•Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter celebrated his 100th birthday today — the first-ever US president to reach the century mark and another extraordinary milestone for the one-time peanut farmer who found his way to the White House. Carter’s longevity — he began hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, more than 19 months ago — […]
•Supermodels presenting creations at the Paris Fashion Week today Chanel returned to the Grand Palais — scene of the late Karl Lagerfeld’s most legendary triumphs — for the first time in four years today with a birdcage-themed Paris Fashion Week show that recalled the label’s past glories. The famed French house turned the newly refurbished [&...
•School bus fire Rescuers worked to recover children’s bodies from the charred wreckage of a Thai school bus today after an accident turned the vehicle into an inferno, with more than 20 feared dead. •Rescue workers and firefighters surround the burnt-out bus today A devastating blaze tore through the coach on a highway in a […]
•Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a fresh warning to Iran today, saying there was no place in the Middle East beyond Israel’s reach amid a flurry of strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon. In a video statement made in English, Netanyahu addressed the people of Iran and warned that their governme...
•Taliban fighters A Taliban court publicly flogged a woman in Afghanistan’s northern province of Faryab for having an illegitimate relationship and running away from home. In a statement, the Taliban’s Supreme Court announced today, said that the woman received a punishment of 30 lashes and was sentenced to six months in prison. In Afghanistan...
•US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today that the world is safer after Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, describing the Hezbollah chief as a “brutal terrorist” while insisting diplomacy was the Middle East’s best chance at stability. “The region, the world are safer without him,” Blinken, speaking in...
•Smoke as Israel bombards Lebanese village of Maroun El Ras today Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati today called for a ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Beirut. “The key to the solution is to put an end to the Israeli aggression against Lebanon […...
•Photo frame of Hassan Nasrallah, the late leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah The body of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Beirut, has been recovered, a source close to the movement told our correspondent yesterday. Friday’s air strike also killed Ali Karake, the group’s top commander in...
•Vice presidential candidates, JD Vance and Walz Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance and Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick Tim Walz — set to debate each other tomorrow — embody different versions of masculinity in an election that is dividing American men and women like never before. Vance, on the Republican ticket, has a conservative ...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel had “settled the score” with the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike in Beirut. “We settled the score with the one responsible for the murder of countless Israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundr...

