Britain’s Abbi Pulling won the 2024 F1 Academy title in Qatar on Saturday. Pulling simply needed to score 18 points in the last four races to secure the championship and did so at the first time of asking as she finished in second behind Dorianne Pin. The 21-year-old is the second F1 Academy champion after…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The first big snowfall of the season is blanketing towns along Lake Erie in upstate New York and northwestern Pennsylvania in the middle of the hectic holiday travel and shopping weekend, while numbing cold and heavy snow could persist into next week and cause hazards in the Great Lakes, Plains and…
There are a few different reactions you get when you tell people you’re going on a first date road trip with someone you haven’t actually met in real life. Concerned, raised eyebrows, double takes, and the occasional ‘omg that sounds fun but TERRIFYING’. It’s not necessarily a concept I ever imagined myself engaging in, but…
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants real estate developer Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France. Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post, calling Charles Kushner “a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & interests.” Charles…
Luck has not been on Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi‘s side, especially this year. After the 2024 election results, where former President Donald Trump won, insiders alleged they got out of the US and moved to the UK. Insiders also alleged that their marriage was strained and that Degeneres’ comeback was lackluster, to say…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has provided details about his knowledge of a prosecution witness on the seventh day of his oral testimony in his national security trial. Lai, 77, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the 2020 security law, and a third…
Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Minizones is a sweet and simple Mac app that allows you to glance at varying timezones across the globe, right from your Mac’s…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world US president-elect Donald Trump on Saturday threatened tariffs of 100 per cent against the so-called Brics countries unless their governments agree not to create a new currency as an alternative to the US…
For the people of Lebanon, last week’s agreement to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah comes as a huge relief. The 14-month conflict, sparked by the 7 October 2023 Hamas terrorist atrocities, caused about 4,000 deaths, inflicted appalling destruction and displaced hundreds of thousands of residents on either side of the Israel-Lebanon border. Now…
Controversy over the human cost of building the infrastructure required for the 2022 tournament in the gulf state’s extreme summer heat has hung over the event for years. In 2021, it was revealed that 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar since it won its bid to…