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The City of Light is losing its lustre with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers were on strike for a ninth day. The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years. The stench of rotting food has begun escaping from some rubbish bags and overflowing bins. Neither the Left Bank palace housing the Senate nor, across town, a street steps from the Elysee Palace, where waste from the presidential residence is apparently being stocked, was spared by the strike. More than 7000 tonnrs of garbage had piled up by Tuesday. Some of that was seen being tossed into white trucks from a private company along the protest route ahead of a planned march Wednesday, the third in nine days. Polic...

Lindsay Lohan is expecting her first child. The "Mean Girls" star announced her pregnancy in an Instagram post on Tuesday, sharing an image of a baby onesie with "Coming soon..." written on it. The post was captioned "We are blessed and excited!" READ MORE: No Harvey Weinstein retrial on rape, sex assault charges Lindsay Lohan announces she's expecting her first child with husband Bader Shammas. (Instagram / @lindsaylohan) Lohan married financier Bader Shammas in 2022, People magazine reported. A message sent to Lohan's representative was not immediately returned. The 36-year-old actor, who was once a tabloid mainstay, has lived overseas for several years and kept a lower public profile. She recently returned to acting, starring in Netflix's "F...

When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large US surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, it was a rare but serious incident that triggered a US diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology. US and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Russian Su-27 fighter jet - each blaming the other. But a Pentagon spokesman raised the possibility that the Defence Department could eventually declassify and release video it has of the collision. READ MORE: US drone hit by Russian warplane over Black Sea A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a US Air Force MQ-9 drone surveillance drone (pictured) over the Black Sea on March 14, causing American for...

A third person has died as a result of the deadly crush of concertgoers at a Rochester, New York, event venue on Sunday night, according to a news release from police obtained by CNN affiliate WHAM. The victim, identified as 35-year-old Aisha Stephens, was "the last remaining hospitalised victim" from the incident, the statement said, adding, "the investigation into the incident continues". Officers initially responded to a report of shots fired around 11.05pm inside the Main Street Armory, which was hosting a GloRilla concert, police said previously. Inside, officers found injured people but no evidence of a shooting. READ MORE: 'At least six dead' after gunman fires inside German church The GloRilla concert in Rochester, New York, on Sunday night. There was a c...

An eight-year-old girl who has been missing since October 2018 has been safely returned to the United States after being found in Mexico, according to the FBI. The FBI says Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was found safe last month in Michoacán, Mexico, by local authorities. She was taken back to the US by FBI special agents. Aranza Lopez was kidnapped by her mother, Esmeralda Lopez-Lopez, on October 25, 2018, during a court-supervised visitation at Vancouver Mall in Washington state. READ MORE: Cartel apologises for murders of US tourists It was determined that Aranza Lopez had been taken to Mexico. "For more than four years, the FBI and our partners did not give up on Aranza," said Richard A. Collodi, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Seattle field office. ...

Japan on Saturday marked the 12th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster with a minute of silence, as concerns grew ahead of the planned release of the treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant and the government's return to nuclear energy. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that ravaged large parts of Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011, left more than 22,000 people dead, including about 3,700 whose subsequent deaths were linked to the disaster. A moment of silence was observed nationwide at 2.46pm, the moment the earthquake struck. READ MORE: 'Extraordinary' discovery that could be the key to curing cancer People observe a moment of silence at 2.46pm, the moment the earthquake struck in Rikuzentaka...