Getty Images Salome Zourabichvili (right) was filmed asking masked riot police: “Are you serving Russia or Georgia?” Salome Zourabichvili’s family fled Georgia in 1921 after Soviet forces snuffed out the country’s three-year experiment with independence from Russia. A century later, Georgia’s pro-Western president is refusing to leave office, arguing she is the last legitimate institution…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former global head of equity capital markets at Bank of America and is now a managing director at Seda Experts Bitcoin’s spectacular surge this year has reignited a dilemma on Wall…
Matt Kelley/Getty Images After his admission about eating raccoon meat went viral, Carolina Panthers wide receiver Xavier Legette brought some to work to share. Legette, 23, made the culinary revelation on the December 10 episode of the “St. Brown Podcast,” hosted by Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown. “Like, a raccoon you see in…
BBC This has been a miserable year for Boeing. Not only has it struggled to cope with a safety and quality control crisis, it has lost billions of dollars following a strike by workers that paralysed production at two of its biggest factories. Even its space programme has been in trouble. Two astronauts were left…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A battle between Elon Musk and Maga supporters over immigration has highlighted a fracture between Donald Trump’s new backers in Silicon Valley and his more radical base. The rift over immigration policy and…
Jordon Hudson. Courtesy of Jordon Hudson/Instagram Jordon Hudson pulled an all-nighter to get her bedazzled gameday ‘fit in order. Hudson, 24, showed off a custom-made University of North Carolina sweatshirt she made for herself via her Instagram Story on Thursday, December 26. “Two…Eternities…Later,” Hudson captioned a picture of the iconic UNC logo studded with Carolina…
BBC Abdullah Al Nofal (left) and his wife Douna Haj Ahmed It was early December when Douna Haj Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, discovered the disturbing details of her husband’s detention in the notorious Al-Khatib prison – known as “Hell on Earth“. She was watching bewildered prisoners fleeing the country’s brutal security apparatus, on the news…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Global corporate debt sales soared to a record $8tn this year, as companies took advantage of red-hot demand from investors to accelerate their borrowing plans. Issuance of corporate bonds and leveraged loans climbed by more…
Hannah Berner Ser Baffo/Netflix UPDATE — 12/27/24 at 2:22 p.m. ET: Hannah Berner has broken her silence after receiving backlash for her Blake Lively joke during her Netflix special Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year. “My joke in the Netflix roast was filmed before news of the lawsuit,” Berner wrote via her Instagram Story…
Getty Images What is driving people to murder strangers en masse? It’s a question many in China are asking “The Chinese people are so miserable,” read a social media post in the wake of yet another mass killing in the country earlier this year. The same user also warned: “There will only be more and…
