Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding took over New York City on Friday, as the star-studded ceremony drew dozens of fans outside Madison Square Garden. The two-day event shut down one of the busiest areas of New York, with a barrage of A-list celebrities, such as Selena Gomez, Camila Cabello, Hugh Grant, Gracie Abrams, Ellie…
Zelensky said on Saturday morning that the targets hit in St Petersburg and the surrounding region were about 850km (528 miles) from Ukraine’s border. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear, but a video posted by the Ukrainian president showed a drone flying towards a target and a huge column of black smoke…
Around 1,000 names were reportedly on the guest list, including some of the biggest stars from music, Hollywood and sport. Selena Gomez, Camila Cabello, Hugh Grant, Gracie Abrams, Gigi Hadid, Bradley Cooper, Tom Hanks, Millie Bobby Brown, Ellie Goulding, Graham Norton, Dakota Johnson, Steven Spielberg, were among the A-list attendees. Many more drove straight in…
Pope Leo XIV has called on European leaders to rise to the “momentous challenge” of handling migration as he visited the Italian island of Lampedusa. The pontiff urged Europe to help new arrivals integrate better and improve conditions in their home countries, during a mass on the island, which receives tens of thousands of migrants…
Large crowds of black-clad mourners have gathered outside Tehran’s main mosque to pay their respects to Iran’s former supreme leader on the first day of his funeral comemorations. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s body is currently lying in state at the Grand Mosalla, ahead of his eventual burial in his hometown of Mashhad next Thursday. Authorities expect…
On what should be a busy morning at Kaliluni Primary School in southern Kenya, only cows are in attendance, grazing between broken classroom doors that hang open to reveal rows of empty chairs. Three years ago, more than 200 children filled this rural school with noise and activity. Now there are only five pupils –…
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has been declared the winner of Peru’s tight presidential election, nearly a month after the vote took place. The 51-year-old won 50.135% of voters’ support in the runoff, held on 7 June, to 49.865% for left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez – a margin of less than 50,000 votes, figures certified by Peru’s…
Others say substitutes such as soybeans or kidney beans, suggested by an Iskcon official, are not widely eaten in the state and may not be readily accepted by students. Some politicians and activists have proposed a middle path: let students choose between eggs and a vegetarian alternative. Eggs have long been considered one of the…
The Pennsylvania-born singer has been based in New York since 2014 – when she bought two adjoining Tribeca penthouses for $20m (£15m) and combined them into one massive living space. She fell in love with the city after discovering she could go shopping without being bothered, saying that she was “physically different since” moving there….
In Washington, an Independence Day morning was cancelled “after extensive and careful consideration of the safety of our participants, spectators, and staff as the top priority,” organisers said. The intense heat also led to the closure of the fair on the National Mall for several hours on Friday, one day before the holiday. The State…