A 12-Year-Old Girl’s Battle With Malnutrition in GazaHoda Abu al-Naja, 12, was diagnosed with celiac disease and struggled with severe malnutrition for months. Amid an Israeli siege that blocked aid into the strip, she was unable to maintain a gluten-free diet. By Nader Ibrahim, Saher Alghorra For The New York Times, Bilal Shbair and Ben HubbardDecember 26, 2025

LOADING ERROR LOADINGKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida over the weekend. We have agreed on a meeting at the highest level – with President Trump in the near future. In fact, Moscow has insisted that Ukraine relinquish the remaining territory it still holds in the Donbas — an ultimatum that Ukraine has rejected. AdvertisementPresident Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on October 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries aim to deprive Moscow of the oil export revenue it needs to pursue its full-scale invasion.

Why ‘The Great Gatsby’ is Worth Re-readingIn the final week of the 100th anniversary of “The Great Gatsby,” Wesley Morris, the host of ‘Cannonball,’ talks to the novelist Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, about why all three of them have found themselves in a decades-long relationship with this book. By Cannonball With Wesley MorrisDecember 26, 2025

Downtown L.A. has recorded 2.79 inches from Christmas Eve through Christmas Day. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)Among the areas hardest hit was Wrightwood, a town of a few thousand people in the San Gabriel Mountains on the border between Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. The woman was transported to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, including hypothermia, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The Pacoima Wash is a 33-mile-long stream that carries water to the Tujunga Wash and eventually the Los Angeles River. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it responded to numerous vehicles trapped by flooding across the Antelope Valley.

3rd GSS International Safety ESG Awards & Conference concluded on 24th October 2025, at Peers Dining Hall, House of Lords, UK Parliament London. Mr. Virendra Sharma Former Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Chief Guest of the event, addressed the gathering, and distributed awards along with Program Director Mrs. Aswathy Sahadevan. This annual event is organised by World Safety Forum, largest growing ESG Safety Professional Membership platform, head quartered in London. ESG Conference witnessed the current issues discussed by the following leaders, Mr. Jose Hopkins ACA, Chartered Accountant Sustainability Consultant, at Acclaro Advisory, Mr. Pranab Sarkar, FRM, Merchant Banker, SBI UK, Ms. Francesca Amato, Supply Chain Sustainability Lead, Mclaren Construction,Cameron Pearson Founder and CEO of Hereditas Conservatio, Elana Cheslar, Senior Manager at EY, Dr. Isabel DiVanna, Associate Director | The Carbon Trust, Mr. Gesu Antonio Baez, Diego Campos, Head of Sustainability & Workplace Solutions for BAT LATAM South, John Terrance May Work at Height subject matter expert from Mitie & RoSPA Awards Global Ambassador's, Rishi Harani, Founder Mergify USAThe title of the Book written by K R Baby retired High School Teacher - Bandhura Chinthakal published by Hamlet books released at the event. Advisory Board Members of World Safety Forum Mr. David Clegg, Mr. Udayanga, Dr. Mojtaba Moatamedi and Andy Skulimowski joined in releasing International Qualifications Board - Independent Certification and Awarding Body by World Safety Forum and Global ESG Qualifications - A sophisticated Institution for ESG Qualifications Opens career paths to board advisory, ESG consulting, and policy leadership roles.

Lagos’s Month of Partying Is Getting PricierDetty December means a month of “back to back to back” partying in Nigeria’s megacity. Ruth Maclean, the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, attends for the first time. By Ruth Maclean, Taiwo Aina, Karen Hanley and Christina ThornellDecember 26, 2025

Both Christians and Muslims – the two main religious groups in the country of more than 230 million people – have been victims of attacks by radical Islamists. Years of violenceNewspapers with articles reporting US President Donald Trump's message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hang at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria on November 2. The country has roughly equal numbers of Christians – predominantly in the south – and Muslims, who are mainly concentrated in the north. “The way most of these strikes work is that they need to be part of a larger campaign, and what we’re not seeing here is that larger campaign.”Has the long-running violence killed Christians? “I stand committed to doing everything within my power to enshrine religious freedom in Nigeria and to protect Christians, Muslims, and all Nigerians from violence,” he wrote.

In addition to withstanding geopolitical upheavals, Roman Abramovich’s wealth has changed, expanded, and repositioned. Abramovich contributed to Chelsea becoming a major force in the world by investing more than £1 billion in the team. Abramovich was one of the initial targets of concerted international sanctions after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Abramovich has amassed museum-caliber pieces that serve as portable wealth repositories, ranging from Francis Bacon to Lucian Freud. Abramovich has escaped the fate of several other sanctioned oligarchs whose wealth vanished under Western scrutiny by using legal arbitrage.

Israeli soldier rams Palestinian man while he’s prayingAn Israeli reservist soldier ran over a Palestinian man while he was praying in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to the Israeli military and CNN’s review of the footage, hours after the soldier fired gunshots in the area.

The Defining Culture Visuals of 2025Three photo editors from the Culture desk share their favorite images from 2025. By Jolie Ruben, Amanda Webster, Maridelis Morales Rosado, Gabby Bulgarelli, Sutton Raphael, Lauren Pruitt and Luke PiotrowskiDecember 26, 2025

Israeli soldier rams Palestinian man while he’s prayingAn Israeli reservist soldier ran over a Palestinian man while he was praying in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to the Israeli military and CNN’s review of the footage, hours after the soldier fired gunshots in the area.

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This, in turn, almost guarantees that a small or medium-sized country would find itself unable even to aspire to anything resembling independent agency—to being an actor in the international order. They will neither subscribe entirely to any outsider’s vision of world order nor accept any claims of primacy, international leadership, or spheres of interest. The side that will be better able to manoeuvre to occupy the space in between will determine the future course of world order. Whatever the new world order ends up looking like, it will not be a world order held together by Western ‘values’, as has been the case for several centuries. 39 Ilham Aliyev, ‘Remarks to the ADA University International Forum on Facing the New World Order’, President.az (9 April 2025), https://president.az/en/articles/view/68514.

Season three of The White Lotus aired earlier this year, and was, in many ways, the most jaw-dropping of the lot. AdvertisementOnce you’re done bingeing, there’s also the celebrity series which once again made for compulsive viewing. Stream it on: NetflixLong Story ShortLong Story Short NetflixOK, we’re just going to say it, Long Story Short is probably our favourite new show of 2025. Stream it on: NetflixAndorDisneyAdvertisementAt this point, if we’re being totally honest, there’ve been so many Star Wars spin-off movies and TV shows that the thought of another one is a bit of a hard sell – but Andor remains one of the most popular with both fans and critics. Stream it on: Disney+Stranger ThingsNetflixAdvertisementAlright, this one is potentially a bit of a cheat given there’s still one episode to go in the current season.

By Toni Odejimi, Rafael Romo, CNN(CNN) — A lucky Powerball ticket holder in Arkansas has won an estimated $1.8 billion jackpot, the second largest in US lottery history, after matching all six numbers in Monday’s drawing. The lucky ticket holder has 180 days — about six months — to claim their prize, Sharon Strong, executive director of the Arkansas Lottery, told CNN on Friday. Keeping the windfall privateArkansas is one of a growing number of states that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous. New Jersey, Georgia, and Arizona have anonymity laws, while Florida allows winners to claim prizes through a blind trust or LLC. Strong, Arkansas Lottery executive director, agrees.