Anthony Geary, the thoughtful General Hospital actor who as the complex Luke Spencer raped and romanced Genie Francis’ Laura Webber Baldwin on the way to an unprecedented eight Daytime Emmy Awards and soap opera superstardom, has died. He was 78. Geary lived in the Netherlands and died Sunday of complications from a scheduled operation in…
Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has been found guilty on all three charges after a landmark national security trial, nearly five years after he was first denied bail following his arrest. The 78-year-old businessman turned opposition activist, who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily tabloid, was convicted on Monday of two charges of…
Michael VoepelDec 14, 2025, 07:42 PM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. The NCAA women’s volleyball tournament was rocked Sunday as Texas A&M upset previously undefeated No. 1…
Serayah McNeill, star of Empire and Ruth & Boaz, has signed with Kensington Grey for representation. McNeill played Hakeem’s ex Tiana Brown in the role of a rising star singer on the Fox drama for five seasons to 2020, having been promoted from a recurring to a regular role in the second season. She also…
The cultural obsession with accused killer Luigi Mangione and a new project co-directed by NBA superstar Steph Curry are among the short film selections at next month’s Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Institute revealed today all 54 shorts selected for the festival that will screen in programs presented by Ketel One Vodka. The news comes…
Hong Kong’s High Court found former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying guilty on all charges in his national security trial on Monday, ruling that he had used his tabloid newspaper and international connections to push for foreign intervention and sanctions against the local and central governments. In open proceedings watched by a packed gallery of…
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was taken to hospital after being beaten when she was arrested last week, her family says. The 53-year-old human rights activist told them in a phone call on Sunday that she was brought to an emergency department twice after being “attacked by plain clothed agents with severe and…
Ciara is set to headline at TikTok‘s inaugural TikTok Awards, the platform revealed to The Hollywood Reporter, days before the ceremony is set to take place in Los Angeles this week. With the awards, TikTok is hoping to fill a gap in recognizing the digital creator ecosystem . Hosted live at the Hollywood Palladium on…
Johanna Chisholmand BBC Verify How Bondi Beach shooting unfolded minute by minute It was a night that promised to bring “joy and light” to Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach as crowds of Jewish families gathered at a park to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, also known as the festival of light. They were among thousands…
Michael RaceBusiness reporter PA Media Rishi Sunak has said not all jobs could be saved during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the government was able to prevent mass unemployment. The former prime minister, who was chancellor at the time, said it “wasn’t going to be possible to save every person’s job”. But he said the government…
