The three finalists for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing have been confirmed, after one couple was eliminated from the competition in Sunday night’s results show. The bottom two this week were EastEnders actor Balvinder Sopal and her partner Julian Caillon—for a record sixth time in this series— and reality TV star Amber Davies and her…
Police officers stand guard following the attack on a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on December 15, 2025. — Reuters SYDNEY: An attack by a father and son on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach killed 15 people, plunging Australia into a day of mourning Monday. Here’s what…
Watch: Eyewitness captures the moment a man tackles and disarms Bondi’s shooter. The parents of a “hero” bystander who wrestled a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers have said they are praying he recovers from his wounds. Video verified by the BBC showed Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, running at the gunman and seizing…
Sir Cliff Richard has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer during the past year. The 85-year-old singer said his cancer had “gone at the moment” and backed calls for a national screening test for men. In an interview with Good Morning Britain, he said, “I was about to embark on a tour… I…
Thirty years since the war there ended, Bosnia and Herzegovina is still scarred by the ethnic cleansing campaigns which tore through the country, killing about 100,000 people and displacing well over two million. The 1992–1995 war, triggered by ethnic tensions and competing nationalist projects in the wake of the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, was marked…
Western Washington has been hit by severe flooding after days of relentless rain inundated towns and forced evacuations. While heavy rain is common in the Pacific Northwest, officials and scientists say this event is different in scale and intensity. The main driver is a series of powerful atmospheric rivers. Understanding how they work helps explain…
In a light-filled workshop in eastern China, a robotic arm moved a partially assembled autonomous vehicle as workers calibrated its cameras, typical of the incremental automation being adopted even across smaller factories in the world’s manufacturing powerhouse. China is already the world’s largest market for industrial robots, and the government is pouring billions of dollars…
