A major high street retailer has closed another UK store as it continues to close its stores amid the ongoing financial turmoil. Claire’s has closed its York City Centre store. A new souvenir shop immediately took over the unit, selling gifts for tourists visiting the historic city. The closure comes as the fashion accessories chain…
Norway’s king of cross-country skiing, Johannes Hosflot Klebbo, broke the record for most gold medals won at a Winter Olympics with his sixth Games. Klebbo led a Norwegian sweep of the podium at the 50 km mass start classic, with teammates Martin Lövström Nynget and Emil Iversen taking silver and bronze, respectively. The 29-year-old completed…
Team GB faces a tough challenge to win an Olympic medal in the four-man bobsled as they sit seventh at the halfway point in a race where three teams crashed. Pilot Brad Hall demonstrated why the British team is a medal contender with a brilliant first run of 54.39 seconds in Cortina, which saw him…
Irkutsk regional governor Igor Kobzev said in a post on social media today that the impact incident on frozen Siberian Lake Baikal was the third in just two days. Divers were forced to use remote equipment to find the tourists after the incident (Image: Anadolu via Getty Images) Eight people have died in a horrific mass…
American Kelly Humphries Armbruster, in perhaps her Olympic bobsled final, moved into medal contention for a record sixth time in the two-woman bobsled on Saturday, while Germany’s Laura Nolte again won gold. Nolte is now a back-to-back two-woman Olympic bobsled champion, having won the gold medal behind her teammate Lisa Buckwitz. at the Milan Cortina…
The US military says it has attacked a boat “engaged in narco-trafficking operations”, killing three people. US Southern Command said on X the ship was “passing through known narco-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific and engaged in narco-trafficking operations”. The military has not provided evidence that the boat or the people on board were involved…
Hong Kong – – Hong Kong authorities unveiled a resettlement plan for thousands of displaced people on Saturday. The deadliest fire in decades last November: proposal to buy back home ownership rights from fire victims. After about three months, a massive fire at Wang Phuc Court, spread across seven apartment buildings, has left former residents living…
