admin, Author at Brief Briefing

Astronauts stranded on space station to return next February, NASA announces

NASA has announced the two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) will return to Earth on SpaceX in February 2025. Pilot Sunita...

World

Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested in France, reports say

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in France, according to local reports. The 39-year-old tech chief was...

Sports

Ohtani throws off mound; 1st time since surgery

ESPN News Services Aug 24, 2024, 10:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — He was at it again Saturday night, hitting a...

Sports

Francis flirts with 1st no-hitter, Blue Jays win

ESPN News Services Aug 24, 2024, 05:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TORONTO — Bowden Francis struck out a career-high 12 in a dominant...

Sports

Bonds enshrined by Pirates, aloof to baseball HOF

Associated Press Aug 24, 2024, 06:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PITTSBURGH — Barry Bonds was touched in a way he didn’t expect when...

Sports

Irish stout: How Georgia Tech dominated FSU up front and secured a program-defining win

Pete Thamel, ESPNAug 24, 2024, 09:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DUBLIN — For a school that churns out astronauts and engineers with numbing...

World

Israel launches airstrikes in Lebanon – as Hezbollah responds with drone attacks

Israel has launched airstrikes inside Lebanon – as Hezbollah says it has begun an attack with a large number of drones. Sirens have been...

Sports

Ga. Tech stuns No. 10 FSU on late FG in Dublin

ESPN News Services Aug 24, 2024, 03:46 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DUBLIN — Avery Boyd, Chase Lane and Malik Rutherford stepped in front...

Sports

Williams, top-rated OLB in ’25, commits to Texas

Eli Lederman, ESPN Staff WriterAug 24, 2024, 08:11 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in...

Sports

Fierceness holds off Thorpedo Anna at Travers

Associated Press Aug 24, 2024, 06:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Fierceness held off Thorpedo Anna’s late charge to win...

Adam Boulton: Bank holiday travellers beware – getting to and from Europe is about to get a whole lot harder

The August bank holiday has arrived – the cue for millions to get back to work after whatever holidays they have managed to enjoy....

World

German festival stabbing attack suspect arrested

Police have arrested the person suspected of carrying out the stabbing attack at a festival in Germany. A 56-year-old woman and two men, aged...

Sir Keir Starmer: Prime minister says things ‘will get worse before it gets better’

Sir Keir Starmer will warn life in the UK is “going to get worse” before it improves in his first major speech as prime...

Politics

Sir Keir Starmer: Prime minister will say things ‘will get worse before it gets better’

Sir Keir Starmer will warn life in the UK is “going to get worse” before it improves in his first major speech as prime...

Londonderry: PSNI open murder probe after woman found dead after ‘heinous and evil’ attack in flat fire

A woman found dead in her flat in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was the victim of a “heinous and evil” attack, police said. A fire...

Notting Hill: Thousands of police officers expected at carnival in wake of UK riots

There will be a “very significant policing presence” at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, the Metropolitan Police have said. Seven thousand officers are due...

Environment

Why dividend stocks should be a hot play into fall

It appears more investors are eyeing dividend stocks ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision in September. Paul Baiocchi of SS&C ALPS Advisors...

World

Germany festival stabbings: Person detained in connection with knife attack in which three people were killed

A person has been detained in connection with a knife attack in Germany which left three people dead and five seriously injured. It comes...

Business

Lynch-backed Featurespace in talks about Visa takeover

A British fraud detection company backed by Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneur who died this week, is in talks about a sale to Visa,...

World

Potential manslaughter being investigated in superyacht sinking, Italian prosecutor says

Investigators are considering potential manslaughter as they try to find out what caused the Bayesian superyacht to sink, killing seven people, an Italian prosecutor...