Contractors were racing to tear down scaffolding nets used for renovations at estates to meet Saturday’s government deadline imposed in the wake of the deadly Tai Po fire, but companies handling work at 55 blocks admitted they would need more time. An industry representative estimated that work at all sites across the city would only…
Redcar Area Foodbank Every day the foodbank reveals an item it wants people to donate A foodbank is asking for donations ahead of Christmas through a reverse advent calendar. Tracy Gibson from the Redcar Area Foodbank said it was “always busy at this time of year” and the advent calendar allowed people to give something…
Adam RittenbergDec 7, 2025, 02:10 AM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana assistant coach Ola Adams put his hands on his head in disbelief as confetti fell and the crowd roared at Lucas Oil Stadium. But the scene unfolding before Adams was very believable. Since…
Getty Images Hongkongers are mourning the worst blaze the city has seen in more than 70 years Hongkongers are voting in an election seen as a test of public sentiment following a deadly fire that angered some in the city. The government has mounted a huge campaign to encourage Hongkongers to choose members of the…
Petr Yan owned the UFC men’s bantamweight belt as far back as 2020, but he never looked more like a champion than he did Saturday night, when he dethroned Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision in an action-packed UFC 323 main event in Las Vegas. Two judges scored the bout 49-46, while the other had it…
Two longtime champions were dethroned Saturday at UFC 323 in Las Vegas, but in completely opposite ways. Joshua Van is the new men’s flyweight king, because Alexandre Pantoja suffered an arm injury seconds into the co-main event while defending a takedown. It was immediately clear Pantoja would not be able to continue, and the referee…
Fire safety risks persist at building sites across Hong Kong following the deadly blaze in Tai Po last week, the Construction Industry Council has warned, after a scaffolding worker at a major subsidised estate was sacked for smoking. Council chairman Thomas Ho On-sing on Saturday criticised companies for failing to have “learned a lesson” from…
Russia continued its aerial attacks on Ukraine overnight, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had a “very constructive” phone call with Donald Trump’s negotiating team following three days of talks in Florida. The mayor of Kremenchuk, a major industrial hub in central Ukraine, said the city had been repeatedly struck in a “massive”…
Hong Kong has recorded one additional locally acquired case of chikungunya fever involving a woman who went hiking in Tsing Yi, bringing the total number of confirmed local cases of the mosquito-borne disease this year to 10. The Centre for Health Protection said on Saturday that it had recorded a new local case as of…
Eighteen people were killed in an air strike on a town in central Myanmar, according to a local official, a rescue worker and two residents who spoke to Agence France-Presse on Saturday. Myanmar has been rocked by civil war since the military snatched power in a 2021 coup, and its battles with numerous anti-coup fighters…
