…for blocking YouTube accounts Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles – two followed by 36 zeros – after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube. Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the world’s total GDP, estimated at $110 trillion by the International Monetary Fund. Google, which owns YouTube,…

A skydiver has died after accidentally walking into a plane propeller. Amanda Gallagher, 37, was taking pictures of other skydivers at Wichita Cook Airfield in Kansas on Saturday when she backed into the active propeller, according to US media reports. Emergency services were sent to the scene in Sedgwick County at around 3pm and Ms Gallagher was taken to hospital with critical injuries but died shortly after. A GoFundMe page…

The world’s longest-serving death row prisoner has been acquitted after a court in Japan ruled he wasn’t behind a 1966 multiple murder. Iwao Hakamada, 88, had spent 48 years behind bars, more than 45 of them on death row, longer than any other inmate. The ex-boxer was sentenced to death in 1968 for killing his former boss, his wife, and two of their children and setting fire to their home.…

Barbara Bush, one of Republican former US president George W. Bush’s daughters, has endorsed Democrat candidate, Kamala Harris in the razor-thin White House race and campaigned for her over the weekend, she told People magazine. Bush, 42, spent part of the weekend knocking on doors for the vice president’s campaign in Pennsylvania, considered one of the most crucial swing states that will decide the November election between Harris and Republican…

The Metropolitan Police Service in the United Kingdom has dismissed a Nigerian-British officer, Shola Balogun, from Bromley Police Station for allegedly biting a colleague during a birthday party in Bexleyheath, Kent. The disciplinary hearing, held from October 21-23, 2024, was chaired by senior officer Christopher McKay, with IPM Amanda Harvey and Assessor-Detective Superintendent Kirsty Mead on the panel. The incident occurred on April 22, 2022, during a 40th birthday celebration…

At least 51 people have died, according to the regional government in Valencia. The leader of the Valencia region has told reporters a number of bodies had been found. Shocking video shows brown floodwater gushing through Chiva – around 20 miles inland from the city of Valencia – turning streets into churning, fast-flowing rivers and sweeping away cars and vans. Torrential rain has led to floods in the Valencia region…

A court in Belgium sentenced more than 100 people in a mass drugs trafficking trial on Tuesday which authorities hailed as a major victory in the battle against drug gangs. Per Reuters, Belgium has been on the front line in Europe’s war against drugs. Officials have said more than 100 of Europe’s most dangerous criminal networks operate in Belgium, with drug gangs blamed for a rise in street shootings in…

An Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 60 people early Tuesday, more than half of them women and children, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.In a separate development, Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah said it has chosen Sheikh Naim Kassem to succeed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month. Hezbollah vowed to continue with…

Hezbollah has appointed Naim Kassem as its new leader following the death of Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike last month.Kassem, who previously served as Nasrallah’s deputy, had been acting as leader since Nasrallah’s death, with his official appointment confirmed on Tuesday.Meanwhile, escalating violence continues in northern Gaza, where an Israeli airstrike on a five-story building in Beit Lahiya claimed the lives of at least 34 displaced Palestinians, most of…

Indian business mogul, Ratan Tata, who recently passed away at 86, has left £91 million to his German shepherd, Tito, in his will.The man who is well respected in the business world for his role in transforming Tata Group into a global powerhouse, demonstrated his profound attachment to his pet and the loyalty of his longtime aides as his final wishes reflect.Instead of bequeathing the majority of his wealth to…

Ballot boxes in Washington and Oregon were set on fire with incendiary devices early Monday in what authorities believe are connected incidents.The police said the two arson incidents, which occurred near the Oregon-Washington border, are also believed to be connected to a third ballot box incident that occurred earlier this month in Vancouver, Washington, police said.Per ABC news, on Monday, Portland police responded to a fire at a ballot box…

At least 40 Chadian soldiers have been killed after their base was attacked on Sunday evening, the presidency says.President Mahamat Déby has ordered a counter-mission to track down the culprits, according to a statement from his office.The attack reportedly happened on an island called Barkaram, in a vast marshy region that was once covered by the waters of Lake Chad before its dramatic shrinking in recent decades.No suspects for Sunday’s…