Marco Rubio can’t hide pride as daughter introduces him on stage. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio could not hide his pride as his daughter Daniella introduced him before his keynote address at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention in Washington DC on Friday.Daniella, a third-year law student at the University of Virginia, spoke about…
Syria has reversed a temporary requirement for American and British citizens to obtain prior approval before entering the country, restoring the earlier entry procedures following controversy over reports that US travellers were being denied entry at border crossings. The Syrian Foreign Ministry announced the decision on Friday, November 13, saying that the requirement for advance…
Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen were caught on a hot mic at COP31 A private exchange between the prime minister of Australia Anthony Albanese and the Australian minister for climate change and energy Chris Bowen was inadvertently caught on camera on the sidelines of the COP31 summit in Türkiye.The exchange was a private joke related…
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has won Alaska’s gubernatorial election. Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has won Alaska’s gubernatorial election, ending the Republican Party’s hold on the state’s governor’s office for the first time since 1998. His victory comes as Democrats make significant gains across state governments in the 2026 US midterm elections.Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state lawmaker, defeated three…
Representative image from Canva A dispute over a Mississippi man’s estate has ended with the Court of Appeals upholding a will signed more than two decades earlier. The case, In the Matter of the Estate of Lamar DeLoach, decided on 10 November 2026, turned on whether a later document had validly revoked the 2003 will,…
Rory Amon (Wikimedia Commons) Former Australian MP Rory Amon has been found guilty of raping and indecently assaulting a 13-year-old boy he met through a dating app in 2017, following a retrial at the New South Wales Supreme Court.A 12-member jury returned its verdict on Friday after deliberating for about four hours. Amon, 37, was…
Ramla (Rana) Hammoud, a member of Team 100% Fish. Image Credit: University of Windsor A team of students at the University of Windsor, Canada, has come up with a business idea that could give a second purpose to discarded Lake Erie fish. Ramla Hammoud is spearheading the student team looking at ways to use fish-processing…
The Trump administration has raised its demand for air traffic control funding to $50 billion after a communications failure triggered a nationwide ground stop in the United States on Friday, disrupting thousands of flights for several hours.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the incident exposed the urgent need to replace the country’s ageing air traffic control…
Former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams and his family have donated 75 hectares, or about 185 acres, of family land to the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to protect rare lichen habitat. The land, located north of St. Catharines in Newfoundland and Labrador, has been added to the Salmonier River Nature Reserve, bringing the…
Gavin Hynam mentors young drivers, offering practical guidance, encouragement and support beyond driving lessons. For some, grief stays with them for a lifetime. But for Australian mechanic Gavin Hynam, the loss of his oldest son became the beginning of a mission that has changed the lives of young people all over regional Victoria. The 65-year-old…
