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A Miss Thailand contestant has been praised for her professionalism after her teeth awkwardly fell out while she was giving a speech onstage. Losing your teeth mid-sentence is never ideal — but it’s the kind of thing you’d much rather…
Iran has warned that Israel will face a ‘heavy price’ and also issued a message aimed at the US after a fresh round of strikes hit Tehran-linked nuclear locations. The conflict is now approaching its fifth week, with reports of…
Scientists examining fresh scan data from Egypt say there may be another Sphinx hidden beneath the sands near Giza. A research team that carried out subterranean surveys around the Great Pyramid of Giza says its results suggest a second Sphinx-like…
The US’ Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has claimed Iran has the capability to strike the UK’s capital London with missiles. Sir Keir Starmer has so far taken a cautious approach to the conflict in the Middle East and did…
Warning: This article includes references to rape and suicide that some readers may find distressing. A 25-year-old woman has died after being euthanized, despite her father’s legal attempts to stop the procedure. Noelia Castillo Ramos, from Barcelona, became the first…
Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide which some readers may find distressing. A woman in Spain has shared why she still wants to end her life, even as her father has tried to stop the process through the courts.…
Protecting Earth from potentially catastrophic asteroid impacts could soon hinge on a new NASA collaboration with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, involving a sophisticated “Blue Ring” concept intended to help safeguard the planet. The possibility of a space rock striking Earth…
A devastating late-night collision between a passenger jet and a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Sunday ended with two pilots dead, yet most people on board somehow survived. Antoine Forest, the pilot, and co-pilot Mackenzie Gunther were…
CCTV video has revealed the sequence of events just before a catastrophic collision at LaGuardia Airport between an Air Canada aircraft and a fire truck. The crash killed both the pilot and co-pilot. The pilot has been identified as Antoine…
The two pilots who died in a fatal Air Canada crash at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night have been named as Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther. The passenger flight had arrived in New York from Montreal and was reportedly moving…
Astronomers have shared new evidence of a world beyond our Solar System that appears to have an atmosphere — something many researchers previously thought couldn’t happen under its extreme conditions. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Carnegie scientists carried out…
A former royal butler has offered a candid assessment of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Grant Harrold served as a butler to Charles III from 2004 to 2011, back when Charles was the Prince of Wales. During that period, he also carried out…
Paris Jackson has been unambiguous: she doesn’t want to be associated with the forthcoming Michael Jackson biopic, and the late singer’s estate has pushed back in a way that’s intensified the dispute. Now 27, Jackson has repeatedly taken aim at…
The UN has issued yet another stark climate warning after its weather agency said the planet is now more out of balance than at any time in recorded history. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says Earth is trapping far more…
An air traffic controller issued urgent instructions to both vehicles on the ground and incoming aircraft after an Air Canada plane struck a fire truck while on the runway at LaGuardia Airport. Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia has confirmed…
Researchers in South Korea have identified a dinosaur species previously unknown to science. Most people carry a familiar mental picture of the animals that dominated the planet in the distant past. It’s easy to imagine iconic giants battling it out—T.…