By NICHOLAS WILSON, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 04:41 BST, 17 August 2025 | Updated: 06:10 BST, 17 August 2025 A mother who blew nearly five times the legal drinking limit during a school pick-up has been found not guilty after blaming the reading on a popular health product and a reflux condition. Natasha Jansen, 49,…
A former Las Vegas regular has revealed why they believe Sin City is dying amid falling tourist numbers. Vegas tourism is down 11 percent and overall visits to Las Vegas are down more than 6 percent this year, figures from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority show. This week the oldest casino – The Golden Gate…
Lamine Yamal and Raphinha both find the net in Barcelona’s 3-0 La Liga win at Mallorca, who had two players sent off. Barcelona began the defence of its La Liga title with a comfortable 3-0 win at Mallorca, scoring early and taking advantage of two first-half red cards for the hosts. Raphinha and Lamine Yamal,…
As the lifeguards prepared to end their shift, a 77-year-old Russian grandmother visiting her family in Brooklyn was having such a good time at Manhattan Beach Park she called her daughter and told her to hold off on picking her up. “It’s breezy. It’s good weather,” Liudmila Marchenko told her daughter. “”Give me an hour.” Minutes…
Mark Switzerland stands to the left, overseeing a safety test of the Mischief Lab fire show set up beside the racetrack featuring Kinetic people-powered machines and stick-horse racers causing racing mayhem on the Ferndale Racetrack. The Mischief Lab, based in Arcata, specializes in pyrotechnic shows, and recommends that Humboldt County Fair visitors come to their…
SANDY — Mortgage rates have hit their lowest level in nearly a year. According to Freddie Mac, the weekly average rate hit 6.58%, which hasn’t happened since October. The drop has sparked an increase in mortgage applications nationally, but is it making any real impact on buyers in Utah’s difficult housing market? Trevor Thompson, a…
Designer Raechel “Rae” Temily tells me a funny story about how her eponymous womenswear brand came to be. “A year before I launched, I was wearing one of the very first prototypes of a [Temily] jumpsuit and ended up in the elevator with Gabriela Hearst,” she remembers. Her creation caught the designer’s eye and elicited…
Hong Kong rail giant the MTR Corporation has reported a 15.7 per cent drop in recurrent-business profit to HK$3.39 billion in the first six months of this year from the same period in 2024 due to higher operating costs. After taking into consideration property gains and losses from a one-off revaluation of investment properties, the…
Knowa De Baraso was hard to miss this time last year during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was the preternaturally precocious, pre-teen pundit in a polo shirt and khaki shorts who made the rounds of the global media outlets that were camped out in the the United Center sports arena as Vice President…
US President Donald Trump described his Alaska trip as a “great and very successful day” after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15 and holding calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders. However, responses in Ukraine were mixed, with some criticizing the red-carpet treatment for Putin, while others expressed cautious hope despite…