Three Israelis and five Thai citizens held in Gaza have been freed, as Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy met hostages’ relatives, reportedly telling them he was optimistic the ceasefire would hold to allow the return of all the living and the dead. The handover on Thursday of seven hostages in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, was…
Several massage therapists have accused Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker of inappropriate sexual conduct during appointments from 2012 to 2016 and have hired a law firm in Baltimore to represent them, the firm confirmed Thursday. Tucker said in a statement Thursday the allegations are “unequivocally false.” The allegations were reported in detail Thursday by the…
Sweden’s prime minister has said a foreign power may have been involved in the fatal shooting of an anti-Islam campaigner just hours before a trial verdict over his burning of the Qur’an was due. Police arrested five people over the killing of Salwan Momika, 38, who was shot late on Wednesday in a house in…
So much for the dad bod. David Beckham, who turns 50 this year, has released pictures of himself modelling his new bodywear collection for Hugo Boss. Bodywear, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, appears to mean underwear. In the corresponding ad clip, Beckham returns home for the day in his vintage Aston Martin, Bond-style, but…
The NBA’s most surprising teams so far Which team has shocked the league so far? The For The Hoops crew make their picks for most surprising team here! Dwyane Wade had a cancerous tumor removed from his right kidney 13 months ago, the former NBA star revealed on his podcast. Wade said doctors removed 40%…
Voters in western democracies are turning away from mainstream political parties and towards populists because they are losing faith in their ability to implement meaningful change, a major report based on surveys of 12,000 voters has found. The popularity of traditional centre-left and centre-right parties across major democratic countries has plummeted from 73% in 2000…
Over a year since it dipped into generative artificial intelligence, Samsung’s Galaxy S-series phones are now the vanguard for its gen-AI features. This year, we’re getting even deeper hooks into Google’s Gemini AI assistant and more built-in software tricks than ever before. At the same time, however, the Galaxy S25 arrives with marginal hardware upgrades…
In general, sharks have a reputation as swimming garbage cans that unflinchingly dine on whatever they can fit in their jaws. But in French Polynesia, blacktip reef sharks that frequent places where tourists toss them low-quality scraps are taking a hit to their metabolic and reproductive health, researchers report December 24 in Animal Conservation. Around…