Gavin Blackburn

USA

Ex-gang leader sentenced to minimum 40 years for Tupac murder

Shakur was a key figure in a hip-hop rivalry pitting the US East Coast against the West Coast. He was just 25 when he was gunned down in Las Vegas.

14 October 2026

World News

Turkish police take Halk TV off air and arrest 11 in Istanbul raid

The move came just hours before the start of the defence's arguments in the sprawling corruption trial of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and some 400 other defendants.

14 October 2026

Europe News

Trump hails Greenland as 'second to none' for security of US

Trump signed a security deal with the leaders of Greenland and Denmark in September, which allows the US to build two military bases in the south and east of the island.

14 October 2026

Europe News

Vatican says growth on Pope Leo XIV's lung was cancerous

The 71-year-old pontiff waved to well-wishers gathered outside the Vatican as he departed for Rome's Gemelli hospital earlier in the day.

13 October 2026

Europe News

Sweden's centre-left leader Andersson fails to form government

Sweden's centre-left opposition bloc won 176 seats in parliament, versus 173 for outgoing Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's right-wing bloc, which includes the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, in the 13 September election.

13 October 2026

Europe News

Greta Thunberg joins France student protests against school conditions

French students say they are determined to press the government to address the problems of too many absent teachers, dilapidated buildings, overcrowded class schedules and other grievances.

13 October 2026

Europe News

Hungary MPs vote to cut anti-LGBTQ+ legislation from Orbán-era law

Viktor Orbán's government had gradually rolled back LGBTQ+ rights in the name of "child protection" in Hungary, starting in 2020 by barring the legal recognition of transgender people's gender identity.

13 October 2026

USA

US actress Selma Blair arrested after in-flight altercation

US media said that Blair punched one flight attendant and bit another. The 54-year-old then reportedly assaulted a police officer and nurse as she was transported to hospital.

13 October 2026

Europe News

At least 11 missing after two ships struck off Bulgaria in Black Sea

Similar incidents have renewed scrutiny of Europe's ability to protect shipping and critical infrastructure in the Black Sea, more than a year after the EU launched a strategy to strengthen security in the region.

13 October 2026

Culture news

'Breaking Bad' actor RJ Mitte dies at age 34, officials say

Mitte played Walter White Jr., the son of Bryan Cranston’s chemistry teacher-turned-meth dealer Walter White on nearly every episode of the five seasons of the AMC show.

13 October 2026

Europe News

What we know about Pope Leo XIV's upcoming lung operation

The Vatican press office has said doctors expect the pope's recovery to take around a week. That would make it possible for him to leave for his visit to Latin America as planned on 6 November.

12 October 2026

Europe News

Headmaster shot in French school and teen arrested, police say

A third person was grazed in the shooting in the southern town of Aubagne, near Marseille, per police. Authorities said the headmaster and teacher were not in critical condition.

12 October 2026

Economy

US economists win economics Nobel Prize for stabilisation models

The economics prize is the only Nobel not among the original five created in the will of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896.

12 October 2026

Europe News

Fire totally destroys oldest covered food market in Paris

The Marché Couvert des Enfants Rouges in the Marais district has existed since 1615 and draws its name from the red outfits that orphans wore at a hospital near the market until 1772.

12 October 2026

India

Opposition and journalists allege police abuses during India protests

The protests were triggered by allegations of manipulating voter lists during a nationwide roll revision that critics say could benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

12 October 2026

South Korea

North Korea fires 'several ballistic missiles' into Sea of Japan

South Korea's National Security Office convened an emergency security meeting following the launch to review the country's military readiness.

12 October 2026

Europe News

Switzerland's president says he will quit government at end of year

A winegrower by trade, Parmelin is from the French-speaking western canton of Vaud. He is from the hard-right Swiss People's Party (SVP), which is the biggest in the country.

2 October 2026

Sport

Man City confirms appeal after Premier League charges verdict

According to the Premier League, potential sanctions against City could be a reprimand, a fine, a suspension, points deduction or, in the worst case, expulsion from the competition.

2 October 2026

Europe News

Italy's firefighting planes return home after scorching summer

Western Europe recorded its hottest summer on record, with some 540,000 hectares going up in smoke across the European Union between mid-June and early September.

2 October 2026

Europe News

High schools in France close as new protests against conditions erupt

The students say their school hours are excessively long, conditions inadequate including overheated classrooms, and that there are too many staff absences.

2 October 2026