As the 2024-25 La Liga season concluded with new stars rising and new storylines written, an unexpected figure has stolen the spotlight — a player who hasn’t kicked a ball in the league for four years. While the likes of Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappe dazzled on the pitch, a global icon currently plying his trade in the United States quietly…
A cinematic firecracker of a film exploded onto international screens 50 years ago this week, blending martial arts mayhem, Bond-esque set pieces, casual racism – and a distinctly Australian swagger. From its audacious visual style; to its complex, life-threatening stunts; to its pioneering status as an international co-production, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s The Man from Hong Kong…
Claim: A video authentically showed people on a shoreline fleeing a tsunami after an earthquake off the Russian coast in July 2025. Rating: Rating: Miscaptioned In late July 2025, following an 8.8-magnitude earthquake (archived) off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific, a video circulated on social media purportedly showing people fleeing…
Tesla is about to tumble off a familiar policy cliff. The $7,500 federal tax credit that juiced demand for electric vehicles in the US, Tesla’s last large, healthy market, after September 30, 2025. Tesla has been here before, but the ground underneath the company looks very different today. Let’s dig into what happened last time,…
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The stock market fell again on Wednesday after the Federal Open Market Committee kept interest-rates steady at its July meeting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 172 points, or 0.4%. The S&P 500 was down 0.1%. The Nasdaq Composite rose nearly 0.2%. Shares of retailers and copper miners slipped around the Fed’s decision after…
Washington — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri joined Democrats Wednesday to advance legislation that would ban members of Congress from buying, selling or owning individual stocks. In an 8-7 vote, Hawley and Senate Democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted the legislation out of committee, with all other…
“RECOGNISE Palestine while there is still land on which a state could be recognised,” the Archbishop of York told the Government this week, urging the UK to accelerate its planned recognition of a Palestinian state. On Tuesday afternoon, the Prime Minister announced that the UK Government planned to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state in…
If you think you’ve been seeing people wearing polka dots more than usual this summer, you’re not wrong. The retro pattern has been spotted on several runways recently, with brands like Carolina Herrera, Valentino, and Jacquemus introducing modern interpretations fit for 2025. But if you ask T&C editors? We say the bold speckles never went…
NEED TO KNOW Police in Virginia allege Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, dumped a bucket of gasoline into Councilman Lee Vogler’s office and set him on fire Vogler, a four-term elected official in Danville, was airlifted to a burn center and was reportedly awake and speaking Authorities say the attack was fueled by a personal…