NBA games back in China for first time since Hong Kong row
Two games in Macau this weekend will be the first since the league was effectively frozen out in 2019.
Day: October 9, 2025
‘Ended war’: Trump gives timeline on hostage release; Gaza plan to be signed in Egypt
US President Donald Trump announced the end of the Gaza war and a ceasefire deal, expecting hostages to be released Monday or Tuesday. He plans a trip to Egypt for an official signing of the agreement. However, Hamas rejected Trump’s proposed “Board of…
How Albanian gangsters are being ‘schooled in torture’ by Mexican assassins – as bloody trail of death scars UK streets
IT was a sight so grisly that onlookers initially thought the bloodied body hanging from a sign at the side of the road was a Halloween decoration.
They were gripped with terror when they realised the figure hanging from a billboard w…
Gaza peace deal explained: What we know about Israel-Hamas agreement
Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, 8 October, that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal.
Live updates: Israel and Hamas sign first phase of Gaza ceasefire deal that would release hostages – The Washington Post
Live updates: Israel and Hamas sign first phase of Gaza ceasefire deal that would release hostages The Washington PostAt a key moment in talks that led to the Gaza ceasefire deal, Trump refused to take no for an answer AP NewsIsra…
Amazon’s $40m Melania Trump doc set for January release with ‘exclusive footage’ of ‘critical meetings’
The film from disgraced director, Brett Ratner, will premiere in cinemas and follow the first lady in the 20 days prior to the 2025 inaugurationAmazon is set to release its Melania Trump documentary in cinemas January 2026.The film follows the first la…
Phillipson presses Starmer and Reeves to abolish two-child benefit cap in full
Exclusive: education secretary tells the Guardian scrapping limit entirely in November’s budget most cost-effective way to tackle child povertyBridget Phillipson is pushing the prime minister and chancellor to scrap the two-child benefit cap entirely i…
2025 Nobel Prize in Literature for Beginners: Who is László Krasznahorkai? Meet Franz Kafka fan and his literary heir of despair
Critics have called him “the Kafka of our time.” The New York Times described him as “a writer of haunting, Kafkaesque intensity.” The Guardian dubbed him “the Hungarian master of apocalypse.” Translator George Szirtes said his novels “come from the sa…
Traffic to Bari Weiss’ The Free Press soared in the month before she was named CBS News editor-in-chief
Besides its 44 percent bump last month compared to September 2024, the Weiss-founded site was up 134 percent compared to the same month in 2023.
Relief and disbelief greet Gaza ceasefire announcement in Israel
After two years of war on Gaza, Israelis struggle to believe that the conflict may have finally ended.