Amber Heard has filed an appeal against her ex-husband Johnny Depp’s US libel lawsuit win. Following a trial lasting several weeks earlier in the year, a jury in Virginia found in favour of Depp, ruling that a 2018 Washington Post article written by Heard was defamatory. The actor was awarded $15m (£12m) by the court

New York City is advertising for a “somewhat bloodthirsty” person not opposed to “wholesale slaughter” to be its new rat czar. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants someone with “a general aura of badassery” to lead the city’s battle against the rodents. While the official job title is for a “director of rodent mitigation”, the role

Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter after he tweeted an image of a swastika, hours after he praised Hitler and made antisemitic jokes in an interview with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The American rapper, 45, who has legally changed his name to Ye, was only allowed back on to the social media platform

A seaweed alternative to plastic packaging and turning carbon dioxide into rock were among the environmental innovations to scoop the Prince of Wales’s Earthshot Prize. The winners of the prestigious award, aimed at discovering solutions that repair and regenerate the planet, were announced at a glittering “green” carpet event in the US city of Boston.

More than two million fans of a TikTok-famous pug have marked the death of the social media star and flooded the owner’s page with messages of condolence. Noodle the pug rose to fame on the platform with “no bones”, a game his owner Jonathan Graziano played nearly every morning which recorded whether Noodle would stand

The use of hateful language on Twitter has increased substantially since Elon Musk took over, according to new research. Mr Musk completed his $44bn acquisition of the social networking platform in late October, promptly laying off roughly half of the company’s 8,000 workers. Although the head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, said at the

The US’ newest high-tech nuclear stealth bomber has made its debut after years of secret development. The B-21 raider, which will be able to deliver both conventional and nuclear weapons around the world using long-range and mid-air refuelling capabilities, is part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China. It

A 33-year-old man has been arrested following the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff. Patrick Xavier Clark has been charged with the murder of the Migos star, who was killed last month outside a bowling alley in the US city of Houston, Texas. Takeoff was the youngest member of the Grammy-nominated rap trio, which also featured

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has filed for bankruptcy. Jones, the founder of far-right conspiracy website InfoWars, owes nearly $1.5bn in damages to families of victims who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting. He was sued after he accused the relatives of children and teachers who died of being actors who faked the massacre. Jones,

Prince William will be greeted by President Biden on the final day of his trip to Boston. The Prince and Princess of Wales are in the northeastern city to announce the winners of the Earthshot Prize. The couple’s three-day visit has been overshadowed by the Buckingham Palace race row and the surprise release of Harry

A golfer has been accused of biting off the nose of his competitor in a casino car park during an argument over their game, police have said. The suspect Mark Wells, 51, of Biloxi, Mississippi, initially fled the scene before turning himself in, Bay St Louis police chief Toby Schwartz said. The nose was not

A 10-year-old boy allegedly shot and killed his mother because she would not buy him a virtual reality headset. The boy at first claimed the shooting was an accident, but later said he intentionally aimed at his mother. He is said to have logged into her Amazon account and ordered a headset the morning after

The Prince and Princess of Wales’ first overseas trip since the Queen’s death has been overshadowed by controversy at home. William and Kate arrived in Boston yesterday for a three-day visit before the Earthshot Prize, the prince’s environmental awards ceremony, on Friday. Hours earlier, the prince’s godmother resigned from her duties at Buckingham Palace after

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has agreed to pay the US Virgin Islands more than $105m (£86.8m) as part of a settlement in a sex trafficking and child exploitation case. As part of the agreement, the estate will also pay the US territory half the proceeds from the sale of Little St James, Epstein’s private island which

A new drug is making headlines around the world for being the first ever to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. After an 18-month trial of 1,800 patients, lecanemab slowed patients’ mental decline by 27%. Although scientists are hailing a “new era” in treatment, strains on the NHS and the scale and complexity of the

Doctors have hailed a “new era” of medicine after a study showed for the first time that a drug can slow the debilitating symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Results from the clinical trial also revealed that the drug lecanemab cleared clumps of a protein called amyloid – thought to be a key cause of the most common

Kim Kardashian and Ye have reached a settlement in their divorce, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles. The former couple will have joint custody of their four children, who are aged between three and nine years old. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, will pay Kardashian $200,000 (£166,000) per month in child support

A woman who was abducted when she was a baby has been reunited with her family 51 years later. Melissa Highsmith went missing in 1971 when, at just 22 months old, she was taken by a babysitter from her parents’ Fort Worth, Texas, home. Melissa’s mother Alta Apantenco was working as a waitress and in

Former US vice president Mike Pence has criticised Donald Trump for dining with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Mr Pence is among a number of Republicans calling on the former US president to apologise for what he has described as “profoundly poor judgement”. The group – Mr Trump,

Billie Eilish will lead the line-up for the Prince of Wales’s Earthshot Prize awards ceremony. The Prince and Princess of Wales will fly to the United States this week for a three-day trip that culminates on Friday with the staging of the awards he founded to discover and scale up environmental solutions to repair the

An avowed white supremacist who carried out a deadly mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo has pleaded guilty to murder and hate-motivated terror charges. Payton Gendron, 19, drove for three hours from his home near Binghamton, New York state, to the Tops Friendly Markets store in Buffalo, where he opened fire with an AR-15-style

At some point in our lives most of us have done something to upset someone. That person might have responded by politely asking you not to do it again, or they may have decided life is too short and simply let it go. If you’re lucky they won’t have responded by paying a hitman thousands

The world’s longest-running play, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, is marking its 70th year by announcing the show will head to Broadway to make its premiere in 2023. The show, which has been performed more than 28,000 times in London‘s West End and seen by over 10 million people, will open in New York under the

A man who fell from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico has been rescued after more than 24 hours stranded in the water. The passenger on board Carnival Valor went missing at around 2.30pm local time on Wednesday, and – in a Thanksgiving holiday miracle – was not hoisted out of the water

Irene Cara, the singer best known for the title tracks of Fame and Flashdance, has died aged 63. Her publicist said she had died in her Florida home and that the cause of death was unknown. Cara won an Oscar for the song Flashdance… What A Feeling from the 1980s hit movie Flashdance and has

A teenager has been denied permission to witness her father die by lethal injection in Missouri after a judge upheld a law that states she is too young. Kevin Johnson, 37, faces execution on Tuesday, 29 November for shooting a police officer in 2005, when he was 19. His daughter, Corionsa “Khorry” Ramey, was two

Elon Musk says he would support Republican Ron DeSantis if the Florida governor runs in the 2024 US presidential election race. Mr DeSantis was re-elected with nearly 60% of the vote in the midterms and has been tipped as a potential candidate to be the next US leader. Musk’s apparent endorsement of Mr DeSantis comes

The gunman in the Walmart mass shooting in Virginia left a “death note” addressed to God on his phone, police say. Andre Bing, 31, said that his actions were not planned, but things had fallen into place like he was being led by Satan, in the rambling note that was released by the Chesapeake Police Department

Characters from the very bottom of the sea to the far reaches of outer space soared above New York for the city’s 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. As ever, the event was a joyous exercise in absurdity, generating such sights as Papa Smurf, SpongeBob, and some Pokemon towering over all they surveyed. While locals and

Adidas is launching an investigation into allegations of misconduct against Kanye West, including claims he showed pornography and explicit images of Kim Kardashian to staff members. The German sportswear giant, which ended its partnership with the rapper last month, said it received an anonymous letter containing several allegations against the rapper. The independent probe follows