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A German YouTuber has retained his title as a Gloucestershire cheese rolling champion for the third year in a row.Tom Kopke, known online as Tooleko, beat local competitor and Guinness World Record holder Chris Anderson in the first race of the annual event on Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth.Thousands of people gathered in the baking heat to watch competitors from all over the world chase a 7lb (3kg) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese – which can reach speeds of up to 70mph – down the 1:2 gradient slope. “It’s everyone’s race and you have just got to give your best, and…
At least 19 people have been taken to hospital after a strong smell was reported at a shopping complex in Tokyo, according to media reports.A police spokesperson said a man had sprayed a substance at a cash machine on the ground floor of the building in the luxury Ginza 6 shopping centre on Monday.The substance is believed to have been an irritant spray, identified by authorities as likely containing capsaicin – which is found in chilli peppers.Police are still looking for the suspect, national broadcaster NHK reported.”By the time I arrived, the commotion had already started, and I thought there…
At least three people have died after a vehicle collided with an elephant in a national park in Uganda, officials have said.Police said four other people were injured in the incident in Murchison Falls National Park in the northwest of the country on Sunday evening.The vehicle was carrying seven officials from the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), it added.Car accidents are common in Uganda and incidents involving wildlife and humans are also on the rise, as expanding communities encroach on protected wildlife areas.The injured were rushed to a local hospital and later to Kampala for treatment, it said. Officials did not…
The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of strikes across Lebanon following an announcement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his country will intensify its attacks on Hezbollah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had launched strikes against Hezbollah sites in the Bekaa Valley in the east of Lebanon and additional areas across the country. It followed a video statement on Monday evening in which Netanyahu said Israel was “at war with Hezbollah” and that he had given the military instructions to “deal them a crushing blow”.Earlier this month Lebanon and Israel agreed to extend a 45-day…
Pope Leo has presented the first major teaching document of his papacy, warning that artificial intelligence needs to be “disarmed”.”The word is strong, I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention,” the Pope said.Encyclicals are technically letters to Catholic bishops, but over recent decades the missives have become messages to the world from a Pope. While this letter was largely focused on AI, Pope Leo also included one of the strongest, most comprehensive apologies from the Vatican for the Catholic Church’s role in slavery. Leo mentioned the slave trade in relation to AI, suggesting…
The weapons, the players and the stakes have transformed, yet the same unresolved question, Palestine, still drives the region to war.Twenty-six years ago this week, Israel was forced to end an 18-year occupation of south Lebanon. Much has changed since, yet Lebanon and Israel still cling to the very policies that dragged them into today’s war, a war that has engulfed Iran, drawn in the United States, and now threatens the global economy itself.Palestine remains the central issue reverberating across the region and the world. It is why Israel began attacking pro-Palestine forces in Lebanon in the 1970s, years before…
Russia has threatened to launch a fresh wave of “systematic strikes” against Kyiv, days after carrying out one of its largest attacks on the Ukrainian capital since the start of the war.The new strikes will target “decision-making centres and command posts”, alongside drone manufacturing facilities in the city, Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement. Moscow has called for foreign nationals and diplomats to leave Kyiv “as soon as possible” and warned citizens to stay away from administrative and military buildings.Large-scale Russian strikes on Saturday night killed four and injured about 100 people in Kyiv and other areas, Ukrainian President…
The suspect who fired shots outside the White House, striking a bystander before the Secret Service shot and killed him, had previous run-ins with authorities there, court documents show.Nasire Best, as he has been identified to the BBC by Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, previously obstructed a White House entry lane in June of 2025 and told Secret Service agents he was Jesus Christ.He was sent for a mental evaluation after that incident.Best is accused of firing shots outside the president’s home just after 18:00 EST (23:00 GMT) on Saturday – reporters filming outside ducked and ran for cover inside.…
Police in Chile say they have arrested three people suspected of carrying out a series of burglaries on the homes of high-profile athletes in the US and Argentina.Taylor Swift’s fiancé Travis Kelce was among star names whose homes were struck during 2024 and 2025.During the spree thieves took expensive watches, valuable jewellery and souvenirs including sports jerseys.Last week, police arrested two people who had broken into the Argentinian home of the 2009 US Open winner Juan Martín del Potro. Seven charged over burglary spree targeting pro athletes in USCommissioner Enrique Gutierrez of Chilean Interpol said in a video reported by…
Police in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo fired shots in the air after angry crowds attempted to reclaim the bodies of loved ones who had died at an Ebola treatment centre in Mongwalu, two local journalists told the BBC.Sunday’s unrest continued throughout the day, the reporters said. The treatment centre, in a hospital compound, was the same place that was targeted overnight on Friday into Saturday, when an isolation tent was set ablaze.The body of a dead Ebola victim is highly infectious and can lead to the virus spreading further when prepared for burial. According to Mongwalu…