Beijing: A Chinese think tank issued a rare public disagreement Monday with the ruling Communist Party’s severe “zero COVID” policy, saying curbs that shut down cities and disrupt trade, travel and industry must change to prevent an “economic stall”. The Anbound Research Centre gave no details of possible changes but said President Xi Jinping’s government […]

The combination of NASCAR, podcasts and betting turned out to be remarkably profitable for one bettor, who turned the cost of a gourmet burger into a tidy million-dollar payday. Daytona is always a nightmare to bet, and Sunday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 showed exactly why: the chaotic superspeedway format means there are no guarantees as […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where he encountered Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer as his armed security detail led the New York Democrat to safety. Joshua Pruitt, 40, was one […]

Amber Heard’s sister Whitney Henriquez is slamming MTV for featuring Johnny Depp in the 2022 Video Music Awards just under three months after the verdict in the Virginia defamation trial. During the Sunday night live broadcast, Depp, 59, appeared as the awards show’s Moon Person in a pre-recorded bit with his face digitally superimposed into the […]

Liz Truss pulls out of Tory leadership interview with BBC veteran Nick Robinson at short notice after team said she could ‘no longer spare the time’ Tory leadership candidate Liz Truss called off an interview with Nick Robinson Her team said she ‘could no longer spare the time’ to chat to the BBC stalwart Her […]

Carnage at Reading and Leeds Festival: Footage shows yobs torching tents with lighters, thugs looting campsites and sea of tents left behind after revellers were ‘told not to sleep because it’s not safe’ Videos showed fires burning across the Leeds Festival site as revellers burned camp equipment and tents Fighting and looting was also reported […]

Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia agree who should be their successor on The Bachelorette: Kim Kardashian! “I think we’d be honored to have Kim K. in the sisterhood,” Recchia, 26, told E! News. Recchia noted that she would want to see The Kardashians star “follow [her] heart” throughout the process. “That’s what me and Gabby […]

A WOMAN gave birth at Notting Hill Carnival in front of cheering revellers. Emergency crews were rushed to West London last night as thousands descended for the festival. Video showed police helping the new mum as a crowd around her sang: "She's had a baby". It is not known if the woman was attending Europe's […]

BRITAIN'S most tattooed man looks so scary that supermarket staff kick him out of stores. Keith Gordan, 66, has hardly an inch of skin uncovered by ink with all of his head, his eyeballs and parts of his inner-ear going under the needle. The family man from Essex says he gets strange reactions from people […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday. The filing from the department follows a judge's weekend order indicating […]