A girl moves around a Chinese restaurant, talking to her working mother in Under the Wave off Little Dragon, a short film from Luo Jian, which is featured at the69th editionof theBFILondon Film Festival(LFF). The Mandarin-, English- and Welsh-language movie is 14 minutes long and part of an LFF collection of shorts screening under the…
At a laboratory in northern China, less than an hour away from Beijing, a team of scientists is working on a new technology with huge potential as a clean energy source: nuclear fusion. The spacious ENN Group campus in Langfang, Hebei province, is home to a cluster of experimental facilities. At its heart is a…
A Taiwanese airline has apologised for requesting paperwork from a dead employee, in the latest development of a case that has sparked widespread anger. The 34-year-old Eva Air flight attendant, surnamed Sun, died earlier this month after reportedly feeling unwell during a flight. Many online have speculated she was overworked. Taiwanese authorities and Eva Air…
Chloe HughesWest Midlands University of Worcester Third-year paramedic services student was on placement at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital Paramedic services student Elise Faragher had no idea her routine hospital placement would see her helping to deliver the baby of someone very familiar. The third-year student was at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital when her lecturer, Aaron…
Charlie CremeOct 16, 2025, 08:10 AM ET Close Charlie Creme projects the women’s NCAA tournament bracket for ESPN.com. As much as February and March get most of the attention, NCAA tournament résumés begin their construction the moment the college basketball season begins. November and December matter. They matter plenty. Those are the games that shape…
Mourners leave flowers outside hotel where late pop star’s life ended, in Buenos Aires ARGENTINA: Fans of the late pop star Liam Payne gathered on Thursday in Buenos Aires to mark the first anniversary of the artist’s death. A makeshift shrine with flowers, images of the singer and candles was placed outside the Hotel CasaSur,…
A suicide attack targeting security forces in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, has been foiled after one militant drove an explosive-laden vehicle into the perimeter wall of a security forces’ camp, according to security sources. The vehicle exploded, after which three more assailants attempted to storm the compound on foot. All three were shot dead outside…
Nick ParkinsonOct 16, 2025, 07:47 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. We have been here a few times before with Tyson Fury, but it looks like the entertaining former heavyweight champion is set to end his retirement — again — and could be…
A new Simon Rich comedy is coming to Broadway with a cast of rotating stars, including Jon Stewart, Mike Birbiglia, Heidi Gardner and Jim Gaffigan. The show, All Out: Comedy About Ambition, will see the cast read stories by Rich about ego, envy and greed, with original music played by the band Lawrence. This follows…
TOKYO — What if a political earthquake upends Japan in unpredictable ways and yet very little changes anyway? It would be better for Asia’s second-biggest economy if we could dismiss this question out of hand. If we could say definitively that the Liberal Democratic Party’s Sanae Takaichi or the Democratic Party for the People’s Yuichiro…
