Rancho Cariñoso was sold at auction for $22.55 million after previously being listed for $109 million. This estate features 4.2 acres of land and nearly an acre of private beachfront. The property includes a main house, equestrian facilities, and is near the Santa Barbara Polo Club. The auction indicated a significant discrepancy between initial valuation and buyer willingness to pay.
A Kentucky appeals court has upheld a widow’s right to half of her late husband’s $2.33 million investment accounts, despite his children being named as beneficiaries. William E. Perrine died without a will in 2024. The court also ruled that his widow, Nancy, was entitled to half of $126,000 gifted to his children and grandchildren shortly before his death.
The school has faced an uproar over how it handled assault allegations brought by a woman known as Jane Doe.
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he does not believe that China and Russia are helping Iran, adding that they have “too much to lose.” Trump has faced pressure over reports that Chinese and Russian entities have supplied Iran with intelligence for attacks on US troops. Responding to comments that China
Pope Leo has said the growth is "contained" and had been found "at a very early stage".
Student protesters in France have told the BBC's James Waterhouse that they will continue to take action until change has been made. The protests have now entered their fourth week.
HONG KONG, China—Hundreds of people queued on Tuesday outside a Hong Kong gallery to see a Vincent van Gogh painting on public display for the first time in six decades. The Dutch artist’s “Chataigniers en fleurs” (“Chestnut Trees in Blossom”) was on show in Hong Kong ahead of its November 18 auction in New York. The auction
MANILA, Philippines — Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court (ICC) said they plan to present an initial lineup of five key witnesses in the trial of former President Rodrigo Duterte, and defended the inclusion of an evidentiary archive containing open-source newspaper reports on Duterte’s tenure as mayor of Davao City. During the status conference, prosecution
MI5 chief Ken McCallum, however, stressed that evidence of interference did not prove that Russia had influenced the outcome of the vote.
PARIS — Cyberattacks have disrupted European supermarket chains, causing refrigeration systems to overheat at hundreds of stores in France and forcing a major grocer to shut down websites serving customers in Europe and the United States. French Finance Minister Roland Lescure told Parliament on Tuesday that about 700 of the country’s 10,000 supermarkets were affected. He said there was no risk to France’s food supplies but acknowledged that the attack “touches the heart of our food security.” ″It was a wake-up call for everyone,” he said. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that its cybercrime unit was investigating the large-scale attack, including the extent of damage caused by spoiled food and possible fires. Dominique Schelcher, CEO of French grocery chain Cooperative U, said 80 of the company’s 2,000 stores were affected. Most managed to prevent disruptions to refrigeration, but some had to discard food, he said in a post on X. “Targeting equipment essential to the preservation of fresh products is an attack on the French food supply chain. It is unprecede
MOSCOW — Russia's Federal Security Service said it detained a Japanese journalist accused of gathering information on Russia's defence capabilities, news agencies reported on Tuesday. FSB said the journalist for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper had been detained in the far eastern Sakhalin region before he planned to leave Russia, and was subsequently transferred to custody in Moscow, Interfax reported. Russian state TV showed a man lying on a floor and handcuffed by three masked men in black uniform. A voice behind the scene tells him he is suspected of spying. TV also showed him boarding a plane accompanied by two FSB servicemen, then in a cage on trial in a Moscow court, which authorised his custody for nearly two months. Russia regards Japan as an "unfriendly" country as it has joined Western sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine. Japan's embassy in Moscow did not answer phone calls out of business hours. Russia and Japan never signed a formal World War Two peace treaty, with the main obstacle being an unresolved territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands, known in Japan as
Anthropic said on Monday that small AI models could be months away from self-replicating across internet-connected devices, raising the possibility of AI botnets spreading quickly, fighting takedown attempts and even breaking into data centers to turbocharge their growth. Last month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei first floated the idea that within the next year or even sooner, AI might be able to hijack "the entire internet" with "a persistent botnet," a warning that raised eyebrows in the cybersecurity community. Botnets — vast networks of devices controlled by malicious operators — have been around since the early days of the internet, and are still around. The network typically includes poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as Android TV boxes, smart appliances and security cameras, and is used by hackers to send spam, seed malware, or sabotage target companies using floods of bogus traffic. Anthropic's Monday blog post appeared to be the first attempt to articulate how that might happen. The company said that its experiments showed that a malicious AI agent could stit
