A nine-year-old boy has died after becoming trapped between rocks at a popular holiday spot on the New South Wales mid-north coast, amid a spate of drowning deaths over Easter. Police and other emergency services tried to free the boy from the site at South West Rocks on Sunday afternoon but he died at the…
El Salvador’s president has offered to repatriate 252 Venezuelans deported by the US and imprisoned in his country – if Venezuela releases the same number of political prisoners. Nayib Bukele appealed directly to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a post on social media. He said many of the Venezuelan deportees had committed “rape and murder”,…
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) building in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. Bloomberg | Getty Images China expectedly kept its loan prime rates unchanged Monday, with the 1-year LPR at 3.1% and the 5-year at 3.6% as the central bank appears focused on stabilizing the yuan amid trade tensions with the U.S….
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images An independent central bank is seen by most (including this newsletter) as the bedrock of a functional economy. Officials steer the economy by calibrating the benchmark interest rate on which bank loans…
Scottish Water staff will strike for two days from the early hours of Tuesday as a standoff over pay continues at the state-owned company. The striking workers’ union warned that emergency repairs and quality checks to water supplied to 5 million people across Scotland would not be carried out during the action on Tuesday and…
San Diego Padres designated hitter Luis Arraez was carted off the field after a scary collision with Houston Astros second baseman Mauricio Dubon on Sunday. Arraez was taken to the hospital, where he is “currently stable, conscious, responsive, and able to move his extremities,” according to the team. In the top of the first inning,…
Wedaeli Chibelushi & Nyasha Michelle BBC News D!nkTV The finale of Latey: Looking for Love has been viewed more than 620,000 times Boy meets girl. Girl falls for boy. Girl fends off love rivals and boy – finally – declares his affection for her. If you are a fan of reality TV dating shows, you…
Britain is set to significantly increase its weapons production in order to no longer rely on importing from the US and France. This comes as British and European defence companies move away from buying US-made weaponry and equipment due to concerns over president Donald Trump making the country an unreliable military partner. First reported by…
Derrick White scored 30 points, Jayson Tatum had 17 points and finished the game after a scary late fall, and the Boston Celtics beat the Orlando Magic 103-86 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series Sunday. Payton Pritchard added 19 points off the bench for Boston, which hosts Game 2 on Wednesday night. Jaylen…
(L-R) US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) look on during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images The Trump administration could soon roll…
