Author: News Desk

Jerry Springer’s staggering net-worth at time of death The controversial late talk show host Jerry Springer had amassed an eyewatering sum of money by the time he died in 2023. Springer was the face of one of America’s most shocking talk shows, The Jerry Springer Show, which ran from 1991 to 2018. Throughout 4,000 episodes, he put ‘trash TV’ on the map by bringing ‘ordinary’ people on to share their explosive stories – often resulting in volatile showdowns and jaw-dropping confessions. But the show’s legacy has been mired in controversy over the decades, all the way up to Springer’s death…

Rock band Rush regret ‘letting fans down’ with short final tour The surviving members of 1980s hitmaking-band Rush have revealed they regret their final tour being so short. The progressive rock group played their last gigs almost a decade ago, but now Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, both 71, say they feel they ‘really let down’ fans in the UK and Europe after not pushing harder to take the R40 Live gigs outside of North America. Late drummer Neil Peart had been opposed to more shows and only wanted a limited run. ‘I’d pushed really hard to get more gigs…

Oasis’ Noel Gallagher joins supergroup led by Ringo Starr’s son Oasis’s Noel Gallagher has joined Mantra Of the Cosmos, a supergroup led by Sir Ringo Starr’s son, as they drop a psychedelic new single. The Oasis frontman and The Beatles legend’s son, drummer Zak Starkey, make up the band alongside Happy Monday’s vocalist Shaun Ryder, former Oasis guitarist Andy Bell and Happy Mondays’ Mark ‘Bez’ Berry on percussion. The song, Domino Bones (Get Dangerous), marks the supergroup’s third single since 2023 after X (Wot You Saying) and Gorilla Guerilla which they debuted live at Glastonbury Festival. ‘Mantra Of The Cosmos…

Tactical Breach Wizards review – black magic ops Tactical Breach Wizards -sorcery warfare One of 2024’s hidden gems is a turn-based tactics game where wizards are spec ops soldiers and the script is even better than the combat. We didn’t have as much time as we hoped before Christmas; to go back and review interesting games we’d missed earlier in the year. Only a few were left out but since there’s nothing new of note out at the moment we wanted to cover a few more, before the year begins in earnest. Top of that list is Tactical Breach Wizards,…

 Games Inbox: How powerful is the Nintendo Switch 2? There’s still a lot of questions to answer (Nintendo) Undefined powerEven with leaks of the motherboard and some expert analysis I don’t feel we really know anything very definitive about the Switch 2’s power levels. So, it’s basically similar to a PlayStation 4, except publishers will probably end up porting PlayStation 5 games to it anyway? That doesn’t really lock anything down. At the end of the day, all that matters is what the games look like and I’m already at the point where I barely recognise things like ray-tracing or…

Robbie Williams premiere shuts down and celebrities evacuate as California wildfire threatens homes As 30,000 people, including celebrities, were ordered to evacuate their LA homes to escape the rapidly growing wind-driven California wildfire, Robbie Williams’ Better Man biopic has been cancelled. Residents living in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, home to numerous celebrities, were told ‘don’t wait, evacuate’ by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services as the blaze burned more than 1,200 acres within the first five hours. ‘Los Angeles is currently experiencing an extreme fire weather condition with red flag alert,’ the Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said…

Wide-ranging international sanctions made it a crime to work with Syria’s former government. But should it be a crime to work with the new one? That’s a question aid organizations, civil society groups and Syrian ex-pats have been asking since a coalition of rebel groups toppled the authoritarian Assad regime last month. Syria has long been one of the most sanctioned countries in the world because of the Assad family, which headed the government there for 54 years. But after ousting the regime in early December, Syrian rebels assembled a caretaker government, and that government inherited all of the sanctions…

Much remains unclear days after the Ukrainian army’s latest  surprise offensive in the Russian region of Kursk. Kyiv has so far remained silent, as it did at the beginning of August 2024 when Ukraine advanced into the Russian region for the first time. Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Monday that an “attempted advance” by Ukrainian forces towards the area of Bolshesoldatsky, some 80 kilometers (about 50 miles) southwest of the regional capital Kursk, had been reported. According to Moscow, four tanks, two infantry combat tanks, 16 armored combat vehicles and a mine clearance vehicle were destroyed. It is not possible…

Germany pushing EU to ease sanctions on Syria   Germany is at the helm of efforts within the European Union (EU) to ease sanctions on Syria following President Bashar Assad’s ouster, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Berlin is pushing for the move within the bloc, provided it is met with progress on social issues, the FT said. The French AFP news agency also reported that Germany is seeking to reduce EU sanctions on Syria, citing diplomats. What else do we know about the German proposal? Shortly before Christmas, Berlin circulated two documents among EU capitals with suggestions for where the…

Turkey threatens offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters   Turkey threatened on Tuesday to launch a military operation against Kurdish forces in Syria unless they accepted Ankara’s conditions for a “bloodless” transition after the demise of President Bashar Assad. “We will do what’s necessary” if the Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) fail to agree to Turkish demands, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told CNNTurk television. When asked what that might entail, he said a “military operation.” Turkey considers the YPG, which spearheads the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as a terrorist outfit linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been engaged in a decades-old insurgency against the Turkish…