Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter of man who stabbed soldier continues to divide country Israel’s president has pardoned a combat medic who shot dead a badly wounded Palestinian attacker who had stabbed a soldier in the occupied West Bank, in a case that divided the country a decade ...
Month: September 2026
Thick smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air-raid alerts in Saudi capitalThick smoke seen near Riyadh airport after air-raid alerts in Saudi capital
Authorities also issued warnings for Jeddah and Yanbu, a major industrial port and home to vital oil facilities Flames and a large plume of black smoke were seen rising above Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after the government sent air-raid alerts to citizens by phone overnight warning of ...
Nato welcomes Greenland deal as Trump says it will give US ‘permanent security control’Nato welcomes Greenland deal as Trump says it will give US ‘permanent security control’
Denmark and the US have reached an agreement after months of threats from Donald Trump to annex the territory. ...
Trump says he is banning CNN and Politico from White HouseTrump says he is banning CNN and Politico from White House
The US president has had a tense and fiery relationship with the US media throughout his political career. ...
Google’s Gemini AI hacked three companies in security testGoogle’s Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC. ...
Trump signs sweeping Russia sanctions billTrump signs sweeping Russia sanctions bill
The bill is named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch advocate of aid for Ukraine. ...
Grim discoveries of murdered women spark fear in South AfricaGrim discoveries of murdered women spark fear in South Africa
Dineo Motapane is one of nine recent victims whose deaths have left a nation traumatised over the level of violence against women. ...
The US air force admitted to deploying weapons in space. Don’t expect the White House to explain whyThe US air force admitted to deploying weapons in space. Don’t expect the White House to explain why
The revelation ‘left experts scratching their heads at exactly what Donald Trump has in his cosmic arsenal’ In Hollywood at least, space weapons are a relatively simple concept. The good guys, from Captain Kirk and his crew in Star Trek, to Luke Skywalker’s rebel alliance in Star Wars, battle intergalactic ...
Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’
The author of The Corrections talks about a new TV adaptation, the future of reading and why creating new work is ‘horrible’ When HBO dropped its plan to adapt Jonathan Franzen’s bestselling novel The Corrections in 2012, the author was so relieved he says he performed his first and last cartwheel ...
‘Everyone assumed it represented a poo emoji!’ 27 writers on the greatest cake of their life‘Everyone assumed it represented a poo emoji!’ 27 writers on the greatest cake of their life
From the blissful threat of ‘death by chocolate’, to a book made of sponge and the lemon drizzle to end them all, these are the bakes that left the biggest impressions The Sorting Hat sponge I made for my son’s Harry Potter party is not the best cake I’ve ever ...