1 hour ago About sharing Eve was sleeping rough near Blackpool pier when a man assaulted her at night By Michael Buchanan and Katie Inman BBC News Charities have warned the number of people sleeping rough in the UK is rising. Those sleeping on the streets already face freezing conditions, but in recent weeks there…
1 hour ago About sharing Areas around Cairns have received more than 2m (7ft) of rainfall since Thursday By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Major flooding in northern Australia has begun to ease but many towns remain isolated in crocodile-infested waters as supplies dwindle. Extreme weather driven by ex-tropical cyclone Jasper has dumped a year’s…
39 minutes ago About sharing By Jacqueline Howard BBC News Dame Esther Rantzen says a free vote on assisted dying would be top of the agenda if she were PM for a day. “I think it’s important that the law catches up with what the country wants,” the veteran broadcaster told Radio 4’s Today programme….
3 hours ago About sharing Like many from Thailand’s poor north-east, Wichian Temthong left for Israel to find better-paid work By Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent “Am I lucky or unlucky?” Wichian Temthong pondered the question. “I guess I’m lucky, because I’m still here, still alive.” The 37-year-old farm worker is one of 23…
The 5.9 magnitude quake struck the remote province of Gansu around midnight local time on Monday.
7 hours ago Comments About sharing Ukraine is running low on artillery shells By Abdujalil Abdurasulov and Daniel Thomas BBC News Ukraine has warned it is already being forced to downsize some military operations because of a drop-off in foreign aid. Top general Oleksandr Tarnavskyi said troops faced ammunition shortages along the “entire front line”,…
A volcano erupts on the Reykjanes peninsula after weeks of intense earthquake activity.
Politics / December 18, 2023 The Real Tragedy of Rudy Giuliani The disgraced former mayor was a racist authoritarian—even back when he was being celebrated by the mainstream media. Jeet Heer Ad Policy Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for Donald Trump, arrives to the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse on December 15, 2023…
Jonathan Majors is known for playing Kang in the Marvel universe and for films like Creed III.
World / December 18, 2023 Bernie Sanders’s Incoherent, Pernicious Gaza Cease-Fire Position, Explained Instead of demanding that we end the war that actually exists, Sanders is lobbying for a humane war that Israel has zero interest in. Adam Johnson Ad Policy Senator Bernie Sanders arrives for a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing…