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Aussie driver’s shock as speeding fines from 2007 arrive nearly 20 years later: ‘I’ve got no recollection’
A Canberra driver, Robert Scott, has been left baffled after receiving two speeding fines in the post for offences allegedly committed nearly 19 years ago, in 2007. Mr Scott, now 42, says he has no memory of the incidents and was never previously notified, despite registering multiple vehicles and being stopped by police since without…
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Trump says China ‘spies’ on US after report ties Chinese imagery to Iran strike
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that China “spies on us” just as “we spy on them,” responding to a Wall Street Journal report alleging Chinese entities supplied Iran with satellite imagery ahead of a deadly missile strike on US forces. The remarks, made to reporters aboard Air Force One, come days before Chinese President…
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Reba McEntire delivers tribute to Dolly Parton at Emmy Awards
The 78th Emmy Awards took place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, hosted by Mariska Hargitay and opening with an appearance from basketball star Jalen Brunson. The ceremony’s In Memoriam segment, led by singer Noah Kahan, paid tribute to television figures who died over the past year, while country star Reba McEntire delivered a…
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Mary Lowry – the woman at the centre of doomed love triangle that led to popular Tipperary DJ Bobby Ryan’s grisly murder – breaks silence on RTÉ plan to turn ‘Mr Moonlight’ trial into a TV series as Bansha locals react
Mary Lowry, the woman at the centre of the “Mr Moonlight” murder case, has said she knows nothing about RTÉ’s newly announced plans to turn the case into a television drama series. The case centred on the 2011 disappearance and 2013 discovery of DJ Bobby Ryan’s body on Lowry’s farm near Bansha, Co Tipperary, and…
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Emmys Party Pics 2026: Mariska Hargitay, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Riz Ahmed, Katherine LaNasa and More
Variety’s photo gallery rounds up the string of parties, brunches and receptions that preceded the 2026 Emmy Awards, capturing television stars mingling across Los Angeles in the days before the ceremony. Such galleries offer a lighter counterpoint to the awards themselves, showcasing industry camaraderie and giving a sense of which stars and shows were most…
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50 Years Ago Today, Waylon Jennings Reclaimed No. 1 With an Album That Embraced Neil Young and the Marshall Tucker Band
On 13 September 1976, Waylon Jennings returned to the top of the Billboard country albums chart with “Are You Ready for the Country,” marking his continued dominance during the outlaw country era. The milestone is notable because it reflected Jennings’ willingness to defy Nashville’s musical conventions, incorporating rock and pop influences into a country album…
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The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection
The Verge’s music writer discovered The Units, a lesser-known San Francisco punk band, after stumbling upon a reference to the “synthpunk” genre while researching another act, The Screamers. Their 1980 album Digital Stimulation is presented as a landmark of the style, blending punk’s DIY aggression with synthesizers in a way that sounds strikingly modern, decades…
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4 Hit Songs From 1966 That Feel Like Letting Loose
American Songwriter has picked out four hit songs from 1966 that capture a mood of carefree abandon, arguing that music from this year is especially good for letting your hair down and forgetting daily worries. The selection spans surf rock, pop, and the psychedelic-tinged sounds emerging in the mid-1960s, reflecting the era’s musical diversity. -…
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Homeowner stumbles upon files marked ‘SECRET’ while cleaning out his garage… and now they can be revealed for the first time
A homeowner in Waterloo, New York, discovered a hidden crawlspace in his garage that contained a box of classified documents, later confirmed by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to be first-hand accounts from American Second World War prisoners of war. Jason Hurdle, 74, who has lived in the property for 14 years, found…
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Trump forced to pay ANOTHER six-figure sum to repair troubled Reflecting Pool… as total cost skyrockets to more than $15 million
The Trump administration has agreed to pay a further $682,000 to fix problems with the Lincoln Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, pushing the total cost of the beleaguered project past $15 million. The saga has proved embarrassing for the White House after a repainting job commissioned by Trump left the pool peeling and turning green…