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  • YouTube TV will raise its monthly subscription price starting next year

    YouTube TV announced Thursday that it is raising prices for its base plan subscription starting next year.

  • My Lungs Are Physically Sore From Laughing So Hard At These 18 Black Twitter Tweets From The Week

    "Christmas is in two weeks and ion even got the thought that counts." — @iamchiomaa_

  • Australia to charge tech companies for news content if they do not pay

    STORY: Big tech firms face paying millions of dollars in fines under new government rules in Australia.That's if they don't pay the country's media companies for news hosted on their platforms.It puts pressures on global tech giants like Facebook-owner Meta and Alphabet's Google to pay publishers for content.Stephen Jones is Minister for Financial Services."The News Bargaining Initiative will be a new addition to that code which will create a financial incentive for agreement making between digital platforms and news media businesses in Australia.He added the platforms at risk will be significant social media sites and search engines with an Australian-based revenue over $250 million.Tech companies condemned the plan.Meta said the proposal fails to account for the realities of how their platforms work.They argued most people don't visit their pages for news content.And that news publishers voluntarily choose to post content on their platforms because they receive value from doing so.A spokesperson for Google warned the decision "risks the ongoing viability of commercial deals with news publishers in Australia".The proposed new rules come as Australia toughens its approach to the mostly US-based tech giants.Last month it became the first country to ban children under 16 from social media.Canberra also plans to threaten the companies with fines for failing to crack down on scams.

  • Uyghur fighters in Syria vow to come for China next

    A Uyghur militant group that helped to topple Bashar-al Assad has vowed to take the fight to China.

  • Blake Lively goes braless in a plunging butter yellow sequin shirt

    Blake Lively wore a Sergio Hudson yellow sequin shirt, unbuttoned to reveal she was wearing no bra, with matching yellow trousers to the 2024 Beauty Inc Awards.

  • Grace Wong reveals pregnancy in stunning Santorini announcement

    The former TVB actress shares that she and husband will be welcoming a baby after eight years of marriage

  • 2 Vietnamese police officials sexually attacked young women on visit to New Zealand, authorities say

    New Zealand authorities have “no doubt” that two Vietnamese officials sexually attacked two young female servers at a restaurant during a visit to the country, but were unable to charge the men before they returned to Vietnam, police said Thursday. Vietnam and New Zealand do not have an extradition treaty so the alleged attackers cannot be forced to face charges. One of the women said they were attacked at a restaurant in Wellington in March days before Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính was due to visit New Zealand.

  • Fears mount for Syria’s minorities as video emerges showing rebel fighters executing suspects

    Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has become Syria’s new strongman, replacing the Alawite regime of Bashar al-Assad. Once a partner of al Qaeda, Jolani now speaks the language of tolerance and openness towards Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities. He has told his fighters to refrain from extrajudicial violence, but videos emerging on social media suggest that not all of his fighters are following his directive, raising concerns among members

  • US serviceman sentenced to 5 years for kidnapping and raping Japanese schoolgirl, officials say

    A US serviceman was sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping and raping an underage girl last year, an official from Naha District Court on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa told CNN Friday.

  • Bloody siege ends Myanmar army control of western border

    Insurgents seized Myanmar's border with Bangladesh in one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war.

  • North Korean troops performing well on battlefield, say Russian bloggers

    North Korean troops have captured a village from Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian military bloggers have reported.

  • 'Please give me my life back': British teen makes emotional plea after being jailed in Dubai for holiday romance

    Marcus Fakana and his family have urged foreign secretary David Lammy to intervene in the case

  • Jennifer Lopez Is Trying to Convince Us That Super Low-Rise Jeans Are Back and It’s Working

    The 'Unstoppable' star may be reviving a highly-debated denim trend

  • Hard to see Ruben Amorim staying loyal to error-prone goalkeeper Andre Onana

    At the home of Pilsner, Andre Onana would be forgiven for buying Rasmus Hojlund a beer or two after the striker got him out of jail following another mistake to add to his collection.

  • A Syrian soldier's story: Why Assad's army didn't fight for him

    STORY: Just weeks ago, Farhan al-Khouli was manning a military outpost in Idlib, northern Syria, for Bashar al-Assad's army.The story of his desertion - one of many - shows how Assad's army crumbled as the rebels advanced.Khouli's commanding officer called to say a rebel convoy was heading their way.They were just three men, badly paid and demoralized, one deemed unfit by his superiors to bear arms.They were meant to be nine but others had bribed their way out.They should stand and fight, the officer said.Instead Khouli put his phone on airplane mode, changed into civilian clothes, dropped his rifle and fled.Ending up in Damascus, now taken by the rebels, where he got this job at a horse stable.On the road he saw other groups of deserting soldiers.“Those who were with me in the room, I no longer know anything about them. Everyone went in a different way, some went this way, others went that way. I wanted to reach the highway, because if I reached the highway, I would no longer worry. I reach Hama, I reach Homs, I have no problem. I saw all the people gathering. It was over, they fled, the whole area was gone. I said praise be to God, I am here, by God Almighty, when they said that the whole area had fallen, I started to cry with joy.":: November 29, 2024Reuters spoke to a dozen sources, including Syrian military and security sources and allied militia commanders. As Aleppo came under attack in late November, army units were not given a clear plan but were told to work it out for themselves, two Syrian security sources said. Within two weeks, the rebels had toppled Assad's brutal regime. His army lacked leadership and a defense strategy, the sources said, and had lost much of its command structure - the Iranian military advisors and militia allies such as Hezbollah - who'd left as war with Israel escalated.The army also lacked loyalty, as Khouli's story describes.Khouli didn't want to sign up but says he was forced to. He ended up at that remote post in Idlib because he'd tried to desert once and been jailed for it.One former major told Reuters the use of forced conscripts was a "fatal mistake." Khouli says he had to do heavy manual labor in extreme heat and cold.Reuters was not able to verify the details of his experiences.He says he was paid $40 a month and went hungry.“We used to get sugar, and we used to get ghee, and we used to get oil, but it all went away, it used to get stolen, and we wouldn't see any of it. What we received was a pot of bulgar wheat, mostly bulgar, I mean, we used to go 4 or 5 days with only bulgar, and each person had a pinch of tomato and potato. Each person received his portion, I mean, it wasn’t enough to fill you up.”:: North Hama, Syria:: Released December 1, 2024In 2020, the army had 130,000 personnel, according to the IISS think tank, depleted by the long civil war and functioning more like a militia.A U.S. official told Reuters Washington was learning of high-level desertions and military forces changing sides in the days before Assad fell.Corruption went up through the ranks.Colonel Makhlouf Makhlouf served in an engineering brigade stationed in Hama but deserted before the city fell on December 5.He said if anyone complained about corruption they were questioned at a military court, which happened to him more than once. A serving senior military intelligence officer told Reuters anger had been building against Assad personally within the military, especially over the past year......including among core high-ranking supporters from his minority Alawite community.Despite his army past, Khouli says he has no fear for the future. "I'm happy and at ease," he says. "I'm not afraid at all."

  • Topless women protesting the Ukraine war are detained for vandalizing sculpture near UN building

    At least three feminist activists were detained on Friday after vandalizing a monument outside the United Nations complex in Geneva to protest Russia's war against Ukraine and what they see as the U.N.'s failure to stop the conflict. Two topless women with the group FEMEN, which is known for its provocative protests, used a chainsaw to cut into the wooden sculpture known as the “Broken Chair.” The artwork symbolizes the dismemberment caused by land mines and is a call to ban the devastating weapons, which have also been used in the war in Ukraine.

  • Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann reveals she has spoken to missing girl's parents

    Julia Wandelt believes that she could be the missing British girl Madeleine McCann

  • Blue Ivy Carter Sparks Controversy By Wearing What Some Call A ‘Wildly Inappropriate’ Dress

    Certain social media users criticized the outfit, but many others voiced support for the 12-year-old daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z.

  • China jails former Premier League star Li Tie 20 years for corruption

    China on Friday jailed former Premier League star and men's national coach Li Tie for 20 years for bribery, snaring one of the country's greatest football figures in a sweeping government crackdown on corruption in sport.The 47-year-old is one of China's biggest football names, serving as national team coach from January 2020 to December 2021, after racking up nearly 100 international caps and playing as a midfielder for English Premier League side Everton.

  • Common cooking oil could be causing colon cancer surge in young people, warn doctors

    Unhealthy seed oils like sunflower, grapeseed, canola, and corn could trigger chronic inflammation in the body