A New South Wales (NSW) politician has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men in Australia. A jury found Gareth Ward – who is still a sitting member of state parliament – guilty of three counts of indecent assault and one count of rape. Both of the victims, who were aged 18 and…
7 hours ago James Cook Scotland editor As Donald Trump heads to Scotland, what to expect from his visit Donald Trump flies into Scotland later to visit two golf resorts which he owns in the country where his mother was born. He will travel to Turnberry in South Ayrshire, a world-class venue he bought in…
Losing someone we love can affect us in many ways Vidar Nordli-Mathisen/Unsplash People who experience long periods of intense grief after the death of a loved one seem to have a higher risk of dying within the next decade than those who come to terms with their loss more easily. Numerous studies have linked bereavement…
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But making small-dick jokes isn’t woke—it’s exactly that type of humor, along with an affinity for saying the r-word and racial and homophobic slurs that helped cultivate South Park’s right-wing audience. Marx thinks that’s a good thing for liberals. “Right-wing humorists, the Joe Rogans and Andrew Schulzes of the world, they’re the ones occupying this…
Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator…
A US tech company’s chief people officer who was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing the company’s CEO has resigned. Kristin Cabot is no longer working for Astronomer, the firm told the BBC in a statement. Her departure follows that of Andy Byron, the company’s former CEO, who left last…
16 hours ago Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Watch: Hulk Hogan at the 2024 Republican National Convention Hulk Hogan, one of America’s best-known wrestling stars, has died at the age of 71. The star, born Terry Gene Bollea and known for his flowing blond hair and iconic handlebar moustache, died at his home in Florida on…
US President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order at an AI summit on 23 July 2025 in Washington, DC Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump wants to ensure the US government only gives federal contracts to artificial intelligence developers whose systems are “free from ideological bias”. But the new requirements could allow his administration…
Hotter seas can lead to more intense storms, such as Hurricane Milton in 2024 NOAA Extreme marine heat recorded since 2023 might herald the start of a regime shift in the world’s oceans that poses a grave threat to life on Earth, scientists have warned. Record-breaking marine heatwaves emerged in the North Atlantic and Pacific…