USA Update

As the final second ticked off the clock, Breanna Stewart turned to her teammate Jonquel Jones for a long-awaited championship hug, as streamers floated down on the court and thousands of fans screamed, danced and recorded the moment on their phones. The long wait was over. The New York Liberty, one of the original W.N.B.A. […]

EXCLUSIVE: The last time Fremantle and Belgium’s NewBe teamed up, they created Netflix’s Heartbreak High reboot. The pair have now reunited and teamed with toy firm Jumbo Group to adapt a music party game into a game show. The trio are working up Hitster, which is based on a party game that has caught on […]

Here is the situation on Monday, October 21, 2024: Fighting Russia has launched several waves of drones at Kyiv for the second night in a row, damaging residential buildings and injuring at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said. Reports said a series of explosions were heard across the city overnight. Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s […]

Britain’s King Charles III has been heckled by an Aboriginal lawmaker after he arrived in Australia for the first visit to the country by a reigning monarch in more than a decade. Charles, who is on his first royal tour since announcing his cancer diagnosis in February, was confronted on Monday after completing an address […]

Solana ($SOL) has been on an uptrend in the last 30 days amid significant activity among users and positive outlooks from analysts. Will the cryptocurrency continue its positive streak? Data from CoinGecko late Sunday night showed that SOL has been up by over 6% in the last 24 hours and has been rallying by 13.5% […]

Paramount Global Content Distribution has landed in Cannes with a new NCIS for international buyers, NCIS: Origins. Ahead of the event, Deadline spoke to the team behind it: Mark Harmon, the original Leroy Jethro Gibbs and an exec producer on the new show, along with his son and fellow EP Sean Harmon, and co-showrunner/EPs David […]

Tech mogul Elon Musk dodged a question on whether he believes the XRP Ledger, a decentralized public blockchain, will be integrated into the financial system in the future. However, he spoke broadly on crypto, saying he believes that cryptocurrency “is an interesting and probably valuable bulwark against centralized control.” The X owner, who has been […]

Ukrainian drone maker Wild Hornets is developing an interceptor designed to counter Russia’s Shahed-136 loitering munitions, The Telegraph reported. Dubbed the Sting, the new first-person view drone is built to fly faster than 100 miles per hour at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. The Telegraph also reported that an artificial intelligence targeting system is […]

DARIEN, Ga. — The seven people killed Saturday in a gangway collapse on a Georgia barrier island were all in their 70s, except for one woman in her 90s, the coroner said Sunday. An estimated 700 people were on Sapelo Island, about 72 miles south of Savannah, to celebrate the Gullah Geechee history and its unique […]

An Indigenous senator has interrupted a reception for British monarch King Charles III during his first visit since taking the throne, calling for a treaty between the Australian government and First Nations peoples.  At an event held to welcome the king to Australia at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday, Senator Lidia Thorpe shouted to […]