Tens of thousands of music fans enjoyed the final day of Scotland’s biggest music festival. This year’s TRNSMT at Glasgow Green concluded on Sunday night with a set from chart-topping DJ Calvin Harris. Those attending were warned to plan their travel home in advance due to ScotRail’s reduced timetable, which meant many services from Glasgow […]
Minutes after Saturday’s shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., liberals began flooding social media platforms with conspiracy theories. They claimed the blood on former president Donald Trump’s ear was from a theatrical gel pack; that the shooting was a “false flag,” perhaps coordinated by the Secret Service in collaboration with the Trump campaign; […]
NIFRS Significant damage was caused to the inside of the kart racing complex Firefighters have worked overnight to tackle a major blaze close to Newry city centre. At its height, about 50 crew members dealt with the incident at Greenbank industrial estate. It is believed to have started at a kart racing centre just before […]
The 2026 FIFA World Cup final at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium will heed the lessons of the ugly scenes the Copa América semifinal between Uruguay and Colombia in Charlotte and be “really safe and secure,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy told ESPN. CONMEBOL opened a formal investigation after after Uruguay forward Darwin Núñez entered the […]
Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. Gene J. Puskar/AP hide caption toggle caption Gene J. Puskar/AP The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to […]
Alec Baldwin broke down in tears as a New Mexico judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter case against him for a fatal shooting on the set of the film Rust. The trial collapsed three days into Baldwin’s trial in Santa Fe, at a court just miles from where Halyna Hutchins, a cinematographer, was shot with a […]
Narcissistic people get more empathetic, generous and agreeable with age, according to new research into the personality trait. But although their unreasonably high sense of self-importance may mellow, they do not fully grow out of it, the study involving more than 37,000 people suggests. Those who were more narcissistic than their peers as children tended […]
1 day ago By Malcolm Prior, @NewsMPrior, BBC News, rural affairs correspondent Kerry McClay Kerry McClay says more female police officers are needed in the countryside to deal with domestic abuse Victims of domestic abuse in the countryside are still being let down by a “woeful” number of convictions five years after a report criticised the work of […]
8 hours ago By Kevin Peachey, Cost of living correspondent Getty Images Competition between mortgage lenders has intensified ahead of a key decision on interest rates by the Bank of England. A host of lenders have made reductions to the cost of new fixed-rate mortgages in recent days. Brokers expect further cuts to come, but mortgage rates […]
15 hours ago By Fergal Keane in Jerusalem, BBC News BBC Rescue workers in Gaza say they often struggle to identify bodies The things they see. The dead girl lowered by a rope from a ruined building. She sways slightly, then comes to rest, legs folding beneath her on the rubble. They see people and parts of […]