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Lady Gaga was the top winner at the 2025 VMAs, closing the night with four “Moon Person” trophies, including the award for artist of the year, while fellow pop stars Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter both took home three awards on Sunday night, with Grande winning the top honor for video of the year for “brighter days ahead.” “This project is about all the hard work that is healing all different kinds of trauma, and coming home to our young selves and creating safety in our own lives, which is a lifelong process and a daily exercise,” Grande, who also…

Norway is voting on Monday to elect its next parliament in what is expected to be a close race between a centre-left bloc led by the incumbent Labour Party and a centre-right bloc dominated by the populist Progress Party and Conservatives.Among the issues that could decide the vote are inequality and taxation, as well as growing controversy surrounding Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, which is facing scrutiny domestically and internationally over its investment in companies tied to Israel, amid the war on Gaza.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listUntil recently, maintaining the status of the $2 trillion investment vehicle as…

Man who absconded with his three children in 2021 shot dead after firing on police, authorities say.Published On 8 Sep 20258 Sep 2025A New Zealand father who absconded with his three children after a dispute with his ex-partner nearly four years ago has been killed by police, authorities have said.Tom Phillips, who had been on the run in the New Zealand wilderness with his children since December 2021, was shot dead after he was confronted by police following a burglary in the rural town of Piopio, police said on Monday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPhillips, who had been…

Two children still missing, say policeEva CorlettPolice have not yet located the children of Tom Phillips, acting deputy commissioner Jill Rogers said in a press conference on Monday afternoon.“We have children we believe are unaccompanied in the bush and it is our priority to locate them.”Specialist teams, including about 50 staff and the armed offenders squad, were out in force to locate the children, Rogers said. We can’t speculate as to whether they have assistance with them or not. Rogers said there were about three hours of daylight left.ShareUpdated at 23.47 EDTKey eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use…

Jimmy Kimmel is keeping “Live In Front of a Studio Audience” on a permanent pause. The series of specials, which earned raves and multiple Emmy Awards via three installments in May 2019, December 2019 and December 2021, haven’t been back since the death of icon Norman Lear in 2023. And for Kimmel, it’s probably best to keep it that way. Kimmel was backstage at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday, having just won the award for game show host (via “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”) when he was asked whether he would want to do another “Live in Front…

European leaders will visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said.The US president added that he would also speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin “soon”, as well as signalling that his administration was ready to move to a second phase of sanctions on Moscow.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the sanctions were the “right idea”, and urged European nations to stop buying Russian energy.It comes as Russia launched its largest aerial bombardment on Ukraine of the war so far, killing four and hitting Ukraine’s main government building in…

Here are the key events on day 1,292 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 8 Sep 20258 Sep 2025Here is how things stand on Monday, September 8:Fighting Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least four people, including a one-year-old baby, and wounding 44 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The attack also set the main government building in central Kyiv on fire. It marked the first time that the building had been hit since the war began. “Such killings now, when real diplomacy could have already begun long ago, are a deliberate crime…

Pamela MaldonadoSep 7, 2025, 01:37 PM ETClosePamela Maldonado is a sports betting analyst for ESPN.Through two weeks, Florida State has delivered two very different wins, and together the Seminoles are shaping a very different conversation in 2025.First came the upset, a 31-17 win over No. 8 Alabama in Week 1. That wasn’t a fluky pick-six or special teams miracle. It was structured discipline and balance.Florida State went into a heavyweight matchup and controlled the line of scrimmage, something Alabama doesn’t allow often. The Seminoles rushed for 230 yards on 49 carries (4.7 yards per rush), leaned on situational execution (5-for-12…

“Hi there Gina, hope you’re having a great day,” said another exactly two weeks later. “My name is Christine, I am a land buyer. I’m reaching out to see if you have any plans to sell the lot.” The text was signed by “Twin Acres.” Twin Acres is not a registered real estate broker. Grist’s attempt to text the number back went unanswered.Sometimes, Miceli said, she answers the texts. “It depends on my mood. I think there’s been a time or two I’ve said, ‘Go to hell.’” She has no plans to leave. She’s raising her family in the home…

Addis Abeba — Egypt and Sudan have insisted that negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) should remain confined to the three riparian states and dismissed what they claimed were efforts to involve other Nile Basin countries. In a joint communiqué released released Wednesday, 3 September, following a “2+2” consultative meeting of the foreign and water ministers of both countries in Cairo, the two governments warned that Ethiopia’s “unilateral steps” to fill and operate the dam “entail serious consequences for the two downstream states and represent a continuous threat to stability in the Eastern Nile Basin in accordance with…