Christian Cousins, the former child actor best known for the 1990 comedy 'Kindergarten Cop', has died.

What happened

Police in Irvine, California, said officers went to his home on 20 October after his family requested a welfare check because they could not reach him, and found him dead inside. They said there were no suspicious circumstances. The county coroner took custody of his remains, and no official cause of death has been released. News of his death spread this week after his half-brother, Jonas Roeser, posted a tribute on Instagram, saying Cousins had been seriously ill with liver disease.

His career

Cousins and his twin brother, Joseph, shared the role of Dominic Palmieri in 'Kindergarten Cop', starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Brian Tracy, the motivational speaker and bestselling author whose books shaped how millions of people approach work and personal goals, has died at the age of 82.

His death

Tracy died on 12 November 2026, according to reports. No official cause of death has been made public. His grandson shared an emotional tribute online.

His work

Tracy built his career in sales, marketing, real estate and consulting before founding Brian Tracy International. His company says he gave more than 5,000 talks and seminars to over five million people and wrote more than 70 books, translated into dozens of languages. His best-known book, 'Eat That Frog!', taught readers to tackle the task they are most likely to put off first. Other popular titles included 'Goals!' and 'No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline'.

He was sent to help bring a missing 14-year-old girl home safely. Instead, he became the person who harmed her.

Sinmi Asomuyide, a 33-year-old Nigerian-American former police officer in Kokomo, Indiana, has been sentenced to 40 years in a US federal prison for sexually assaulting the teenager. He will also serve three years of supervised release after his prison term.

How it happened

On 30 June 2024, the girl's father called the emergency line to report her missing as a runaway. Asomuyide, then on patrol with the Kokomo Police Department, was one of the officers who found her at the home of another underage girl.

While driving her to a youth centre, he switched off his body camera, took her phone and used it to call his own private number. He told her he would contact her later to return an item he had found on her.

Later that evening, after his shift, he went to where she was staying, picked her up while still in uniform, drove her to an empty warehouse car park and sexually assaulted her, according to court documents and GPS data from his car.

The evidence that exposed him

Asomuyide denied everything. When state police questioned him about a week later, he claimed he had never given the girl his number and that she had contacted him on a work phone, even though Kokomo officers are not issued work phones.

Within hours of the assault, he had also searched online for how to delete the messaging account he used to contact her.

But the evidence caught up with him. Investigators examining his patrol car found a stain on the centre console that matched his DNA.

In June 2026, a federal jury found him guilty after a five-day trial of violating the girl's civil rights by sexually assaulting her while on duty, witness tampering by lying to investigators, and destroying records. The judge handed down the 40-year sentence this month.

An earlier warning sign

Even more disturbing, investigators found that this was not the first allegation against him.

Before joining the Kokomo police, Asomuyide worked with the Portsmouth Police Department in Virginia. He resigned there after an allegation that he had sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl while off duty. When he applied to Kokomo, he gave a false account of why he had left.

Sworn to protect

The case has shocked many, especially Nigerians at home and abroad. A police officer is trusted to protect the most vulnerable, and a missing child should be safest in the hands of the officer sent to find her.

It also raises hard questions about how a man with a previous allegation involving a minor was able to get another job in law enforcement.

Over to you

How can someone sworn to protect children become their abuser, and what should police departments do to make sure it never happens again?

The United States briefly halted all departing flights across the country on Friday, 13 November 2026, causing widespread disruption.

What happened

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a sudden nationwide ground stop at 3.54pm Eastern time, citing extraordinary circumstances and safety, and said all departing traffic should remain on the ground until further notice. It said inbound international flights would be handled case by case. At the time, more than 4,000 flights bound for US destinations were in the air, according to flight-tracking data.

The impact

Within hours, more than 2,000 flights had been cancelled and more than 10,000 delayed, according to flight-tracking figures, and lawmakers demanded an explanation.

The cause

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was no indication so far of anything malicious, and that the problem appeared to be a telecommunications outage. He said President Donald Trump had been briefed.

Ground stop lifted

The FAA lifted the ground stop after about five hours, with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy saying airspace reopened at 8.15pm Eastern time, although operations would resume gradually. He said the outage was caused by overloaded switches and routers that led to gaps in communications and radar, and officials admitted that new technology added to the air traffic control network had overwhelmed older parts of the system. Officials confirmed it was not a cyberattack. More than 1.5 million passengers were affected, in the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years.