Livesicily yacht disaster

Mike Lynch’s body and four others recovered from Sicily yacht but daughter still missing

<p>Police officers outside the Tate brothers residence in Pipera, Ilfov, near Bucharest, Romania, on Wednesday </p>

Crime

Andrew Tate under house arrest as prosecutors investigate allegations involving minors

<p>Mustache-less Mike Lindell is mocked by 12-year-old influencer Knowa</p>

dnc 2024

Mike Lindell follows through with plan to shave mustache for DNC – and gets into spat with 12-year-old influencer

<p>Matthew Perry was found dead in a hot tub at his Pacific Palisades home last October</p>

crime

Doctor charged in Matthew Perry death to return to medical practice

<p>Tim Walz and family on stage at the DNC on Wednesday </p>

Livednc 2024

Kamala Harris set to close out DNC after ‘coach’ Tim Walz delivered powerful ‘pep talk’

<p>Gus Walz during his father’s speech to Democrat delegates in Chicago </p>

dnc 2024

Heartwarming moment Gus Walz tearfully cheers on Tim at DNC: ‘That’s my dad!’

<p>A small group of uncommitted delegates hold a sit-in outside the United Center to protest the lack of a Palestinian American speaker at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday </p>

DNC 2024

Muslim Women for Harris-Walz disbands in uproar after Palestinian speaker refused slot at DNC

DNC 2024

Neil Young gives Tim Walz permission for his song – after he sued Trump for using it

<p>Donald Trump speaks to supporters in Asheboro, North Carolina. Trump responded to Tim Walz’s speech at the DNC with a lengthy rant on Fox & Friends </p>

DNC 2024

Trump goes on unhinged five-minute tear when asked about Tim Walz’s speech on Fox & Friends

<p>Kenan Thompson speaks on day three of the Democratic National Convention </p>

dnc 2024

SNL’s Kenan Thompson trolls Republicans over Project 2025

<p>Oprah Winfrey speaks on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago</p>

dnc 2024

Oprah Winfrey hits back at JD Vance’s ‘childless cat lady’ jibe in surprise speech

<p>Harris now has a 2.8-point lead over Trump in the latest average of national polls</p>

2024 election

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

<p>Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is expected to drop out of the race this week, may have been pressured to end his campaign by Donald Trump Jr and Tucker Carlson </p>

US politics

Tucker Carlson and Don Jr are behind RFK Jr’s expected decision to drop campaign, report says

<p>Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will be back in federal court in September to face nine tax-related charges </p>

politics

Hunter Biden’s lawyers claim prosecution is trying to ‘slime him’ in tax trial

<p>A military vehicle driving past a destroyed Ukrainian military vehicle in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine</p>

LiveEurope

Drones strike Russian airbase as Putin loses troops in Kursk

<p>Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures from a bulletproof glass housing during a campaign rally, at the North Carolina Aviation Museum & Hall of Fame in Asheboro</p>

Livepolitics

Trump to visit southern border after rambling Fox News interview as he seeks to distract from Harris

<p>A source close to Beyoncé said the former president did not receive permission to use the track</p>

2024 election

Trump campaign deletes video using Freedom after Beyoncé sent cease-and-desist letter

crime

Scott Peterson shares theory of how he claims pregnant wife Laci was murdered

<p>Jesse Kipf (pictured) has been sentenced for faking his own death to avoid paying child support </p>

CRIME

Kentucky man fakes his own death to avoid paying child support

<p>Jessie Peterson, 31, died at a hospital in April 2023. Her family said it took staff members nearly a year to tell them</p>

NEWS

A hospital told family their daughter had checked out. They found out a year later her body was in storage

DNC 2024

news analysisdnc 2024

Tim Walz is clearly a midwest ‘man’s man’. But he’s the antidote to toxic MAGA masculinity

<p>Tim Walz’s former football team introduced him to the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday </p>

<p>Carmen Cusido on day 2 of the DNC </p>

DNC 2024

I used to be a Republican. Now, I’m a volunteer at the DNC

Carmen Cusido reports from Chicago about the unusual route she took to championing Kamala Harris at the Democratic convention

Trump attacks ‘highly overrated Jewish governor’ Josh Shapiro

DNC 2024

Mindy Kaling cracks joke about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s divorce during speech

2024 ELECTION

‘Trumpy Trout’ advertisement features talking fish head resembling Donald Trump

<p>Rep Hakeem Jeffries speaks on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center, in Chicago on August 21, 2024. He sent the crowd into a roar of laughter when he likened Trump to an ‘old boyfriend’ that won’t go away </p>

DNC 2024

‘An old boyfriend who won’t go away:’ Hakeem Jeffries gets crowd laughing with Trump dig

DNC 2024

I went to the Gen Z events at the DNC. I was met with a Hall of Hotties and Wall of Weirdos

<p>The Hotties for Harris party at the DNC featured a ‘Wall of Weirdos’ depicting a broad range of Trumpworld denizens</p>

Top stories

<p>Ruth Dalton, 80, was stabbed to death in a carjacking in Seattle this week</p>

Crime

Beloved dog-walker, 80, killed in carjacking - before eight-time felon knifed her dog

<p>This undated booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Marcellus Williams</p>

Crime

Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have halted execution of inmate who claims innocence

Tech

‘Blob’ of material is able to learn like a living thing, scientists say

<p>A bag filled with meth that has been disguised as a watermelon. A smuggler attempted to move $5m worth of meth across the Otay Mesa border crossing in Otay Mesa, California</p>

Crime

$5m of meth disguised as watermelons seized at border

SICILY YACHT DISASTER

The 22 people on board the Bayesian and how they were celebrating after years of court battles

The five bodies recovered from the wreck have now been identified, with Mike Lynch’s teenage daughter still missing

<p>A tuber floats down the Comal River on Wednesday in New Braunfels, Texas</p>

Climate

Texas gripped by deadly heat wave raising drought concerns and straining power grid

<p>Balenciaga’s $1,490 top mocked online for 2003 design </p>

Lifestyle

Balenciaga’s $1,490 layered tank top mocked: ‘Straight out of 2003’

<p>Following actor Alain Delon’s death at the weekend, the fate of his lapdog Loubo is playing out like a French farce</p>

Voices

Was Alain Delon so wrong to want his still-alive dog to be buried with him?

Lifestyle

Inside J-Lo and Ben Affleck’s doomed romance

The singer has filed for divorce after two years of marriage

Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck

Voices

Zelensky has humiliated Putin, but what good can his ‘buffer zone’ do?

A handout picture made available on 19 August 2024 by the press service of the 24th Mechanized Brigade of Ukrainian Armed Forces shows servicemen of 24th Mechanized Brigade, named after King Danylo, firing from BRM1K infantry fighting vehicle towards Russian positions near Chasiv Yar town, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, 17 August 2024

<p>Angelina Williams (left), Robert Michalski (center) and Taylor Marvin-Brown (right) are in police custody after Williams’ six-year-old son was attacked by a pit bull</p>

Crime

Mom, boyfriend handcuffed 6-year-old boy as ‘corporal punishment’ before he was attacked by pit bull, cops say

<p>Dr Oumair Aejaz, 40, has been arrested for allegedly recording nude images of women and children for at least six years</p>

Crime

Doctor charged with sex crimes for allegedly filming women, kids as young as 2 with hidden cameras

<p>Matthew Robert Austin, 18, has been booked after cops say he was planning to kill his ex-girlfriend and her mom</p>

Crime

Accused rapist caught with gloves and mask on way to kill ex and her mom, cops say

<p>Andy Chu confessed to choking his 25-year-old girlfriend, Zoey Suyun at his Seattle condo </p>

Crime

Man drowned girlfriend because she was ‘acting weird,’ then stuffed ball down her throat ‘to fix her jaw,’ cops say

<p>(pictured top left to right clockwise) Nadav Popplewell, Yoram Metzger, Alex Dancyg, Yagev Buchshtab, Avraham Munder, Chaim Peri </p>

Middle East

Body of six Israeli hostages recovered from Gaza

<p>Warren Alexander (bottom left), who is awaiting trial for murder of Nona Cobb (top left), has been arrested for the murder of three women in California (top). Cobb was first thought to be a victim of Sean Patrick Goble (bottom right) until DNA excluded him as a suspect</p>

crime

Police were searching victim DNA for one serial killer. Instead, they discovered a possible new one

<p>Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III recently wrote tell-all book about Trump family </p>

Politics

Trump’s nephew says former president is showing signs of ‘dementia’ like his grandfather

<p>Elon Musk, Jon Hamm and Jeff Bezos</p>

News

Jon Hamm says Musk and Bezos ‘buying their way into the conversation’

Race for the White House

2024 ELECTION

Kamala Harris says her dad taught her to be fearless, but he’s been markedly absent from her public rise

Family is at the forefront of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, and she speaks frequently and fondly of her late mother’s influence – but rarely is there mention of her father. A “Marxist” economics professor who left Jamaica for UC Berkeley, Donald J Harris has said little about his daughter during her meteoric rise – other than to scold her, writes Sheila Flynn