Gregor Townsend remained ice cool after Scotland’s exhilarating seven-try victory against France, which keeps them in the hunt for the title with one round to play, a position Scotland have never known in the Six Nations. The win was no big deal, he seemed to be saying. “There have been other games where it’s probably meant a lot to the group,” he said, “whether it was a response or to break a rec...
Gregor Townsend remained ice cool after Scotland’s exhilarating seven-try victory against France, which keeps them in the hunt for the title with one round to play, a position Scotland have never known in the Six Nations. The win was no big deal, he seemed to be saying. “There have been other games where it’s probably meant a lot to the group,” he said, “whether it was a response or to break a record – away from home in Paris or Wales, or beating England for the first time in a number of years. So they maybe are the ones that have more significance. This [win] is very significant, but just now it’s round four. And it gives us a chance to win in round five.” Cool though he may be, the result is vindication for Townsend and Scotland, who have persevered through hideous ups and downs throughout his long tenure as coach, never losing faith in their proactive, attacking game. “A team shouldn’t be judged on wins and losses. It should be judged on performance. Our forward pack stood up in Paris last year in much more difficult circumstances [and lost]. And they stood up today and got the rewards.” Kyle Steyn, the player of the match with two tries, expects to be fit for Scotland’s final match in Dublin, the winner of whom will be clubhouse leader, with France playing England later that evening. But resources in the second row may be stretched, with Gregor Brown and Scott Cummings significant doubts, the former particularly. View image in fullscreen Kyle Steyn, who scored two tries, is expected to be fit for Scotland’s final match in Ireland. Photograph: Jamie Johnston/Focus Images Ltd/Shutterstock Sione Tuipulotu, who finished the match in the centre alongside Rory Darge, a flanker, following Steyn’s withdrawal, remains equally level-headed as he prepares to lead his team into one last challenge. Tuipulotu said: “It’s a proud day for us, but I think one we’ve been building towards and one that maybe, if you’d been on our training ground, it’s not that we expected it, but i...
Rory McIlroy is confident of defending his Players Championship title from Thursday despite withdrawing from the Arnold Palmer Invitational 35 minutes before his third round. McIlroy suffered back spasms, with the Northern Irishman unwilling to potentially put appearances at the Players and next month’s Masters at risk by taking to the course at Bay Hill. McIlroy will also be defending the crown a...
Rory McIlroy is confident of defending his Players Championship title from Thursday despite withdrawing from the Arnold Palmer Invitational 35 minutes before his third round. McIlroy suffered back spasms, with the Northern Irishman unwilling to potentially put appearances at the Players and next month’s Masters at risk by taking to the course at Bay Hill. McIlroy will also be defending the crown at Augusta National. “While warming up in the gym this morning, I felt a small twinge in my back,” McIlroy said. “As I started hitting balls on the range before the round, it worsened and developed into muscle spasms in my lower back. Unfortunately, I’m not able to continue and have to withdraw. I was excited to compete this weekend. I wish the Arnold Palmer Invitational a great finish and look forward to being back next year.” After a fine 68 on Friday, McIlroy had been four under par and in the mix at this PGA Tour stop in Florida. Rather than pursue a second Arnold Palmer Invitational win, McIlroy headed across the state to his home in West Palm Beach, where he will rest and take further medical advice before his planned arrival at Sawgrass, in the north of Florida, at the start of the week. McIlroy is due to undertake a Players press conference on Wednesday morning, when a fitness update will now be the key theme. This marks just the second time in McIlroy’s PGA Tour career – and the first since 2013 – that he has withdrawn from an event. He encountered back problems before the 2023 Tour Championship but played, finishing fourth. McIlroy’s exit continued the theme of high-profile departures from Bay Hill. Those who had missed the halfway cut included Justin Thomas, Justin Rose, Shane Lowry and Keegan Bradley.
Authorities searching debris after suspected tornadoes kill 6 in Michigan, Oklahoma toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP Authorities in southern Michigan on Saturday were searching through rubble and debris after suspected tornadoes tore through the region and killed four people, including a 12-year-old boy, during powerful storms also blamed for two deaths in eastern Oklahoma. First responders from multi...
Authorities searching debris after suspected tornadoes kill 6 in Michigan, Oklahoma toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP Authorities in southern Michigan on Saturday were searching through rubble and debris after suspected tornadoes tore through the region and killed four people, including a 12-year-old boy, during powerful storms also blamed for two deaths in eastern Oklahoma. First responders from multiple agencies were in the Union Lake area near Union City searching for more possible victims and clearing roads, authorities said. Photos and videos posted on social media showed flattened homes and knocked down trees in a lakeside neighborhood. Sponsor Message Severe thunderstorms that began in northern Indiana appeared to spawn multiple tornadoes in southern Michigan on Friday, said Lonnie Fisher, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, which sent teams to the region Saturday to evaluate the damage and confirm tornadoes. "Mostly likely there were three distinct tornadoes, but we won't know 100 percent for sure until they finish the survey," Fisher said Saturday, adding that the storms rapidly intensified in southern Michigan after hitting northern Indiana. The threat of severe weather continued Saturday in the nation's midsection, with strong thunderstorms possible stretching from Texas and to the northeast all the way to Ohio and western parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Three people were killed and 12 were injured in the Union Lake area, according to the Branch County Sheriff's Office. Lisa Piper stood on her back deck and took video of a terrifying scene that played out on the other side of frozen Union Lake as a funnel cloud formed and then dropped toward the ground. Trees were torn from their roots and debris flew into the air. "It's lifting houses!" she said. As the devastation continued, she exclaimed: "Oh my heart is pounding. Oh, I hope they're OK." toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP About 50 miles (81 kilometers) southwest of Union Lake, the Cass County Sh...
For years, politicians have floated a simple fix for America's swelling debt: tax billionaires harder and the problem starts to disappear. Elon Musk has argued the math does not work that way. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO pushed back on the idea that confiscating billionaire wealth could meaningfully close the government's fiscal gap. "Even if you tax every billionaire in America at 100%, it barely ma...
For years, politicians have floated a simple fix for America's swelling debt: tax billionaires harder and the problem starts to disappear. Elon Musk has argued the math does not work that way. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO pushed back on the idea that confiscating billionaire wealth could meaningfully close the government's fiscal gap. "Even if you tax every billionaire in America at 100%, it barely makes a dent in the national debt," Musk wrote in a post on X in 2023. "In the end, the government will be forced to tax everyone to pay the debt." The numbers Musk was pointing to When Musk wrote that post in 2023, the U.S. national debt stood at roughly $31 trillion. The number has only accelerated since then. Most recent Treasury data shows the national debt has climbed to about $38.82 trillion, up roughly $7.8 trillion in just three years. Musk's argument centers on scale. Even extreme taxation of billionaire wealth would not come close to covering the government's liabilities. America's billionaires collectively hold an estimated $8.1 trillion in net worth. Even if the government somehow seized every dollar of that wealth, it would cover about 20% of the current national debt. And that would be a one-time event. Federal spending would continue. Trending: Most founders obsess over the wrong hires. See the 5 startup roles that actually determine whether a company scales or stalls. Why the debt keeps climbing The federal government now spends more than $7 trillion per year. Because spending consistently exceeds tax revenue, annual deficits keep adding to the debt. Interest payments are also growing rapidly. As rates rise and the debt expands, the government must allocate more of its budget simply to service existing obligations. That dynamic is why economists often describe the debt problem as structural. The gap between what the government spends and what it collects continues year after year. A warning about who ultimately pays Musk's comment focused less on protecting bi...
Paul Heath knew the rice-cooking David McLean was his sort of guy. Then one humid morning, he reached for the camera to capture a post-shower moment Find more stories from the moment I knew series Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email We met in 1998, at a health and relationship course run back then by the Gay Men’s Health Centre in Melbourne. I saw David across the crowded room at a drinks ...
Paul Heath knew the rice-cooking David McLean was his sort of guy. Then one humid morning, he reached for the camera to capture a post-shower moment Find more stories from the moment I knew series Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email We met in 1998, at a health and relationship course run back then by the Gay Men’s Health Centre in Melbourne. I saw David across the crowded room at a drinks session afterwards and slowly made my way around to talking with him. We were both in our mid-30s, and I’ve always gone for those tall skinny guys. We chatted easily and before he left I scribbled down my number. He rang a few weeks later on a Saturday night, apparently figuring I wouldn’t be home and that he’d just leave a message. When I picked up, I think he was a little thrown. He said something like: “Hi, um, hang on a sec, oh fuck, I’ve gotta turn the rice down!” And I thought, this is my sort of guy – Saturday night at home cooking rice, what’s not to love. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...
Around 2040, Australia will reach peak death. A silver tsunami of boomers are predicted to propel the annual death rate to double that of today, putting immense strain on the healthcare and deathcare systems. Dr Hannah Gould – a death scholar and author of the book How to Die in the 21st Century – calls it “boomergeddon”, and says it brings with it a certain range of ideas about what a good death ...
Around 2040, Australia will reach peak death. A silver tsunami of boomers are predicted to propel the annual death rate to double that of today, putting immense strain on the healthcare and deathcare systems. Dr Hannah Gould – a death scholar and author of the book How to Die in the 21st Century – calls it “boomergeddon”, and says it brings with it a certain range of ideas about what a good death looks like. “The overwhelming value of end-of-life decisions, particularly among the baby boomer population, is this value of right, autonomy and control,” she says. Choreographing end of life – from bespoke aged care solutions and medical interventions to prolong quality of life to one-of-a-kind burials - is increasingly possible if you have the resources. The idea of trying to wield total control over our final act, however, gives Gould, who lectures in Buddhist Studies at the University of Melbourne, the heebie-jeebies. double quotation mark The idea of what a green death [is] is often quite naïve Dr Hannah Gould “It’s very different to how previous generations have seen death and it might be quite different to how millennials will see death. I’m a millennial, and it doesn’t strike me that control is a value that I’ve ever had a part of. “I don’t think millennials think they’ve got enough resources to be in control of anything.” The welfare of death workers As a small child, Gould held her breath when the family drove past cemeteries, but later became interested in comparative religion and religiosity and wound up specialising in religious materiality – in particular, altars to family ancestors and to Buddha – while doing her Masters at Oxford University. She further became credentialed in death by becoming a member of the “dead dad club” when she was 23. That got her considering what people regard as a “good death” and a “bad death”. “Classifying that whole complicated experience as ‘bad’ enrages me just about as much as when people said he ‘lost his battle with cancer’...
When Islamic State militants arrived at their family’s home in northern Iraq, Amera and her brother were sitting under their grandmother’s fig tree. The 11-year-old girl had been watching a ripening fig for days but needed her older brother Ali’s height to reach it. Now, with IS beginning an assault on their town’s Yazidi people, she thought this may be her only chance. The IS members arrived in f...
When Islamic State militants arrived at their family’s home in northern Iraq, Amera and her brother were sitting under their grandmother’s fig tree. The 11-year-old girl had been watching a ripening fig for days but needed her older brother Ali’s height to reach it. Now, with IS beginning an assault on their town’s Yazidi people, she thought this may be her only chance. The IS members arrived in five cars outside her home in Solagh, a village in Sinjar. They barked orders. Females and males were to be separated. A hand was on her shoulder pulling her towards the other Yazidi women and children. Amera has not seen Ali since that afternoon of 4 August 2014. View image in fullscreen ‘We just need to know the truth about our loved ones. Where is Ali, what happened to him?’ “He told me, ‘my heart always be with you,’” Amera, now 22, recalls. Amera is one of more than 6,000 Yazidi women and children kidnapped and enslaved by IS. More than a decade after IS began their genocidal campaign against the Yazidis – killing and displacing thousands of the religious minority – she is fighting for the estimated more than 2,700 still missing. This month, she published a book about her eight months in IS captivity. The book, For Ali, For Us All: Messages From Captivity, under the pen name Amera Ali, comprises notes and letters written during her time in captivity. It’s illustrated by her cousin, Suad Smo, who was held captive for almost three years. It chronicles her kidnapping – alongside her mother, three sisters and brother – and being ferried between locations as captives on buses with drawn curtains, to the sexual violence IS infected on women and girls, and finally their three-day escape. Sign up: AU Breaking News email The handwritten letters, translated from Kurmanji to English, began as secret messages to Ali, in the hope their discovery would lead him to her. She wrote on pens and paper found in a classroom desk at a school in Tal Afar, where she was imprisoned alongside 70...
As the earnings season winds down, investors are turning their attention to updated quant ratings following the latest round of corporate results. The scores provide a snapshot of how companies rank across key factors such as valuation, growth, profitability, momentum, and revisions after reporting their quarterly performance. Below is a snapshot of large-cap utility companies with market capitali...
As the earnings season winds down, investors are turning their attention to updated quant ratings following the latest round of corporate results. The scores provide a snapshot of how companies rank across key factors such as valuation, growth, profitability, momentum, and revisions after reporting their quarterly performance. Below is a snapshot of large-cap utility companies with market capitalizations above $10B, highlighting those with the highest and lowest quant ratings after the earnings season, underscoring the stocks that strengthened their fundamentals as well as those that lagged behind. Top-quant rated stocks: Enel SpA ( ENLAY ), Quant Rating: 4.87, Strong Buy . Iberdrola ( IBDRY ), Quant Rating: 4.83, Strong Buy . National Grid ( NGG ), Quant Rating: 4.82, Strong Buy . Brookfield Renewable ( BEPC ), Quant Rating: 4.75, Strong Buy . Emera ( EMA ), Quant Rating: 4.52. Strong Buy . Bottom quant rated stocks: CLP Holdings ( CLPHY ), Quant Rating: 2.45, Sell . Vistra Corp ( VST ), Quant Rating: 2.47, Sell . NRG Energy ( NRG ), Quant Rating: 2.90, Hold . Evergy ( EVRG ), Quant Rating: 2.93, Hold . American Water Works Company ( AWK ), Quant Rating: 2.94, Hold . More on State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF Endangerment Finding And The XLU Market Sector Review: Extreme Market Bifurcation XLU: Why Did It Top Last October? Most and least shorted utilities stocks with up to $2B market cap OTTR, HE draw highest short interest in utilities sector; BIP and RNW see lowest short interest
England's Six Nations campaign plunged deeper into crisis as second-half yellow cards for Sam Underhill and Maro Itoje paved the way to victory for a joyous Italy in Rome. It is a third successive Six Nations defeat for England and Italy's first-ever win in the fixture after 32 unsuccessful attempts. For head coach Steve Borthwick another uninspired and insipid performance, 18 months out from the ...
England's Six Nations campaign plunged deeper into crisis as second-half yellow cards for Sam Underhill and Maro Itoje paved the way to victory for a joyous Italy in Rome. It is a third successive Six Nations defeat for England and Italy's first-ever win in the fixture after 32 unsuccessful attempts. For head coach Steve Borthwick another uninspired and insipid performance, 18 months out from the Rugby World Cup, raises the most awkward and far-reaching questions. England will go to their final-day meeting with France next week, earmarked as a possible Grand Slam decider at the start of the tournament, as minor characters attempting to somehow avoid their first single-win campaign in Six Nations history. While England had made heavy weather of building a lead, they seemed well insulated against such a seismic shock with an 18-10 advantage and a little more than 20 minutes left. However, Underhill was dispatched to the sin-bin for a high hit on Northampton's Danilo Fischetti before captain Itoje followed for mindlessly slapping the ball out of Italy scrum-half Alessandro Garbisi's hands. England lost two players for 10 minutes and Italy gained momentum for the rest of the match, delivering the decisive blow eight minutes from time as Paolo Garbisi, Monty Ioane and Tomasso Menoncello combined thrillingly to put Leonardo Marin in under the posts. At the final whistle, England's players stood around stunned as the disco lights and celebrations erupted around them. Italy had claimed history - England look to an uncertain future. More to follow
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) had a rough week, falling 2.95% as tariff anxiety, macro uncertainty, and a VIX spike to 23.75 rattled blue-chip investors. That fear gauge is now sitting at its 88th percentile over the past year, we’ll see if that continues as much of this week’s sell-off came from worries the ... Dow Jones Movers: IBM Leads, Sherwin-Williams Drags as Analysts Clash o...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) had a rough week, falling 2.95% as tariff anxiety, macro uncertainty, and a VIX spike to 23.75 rattled blue-chip investors. That fear gauge is now sitting at its 88th percentile over the past year, we’ll see if that continues as much of this week’s sell-off came from worries the ... Dow Jones Movers: IBM Leads, Sherwin-Williams Drags as Analysts Clash on Salesforce
PayPal (PYPL 1.41%), one of the world's largest digital payment companies, was once a promising growth stock. Yet over the past five years, its stock has declined nearly 80% as intense competition, the loss of eBay (EBAY 0.02%) as a top customer, and a challenging macro environment throttled its growth in active accounts and revenues. From 2021 to 2025, PayPal's year-end active accounts only grew ...
PayPal (PYPL 1.41%), one of the world's largest digital payment companies, was once a promising growth stock. Yet over the past five years, its stock has declined nearly 80% as intense competition, the loss of eBay (EBAY 0.02%) as a top customer, and a challenging macro environment throttled its growth in active accounts and revenues. From 2021 to 2025, PayPal's year-end active accounts only grew from 426 million to 439 million. That was well below its original goal (which it later abandoned) of hitting 750 million active accounts by 2025. As its account growth stalls out, it's trying to drive more transactions through its branded checkout platform, Venmo peer-to-peer payments app, debit cards, and buy now, pay later (BNPL) services to offset that pressure. At the same time, it's downsizing its higher-volume, lower-value platforms (including its backend platform Braintree) to stabilize its margins and transaction take rates. It's also cutting costs and aggressively repurchasing its shares to boost its EPS as its top-line growth cools. But for 2026, it still expects EPS to decline by mid-single digits as its branded checkout platform struggles to stand out in a sea of similar services. So while PayPal's stock might seem cheap at nine times this year's earnings, it might deserve that discount valuation. Therefore, it might be smarter to invest in another financial giant with a wider moat: American Express (AXP 2.05%). Why is American Express a better buy? American Express is often compared to Visa (V 0.68%) and Mastercard (MA 0.46%), but it operates a different business model. Visa and Mastercard don't issue their own cards -- they only partner with banks, which issue the cards and take on the debt. They generate most of their revenues by charging merchants "swipe fees" whenever those cards are used. American Express is both a card-issuing bank and a payment network operator. Therefore, it backs its own cards with its own balance sheet and earns interest on those acco...
Key Points Coca-Cola's steady single-digit growth adds up over time. The global beverages market is massive and highly fragmented, allowing Coca-Cola to continue expanding its empire. Investors who buy, hold, and reinvest the dividends tend to do well over two or three decades. 10 stocks we like better than Coca-Cola › Some stocks are such good companies that it really does pay to keep things simp...
Key Points Coca-Cola's steady single-digit growth adds up over time. The global beverages market is massive and highly fragmented, allowing Coca-Cola to continue expanding its empire. Investors who buy, hold, and reinvest the dividends tend to do well over two or three decades. 10 stocks we like better than Coca-Cola › Some stocks are such good companies that it really does pay to keep things simple. In other words, some stocks are almost always worth buying when the share price dips and holding those shares indefinitely. Great companies tend to generate results that lead to long-term wealth creation for their shareholders. Take The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) for example. Not only is Coca-Cola one of Warren Buffett's favorite companies, but it also has a decades-long track record of raising its annual dividend to its investors. Holding Coca-Cola stock and reinvesting the dividends it pays has worked out quite well for investors. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Today, the stock is down about 10% from its high. Here is why Coca-Cola is likely to continue rewarding those who buy and hold this legendary dividend stock. Dominance in a fragmented market You are probably familiar with Coca-Cola. The soda is world-famous, as is the company named after it. The Coca-Cola Company is a global beverage juggernaut. It sells over 2.2 billion beverage servings daily in more than 200 countries and territories, offering an extensive portfolio of over 200 brands of soda, juice, water, tea, coffee, and more. The global beverage market is colossal, but it's also highly fragmented. Despite Coca-Cola's massive size, the company estimates that it holds only 14% of the market share in developed countries and 7% in emerging markets. Coca-Cola enjoys significant competitive advantages in such a highly fragmented market, including unmatched prowess in dist...
Even by the Six Nations’ usual standards this has been a remarkable tournament. And to the list of stunning outcomes can now be added the biggest result in the history of Italian rugby. For the first time in 33 attempts they have beaten England at rugby union and no one could possibly claim the boys in blue did not deserve their long-awaited special day. Entering the final half hour it had seemed ...
Even by the Six Nations’ usual standards this has been a remarkable tournament. And to the list of stunning outcomes can now be added the biggest result in the history of Italian rugby. For the first time in 33 attempts they have beaten England at rugby union and no one could possibly claim the boys in blue did not deserve their long-awaited special day. Entering the final half hour it had seemed as though England might just leave Rome with their dignity intact. Instead, not for the first time in this championship, they were the architects of their own downfall with the momentum of the game swinging decisively after two visiting forwards, including captain Maro Itoje, were sent to the sin-bin simultaneously. Italy, 18-10 down at one stage, sensed their chance and struck the decisive blow in the 71st minute when the replacement Leonardo Marin dived over to finish a stunning counterattack try set up by forceful running from Monty Ioane and Tommaso Menoncello, who had earlier scored a fabulous solo try of his own. Not surprisingly the roar at the final whistle could have been heard in the Alps. Precise translations of the home chants were not immediately available but it was not hard to imagine something along the lines of “Jonny Wilkinson, Martin Johnson, David Beckham, Jamie Oliver; your boys took one hell of a beating …” It all felt light years away from the days when Italy were losing 36 Six Nations games in a row, a seven-year streak that only ended in 2022. Their head coach, Gonzalo Quesada, has done a spectacularly good job since he took over two years ago and here was the definitive proof. View image in fullscreen Leonardo Marin is congratulated after touching down his vital try. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images What to say about England? They will assuredly be hurting as they head to Paris, via a short training camp in Verona, for next week’s final round. At least they scored a couple of well-taken first-half tries through Tommy Freeman and Tom Roebuck bu...
New CEO Greg Abel just delivered his first annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA 0.34%)(BRKB 0.27%) shareholders, a tradition that former CEO Warren Buffett carried out for the past six decades. The letter was 18 pages and provided a ton of details on how Abel plans to run the company, a detailed overview of all of Berkshire's operating businesses, and, of course, comments on Berkshire's mas...
New CEO Greg Abel just delivered his first annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA 0.34%)(BRKB 0.27%) shareholders, a tradition that former CEO Warren Buffett carried out for the past six decades. The letter was 18 pages and provided a ton of details on how Abel plans to run the company, a detailed overview of all of Berkshire's operating businesses, and, of course, comments on Berkshire's massive, roughly $318 billion equities portfolio. Interestingly, Abel called out four stocks that Berkshire owns, which together account for a large portion of the portfolio. These are "businesses we understand well, have a high regard for their leaders, and expect will compound over decades." Abel also said he expects "limited activity in these holdings," providing big clues about Berkshire's investment strategy that Buffett rarely did. Here are the four stocks Abel referenced that he expects to compound for decades. Apple -- 18.9% of portfolio The iconic consumer tech giant Apple (AAPL 0.96%) has long been the largest position in Berkshire's portfolio, at one point accounting for 40% of it. Buffett reportedly got interested in the company, which Berkshire first bought in 2016, when Buffett saw how distraught his friend became when he thought he'd lost his iPhone. Expand NASDAQ : AAPL Apple Today's Change ( -0.96 %) $ -2.49 Current Price $ 257.80 Key Data Points Market Cap $3.8T Day's Range $ 254.43 - $ 258.76 52wk Range $ 169.21 - $ 288.62 Volume 1.8M Avg Vol 48M Gross Margin 47.33 % Dividend Yield 0.40 % Still, some might have been a bit surprised to see Abel include Apple on this list, since Berkshire has trimmed its stake in Apple by about 75% in recent years. As Buffett has said in the past, Berkshire usually does not trim positions, but will eventually sell the entire stake once it starts selling. Apple could be a unique case, given how large the position has become and how well large tech and artificial intelligence stocks have performed in recent years. At the time, B...
The six men, aged from 20 to 49, were arrested at the same location in Harrow on suspicion of assisting an offender. One was also arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.
The six men, aged from 20 to 49, were arrested at the same location in Harrow on suspicion of assisting an offender. One was also arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.
A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday. The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dalí nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast, according to a statement from the local emergency operations center. It’s a region that has recently been plagued by violence and crime. It wasn’t immediately clear who was re...
A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday. The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dalí nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast, according to a statement from the local emergency operations center. It’s a region that has recently been plagued by violence and crime. It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible and a motive wasn’t immediately known. At least five of the injured people were in serious condition, according to Gerardo Florián Gómez, the executive director of the Trujillo Health Network. Some of the victims suffered amputations and shrapnel wounds and were undergoing surgery, he told reporters. Among the injured were three minors aged 16 and 17, Florián Gómez said. Fiorella Mantilla, who was at the nightclub when the blast took place, told reporters that she had glass embedded in her legs and recalled that “it sounded as if the sound system had suddenly been turned off”. In a witness video published by local newspaper La República, some people in the club yelled: “Bomb!” and then: “Let’s go!” following the explosion. A person who filmed the scene then focused on a woman lying on the floor and said: “Help the girl!” The explosion took place less than a month after another blast in the same city that damaged 25 homes but caused no injuries or fatalities. Extortion and illegal mining plague the La Libertad region, whose Andean portion is home to the largest gold-producing area in Peru. In 2025, the region experienced 286 explosions, 136 of which occurred in the city of Trujillo, according to official figures. The expansion of organized criminal groups has led to an increase in related crimes such as extortion.
Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet is the front runner to take home the golden statuette for Marty Supreme – but he definitely has not won fans in the ballet and opera worlds. In a town hall discussion late last month with Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey hosted by CNN and Variety, the 30-year-old Chalamet was discussing the future of movie theatres and whether the advent of streaming will spell doom...
Oscar nominee Timothee Chalamet is the front runner to take home the golden statuette for Marty Supreme – but he definitely has not won fans in the ballet and opera worlds. In a town hall discussion late last month with Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey hosted by CNN and Variety, the 30-year-old Chalamet was discussing the future of movie theatres and whether the advent of streaming will spell doom for cinemas. “If people want to see it – like Barbie, like Oppenheimer – they’re going to go see it and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it,” Chalamet said. Advertisement “And I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this any more.’ All respect to the ballet and opera people out there,” he added to laughs from the audience. “I just took shots for no reason.” Timothee Chalamet appears in a scene from “Marty Supreme”. Photo: A24 via AP The world’s opera and ballet companies were not entertained.