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Laura Overdeck has returned to court in New Jersey seeking a larger settlement from her estranged husband, billionaire hedge fund manager John Overdeck, in one of the state’s biggest contested divorce cases. The 56-year-old rejected a proposed payout worth more than $600 million and is pursuing a share of John Overdeck’s stake in Two Sigma, the investment firm he co-founded in 2001. Her lawyers argue that she should receive 35 per cent of the value of his holding because the business became a marital asset during their 20-year marriage. The couple married in 2002 without a prenuptial agreement. The valuation…

Three friends of Nolan Wells have filed a defamation lawsuit in Mississippi against a TikTok creator who allegedly accused them of killing him during a boating trip. Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour claim Sandra L. Butler, who allegedly operates the TikTok account “gods_bestgirl” and identifies herself as “Royalty”, repeatedly made the accusations online. The men say Butler alleged that they killed Wells aboard a boat on July 4, fled the scene, tampered with his phone and lied to conceal the alleged crime. In the lawsuit, they claim she told her followers: “They are guilty. They did something.” She…

Students at Westfield High School walked out of lessons on Tuesday, October 6, to honour 15-year-old Royce Witchet, who was fatally shot near the Houston-area campus two weeks earlier. His parents used the protest to speak publicly for the first time, accusing school officials and law enforcement of failing to protect their son. Witchet was shot shortly after school ended on September 22 on a pavement close to Westfield High School and the Spring Independent School District administration building. He was taken to hospital in a critical condition and later died. A 14-year-old, believed to be a fellow Spring ISD…

Melbourne has been named the world’s friendliest city in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, beating destinations including Seoul, Amsterdam and Lisbon. Victoria’s capital received a score of 98.52 in the annual rankings, narrowly ahead of Portugal’s Porto on 98.33. The awards attracted about 300,000 responses from people around the world. The publication said the cities recognised were those offering “the warmest hospitality”, with locals willing to help visitors who were struggling with a menu or finding their way around an unfamiliar transport system. Melbourne’s result was attributed to its coffee culture, arts scene and welcoming residents, alongside its…

Emma Stone, Zendaya and Ana de Armas led the celebrity arrivals at the Louis Vuitton Paris Fashion Week show, which brought the French fashion schedule to a close on Tuesday. Held at the Louvre’s Cour Carrée, the presentation was the final major catwalk event of Fashion Week after shows in New York, London and Milan before the schedule reached Paris. Stone, 37, made a striking entrance in a cobalt-blue skirt suit worn without a bra. She completed the look with black heels, a black Louis Vuitton bag and a long silver chain necklace. Zendaya took a more relaxed approach, pairing…

Japan’s real wages rose for an eighth consecutive month in August, marking the latest in a sustained run of gains. The increase in real wages was recorded during August, continuing the consecutive monthly rise in Japan.

A former Cornell University fraternity member has claimed he was sexually assaulted during an alleged incident for which he and six others were accused of raping a woman at the Chi Phi house. Matthew Ingalls made the allegation in a February 2025 email to Cornell’s Title IX office, saying the university had failed to recognise him as a sexual assault survivor or explain his rights under its sexual misconduct procedures. In the email, seen in documents obtained by ABC News, Ingalls wrote that he was “sodomized by her while [he] was incapacitated”. He also accused Cornell of gender discrimination over…

Donald Trump is due in San Antonio on Wednesday for a rally with Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, as the party mounts an intensive effort to protect its position in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The event at Freeman Coliseum is expected to begin at 4.30pm, with the president scheduled to speak at 6pm. Doors are due to open at 2.30pm and tickets are required. Mr Paxton, Texas’s attorney general, is running against Democratic nominee James Talarico for the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyn. Republican congressional candidate Carlos De La Cruz is also due to address…

Oscar-winning actor Eva Marie Saint has died aged 102 at her home in Los Angeles, her family representative Jeff Sanderson has confirmed. Saint won the Academy Award for her first film, On the Waterfront, in which she played the love interest of Marlon Brando’s troubled dockworker, Terry Malloy. She later starred opposite Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller North by Northwest. Her acceptance speech for the 1954 film was made while she was pregnant with her first child. Accepting the Oscar from Frank Sinatra, she said: “I think I may have the baby right here.” Her son, Darrell, was born…

Power cuts in Venezuela have become more frequent and prolonged, disrupting essential services and fuelling growing anger among residents, including kidney patients whose dialysis treatment has been interrupted. Onasis Munoz, 34, was undergoing one of the three weekly sessions he needs at a clinic in Valencia, Carabobo state, when the dialysis machine stopped and the lights went out. The treatment filters waste and excess fluid from his blood, replacing work his failing kidneys can no longer perform. Munoz said outages that once occurred every few days had become daily in recent months, lasting about seven hours. The clinic’s emergency batteries…