Author: Gulf News Week
@lanasololife/@dramafreediaries/@devonandwilloContent creators sharing the peace of solo living is making the rounds on social mediaIt’s a Friday night. A young woman trudges back to her apartment after a day of work. She enters a spotless kitchen, unloads a bag of groceries, and unwraps a frozen pizza before sliding it in the oven.What follows is a nightly routine that is almost meditative in its mundanity: she lights a candle and gazes briefly at the snow-covered landscape outside her window, piles a premade salad onto a plate with the pizza, and settles on her sofa to eat in front of the TV.The…
Swedish PoliceAtilla Azimov posing with a gun three months before he killed Murad AbdelkaderIn a Stockholm suburb a man dressed in black appeared out of the winter night. Carrying a handgun, he approached 20-year-old Murad Abdelkader, a student on his way back from a shift at McDonald’s. The gunman opened fire, shooting again and again as he approached his target. He fired the last shot into his victim’s head as he lay helpless on the ground. The killer was 18-year-old Atilla Azimov. On that February night last year, he had killed the wrong man.He had done it for money -…
Getty ImagesSpain declared a national state of emergency as it grapples with several major wildfiresThe wildfires currently ravaging Europe feel close to home for Professor Marta Yebra, despite being on the other side of the world.Originally from Spain, the Canberra-based bushfire expert has spent years developing ways for Australia – home to some of the most fire-prone landscapes in the world – to battle its own blazes.She heads up the Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence, which was set up in the aftermath of Australia’s worst fire season on record: the Black Summer fires of 2019-20, which razed a combined area…
Getty ImagesUS actor Vincent Pastore, who played Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero in the hit show The Sopranos, has died aged 80, according to several US outlets.Pastore was found at his home in the Bronx, New York City and there was no indication of criminality, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reported.In The Sopranos, Pastore played Tony Soprano’s best friend who ultimately became an informant for the FBI. His character’s death in series two was one of the show’s most memorable storylines.Robert Attermann, Pastore’s manager, told CBS News: “To the world, he will always be remembered as the unforgettable ‘Big Pussy,’…
Daniel MurphyDaniel Murphy went from being a loving husband to a man who believed his family wanted to kill himDaniel Murphy thought he was taking a safe and tested dietary supplement that would help him put on muscle in the gym.But over the following two years, his mental health spiralled to such a degree he ended up in a state of psychosis in which he believed his wife was trying to steal his business and his mother-in-law was going to kill him.Unknown to Daniel, the daily pills he had been taking had been mixed with testosterone.The 32-year-old is one of…
AFP via Getty ImagesImage of gigantic geoglyphs, known as the Nazca lines, built by people belonging to the Nazca culture, around 1600 years ago in Nazca, PeruA small plane carrying tourists has crashed in Peru, killing all 13 people on board, according to local news reports and Peruvian officials. The aircraft had been flying over Nazca Lines archaeological site when it went down on Saturday. Eleven passengers and two pilots were on board. The cause of the crash and the identity of the passengers is not yet clear. Nazca Lines is a popular tourist attraction and UNESCO World Heritage site…
Getty ImagesAt least three people have been killed and 21 injured after a woman detonated a homemade explosive device at a restaurant in Moscow, Russian state media quotes security officials as saying.The blast happened at around 20:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Kudrinskaya square near the city centre. The National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) said the woman tried to enter the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard. The attacker blew herself up, killing the guard and a visitor to the restaurant.Witnesses were quoted on Telegram as saying the venue was hosting a private function, adding that they saw people…
Anadolu via Getty ImagesItalian health officials urge residents in the affected areas to avoid exposure to heat direct sunlight by staying indoors and drinking plenty of fluidsItaly is putting nearly all of its major cities on the highest “red” alert for high temperatures, as a new heatwave grips the country.Health officials say 19 cities from north to south – including the capital Rome, Milan, Venice and Naples – are already at red alert, and by Monday all but two cities will be.Temperatures hit mid-30s C in many places on Saturday, and authorities are warning warning of risks to even healthy…
Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump has threatened to revive a controversial fund to compensate his allies amid a standoff with two Republican senators who are holding out on confirming his pick for attorney general.Todd Blanche, who has been acting in the role since April, needs the support of all Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to get the job permanently.But Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina – whose terms both expire in January – are withholding theirs over the status of Trump’s $1.8bn (£1.3bn) “anti-weaponisation fund”.If the two don’t approve Blanche, Trump said on Saturday…
ReutersThe Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the biggest in the country’s history, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.As of 30 July, there were 3,605 confirmed cases including 1,587 deaths – a fatality rate of 44%. The current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus. It was declared on 15 May 2026 and surpasses the previous biggest outbreak between 2018 and 2020, which had nearly 3,500 recorded cases of whom almost 2,300 died. There is currently no approved vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo strain, but vaccines are being developed in the UK…