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Saudi Arabia confirmed as hosts for 2034 World Cup

Saudi Arabia has been confirmed as the host nation for the 2034 football World Cup. Also confirmed were the hosts for the 2030 World...

Sports

Belichick returns to coaching, this time at UNC

Dec 11, 2024, 05:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions In one of the most stunning and compelling moves in college football history, six-time Super...

Father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif found guilty of her murder at Surrey home

Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother have been found guilty of murdering the 10-year-old before fleeing to Pakistan. Sara died on 8 August last year...

Sara Sharif murder is ‘heartbreaking reminder’ of ‘profound weaknesses’ in child protection

We have been here before and each time we have said “never again”. Reacting to the verdicts, the children’s commissioner for England Dame Rachel...

Technology

OpenAI says ChatGPT suffers outage, company working on fix

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits “Making Money With Charles Payne” at Fox Business Network Studios in New York on Dec. 4, 2024. Mike Coppola...

Technology

ServiceTitan prices IPO at $71, above expected range, after slow stretch for tech offerings

Vahe Kuzoyan, left, and Ara Mahdessian, the founders of ServiceTitan. ServiceTitan ServiceTitan, a provider of cloud software to contractors, priced its IPO at $71...

ServiceTitan prices IPO at , above expected range, after slow stretch for tech offerings

Sports

The Hoodie’s a Heel: Can the NFL’s greatest coach fix UNC’s tarnished legacy?

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterDec 11, 2024, 06:35 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010,...

Sports

Bill Belichick to North Carolina?! What does this mean for college football?

Dec 11, 2024, 05:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions 1 Related However, the bigger picture of Belichick’s ability to recruit high school prospects and...

World

The Syrians who rose up in 2011 now struggling to believe they can return to the scene of Assad’s unbridled slaughter

The last time I came to Homs, I crossed the border from Lebanon on the back of a motorbike. I recall ducking beneath somebody’s...

Technology

Alphabet and Tesla reach fresh records, joining Amazon and Meta and pushing Nasdaq past 20,000

Tech stocks on display at the Nasdaq. Peter Kramer | CNBC Alphabet and Tesla climbed to fresh records on Wednesday, closing at all-time highs...

Business

Rhetoric rises in famer inheritance tax row – with neither side seemingly prepared to budge

Labour’s rural problem has reared its head once more. This time, the government is facing down fierce opposition over changes to inheritance tax. Unless...

Hannah Kobayashi: Missing woman whose father took his own life after trying to find her ‘found safe’

The family of a woman whose father took his own life after she went missing say she has been found alive. Hannah Kobayashi flew...

Technology

Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps go down due to ‘technical issue’

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg...

Politics

Cost of assisted dying ‘could be tens of thousands of pounds’ per person

The cost of assisted dying in the UK could mean it ends up being only be for the wealthy, a specialist lawyer has told...

Politics

Lord Timpson having ‘conversations’ about public sector hiring more ex-prisoners

Prisons minister Lord James Timpson has told Sky News that he is having “a conversation” with parliament and the public sector about hiring more...

World

Saudi Arabia confirmed as hosts for 2034 World Cup

Saudi Arabia has been confirmed as the host nation for the 2034 football World Cup. Also confirmed were the hosts for the 2030 World...

Luigi Mangione: Police say fingerprints of US gunman suspect match those found near New York crime scene

Police say fingerprints of the man suspected of shooting dead a US health insurance boss match those found near the crime scene in New...

Shooting suspect Luigi Mangione glorified in products on Etsy and eBay

Etsy and eBay are among the websites selling T-shirts and other products referencing New York shooting suspect Luigi Mangione. One design features his picture...

Politics

Puberty blockers for under-18s to be banned indefinitely

Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely in the UK after experts warned of an “unacceptable safety risk”. The government...

Science

Cave pearls with ancient artefacts found in Jerusalem’s Joweizeh Tunnel!

A significant discovery has been made in Jerusalem by a team led by Dr. Azriel Yechezkel from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Researchers have...