Tearful Casandra Ventura tells court Diddy beat and humiliated her

Madeline Halpert BBC News in New York court Watch: Cassie details violent relationship with Diddy at trial Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, has told the hip-hop mogul’s sex-trafficking trial that he controlled her life and coerced her into “humiliating” sex acts. The prosecution’s star witness testified about the alleged physical and emotional abuse she…

Trump administration cuts another $450m in Harvard grants in escalating row | Donald Trump News

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has slashed another $450m in grants from Harvard University, amid an ongoing feud over anti-Semitism, presidential control and the limits of academic freedom. On Tuesday, a joint task force assembled under Trump accused Harvard, the country’s oldest university, of perpetrating a “long-standing policy and practice of discriminating…

How real is the risk of nuclear war?

Corbis via Getty Images India’s nuclear capable Agni-5 missile has a range of over 5,000km In the latest India-Pakistan stand-off, there were no ultimatums, no red buttons. Yet the cycle of military retaliation, veiled signals and swift international mediation quietly evoked the region’s most dangerous shadow. The crisis didn’t spiral towards nuclear war, but it…