Hearts "have arrived" as Scottish Premiership title contenders after beating Rangers for the second time this season, says Kris Boyd.

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Jared Kushner unveiled a $112 billion plan to transform Gaza into a tech and tourism hub, featuring high-speed rail and luxury resorts. The proposal, presented to regional governments, relies on US funding and Hamas disarmament, a condition analysts deem unlikely. Significant physical reconstruction challenges also loom large over this ambitious, yet uncertain, vision.

Singapore’s government has announced that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes starting December 30

The report notes that the likelihood of an attack is below 50%, but an Israeli source said that "nobody is willing to take the risk and just say it is only an exercise."

Pictures of Donald Trump were included among at least 16 documents that disappeared from the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Mr. Kimmel will speak out against fascism and about the importance of free speech in the holiday address, according to a Channel 4 spokesman.

The earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making by humans was discovered at 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England, pushing back the timeline by 350,000 years from previous findings.

The president issued a symbolic and meaningless 'pardon' for Tina Peters, who was convicted on seven criminal counts tied to Trump's Big Lie about a stolen 2020 election. She remains unrepentant.