France's Macron reappoints former prime minister Lecornu as PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, hoping the loyal ally ca...
Australians voiced a mix of optimism and apathy Friday as they geared up to vote in Saturday’s tight national election, with cost-of-living pressures, housing affordability and U.S. tariff tensions shaping the contest.
On Friday, Australians gearing up for Saturday’s election expressed a mix of optimism and indifference. Student Archie Mackirty admitted feeling “stressed” by the state of global politics but said early polls showing the center-left Labor government poised to win “will be good” and “help the average Australian more.”
Others, like Jose Machado and Charlotte Woodrow, were more nonchalant. Machado quipped that Liberal leader Peter Dutton “is his own worst enemy” and that Anthony Albanese “just hasn’t got any guts,” leaving voters with few appealing options.
Polls close on Saturday, May 3, in what is shaping up to be a tight national contest dominated by concerns over the cost of living, housing affordability and trade frictions tied to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. With voting compulsory, nearly 7 million of the 18 million eligible Australians had already cast ballots early or by post, the Australian Electoral Commission reported.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Developing nations are entering a new and worrying phase in their relationship with China. A new report from Boston University finds that, in 2022 and 2023, these countries paid more in debt service to China than they received in new Chinese loans.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, hoping the loyal ally can secure enough backing in a fractured parliament to pass the 2026 budget.
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister and tasked him with forming a new cabinet, a surprise move in the midst of deep political instability following Lecornu’s recent resignation.
A massive explosion rocked the Accurate Energetic Systems facility near Bucksnort, Tennessee, Friday morning. At least several people died and many remain unaccounted for, as authorities scramble to secure the site and begin an investigation.
Multiple people are dead and several others are unaccounted for after a blast on Friday morning in Tennessee at a military explosives company, according to law enforcement.
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