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A notorious 'party mom' in California finally admitted shame for letting children party at her mansion as she's sentenced to over three decades behind bars.  Shannon O'Connor, 52, was nicknamed the Los Gatos 'Party Mom' after she allowed dozens of high school freshmen to secretly party at least six times in her mansion from 2020 to 2021.

Boston’s liberal mayor is promoting a transgender menstruation event at a public library — offering attendees a catered meal and free period underwear — just weeks after the city revealed a budget shortfall of nearly $50 million. Mayor Michelle Wu’s office for LGBTQ advancement has partnered with the Massachusetts National Organisation for Women and several local pro-LGBTQ groups to host an event called Trans Period Pride on 17 June at a branch of Boston Public Library. Promoted via an Instagram post decorated in the pink and blue shades of the transgender pride flag, the event is billed as “another consciousness raising conversation around transgender experiences with menstruation.”

China has built a network of several launch pads near its nuclear missile silos as it ensures no American first strike could knock out Beijing’s ability to hit back. Satellite images have revealed Beijing is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military’s longest-range missiles.

An American woman who claims to be missing British toddler Katrice Lee will arrive in the UK next week to 'prove' her identity. Heather McCord is due to land at London Gatwick Airport on Thursday - and says she plans to take a DNA test. Katrice vanished on her second birthday from an armed forces supermarket in Paderborn, West Germany, in 1981. Her family has denounced McCord as a hoaxer who wants to gain attention and money out of their tragedy.

Doritos is asking fans to show off their 'red, white and bold' patriotism with a cheesy new challenge celebrating the 250th anniversary of America's founding.  The snack brand's 'build the bold' contest is challenging Americans to recreate some of the nation's most iconic landmarks using as many Doritos as they can, with a jaw-dropping $250,000 prize awaiting the most creative crunch-loving contestant.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said it targeted an American air base in the region, after fresh US strikes on southern Iran overnight. Kuwait, which hosts a US base, said it had intercepted “hostile missile and drone threats”, but did not confirm the target. The Iranian missile launch came after the US shot down Iranian drones over the Strait of Hormuz and struck a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city in southern Iran.

A 32-year-old Colombian woman was kidnapped, held captive for more than 72 hours and repeatedly gang-raped under death threats in a derelict squat on the outskirts of Rome, Italian police have confirmed — with five irregular migrants arrested following her escape and a further eleven expelled from the country.

Inside the firm, staff describe rock‑bottom morale, intrusive AI tracking and deep scepticism that the Meta layoffs are really over. Meta’s latest round of layoffs hit staff across the world on Wednesday, with around 8,000 employees told they were losing their jobs in a restructuring that Mark Zuckerberg has tied directly to the company’s huge artificial intelligence spending. In an email sent to roughly 78,000 inboxes, the chief executive promised there would be no further company‑wide Meta layoffs this year and, in a rare admission, accepted that leadership had handled the run‑up badly.

People have been warned of the dangers of swimming in open water after multiple deaths during the recent heatwave. The Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) issued a warning following the fatal incidents, most of which involved children, saying "warmer weather unfortunately sees an increase in accidental drownings".

The Taliban has introduced sweeping new family legislation that contains no minimum age for marriage, effectively legalising child marriage in Afghanistan and prompting urgent condemnation from the United Nations, human rights organisations and women’s rights groups around the world.

Flustered and frightened, Britney Spears picked up the phone while police questioned her on the side of the road during her arrest for DUI. But instead of dialing the number for a family member or her longtime friend and manager, the pop star turned to a man perhaps the public is not yet familiar with. ‘Thomas?’ Spears could be heard saying to the individual, per the dashcam video from March 4, obtained by the Daily Mail. Quietly speaking into her cell phone, she then mumbled to the person that the Los Angeles cops were accusing her of consuming alcohol, which she denied.

A 27-year-old Moscow bar worker has been sentenced to more than three years in a penal colony for posting a video of herself using a traditional Russian Easter cake as a hookah bowl — a case that has drawn international attention as an example of Russia’s increasingly stringent enforcement of religious offence laws.