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AdvertisementUS-EU relationsChinaDiplomacy‘Paper tiger’: what’s behind Donald Trump’s renewed Greenland threat?Europe is likely to stay neutral in the Iran war and could even benefit if America fares poorly in its military campaign, analyst says
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenFan ChenPublished: 10:00pm, 7 Apr 2026US President Donald Trump’s renewed threat to take Greenland when America is bogged down in a war with Iran will only deepen the fracture with Washington’s European allies, according to analysts.Trump has repeatedly criticised Europe since returning to the White House. He has derided Nato as a “paper tiger” that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “not afraid of” and last week threatened to withdraw the US from the transatlantic security alliance.Europe, meanwhile, has pushed back and kept a distance from Trump as the US-Israel war on Iran continues in its sixth week, having plunged the world into an energy crisis and leaving European countries among the hardest hit.AdvertisementAccord..

AdvertisementBritainWorldEuropeUK government blocks Kanye West from entering Britain to headline festivalThe British Home Office said his presence in Britain would not be ‘conducive to the public good’
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenAssociated PressPublished: 9:44pm, 7 Apr 2026The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has been barred from entering the UK, where he was scheduled to perform at the Wireless Festival in July.
It came after government officials condemned Ye’s history of antisemitic remarks.
The festival’s organisers confirmed the ban and said the entire three-day festival was being cancelled as a result.
AdvertisementYe’s travel authorisation had been blocked on the grounds that the performer’s presence in Britain would not be “conducive to the public good”, the BBC said, citing the Home Office.
Ye had been expected to perform in front of around 150,000 revellers on July 10-12 at the open-air festival in London’s Finsbury Park.
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An Indian restaurant in Frisco, Texas, was forced to shut down after a routine health inspection by officials found moldy food in the kitchen, Frisco Today reported. The inspections took place between March 15-28 and the officials said they will re-inspect Chalo India, the Indian restaurant in question, to determine whether it would be allowed to reopen. Another local eatery, Sweet Rice, was given a warning as gnats were found in a warewashing area, the report said. Frisco health inspections function on a demerit system: A score of 0 is considered perfect, and when the score exceeds 30, the establishment fails. At that time, an inspector may choose to close the business at their discretion. When the total exceeds 30, the food establishment fails. At that time, the health inspector may close a food establishment at their discretion. This decision is based on the nature of the violations, the food establishment's history of compliance, and other risk ..

The problem is the way Rowling-bashing has evolved into a fashionable Hollywood sacrament. One would think Rowling-bashing had become a redundant activity, one that would make Caesar say ad nauseam, like Marvel sequels, but we still keep getting them every other day. The latest brave Hollywood kid to jump on the anti-Rowling bandwagon is Andrew Garfield, a Spider-Man so amazing he didn’t warrant a trilogy, who finally watched the Harry Potter movies. While praising lead actor Daniel Radcliffe, Garfield, channelling his inner grumpy Garfield, opined that watching Harry Potter is “controversial” because it lines the pockets of “she that shall remain nameless”, whose views supposedly back “inhumane legislation.” That Voldemort-style refusal to say Rowling's name was pure performative theatre. Grumpy Andrew Garfield opined that watching Harry Potter is controversial because it lines the pockets of She That Shall Remain Nameless Garfield wasn’t offering a serious policy critique of the..