NBA All-Star John Wall and NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum on stage after the Washington Wizards won the 1st overall pick during the 2026 NBA Draft Lottery in Chicago on Sunday.
A Magellanic woodpecker on a tree in Tierra del Fuego, South America.
Baby sea lion found wandering near Bay Area highway
Péter Magyar strikes radically different tone to predecessor but questions remain about how he will lead the country Moments after he was sworn in as Hungary’s prime minister , Péter Magyar apologised to those who had been maligned by the state during Viktor Orbán’s time in power as questions continue to swirl over what lies ahead for the country as it launches into a new era. Magyar used his first speech as prime minister on Saturday to address the many in Hungary who had paid a personal price
Safety board says it is gathering information about plane evacuation after person on the runway hit in Denver The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is collecting information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines aircraft after the jet struck and killed a person on the runway during departure from Denver international airport. The flight , which was headed from Denver to Los Angeles international airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Party leader has been vocal about its gains in London and there is a feeling that its losses could have been worse By any sane person’s reckoning, the Conservative party had a night to forget in Thursday’s local, mayoral and devolved elections. It lost about 500 councillors in England and ceded control of three local authorities to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – losing to the rightwing upstarts in England, Wales and Scotland. Why then is Kemi Badenoch hailing these results as proof that “ the Conser
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Soldiers dropped oxygen supplies and medical aid to Britain’s most remote overseas territory • What is hantavirus? Paratroopers landed on a “golf course covered in rocks” to supply medical personnel and oxygen to Britain’s most remote overseas territory as it deals with a suspected hantavirus case, an army commander said. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday that a British national had disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius to the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, wher
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Former junior minister Catherine West says that unless a cabinet minister comes forward to challenge the PM by Monday, she will Good morning. There were many predictions for Labour’s future ahead of the English, Scottish and Welsh elections, which have been terrible for the party, but there is one outcome foreseen by no one: a leadership challenge by Catherine West . West, MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet and a junior Foreign Office minister until she was sacked in the reshuffle last year, annou
