Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of America’s newly elected President Donald Trump, has withdrawn her name from consideration for a Senate seat. She stepped down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) this month, sparking speculation that she could replace outgoing Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, whom Trump has nominated for secretary of state. ….
getty images Blake Lively has filed a legal complaint against It End’s With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment and a campaign to “destroy” her reputation. According to legal filings, she accused Mr. Baldoni and his team of attacking her public image after a meeting in which she described her actor husband,…
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Danai Nesta Kupemba/BBC Around 11:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in London’s famous Hyde Park, runners gather on a few benches — some long and lean, some wide and strong, some logged into the Strava app, but a common thread unites them. -Most of them are Nigerians of Igbo origin. This is the Ozo Running…
A US primary school student has been hailed as a hero after he saved his classmate from choking on grapes. Eight-year-old Thomas Conley was sitting next to Isaiah Rodriguez in the cafeteria at Porter Elementary School when he witnessed the medical emergency. Video footage from Hall in Mesa, Arizona, shows Thomas performing the Heimlich maneuver,…
More than a dozen people have been injured in a Houthi missile attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israeli military said an attempt to shoot down a projectile launched from Yemen failed and it fell in a public park early Saturday. A Houthi military spokesman said the group attacked a military target using a hypersonic…
BBC correspondent Myeni Jones sees ‘complete devastation’ in Mayotte Landing on the small island of Petite-Terre in Mayotte, the scale of destruction from Cyclone Chido becomes immediately apparent. It’s hard to exaggerate how completely devastated the landscape is in this French Indian Ocean territory, after the storm hit the islands on Saturday. The rolling hills…
scene experience The electronic music scene in Syria is thriving and many now wonder what will happen next Amid the struggle for a new Syria, the country’s musicians are keeping a careful eye on the Islamist rebel leadership and hoping to build on hard-won gains during the nearly 14-year civil war. The conflict gave energy…
AFP Kenyan business student Nelson Amenya has been hailed as a hero by campaigners for greater transparency in the deals his government makes with private companies. Recent Kenyan history is replete with stories of large contracts being awarded to corruption – and despite laws preventing this from happening, it is suspected that this continues. Mr…
getty images Hideko Hakamata, 91, has spent half his life fighting to free his brother, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate. When a court declared Iwao Hakamata innocent in September, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate seemed unable to comprehend, let alone enjoy, the moment. “I told him he had been acquitted, and he was…
