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George and Amal Clooney Evacuate French Home As Wildfires Burn Published July 30, 2026 6:55 AM PDT George and Amal Clooney were forced to flee their home in France … due to raging wildfires spreading across Europe. The couple and their children left their Brignoles property earlier this week … as fires ravage the nearby landscape. George wrote a letter to Brignoles mayor Didier Brémond, saying … “At this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment”. In the letter, obtained by multiple media outlets, George writes … “As we evacuate Brignoles we…

Jimi Famurewa, restaurant critic and food journalist, journeys  across London to track down some of the best bakeries where ancestral recipes and ingredients meet contemporary British baking. First stop: Panadera in Soho, for a Filipino-inspired leche flan Danish. Then it’s south-east London and Bunhead, where the owner folds together the flavours of her Palestinian and British heritage into a chocolate, date and smoked salt bun. Finally, Farha in east London, a Middle Eastern-inspired cafe selling out of its banana brûlée.Episode 1 of Feed with Jimi Famurewa — sampling the UK’s tastiest food trends

Microsoft is in a unique position as AI overtakes the tech industry. It’s one of the world’s largest cloud providers and software-as-a-service companies, while also holding valuable stakes in the two biggest AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. Those incentives are starting to clash as Microsoft posts blockbuster financial results. The company just reported an extremely profitable quarter with $90 billion in revenue and net income of $35.8 billion. For the fiscal year, which ended June 30, Microsoft reported $331.8 billion in revenue with a net income of $133.7 billion for the year. And CEO Satya Nadella is not about to…

Three times in three decades, Qana's shelters were bombed. AJLabs tracks a village the Israeli military keeps hitting.

The Taco Bell logo is displayed at a Taco Bell restaurant on July 14, 2026 in Pasadena, California. Mario Tama | Getty ImagesYum Brands on Wednesday reported mixed quarterly results but provided no details on how the cyclospora outbreak tied to Taco Bell restaurants is affecting its business.Since the Food and Drug Administration first linked the parasitic outbreak to iceberg lettuce served by Taco Bell in mid-July, daily traffic to the chain’s locations has plunged by double digit percentages, according to Placer.ai data. Yum depends on Taco Bell as a “growth engine” for the company, and the crisis puts that title…

Working from home isn’t just for side hustles or entry-level data gigs anymore. According to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), many high-paying jobs now offer fully remote or hybrid options, and several pay average salaries of $82,000 or more per year. If you’re looking to get ahead financially, supplement your income, or lower your financial stress, these remote-friendly jobs might be worth exploring. Editor’s note: All salary information comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and ZipRecruiter.Make Money: 8 dumb ways to make money (almost anyone can do this)1. ActuaryAverage annual salary: $125,770 Actuaries…

Jack Draper has been given a wild card for the National Bank Open in Montreal, which is live on Sky Sports from Monday August 3.Draper got one of the final wild cards alongside Canadians Alexis Galarneau and Liam Draxl as he continues his attempt to try and return from a left arm injury. The former world No 4 has endured an injury-strewn 2026 which saw him miss all three Grand Slam tournaments, but he enters the National Bank Open after a late withdrawal from this week’s DC Open in Washington. The Brit, who is coached by Sir Andy Murray, has…

Emma Stone’s big move in her Crazy, Stupid, Love audition was to play it cool. In fact, the movie’s directors, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, picked the Bugonia star for the part of Ryan Gosling’s love interest because Stone wasn’t thrown off by Gosling’s aura in her audition.  “Emma came in and Ryan said a line and he flubbed the line. He was reading with her offscreen, and Emma just, without missing a beat, was like, ‘Oh, you’re killing this. You’re doing great,'” Ficarra told People in an interview published July 29. “She just flipped him the s–t right then…

I read Polly Hudson’s article (There was one thing I swore I’d never do on WhatsApp. And now I’ve gone and done it, 27 July) with interest, but I think blue ticks fell out of fashion for a simpler reason – they turned WhatsApp into a full-time job. In an era when so many of us are trying to reclaim a little time and attention from our screens, switching off “read” receipts gave people a small but meaningful sense of control.Being permanently contactable is exhausting. Reading a message and replying to it are two different things, but blue ticks erased…

On Tuesday, the day after hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants effectively lost their temporary protected status that allowed them to live and work in the US, Republican pundit Steve Bannon wasted little time in demanding their instant removal.“I was under the assumption that when they pulled TPS and their eligibility for that program ended … they were going to be boarding planes or buses today … today, this morning at dawn to go back to Haiti,” said Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on his War Room podcast on Tuesday. “Why are they not out of the…