Five new fires have erupted in southern California ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the state. The blazes – named Laguna, Sepulveda, Gibbel, Gilman and Border 2 – flared up on Thursday in the counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Ventura and Riverside. Meanwhile, firefighters have made progress in bringing the 10,000-acre Hughes…
An activist singled out by Keir Starmer as an environmental “zealot” who must be stopped from making “vexatious” legal claims that thwart growth, has accused the prime minister of trying to lock people out of the planning process. Andrew Boswell, a 68-year-old former Green councillor, insisted his two-year legal fight over the expansion of the…
A view of the logo of Novo Nordisk at the company’s office in Bagsvaerd, on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 8, 2024. Tom Little | Reuters Shares of Novo Nordisk jumped Friday after the Danish pharmaceutical giant reported positive early-stage results for its once weekly amycretin obesity drug. The trial showed that the treatment,…
A man has been jailed for 30 years for attempting to murder two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo in 2020. Zaheer Mahmood, 29, from Pakistan, attacked and badly wounded two employees of the Premieres Lignes news agency, days after Charlie Hebdo had republished cartoons depicting the Prophet…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Janelle and Meri Brown are putting their feet down. HARD. In a sneak peek at this Sunday’s brand new episode of Sister Wives, the former co-spouses team up in order to try and bring their ex-husband down. Janelle Brown is on a Facetime call in this Sister Wives scene. (TLC) “Meri…
BBC A still taken from video verified by the BBC as genuine at the Ryazan oil refinery Ukraine reportedly hit a Russian oil refinery and targeted Moscow during an attack involving a wave of at least 100 drones, one of the largest single operations of its kind during the war. Video footage verified by the…
António Guterres has voiced alarm over the M23 rebel group’s advance towards eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest city in a renewed insurgency that has displaced more than 178,000 people in the past two weeks. In a statement though his spokesperson, the United Nations secretary general said M23’s advance had had a devastating toll…
L.A. Wildfires Fighting Fire With Jet Engines Published January 24, 2025 3:00 AM PST Wildfires continue to rampage across L.A. County … but now, there’s a new one-of-a-kind piece of technology created to extinguish dangerous flames with opposing force. Steve Wolf, a former film special effects coordinator and founder of Team Wildfire, tells TMZ ……
Photographer | Collection | Getty Images Italy’s bailed-out Monte dei Paschi di Siena on Friday launched a 13.3 billion euro ($13.95 billion) all-share takeover offer for larger domestic peer Mediobanca. Shares of Monte dei Paschi (MPS) were down 5.74% at 09:43 a.m. London time, with Mediobanca up 6.28%. Offering 23 of its shares for 10…
More than 715,000 homes are without power in Ireland as Storm Éowyn continues to batter the island of Ireland, with record speed gusts of 113mph recorded in Galway. The Electricity Supply Board said the extent of the power cut was “unprecedented” and would get worse. “We anticipate significant further outages as Storm Éowyn continues to…
