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Alamy A man working on the hit show Emily in Paris has died during filming in Venice for the fifth season. La Repubblica named the man as 47-year-old Diego Borella, who was an assistant director on the show. Medics were called to Hotel Danieli in the city at around 19:00 local time (18:00 BST) on…

Rachel Muller-Heyndyk BBC News Reuters Lt Gen Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s intelligence agency chief, just weeks after a White House rebuke of a review assessing the impact of American strikes on Iran. Lt Gen Jeffery…

Turkey’s first lady has urged Melania Trump to speak out for children suffering in Israel’s war in Gaza. Emine Erdogan praised the US first lady’s support for children affected by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, asking Trump to “extend the advocacy” to Palestinians. In a letter published by the Turkish presidency on Saturday, Mrs Erdogan…

Getty Images Emmett Till’s death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement Thousands of pages of records have been released in the US detailing the government’s response to the lynching of black teenager Emmett Till in 1955. The US National Archives said the records it released ahead of the 70th anniversary…

Juna Moon BBC Korean Reporting fromSeoul, South Korea BBC The ‘desk’ of a 33-year-old developer in Starbucks In the affluent Seoul neighbourhood of Daechi, Hyun Sung-joo has a dilemma. His coffee shop is sometimes visited by Cagongjok, a term for mostly young South Koreans who love to study or work at cafes, but there’s a…

San Francisco’s crackdown on homelessness has transformed the city – but advocates say the root of the problem still remains. Source link

Getty Images Erik and Lyle were aged 18 and 21 when they killed their parents In 1989, brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their parents by shooting them repeatedly at close range at their mansion in Beverly Hills. They were found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to murder in 1996, and sentenced to life…

Chiamaka Enendu BBC News in Lagos AmunRa Eyeconic Vision Laniyah Belcarist, from St Louis in Missouri, ordered her dress from Nigeria for this year’s prom “I felt like a princess,” says US teenager Brianna LeDoux about her prom gown which she specially commissioned from Nigeria. “I wanted my dress to stop people in their tracks.”…

Police in India have arrested a man who recently alleged that he had been coerced into burying hundred of bodies of women who were raped before being murdered. His startling claims had thrown the tiny religious town of Dharmasthala in the southern state of Karnataka into turmoil. Home to the centuries-old temple to Manjunatha Swamy…

South Korea has confirmed it fired warning shots earlier in the week at North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the heavily-fortified border between the two countries. North Korean state media called the shots a “deliberate provocation” and Pyongyang has accused Seoul of risking “uncontrollable” tensions. The incident was made public as new South Korean President…