“The Ptolemaic dynasty was super into inbreeding to maintain bloodlines. They rarely married outside their family, and when they did, they brought in Macedonian or Greek nobility to marry. There’s some speculation that Cleopatra may have had some Syrian blood…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone slammed into an apartment building in eastern Ukraine early Saturday while many were sleeping, killing four people — three in Dnipro and one in Kharkiv — and wounding 12 others, Ukrainian authorities reported.…
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in the neck in Birmingham city centre. Djeison Rafael, 21, is accused of the attack outside the Bullring shopping centre, and is also charged with two counts…
Item 1 of 5 Apartment buildings hit during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine November 8, 2025. REUTERS/Mykola Synelnykov [1/5]Apartment buildings hit during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro,…
The battle for Pokrovsk has been the subject of military reports for days. For Ukrainian troops, the entrenched fighting on this stretch of the front line is critical. Twenty-one months after the Russian invasion of Avdiivka, a suburb of Donetsk, Pokrovsk could now be…
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, Gaza health officials said Saturday, as both sides completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of the tenuous ceasefire.…
SAO PAULO — The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court panel reviewing former President Jair Bolsonaro’s appeal rejected his request on Friday. Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the case’s rapporteur, rejected all defense arguments, calling them “unfeasible,” and said there…
BANGKOK — An American man and his teenage son died last month after they were swarmed by wasps while ziplining at an adventure camp in Laos and stung many dozens of times, a hospital official said Thursday. Dan Owen, the…
Sam FrancisPolitical reporter Getty Images Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing party is in a stand-off over £800,000 held by Zarah Sultana, who is meant to be founding the party with him. The funds are from the initial wave of donations when…
Even the D-Day Girls couldn’t stop him from speaking his mind PublishedNovember 7, 2025 2:00 PM EST•UpdatedNovember 7, 2025 1:45 PM EST Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link The state of things over in England, and Europe at large, is fairly…