Jim Lovell: Legendary NASA astronaut who said ‘Houston we have a problem’ dead
A legendary NASA astronaut who was nearly killed in an Apollo moon landing has died aged 97. Jim Lovell brought the failed Apollo 13 lunar mission back to Earth in…
Sprinting tourist grabs seven sunbeds within seconds in ‘insane’ poolside battle
Footage shows a man sprint out at a hotel in Tenerife and race to the best sunbeds by the pool and then put down towels on seven loungers to the…
Trump Wants to Win the Nobel Peace Prize. He’s About to Make Two Wars Worse.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. President Donald Trump has publicly moaned that he deserves…
Pilot having heart attack manages to land tourists safely on volcano then dies
Igor Kan, 59, became ill while flying tourists to see the Krasheninnikov volcano in eastern Russia which erupted this week and he was able to make an emergency landing –…
Why is Chile’s Birth Rate Plummeting?
Why is Chile’s Birth Rate Plummeting? : State of the World from NPR Much of the attention on the world’s plunging birth rate is on east Asian countries like Japan…
A woman who killed her in-laws with toxic mushrooms allegedly poisoned her spouse too
Erin Patterson, pictured in August 2023, was convicted last month of poisoning her estranged husband’s family members with death cap mushrooms. Marta Pascual Juanola/The Age via Getty Images hide caption…
Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court to Bless Stephen Miller’s Racial Profiling
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Thursday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court…
Urgent broccoli recall as man dies and nine hospitalised after eating sandwich
Broccoli has been recalled across Italy following the death of Luigi Di Sarno, who died after eating a sandwich with members of his family still in intensive care 17:50, 08…
New Yorkers Aren’t About to Elect a Mayor Who Makes Common Cause With Donald Trump
Politics / August 8, 2025 Amid reports that Cuomo is consulting with Trump and telling business leaders he doesn’t want a fight with the president, Zohran Mamdani sees a “betrayal…
Putin’s sick catalogue of kidnapped Ukrainian kids sorted by eye and hair colour
Several hundred thousand Ukrainian children are believed to have been kidnapped by Vladimir Putin’s forces and they have been put in a catalogue for adoption in Russia 17:14, 08 Aug…