Richard Irvine-Brown, Kevin Nguyen and Kayleen DevlinBBC Verify BBC Investigators are racing to establish how and why the deadly New Year’s Eve fire at a bar in a Swiss ski resort spread so rapidly. Authorities on Friday said in a press conference that sparklers attached to champagne bottles that were held “too close to the … Read more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the figures Wednesday for how much aid per acre farmers can plan on for each row crop. The details arrived after most farmers have already met with their bankers to arrange financing for next year’s crops and placed orders for the seed and fertilizer they will need. But officials have promised … Read more
If 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger language models and toward the harder work of making AI usable. In practice, that involves deploying smaller models where they fit, embedding intelligence into physical devices, and … Read more
Tommy Lee Jones has been supported by his family throughout his career. Jones was married twice — to Kate Lardner from 1971 to 1978 and to Kimberlea Cloughley from 1981 to 1996 — before tying the knot with current wife Dawn Laurel-Jones in 2001. “I don’t know what the hell I was doing,” Jones joked … Read more
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The start of any new boxing year brings with it a familiar mix of hope, expectation and lists. Twelve months in which the sport will be celebrated, criticised, dissected and occasionally derided — yet no matter how severely it tests our patience, we always return for more. The action in the ring, however, rarely disappoints. … Read more
Emir Nader,Jerusalemand Suaad Al Salahi,Yemen Reuters The separatist Southern Transitional Council’s forces launched offensives in eastern Yemen last month Yemen’s future hangs in the balance after a dramatic turn of events in the south which have brought Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates into unprecedented direct confrontation and threaten the country with partition. Both … Read more
A Walt Disney World worker in Florida was injured while attempting to stop a large runaway prop boulder from rolling into seated spectators at the Indiana Jones live show. The worker at the “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular” at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios park was knocked to the ground by the 400-pound (181-kilogram) prop boulder after it … Read more
Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew … Read more
Maria Menounos, Este Haim and more celebrities have more than one reason to celebrate New Year’s Eve: It also happens to be their wedding anniversaries. Menounos tied the knot with longtime partner Keven Undergaro in December 2017 while hosting Fox’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast. “Finally some good news for mom. We are getting married … Read more