Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country’s biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more than 5,200 acres around the northern Japanese city of Ofunato since Thursday, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA). Although January to March…
LONDON — U.K. inflation fell to a lower-than-expected 2.5% in December, with core price growth slowing further, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday. The consumer price index (CPI) rose to 2.6% in November, with economists polled by Reuters expecting the December reading to stay unchanged. Core inflation, which excludes more volatile…
EPA The wildfire destroyed national treasures like Goun Temple, a Unesco World Heritage Site A 56-year-old man is being investigated in South Korea on suspicion of starting a deadly wildfire that killed 30 people. The man, who has not been named, was performing an ancestral rite by a family grave on a hill in Uiseong…
I have a tendency to anthropomorphize macaroons: I imagine their pain at being constantly mistaken for their more glamorous relation, the macaron, and suffering eternally by comparison. Where the macaron is delicate and pretty and colorful, its shortcomings obscured by its French pedigree, the macaroon is more commonly regarded as a booby prize, something you…
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Shutterstock for Big Brother Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has left Celebrity Big Brother after “further use of inappropriate language” and “instances of unacceptable behaviour”, ITV has said. On Saturday, Rourke, 72, used behaviour and language considered to be threatening and aggressive towards fellow housemate Chris Hughes, the BBC understands. No physical…
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are greeted by California Governor Gavin Newson upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 24, 2025, to visit the region devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images California on Wednesday sued President Donald…
After going over two decades without having to make a change at head coach, the New England Patriots will be swapping head coaches for a second straight offseason. The Patriots fired head coach Jerod Mayo, the team announced on Sunday. Mayo had a rocky first season as head coach. The former Patriots star player went…
A Syrian man has admitted carrying out a knife attack in the German town of Solingen last August in which three people were killed. “I have committed a grave crime, I am prepared to accept the verdict,” Issa al H said in a statement read out by his defence lawyers at the start of his…
Coach Dawn Staley received a contract extension on Friday that South Carolina said will make her the highest paid college women’s basketball coach of all time at a total value of about $25 million. Staley is signed through the 2029-30 season, earning $4 million a year to start with an annual $250,000 escalator. There’s also…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday assessed stock declines in the tech sector after Nvidia closed down 5.74%, and he advised investors that the artificial intelligence star could continue to slide. “Nvidia’s the linchpin of this group, and the pin is failing,” he said. “I don’t know whether the stock plunges from here, but if you…
