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Facebook Tweet Email Link New York AP  —  Jen Pawol was in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, when she got the call she had awaited for a decade. She was going to make her major league debut this weekend, becoming the first female umpire in a century and a half of big league baseball. “I was overcome with emotion,” Pawol recalled Thursday, two days before she breaks a gender barrier when she works the bases during Miami’s doubleheader at Atlanta. “It was super emotional to finally be living that phone call that I’d been hoping for and working towards…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Sydney Reuters  —  An Australian woman who murdered three of her in-laws with a meal of toxic mushrooms also allegedly tried to murder her husband using poisoned pasta, a chicken curry and a sandwich wrap, evidence showed on Friday after a judge allowed its disclosure. A jury last month found Erin Patterson lured her mother-in-law Gail Patterson, father-in-law Don Patterson and Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, to lunch at her home and poisoned them with servings of Beef Wellington that contained death cap mushrooms. They also found the 50-year-old guilty of the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Berlin AP  —  A motorist was clocked driving at more than 320 kph (199 mph) on the Autobahn west of Berlin, a record high at more than 124 mph above the speed limit, German police said. The speedster, who was not identified, was caught while racing along the A2 highway near Burg on July 28. The driver was handed a fine of 900 euros ($1,043), stripped of two points from his driver’s license and banned from driving for three months, the Magdeburg police office said Tuesday. A roadside radar stand, known as an “Enforcement Trailer,” caught…

The Middle East Russia National security War in Ukraine See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link “Finally, something no one else has,” a Russian journalist says during a TV documentary on the country’s largest drone factory. “Such mass production of two-stroke engines doesn’t exist anywhere else in Russia.” The factory in question, Alabuga, 600 miles east of Moscow in Russia’s Tatarstan region, has been pumping out increasing numbers of the Iranian-designed Shahed-136 attack drone (known in Russia as Geran), but the man behind the site believes this may be one of its greatest achievements. “This is a complete facility,” CEO…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. Every year after the Michelin guide announces its selection of starred restaurants in France, journalist Nora Bouazzouni receives a flurry of angry and resentful messages. It’s become an unexpected consequence of her burgeoning reputation as one of the most influential whistleblowers of France’s restaurant industry. The messages come from despondent restaurant staff, livid at seeing abusive, toxic chefs who have made their lives hell elevated to hero status with the…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A memo written by the Pentagon’s policy chief last month gives the Defense Department the option to divert certain weapons and equipment intended for Ukraine back into US stockpiles, according to four people who have read it — a dramatic shift that could see billions of dollars previously earmarked for the war-torn country go toward replenishing dwindling American supplies. The memo adds even more uncertainty to an already murky picture of the status of US arms shipments to Ukraine ahead of President Donald Trump’s potential meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week. Even as Trump…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Brisbane, Australia  —  When Australia wants to put on a show, it turns to the sweeping expanse of Sydney Harbour, home to the Opera House and the iconic bridge that connects the city with its northern suburbs. So, when organizers of usually small pro-Palestinian protests held every two weeks since Israel’s 2023 invasion of Gaza detected a shift in community attitudes towards the grinding conflict – at home and abroad – they chose the bridge to make a global statement. “We thought that the kind of bold and somewhat audacious idea that we were going to…

Facebook Tweet Email Link North Island, Seychelles  —  Nicolas Louys steps inside the primary suite of an 8,000-square-foot villa in the Seychelles and immediately points to the bed. “I’m led to believe that we have the biggest mattress in the Indian Ocean. And there’s a story behind it,” he says with a laugh. Louys is the deputy general manager at North Island, one of the country’s most exclusive resorts. As he looks at the bed, which is more than twice the size of a king mattress, he recalls how an extremely tall guest visited years back and found the existing…

Facebook Tweet Email Link (CNN) — Firefly Aerospace, the first private company to successfully land upright on the moon, is set to make another high-stakes foray — this time into the stock market. Firefly’s stock will begin trading on the Nasdaq Thursday morning under the ticker symbol “FLY.” Founded in 2017 by ex-SpaceX engineer Tom Markusic, the company reached a valuation of more than $6 billion in its initial public offering — triple what it achieved as a privately held company, according to financial documents and estimates from startup data aggregator Pitchbook. Firefly raised more than $868 million, with shares…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A hunter from the United States has been killed by a buffalo he was tracking during an expedition in South Africa, organizers said this week. Asher Watkins, from Texas, was killed on Sunday “while on a hunting safari with us in South Africa’s Limpopo Province,” Coenraad Vermaak Safaris (CVS), the safari company that organized the trip, said in a statement sent to CNN. Hans Vermaak, who leads CVS, which says on its website that it’s the longest-running hunting safari company in South Africa, said Watkins “was fatally injured in a sudden and unprovoked attack by an…