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  • Father and son team race to rescue six sailors from sinking vessel

    A father and son teamed up to help save six people from a sinking vessel in Florida amid hazardous weather conditions. Footage shared by Osceola County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday (5 May) shows passengers putting on life vests and throwing items overboard after they realized the boat was going under. The force received a 911 call from the distressed boaters, and a rescue operation was swiftly carried out.

    The Independent

  • Trump says he got the military to stop autocorrect from changing his wife’s name in social posts

    President Donald Trump says the military helped him stop autocorrect from changing wife Melania’s name in his Truth Social posts. At an event for Military Mothers alongside the First Lady, the Commander-in-Chief was referencing a woman named Melody Wolff when her name took him off on a narrative tangent. “I love the name Melody because for a long time, you know, they have ‘spell correct’ and ‘word correct’ on these crazy machines that we use to put out Truths, or they used to be called Tweets, and every time I wrote ‘Melania’, it would correct to ‘Melody’,” Trump said.

    The Independent

  • Princess of Wales meets children undergoing brain research ahead of first royal tour since cancer treatment

    The Princess of Wales, a long-time advocate for early years care, has met with children undergoing brain development research. Kate was introduced to three-year-old Mikail and his mother, Safia, at the University of East London's "magic box" room - where families can interact through a screen and use brain recording techniques to track how a baby's living conditions influence early stress. In another room, the princess spoke with Ashleigh and her three children, Ella, five, Ava, two, and Mia, one.

    Sky News