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CNN features writer Amy Gunia had just arrived in Sydney from Hong Kong on Sunday morning for a family vacation with her husband, toddler and baby. The beach was crowded with families with children and people enjoying a swim after a hot summer day. Her family had just finished an early dinner in North Bondi and were walking back south past the Bondi Pavilion when they heard a “cracking” sound. “I thought maybe it was fireworks or some sort of celebration, so I turned around,” Gunia said.”We had two kids in strollers and we saw people who were near the…
Rafinha’s brace helped Barcelona defeat Osasuna and extend their lead over leaders Real Madrid to seven points.Published December 14, 2025December 14, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareOn Saturday, Barcelona extended their lead at the top of La Liga to seven points with a hard-fought 2-0 win against tenacious Osasuna, with Rafinha scoring twice late in the second half.Hansi Flick’s side currently have 43 points, comfortably clear of second-placed Real Madrid. Real Madrid still have a game left and will face Alaves on Sunday.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listBarcelona dominated from the start, enjoying an impressive 80%…
Police remain at the scene of the December 13, 2025, shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island that left two people dead and at least eight others injured.Libby O’Neill Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Police are searching for a suspect after authorities say a black-clad gunman killed at least two people and injured nine others Saturday at Brown University, an Ivy League campus during final exams.University President Christina Paxson said she was told the 10 people shot were students. Another person was injured by shrapnel from the gunfire, but it was unclear whether that victim…
Reuters — Police in Australia’s Tasmania state said Sunday they will join a private search effort after the mobile phone of a Belgian woman who went missing in the wilderness more than two years ago was found in the southern island state. Friends and family of Celine Cremer have arranged a private search this weekend in bushland near Philosopha Falls, where she went missing in June 2023. A few days later, her car was found nearby by police, but despite multiple searches, no trace of her was found. On Saturday, searchers found a mobile phone in an area previously searched…
President Donald Trump’s verdict on Europe: a group of “declining” nations led by “weak” peoples. His criticism in a recent interview with Politico adds to a tough period for the European Union, which faces challenges that will test Europe’s leaders on many fronts in the final weeks of the year. Next week is shaping up to be a big one, with a high-stakes summit in Brussels and the European Central Bank’s last policy meeting of the year. Let’s take a look at some of the key topics for next week. Thawing frozen assetsAt the summit in Brussels on Thursday, which…
Victor Wembaneyama and San Antonio defeated the defending NBA champions to advance to the NBA Cup championship game.Published December 14, 2025December 14, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareVictor Wembaneyama returned from a calf injury and scored 15 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 111-109 upset of the Oklahoma City Thunder in Las Vegas on Saturday night, clinching a spot in the NBA Cup Finals.Devin Vassell scored 23 points, De’Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle each added 22 points, and San Antonio suffered its second loss to the Thunder in…
Wall Street’s most overbought stocks this week included no tech stocks, reflecting investors continuing to flee the group for more value-oriented parts of the market. This week, investors cashed in recent gains in skyrocketing artificial intelligence growth stocks and instead moved their money into stocks that have been overlooked in other parts of the market, such as financials, industrials and health care stocks, which are more sensitive to economic trends and more sensitive to economic trends. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index was hit hardest by this rotation, ending last week down 1.6%. The S&P 500 fell 0.6%, while the blue-chip…
Todd Combs, one of Warren Buffett’s hand-picked investment lieutenants and a key executive at Geico, Berkshire Hathaway’s top-tier insurance business, is leaving the conglomerate after a 15-year tenure that helped define the company’s post-Buffett transition. Mr Combs, 54, first came to the attention of Mr Buffett’s late partner Charlie Munger, who famously said he had received an unsolicited letter from the former hedge fund manager. “He sent me a letter and that’s how things happened,” Munger said in 2011. “And anyway, I had dinner with him, and then I called Warren and said, ‘I think you should talk to this…
warsaw, poland Reuters — Border guards said Friday that more than 180 migrants entered Poland through tunnels hidden in forests on the border with Belarus. About 130 of them were detained in Poland after the passage was discovered on Thursday, the Polish border guard said in a statement, while the rest were still at large. The agency released a video of the tunnel, dug through roots and bare ground and supported by wooden pillars and metal bars, but only 1.5 meters (5 feet) high, not high enough for most people to pass through without squatting. European Union member Poland has…
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, September 9, 2021.Mikhail Voskresensky | Kremlin Sputnik | Via ReutersBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday released 123 prisoners of war, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Biaryatsky and opposition leader Maria Kaleznikova, after two days of talks with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy.In return, the United States agreed to lift sanctions on Belarus’ Kali. Potash is an important ingredient in fertilizers, and the former Soviet state is one of the world’s leading producers.Lukashenko’s release of prisoners was the largest to date…