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Actor Dennis Quaid has gone viral for a rather chaotic interview that took place as he was trying to evacuate from the Los Angeles wildfires. Flames have been raging across LA for days now, with 16 people dead and thousands forced out of their houses with just the belongings they could carry while fleeing to safety. Countless citizens have lost their beloved homes and are now relying on the goodwill of strangers and their donations to get by while firefighters continue tackling the major blazes burning across the city. One of those who had to leave his property was Quaid,…

A pair of glasses worn by comedy legend Eric Morecambe have sold for £20,000 at a memorabilia auction in Hertfordshire. The late comic – who died in 1984 aged just 58 – was part of an iconic and hilarious duo with his comedy partner Ernie Wise, who died in 1999. Morecambe and Wise ruled the airways in Britain from the late 1960s until the former’s sudden death from a heart attack in the mid-1980s. Known for their famous sketches – including Andre Previn, Bring Me Sunshine, and the Breakfast routine – their numerous episodes and specials were woven into the…

Star Wars Outlaws – is the world tired of open world games? (Ubisoft) The Monday letters page wants to see Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on Nintendo Switch 2, as one reader looks forward to a Resident Evil Code: Veronica remake. Smaller generationAs we wait for the Nintendo Switch 2 and the start of a new generation I like the talk from various people, including publishers and fans, that video games have just got too big. If PlayStation and Xbox won’t stop making their consoles more powerful, then they can at least start to make their games shorter and cheaper.…

The Kumbh Mela festival in India opened on Monday, with vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims participating in ritual baths at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati rivers. Organisers anticipate the world’s largest human gathering, expecting about 400 million attendees. India opens the world's largest Hindu festival for 400 million pilgrims

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic won reelection for another five-year term on Sunday, near-complete official results showed. Milanovic, nominated by the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP), was estimated to have won 74% of the vote, after more than 99% of the ballots were counted. Dragan Primorac, the candidate for the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), secured around 26% of the vote. Croatia held a runoff vote between the two contenders on Sunday after the first round of voting on December 29. Who is Zoran Milanovic? Milanovic was first elected president in 2020. He previously served as prime minister from late 2011 until early 2016. A stalwart of…

The You Me Bum Bum Train is the most life-changing experience you can pay for in London It’s been three weeks since I was a passenger on the You Me Bum Bum Train and I’m still completely shaken up by it. The adrenaline shows absolutely no sign of leaving my body, I’m still questioning what really happened to me and if I’ll ever feel ‘normal’ again – whatever that might mean. ‘What on earth is a You Me Bum Bum Train?’. Well, that’s the thing – and this makes a review pretty complicated, I can’t tell you anything about it…

Jeff Bezos told Reuters on Sunday that he trusts Elon Musk will not leverage his relationship with President-elect Donald Trump against Blue Origin. Bezos expressed optimism about the new administration’s space policies, crediting Musk for prioritising public interest over personal gain.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Romania’s capital, Bucharest, on Sunday to protest the Constitutional Court’s decision last month to order that the presidential election be re-run. They demanded that the vote take place and that outgoing centrist President Klaus Iohannis resign immediately. “We demand a return to democracy through the resumption of elections, starting with the second round,” George Simion of the right-wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), said. Why did Romania’s top court cancel the first round? The Constitutional Court initially declared the first round outcome as legal, only to surprisingly annul it two days before the runoff was due…

America’s most expensive natural disasters in recent decades Over the last several decades, various types of natural disasters have wreaked havoc around the U.S., but which cataclysms have cost the most? The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lists hundreds of costly disasters that occurred from 1980 through 2024. “The U.S. has sustained 403 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2024). The total cost of these 403 events exceeds $2.915 trillion,” the NCEI notes. Hurricanes occupy nine of the top…

  The second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, will propose this Wednesday to social agents an increase in the minimum wage of 50 euros (4.4%), which would reach 1,184 euros per month, with fourteen payments, according to confirmed in an interview in La Vanguardia. This is the highest option proposed by experts, who recommend an increase of 3.4% or 4.4% by 2025, depending on two different calculation methods, that is, increasing the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI). in 39 or 50 euros gross per month, which would rise to 1,173 euros or 1,184 euros gross per month. Díaz…