A French middle school student launched a deadly knife attack on a teaching assistant during a routine bag check on Tuesday, Haute-Marne police have said.

The teacher was rushed to hospital but died later from her wounds. An officer involved in apprehending the 14-year old attacker was also injured in the incident, local daily Journal de Haute-Marne (JHM) wrote, citing a correspondent on the scene.

The attack comes amid a widespread concern with escalating knife crime in the country. French police have been stepping up random bag searches in schools to battle the increasing number of incidents.

An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London crashed on takeoff at Ahmedabad airport in India. 232 passengers and 12 crew members were on board, officials say.

An Air India plane bound for London's Gatwick airport with 232 passengers and 12 crew members on board has crashed on takeoff at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday.

There were 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, one Canadian national and seven Portuguese nationals on board, according to the airline.

The injured are being taken to the nearest hospitals. A dedicated passenger hotline has been set up for those affected.

Police have been attacked with fireworks, bottles and bricks as violence erupted for a third night in Northern Ireland.

The worst of the disorder was in Ballymena, but unrest also spread to other towns on Wednesday evening.

In Larne, masked youths attacked a leisure centre and set it on fire. The centre had been providing emergency shelter for families following the clashes earlier this week, the council said.

The disorder first began on Monday after a peaceful protest over an alleged sexual assault in Ballymena, County Antrim.

AI is doing to the universities what Gutenberg did to the monasteries

By the late middle ages monasteries were spectacularly wealthy. They were immune from taxation, and possessed vast land holdings thanks to generous donations made over the centuries by nobles looking to assure themselves a comfortable place in the afterlife. Many of them performed economic functions, such as brewing beer or providing financial services; some performed charitable functions, distributing alms to the poor or operating hospitals; some performed spiritual functions, such as hosting holy relics or maintaining elaborate ritual vigils to intercede with God on behalf of the people. But their primary utility, from the perspective of the wider society, was as repositories, preservers, and disseminators of knowledge. Their scriptoria ensured that books were copied from one generation to the next, preventing knowledge from being lost. The monastic focus was naturally religious, but their monopoly on literacy and information reproduction meant that if you needed a secular work to be replicated for wider distribution, the monastery was the only place to go.

Emboldened by the cultural ferment of the Reformation, in 1534 the British Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, recognizing King Henry VIII as the head of the new Church of England following his break with Rome the year before on account of Pope Clement VII's refusal to annual his marriage to Catherine of Aragorn. Immediately following this, the king dispatched his chief minister Thomas Cromwell (a distant ancestor of the Lord Protector) to visit England's monasteries in order to gently remind them of their duty to submit to and obey their new religious authority, and more importantly, to inventory their finances. The monasteries of England and Wales held a quarter of the arable land, and their interiors were lavishly appointed with silver and gold; an English proverb held that if the Abbot of Glastonbury were to wed the Abbess of Shaftesbury, their heir would be richer than the king. This would of course have required both Abbot and Abbess to flout their vows of chastity, and perhaps this proverb was also a subtle dig at the widespread perception that monastic orders held their vows quite lightly. Thus, Cromwell's delegates were also directed to investigate the moral state of the monasteries, examining the prevalence of superstitious practices such as the veneration of relics, the piety with which their monastic vows were being kept, and searching for evidence of dissolute sexual behaviour.

Gov. Gavin Newsom was in his element this week. After scenes of burning cars and attacks on ICE personnel, Newsom declared that this was all "an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act." No, he was not speaking of the attacks on law enforcement or property. He was referring to President Donald Trump's call to deploy the National Guard to protect federal officers.

Newsom is planning to challenge the deployment as cities like Glendale are cancelling contracts to house detainees and reaffirming that local police will not assist the federal government.

Trump has the authority under Section 12406 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code to deploy the National Guard if the president is "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States."

The Administration is saying that that is precisely what is unfolding in California, where mobs attack vehicles and trap federal personnel.

Fears of a serial killer prowling New England are growing again after another woman was discovered dead under circumstances her family described as "suspicious."

The body of Adriana Suazo, 21, was found by a passerby on June 1 in the woods of Milton, a Massachusetts suburb about eight miles south of Boston, according to the Norfolk District Attorney's Office.

It remains unclear what led to the death - Suazo's body showed no signs of trauma, according to the state's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - but it marks the 13th body to show up with little explanation in the bucolic northeast region this year.

Although the late John Le Carre is no longer around to knock out another Soviet-era spy novel with George Smiley and Karla, his services are no longer required with the latest story about sexploitaiton and the British PM. The British press and Mi5 are happy to take his place!

Since writing previously about the strange case of Ukrainian rent boys being arrested in connection with the torching of properties owned by Sir Keir Starmer and a car he sold to a neighbour, it is perhaps unsurprising that the UK's security services have stepped in.

And yet their role, rather than get to the truth of the matter, seems to be the exact opposite.

Since the event happened on the 8th of May, cynical observers may ask why is the UK press not looking into it? The reality, sadly, is that the British press are mostly playing a servile role to the office of the British PM in ignoring the story completely as, if it transpired that Starmer is both gay and a victim of blackmail by male prostitutes, then it is unlikely that he will survive this year in office, according to George Galloway who is following the case and is boiling with rage at the impotence of British MPs.

But there is little chance of such a salacious story breaking out, given how venal the British press are, particularly to the deep state which feeds them with titbits (often scraps of fake news) as a payment for continuing to process the manufactured consent which distracts the British public away from the real stories. Fake news, in other words.

How long did it take before the deep state in the UK could manufacture a comical fable of Russia being behind this attack carried out by the unlikeliest of 'agents'? Barely two weeks.

According to the Daily Mail, security services are now examining the "link" between the attacks, which have now arrested a total of four suspects, and the Kremlin.

LAPD: "Burning lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases, including hydrogen fluoride, posing risks to responders and those nearby"

The American autonomous driving technology company Waymo has suspended service in downtown Los Angeles after several of its robotaxis were set on fire by anti-ICE activists over the weekend.

At least five Waymo vehicles were set ablaze on Sunday, prompting the company to remove its vehicles from the downtown Los Angeles area and suspend service, Forbes reported.

"To our media partners, demonstrators and others who may enter the area of Los Angeles St, North of Arcadia and South of Alameda: Burning lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases, including hydrogen fluoride, posing risks to responders and those nearby. Please avoid the area," the LAPD warned on X on Sunday.

Israeli companies are reportedly facing a sharp decline in attracting customers worldwide, in the wake of the global community's growing reluctance to buy from them following the launch of the war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.

According to leaked internal data from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, the firms are paying more than double what they did in 2023 to gain online engagement, reflecting a steep drop in consumer willingness to interact with their brands.

Meta's confidential data, obtained by Drop Site News through company whistleblowers and reported by the investigative news outlet on Monday, revealed that the average cost-per-click (CPC) - the amount advertisers pay for each user click - has increased by 155.3% for Israeli companies between 2023 and 2025.

That is an "unprecedented" spike from $0.094 to $0.24, which has put the Israeli companies' CPS ranking next to Iraqi and Pakistani ones -- the next highest-paying companies as far advertisement costs are concerned, the report showed.

Americans know Dems own the chaos we're seeing on the streets of L.A., and the leftist insurrectionists are in 'need of some restraint.'

In 1968, the Rolling Stones recorded "Sympathy for the Devil," an homage to political violence. The song, now part of the classic rock Valhalla, included this bit of satanic verse: "Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints." It was an admonition for another unhinged time in the United States and much of the world, but the late '60s "Sympathy" has in fact become the working anthem of the helter-skelter, Marxist-led Democrat Party of 2025.

Losing badly in November on everything from the economy to national security to the culture war, Democrats have decided to double down on the very things that cost them power. In so doing, they have championed men in women's sports, raised "Pride" flags for perverts, and vilified defenders of Jews as fascists while spreading antisemitism and making common cause with those calling for "death to Israel!"