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USA TODAYYouTube 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.
- BuzzFeed
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_
- People
Mom Makes TikTok Joking About Daughter's Trendy Name. Then Commenters Turn on Her for Choosing Not to Share It (Exclusive)
The mom's joke about "prophesying" pop culture trends stirred the pot online
- Reuters Videos
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.
- The Telegraph
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.
- Cosmo
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.
- Cinema Online
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
- Associated Press
China's Xi is likely to decline Trump's inauguration invitation, seeing it as too risky to attend
Chinese leader Xi Jinping would likely see President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his inauguration as too risky to accept, and the gesture from Trump may have little bearing on the increasingly competitive ties between the two nations as the White House changes hands, experts say. Trump’s incoming press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on Thursday that Trump extended an invitation to the Jan. 20 ceremony.
- Associated Press
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.
- The Observers
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
- CNN
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.
- BBC
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.
- The Telegraph
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.
- Evening Standard
'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
- People
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
- Associated Press
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.
- The Telegraph
Russian missile scientist ‘assassinated by Ukrainian special forces’
A Russian scientist known for developing cruise missiles has been found shot dead in a snowy wooded area near Moscow.
- Hello!
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
- CNN
Battered corpses show the horrors of life and death under Syria’s Assad
The 35 or so bodies were found in a military hospital in the Syrian capital of Damascus, days after the regime fell. They are believed to be among the last victims of Assad.
- HuffPost
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.