir Starmer came to Liverpool as the first Labour prime minister in 15 years to address conference. It should have been a joyous victory lap, but instead this is a PM already stumbling, wrong-footed by a row over the amount of freebies he took as
Joe Biden has called for an end to conflicts in the Middle East in his final address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly. In his speech in New York, the US president said now was the time for Israel and Hamas to finalise the terms of a ceasefire and hostage release deal in
A man has been charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump after staking out the presidential hopeful on his Florida golf course. Ryan Routh was arrested after allegedly poking his gun through bushes surrounding the West Palm Beach golf course on 15 September. Routh was initially charged with two gun offences but prosecutors have upgraded
A Fujitsu boss has told the Horizon IT inquiry he raised “serious concerns” about the “behaviour” of the Post Office investigations team earlier this year. More than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted and received criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015, as Fujitsu’s faulty Horizon IT system made it appear as though money was missing at
Sir Keir Starmer has defended removing the winter fuel allowance from millions of pensioners as he warned of a “hard” path ahead. The prime minister, giving his keynote speech at Labour’s conference, was attempting to turn around the doom and gloom of the past few months. He addressed concern about cutting the winter fuel allowance,
The Caucasus Mountain range in Georgia is one of the great sights in the south of Europe. Towering peaks, higher than any in the Alps, rise up from green meadows and grassy hills covered in wildflowers. Winding roads thread through deep valleys, overlooked by ornate Orthodox churches and monasteries. But when I visited recently, I
By Howard Bloom Tuesday the world was shocked by one of the strangest war stories of the century. Between 2,800 and 4,000 pagers went off in the hands or pockets of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon as the fighters went about their daily lives. Yes, pagers, old fashioned pagers, exploded. In fact, pagers blew up from
The government has been accused of “rushing” plans to remove the VAT exemption from private schools, with an impact assessment due just weeks before the policy comes into effect. From January, Labour will scrap the VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools in a bid to fund 6,500 new teachers in state schools.
By Howard Bloom Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was not a battle of words, it was a battle of body language. The facial language and the body language of Harris signaled strength, confidence, and authority. Those are usually the facial and body language signals we get from Donald Trump. But not Tuesday night. Tuesday night,
By Howard Bloom Education Week reports that we are in a student mental health crisis. So does the surgeon general. Will taking cellphones away from kids while they’re in school help us get out of this crisis? I asked the science search engine Consensus to do a survey of studies on school cellphone bans and mental
By Howard Bloom Anger is on the rise in 2024. Ask ChatGPT or the search engine for scientific studies, Consensus, and they will feed you great gobs of information showing that anger in America is reaching record highs. What’s more, they will tell you that much of the anger scientists have studied recently is based on
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