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Pope Francis will not lead the Vatican’s Ash Wednesday service on March 5, the Vatican said on Friday, despite his health showing signs of improvement. The Catholic leader has been hospitalised with double pneumonia since mid-February.
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in Moscow. He was 88. His death was confirmed by the International Chess Federation, the game’s governing body. No cause was given. Spassky was “one … Read more
Mexico has extradited 29 senior drug cartel members to the US. They include cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero.
Tatum O’Neal shared her scathing reaction to being cut out of her late father Ryan O’Neal’s will. For most of her life, the 61-year-old actress had a famously turbulent relationship with the actor, who died at the age of 82 from congestive heart failure in 2023. During a recent interview with Variety, O’Neal revealed that … Read more
At least 25 arrests have been made during a worldwide operation against child abuse images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the European Union’s law enforcement organisation Europol has said. The suspects were part of a criminal group whose members engaged in distributing fully AI-generated images of minors, according to the agency. The operation is one … Read more
King Charles III was not in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon. But his regal presence loomed over the meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which felt at times less like a big-power showdown over Ukraine than a courtesy call between two Renaissance royal courts. From the moment Mr. Starmer pulled an … Read more
China is estimated to have some 500 million basketball fans, more than 1 million basketball courts and 43 million NBA followers on the social media platform Weibo. But increasingly, grassroots basketball is gaining popularity in rural China. Amateur leagues from small towns have become viral sensations and have been dubbed the “VBA”, the Village Basketball … Read more
Two Russian divers were found dead, one in the jaws of a shark, after a strong current separated them from their group in a popular Philippine scuba spot, a coast guard official said Friday. Four Russians — 57-year-old Eduart Perigudin, his two sons Timofy and Ilya, aged 18 and 29, and another man — were … Read more
Tempe, Greece – Greece has come to a standstill during a general strike marking the second anniversary of the country’s worst rail disaster with 346 protests counted in Greece and abroad. Government services, banks and businesses were shuttered on Friday. Ships did not sail, trains did not run and no planes left or entered Greece … Read more
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