All news for 2024-12-24

London’s oldest meat market has held what could be one of its last Christmas Eve auctions ahead of its potential closure after more than 800 years.

Sean “Diddy” Combs is being sued by a former assistant over claims the star instructed him to clear up after parties the star referred to as “Wild King Nights”.

Ministers have been urged not to let the British wife of deposed Syrian despot Bashar Al-Assad come back to the UK amid reports she has become unhappy with life in Russia.

More than 25,000 Syrians have returned home from Turkey since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by Islamist-led HTS rebels, Turkey’s interior minister said Tuesday.

Italy’s data protection agency said on Friday it fined ChatGPT maker OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.58 million) after closing an investigation into use of personal data by the generative artificial intelligence application.

UK government accused of ‘nitpicking about compensation’ after being told to pay more to retain military base

Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger has died in an avalanche at the age of 26.

Russian oligarch and patron of the so-called "orthodox" movement, Konstantin Malofeev, hosted a lavish wedding for his daughter Natalia at the exclusive Bvlgari Resort Dubai hotel.

Two crew members from Ursa Major are missing and 14 have been rescued, Russian foreign ministry says

A 25-year-old British tourist has died in Thailand after suffering a severe reaction to magic mushrooms.

American Airlines was forced to ground all of its flights in the US on one of the busiest Christmas travel days.

One of the UK’s busiest motorways has been forced to close in part - just one day before Christmas - after a lorry overturned, sparking travel chaos as people rush home for the big day

The UK motor industry is being consulted over how the phasing-out of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 will work, the government has announced.

Medical Properties Trust, the hospital real estate company that rented to Steward, had sued Viceroy Research LLC for making public allegations of mismanagement.

A decade ago, torrential rains flooded Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands, overwhelming its decrepit water treatment system. Over a dozen people were killed and thousands more stricken with diarrheal disease.

King Charles appears to have booted several famous brands off the Royal Warrants list, including Cadbury chocolate, Elizabeth Arden and Vauxhall.

Nearly a fifth of the armed forces are unfit to fight without any restrictions, the Ministry of Defence has said.

The fastest spacecraft ever is preparing to make the closest approach to the sun on Tuesday to get a better understanding of how it works.

Defence minister Israel Katz threatens Houthi rebels in Yemen, saying the military will ‘decapitate their leadership – just as we did with Haniyeh’

The UK-born wife of Syria’s ousted leader is a controversial figure globally and, like her husband, is subject to sanctions.