‘Free tickets + $50 for Melania movie’: Craigslist Ad offers money for documentary, says ‘must remain in seats for entire film’

Despite US President Donald Trump’s claims that the new documentary about his wife was “selling out fast”, opening night data from the film’s Boston screenings showed nearly empty theatres.There was also an apparent effort to buy an audience for the First Lady’s documentary, “Melania”, which chronicled her private life leading up to the 2025 inauguration.As…

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Watch: Trump’s ‘very famous’ Ozempic friend sparks guessing game, JD Vance says ‘not me’

US President Donald Trump sent reporters on an unexpected guessing game after sharing an anecdote about a “very famous” friend for whom Ozempic apparently didn’t work—prompting amused denials from within his own administration. As journalists tried to decode the mystery, Vice President JD Vance jumped in to rule himself out, drawing laughter and briefly turning…

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‘Heartbroken, alone’: ICE arrests 58-year-old McDonald’s worker, ‘laughed’ at son bringing medicine for father

ICE agents reportedly laughed at a teenager who took life-saving medication to his 58-year-old father at a detention facility after the man was arrested while working at McDonald’s outside Minneapolis and later detained at a nearby facility.A video circulating on social media shows ICE agents arresting an old man and later during an interview with…

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Indian driver on student visa jailed in Australia for $200,000 real estate scam, impersonated law firm to defraud homebuyer

A 28-year-old Indian man in Australia on student visa, working as an Uber driver, has been arrested and jailed for a calculated fraud in which he impersonated a law firm and created an entity out of thin air to convince a prospective homebuyer to transfer money to him. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the person’s…

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‘You don’t belong in this country’: Police kick, use racist slurs against Muslim women in Netherlands

A video circulating on social media shows two Muslim women being kicked and hit by a police officer in the Netherlands’ Utrecht. According to the Dutch News, the women later made a formal complaint about their treatment, their lawyer told the television current affairs programme Nieuwsuur on Wednesday evening.Footage circulating on social media showed one…

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Random Musing: A brief history of the Church of England (as it gets its first woman Archbishop of Canterbury) | World News

In Yes Minister, when Jim Hacker finds out that Italian terrorists have access to British-made weapons, Sir Humphrey Appleby tries to mollify him by pointing out it’s not their department’s problem. British weapons in the hands of foreign terrorists were outside the Ministry of Administrative Affairs’ jurisdiction. Probably a Defence Ministry problem, or a Foreign…

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Diplomatic tension after Kash Patel claims FBI nabbed Ryan Wedding; Mexico says drug lord ‘surrendered’

A diplomatic tension has been triggered between the US and Mexico after FBI director Kash Patel claimed that his agents arrested drug lord Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympian, in Mexico. Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum said there was no US involvement and Wedding actually surrendered. She said she won’t fight over this with Patel, but…

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The $1,000 Trump Account for newborns: Who is eligible, how to apply and what comes next | World News

Children born during the newly announced eligibility window may receive a government-seeded $1,000 Trump Account, a long-term investment account created in a child’s name and designed to grow until adulthood. The initiative aims to introduce investing at birth by placing the initial deposit into market-linked assets and restricting access until the child turns 18. Families…

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