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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds are donating $1 million to Feeding America and Food Banks Canada.
Polish Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said on Friday a pledge worth 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion) from the European Union to help the country cope with the fallout from its worst flooding in at least two decades may not be enough to cover its losses. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday the EU would make billions of euros available to help central Europe recover from severe floods. "We know that the losses are very large, very high, although we do not know the exact number yet," Domanski said in an interview with TVN broadcaster.
High-end London department store Harrods has apologised over allegations its former owner, Egyptian billionaire businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, raped and sexually assaulted several female ex-employees. A BBC documentary and podcast heard testimony from over 20 former female workers who said Al Fayed, who died last year aged 94, sexually abused them, with incidents taking place in London, Paris, St Tropez and Abu Dhabi. One of the women who accused Al Fayed of raping her when she was a teenager described him as a "monster": "He actively cultivated fear."
A zoo in China has admitted its star attraction, two so-called pandas, are just painted dogs.
Jay Powell argued this week that the Fed is not 'behind' as it starts rate cuts. His main task in the coming months is to keep that narrative intact if the job market keeps cooling and the economy deteriorates.
Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.
China said Friday that it would "gradually resume" importing seafood from Japan after imposing a blanket ban in August last year over the release of water from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant.The release, however, generated a fierce backlash from China, which branded it "selfish" and banned all Japanese seafood imports.
Japan’s prime minister has demanded an explanation from Beijing over the fatal stabbing of a schoolboy in the second knife attack on Japanese children in China in months.
Dramatic footage has emerged showing the moment a man slipped and fell down a steep mountain while hiking in China’s eastern Anhui province on Monday.
A top politician in eastern India on Friday blamed authorities in a neighbouring state for causing a flooding crisis by opening dams after 26 people were killed and 250,000 others were forced to relocate.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told reporters that 26 people had been killed this week, with another 250,000 forced to leave their homes and find shelter.
Asian markets rose Friday to build on the latest global rally after a jumbo US interest rate cut this week, while the yen reversed earlier gains after the Bank of Japan decided against another hike.The yen strengthened to 141.74 per dollar after the BoJ announcement, but later reversed to hit 143.77 in afternoon Asian trade.
A former OceanGate scientific director said the Titan submersible suffered a malfunction six days before imploding in June 2023, killing all five people on board.
Israel launched one of its most intense bombardments against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon this year Thursday, hours after the militant group’s leader condemned deadly twin attacks that he said crossed “all the red lines.”
Fall equinox 2024 arrives on Sunday, September 22. Find out why the first day of autumn still features a little more daylight than darkness.
The U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon urged de-escalation on Friday after a big increase in hostilities at the Lebanese-Israeli border, where Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah have been trading fire for almost a year. The UNIFIL force had witnessed "a heavy intensification of the hostilities across the Blue Line" and throughout its area of operations, spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told Reuters. "We are concerned at the increased escalation across the Blue Line and urge all actors to immediately de-escalate," he said.
Kentucky State Police are searching for motive as they investigate the fatal shooting of a district judge by a sheriff after the two had an argument inside the judge’s chambers, according to police.
United Arab Emirates-based artificial intelligence company G42 has teamed up with U.S. chipmaker Nvidia to work on climate tech, G42 said on Friday, ahead of the first-ever visit to the White House by a president of the UAE next week. The Gulf-based company said in a statement the two firms would work together develop AI solutions aimed at boosting weather forecasting accuracy globally and will set up an operational base and climate tech lab in Abu Dhabi. The UAE, led by government-backed G42, is investing heavily in AI to help diversify its economy away from oil and UAE-based companies have forged several deals with U.S. firms recently.
Pagers, used every day by health care professionals, became a deadly weapon Tuesday as thousands of them simultaneously exploded in Lebanon.
Two new drugs, the first capable of slowing down the debilitating progression of Alzheimer's disease, have become embroiled in one of the biggest medical controversies in recent years.The controversy has seen countries take different stances on whether to approve the drugs or not.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Ukraine on Friday focused on helping the country to repair and reconnect its war-damaged electricity grid and boost its heating capacity as winter approaches. Around half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been destroyed during its war with Russia, and rolling electricity blackouts leave parts of the east in darkness for four hours at a time. “Heating season starts in two weeks and Russia’s relentless attacks on Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure aims to inflict maximum damage,” von der Leyen said as she arrived in Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Beef and chicken glisten as they rotate slowly on vertical spits before they are carved off in razor-thin strips. The scene at Kebap With Attitude in Berlin’s trendy Mitte neighborhood is typical of any street-side stand or restaurant where cooks pile the ingredients into pita bread to create the city’s beloved d?ner kebab. In the balance is an industry that generates annual sales of roughly 2.3 billion euros (nearly $2.6 billion) in Germany alone, and 3.5 billion euros (nearly $3.9 billion) across Europe, according to the Berlin-based Association of Turkish D?ner Producers in Europe.
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