LEBRON James joked that Steph Curry "froze" he and Kevin Durant out during last summer's iconic Olympic gold medal match. Team USA took on France at Bercy Arena looking to retain their title, having beaten the French in Tokyo three years prior. It hadn't been plain sailing for Steve Kerr's squad up to that point,...

A TWO-TIME hand-gliding champion has died after a catastrophic paragliding crash in Brazil. Philip Haegler, 59, was seconds from safe landing when disaster struck. The veteran flyer took off just after midday yesterday. His route was routine - soaring from Pedra da Gávea and descending toward the São Conrado shoreline in Rio de Janeiro. But...

Trainor, 31, welcomed son Riley in 2001 and Barry Bruce in 2003 with husband Daryl Sabara.

Trainor, 31, welcomed son Riley in 2001 and Barry Bruce in 2003 with husband Daryl Sabara.

Clean energy, AI, biosecurity. They sound bold, until you realise they’re the bare minimum. If CSIRO is our national science engine, where’s the work that will matter in 2050?

European leaders on Friday warned that the Ukrainian army should not be defanged and that they should be consulted on talks to end the war in Ukraine, as they scrambled to respond to a U.S.-Russian peace plan that has largely excluded them and Kyiv. The plan, which was drafted without Ukrainian or European involvement, would […]

Donald Trump is looking at ways that he could “classify” huge parts of the Jeffrey Epstein files through a loophole, according to his biographer Michael Wolff. The writer, who spend months inside the White House during Trump’s first term, believes the president could still effectively prevent the public release of files. The U.S. House of […]

KYIV — The White House is pressuring Ukraine to sign on to its new peace proposal by Thanksgiving or lose U.S. support to the country, according to two officials familiar with the talks, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive diplomatic discussions. U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on […]

Speaker Mike Johnson wants to make it harder for members of Congress to defy leadership after members of his own caucus turned on him to force a House vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Despite months of opposition from Johnson and President Donald Trump, a group of bipartisan lawmakers successfully brought a […]

Last year’s Wicked film was a big, brassy delight. Yes, the director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical—itself drawn from a revisionist riff on L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz—had its flaws (why was every outdoor scene so scorchingly overlit?). Yet the smash-hit film’s charms were hard to resist, the kind […]