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EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockRelations between Italy’s prime minister and President Trump have worsened considerably since 2025There is an AI-generated meme doing the rounds on social media in Italy that shows Giorgia Meloni doing all the things you might expect from someone fresh out of a tough break-up. In one fake photo she has a new haircut; in others she is imagined booking herself on a singles’ holiday, training for a marathon and creating a profile on a dating app.Of course none of the images are real, but the joke has landed because it captures the very public political fall-out between the Italian prime…
‘They are all I have’: Mother searches for missing daughtersMore than 900 people have been killed and 3,360 others injured in the Venezuela earthquakes, according to the government, as rescuers keep searching for survivors and families wait desperately for news.The injured are being treated in makeshift medical facilities after dozens of buildings in the country’s north were destroyed by the two quakes, including in the capital Caracas.A senior government official said hundreds of international rescue workers have arrived in the country, with more on the way.Two powerful earthquakes rocked Venezuela within seconds of each other on Wednesday. The second quake…
LIVERescuers ‘pulling people out with their bare hands’ as Venezuela earthquakes kill 920International rescue teams are on the ground helping to search for survivors, with one video showing children being saved from a damaged building.
EPA/ShutterstockExtreme temperatures were recorded across Germany, but Saarbrücken saw the highest Temperatures broke June records in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands on Friday as the death toll from Europe’s heatwave climbed in Spain and France and authorities cancelled concerts and other public events because of health risks.Germany’s highest ever temperature of 41.3C was recorded provisionally in the south-western city of Saarbrücken, just over the border from France, which this week endured its hottest temperatures three days in a row.Although France’s heatwave has peaked, Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said the “emergence of deaths at home” was of particular concern.World Meteorological Organization…
NEW YORK (news agencies) — A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don’t worry: It poses no danger.The space rock — 1997 NC1 — makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.6 million miles (2.6 million kilometers), according to the European Space Agency.Discovered nearly three decades ago by an asteroid-tracking system in Hawaii, the asteroid is between 2,461 feet (0.75 kilometer) to 5,413 feet (1.65 kilometers) wide — roughly the size of two to four Empire State Buildings.Skygazers with binoculars and small telescopes may be able to spot the asteroid as a small point of light…
Tierney L. Cross/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump has accused Iran of a “foolish violation” of its truce with Washington after a cargo ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz was attacked.No casualties were reported after the ship was struck by a projectile on Thursday. In response, the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) paused its planned evacuation of more than 11,000 sailors stranded in the key shipping lane. Trump took to Truth Social on Friday to accuse Iran of shooting at least four drones at traversing ships, with one hitting. “Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement,” he…
Utah Department of CorrectionsRossi pictured in his prison cell in UtahNicholas Rossi, the American rapist who faked his death and fled to Scotland in a bid to escape justice, has died in a US hospital.The Utah Department of Corrections (UDC) said the 38-year-old had been suffering from “chronic, degenerative conditions”.It said Rossi died in a local hospital on Thursday after “he chose to remove himself from the care that was being provided”.Rossi was found guilty of raping two women in Utah in 2008 after two separate trials in 2024.”Rossi died from complications of an existing medical condition after choosing to…
InstagramThe mother reportedly died saving her daughter’s lifeA Venezuelan mother has died while saving her daughter during the earthquakes that hit the country, according to footballer Héctor Bello and local media.Bello wrote on his Instagram that “his precious love”, named by Venezuelan news outlets as his wife Andrea, saved the life of their toddler during two powerful quakes.”I’ll tell her the story of how you saved her, my love – how you gave your own life for our daughter, how you were a brave woman who never abandoned her, even as you took your last breaths,” Bello wrote in his…
Getty ImagesAlannah Keyser first appeared on Sunday’s episode but has now been removed from the villaA second Love Island USA contestant has been removed from the villa after historic social media posts emerged that appeared to show her using a racial slur.Alannah Keyser was removed after a video showed her apparently lip synching to the n-word in a song, while other screenshots showed her appearing to use the same slur in an Instagram comment and Snap message.The posts came from a private account and were not made public until after Keyser entered the villa, and were therefore not flagged during…
Getty ImagesJohn Bolton, a former national security adviser to Donald Trump, has pleaded guilty to mishandling classified security information as part of notes he compiled for a book. Bolton, now a prominent critic of the US president, was indicted on 18 counts related to improper handling of classified material, and initially pleaded not guilty. On Friday, he admitted to a single charge of illegal retention of classified information. The documents he retained included diary entries containing national defence information, some of it classified at the top secret level.Bolton faces a prison sentence of up to five years and has agreed…