• The Canadian Press

    California firefighters battle wind-driven wildfire east of San Francisco overnight

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire that began Saturday and continued burning early Sunday morning in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said. The Corral Fire began Saturday afternoon near the city of Tracy, 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of San Francisco, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the city of Livermore, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protec

  • Reuters

    Iran's foreign ministry summons Chinese ambassador in Tehran over Gulf Islands

    Iran's foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Tehran to protest about a China-UAE statement related to Iran's sovereignty over three Islands also claimed by the UAE, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. The islands - Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb - are claimed by both countries but have been held by Iran since 1971, shortly before the seven Gulf emirates gained full independence from Britain and formed the UAE, which is now allied with Washington.

  • The Telegraph

    Liam Gallagher, Utilita Arena Sheffield, review: The Last Night of the Britpop Proms

    A huge digital clock slowly counted back thirty years from 2024 whilst Sheffield Utilita Arena shook to the sound of some of the greatest British rock records of all time by The Who, David Bowie, Slade, The Sex Pistols and The Jam at a volume you could feel in your bones. The 14,000 strong crowd were already singing gleefully to The Stone Roses’ I Am the Resurrection when the clock reached 1994 and Liam Gallagher swaggered out to lead a 9 piece band in an almighty thrash through Rock ‘n’ Roll St