A British TikTok influencer has been charged with premeditated murder in Dubai after the fatal stabbing of a British man she had travelled to the UAE to meet.The 23-year-old woman, Brooke George from Gravesend, Kent, denies intentionally killing her partner and says she acted in self-defence during an alleged violent assault, BBC reported.George was arrested…
Smoke and flame rise from burning illegal narcotics during a destruction ceremony marking the U.N.’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, June 26, 2026. Authorities in Myanmar burned more than 50 tonnes of confiscated narcotics on Friday in a nationwide destruction, sending thick black smoke over…
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and his wife, model and entrepreneur Miranda Kerr, have backed one of California’s biggest medical debt relief efforts. Their donation will help erase more than $550 million in unpaid medical bills for over 261,000 residents. The initiative was carried out through the non-profit organisation Undue Medical Debt. The charity buys qualifying…
Saudi Arabia has suspended travel and visas for DR Congo, Uganda and South Sudan. Saudi Arabia has barred its citizens from travelling to three African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan, and has suspended the issuance of all visas for travellers arriving from these nations as part of new measures…
When most people hear the word philanthropy, they picture the very wealthy writing enormous cheques. It can feel like something reserved for billionaires, far removed from ordinary life. Oprah Winfrey, who has given away vast sums herself, offers a much more down to earth way in. Anyone interested in charity or giving, she says, should…
MacKenzie Scott reinforced her position as one of the world’s most generous philanthropists in 2025 after donating around $7 billion to charitable causes across the United States. According to Giving USA and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Scott’s contributions accounted for nearly one-third of the country’s $19.2 billion in major charitable gifts…
JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, discuss her $8.75 Old Navy dress US Vice President JD Vance seized on his wife’s bargain maternity dress to score a political point on federal spending, after US Second Lady Usha Vance mocked a New York Times column that analysed the “political symbolism” of her pregnancy wardrobe.In a…
Norman Rockwell’s 1943 masterpiece So You Want to See the President! is now on public display in Washington, D.C. One of Norman Rockwell’s most remarkable works has gone on public display for the first time, bringing together a fascinating mix of American history, courtroom drama and an unexpected wartime romance. The four-panel painting, So You…
Rescue operations remain focused on the country’s worst-hit northern regions, particularly La Guaira Amid the heartbreak left behind by Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, a series of remarkable rescues has offered rare moments of hope as emergency workers and ordinary citizens continue searching for survivors beneath collapsed buildings.The 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that struck within a…
A prehistoric hilltop enclosure in southern Spain has presented archaeologists with two very different moments in history occupying the same place. What first appeared to be the remains of an ancient fortified settlement dating back around five millennia soon revealed something far less expected beneath its weathered stonework. Buried within the abandoned complex was the…
