Big Breakfast house made famous in the 90s and where Paula Yates met Michael Hutchence is sold for £4.3million – two years after it was first listed and for £1.4million LESS than the original asking price Lock Cottage, Bow, East London sold for £4.3million in April 2022 despite the original £5.75million price tag The six-bedroom mansion was made famous by […]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Minneapolis will allow broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all hours, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow the announcement or “adhan” to be heard over speakers five times a day, year-round. The Minneapolis City Council unanimously agreed Thursday to amend the city’s noise ordinance, which had prevented dawn and late evening calls […]

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday charged 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges alongside Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram and other top federal prosecutors. The charges […]

Russia's deadly mercenary murderous Wagner group has accused Ukraine's armed forces of using human shields in a grimly dubbed "meat grinder" battle. Putin's specialist gang has been battling Ukraine for control of the destroyed Bakhmut area for months. It was named the Battle of the Meat Grinder due to heavy losses suffered by both sides, as well as the swathes […]

Illustration: Tiffany Herring/Axios Hollywood writers will be voting until Monday to authorize the first strike in 15 years, setting up a contentious two weeks to get a new labor deal with the studios. Why it matters: A work stoppage would cripple Hollywood at the time when the business model is undergoing a messy transition to the streaming era. Driving the […]

Six days after 11-year-old Gannon Stauch disappeared from his family’s Colorado Springs home in January 2020, his stepmother Letecia Stauch loaded her belongings into a rented cargo van to move across the country. As authorities scoured the boy’s neighborhood and prepared for extensive searches with drones, sonar, dog teams and volunteers, his stepmother struggled to move a heavy suitcase into […]

Flash droughts, the kind that arrive quickly and can lay waste to crops in a matter of weeks, are becoming more common and faster to develop around the world, and human-caused climate change is a major reason, a new scientific study has found. As global warming continues, more abrupt dry spells could have grave consequences for people in humid regions […]

Investigators in the death of Nicola Bulley are looking for a "specific artefact" as they open a new search in the area where she was found, an ex-forensic pathologist claimed. The mum-of-two, 45, was last seen walking her dog Willow near the river Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, prompting a manhunt involving police, firefighters, mountain rescue, underwater teams […]

By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIRIOVA (Associated Press) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine launched an investigation Wednesday into a gruesome video that purportedly shows the beheading of a Ukrainian soldier, in the latest accusation of atrocities said to have been committed by Russia since it invaded in February 2022. The video spread quickly online and drew outrage from officials in […]