Cristiano Ronaldo has been famous for so long that it is easy to forget how unlikely his career once seemed. He grew up in a small house in Funchal, on…
Dave Chappelle is the comedian other comedians study. He can hold a stage for a long time with little more than a stool, a microphone, and a story that seems…
Jean Shrimpton did not set out to change fashion. She enrolled at a secretarial college in London at seventeen, a practical choice for a teenager from High Wycombe, and only…
The Notorious B.I.G. recorded only two studio albums in his lifetime. That fact alone makes his reputation remarkable. Few artists have shaped a genre so completely, in so little time,…
The United States Food and Drug Administration has tentatively approved the first generic version of a twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV, a decision announced on Monday, November 2, 2026, that…
At least 26 people were killed on Monday, November 2, 2026, in a strike on a school being used as a humanitarian aid distribution site in the Zaporizhzhia region of…
President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Wednesday, 21 October, to prevent a repeat of last weekend's violence in France, as protests driven by rising fuel prices, the cost of living and…
A judge in New Mexico on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook, to pay $25 billion after a jury found it had misled users about privacy, in what…
A supertanker caught fire after striking a sea mine south of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Tuesday, according to Iranian media reported by Reuters, in…
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday night that the United States is not negotiating with Iran and that "something" in the conflict would happen "fairly soon," as the State Department…
An attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, in eastern Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday evening injured eight people and caused material damage, Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation…