A driver crashed his car after breaking the Covid lockdown to “look at the snow”. Court documents released to the Local Democracy Reporting Service show Noel John drove from Merseyside to the Snake Pass on 15 January last year, when all of England was under restrictions. The 24-year-old, of Charles Street in St Helens, did not pay … Read more
Three men in Lancashire who tried to extort up to £40,000 from victims in a “callous” blackmail plot have been jailed. Kamar Ilyas, 33, used a dating app to meet two married men while Aman Ullah Khan, 34, and Khalili Chaudry secretly filmed their sexual encounters. The trio, from Lancashire, admitted demanding cash from victims … Read more
Millions of children across Ukraine have had to flee their homes since the war there began. For some, it’s an even harder journey, because they don’t have their parents with them. One children’s home on the eastern front line had to move all of their children hundreds of miles across the country to keep them … Read more
Earlier this year Chinese programmer Jixian Wang moved to the Ukrainian port city of Odesa for work. Months later, Russia invaded the country. Mr Wang found that back home his friends and family were being told a different version of what was happening in Ukraine, by Chinese state media. He decided to start making videos … Read more
A British national has been killed in Ukraine and a second is missing, the UK Foreign Office has said. Sources in Ukraine told the BBC the dead man is Scott Sibley, who is understood to have been fighting for Ukrainian forces. He is the first British national confirmed to have been killed in the conflict … Read more
No one knows who put it here. But something rather odd has appeared in the center of St Petersburg. A bizarre art installation made up of one word: “ZAMESTIM” Each letter is the first letter of an international brand that has suspended operations in Russia. Their company logos are featured, too. Z is for Zara. … Read more
Labour MP Liam Byrne has been found to have bullied a former member of staff and will be suspended from the Commons for two days. The ex-Cabinet minister and MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill ostracised a former assistant after a minor office dispute, an investigation found. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Kathryn Stone said his behaviour was … Read more
A minority of men in politics “behave like animals”, Attorney General Suella Braverman has said, as female MPs share experiences of harassment. Ms Braverman said the problem started in wider society and there needed to be a discussion about “moral standards”. Her comments come as an unnamed minister accused a fellow Tory MP of watching … Read more
A large number of Indians are encountering a merciless heatwave that is tossing lives and livelihoods out of stuff – and there is not a single help to be seen. “Temperatures are rising rapidly in the country, and rising much earlier than usual,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi told state chief ministers on Wednesday. The India … Read more
Ukrainian authorities have censured Russia’s rocket assault on Kyiv Thursday night, which happened as the UN Chief General Antonio Guterres was completing a visit to the Ukrainian capital. President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his day to day video message, said that “Today, following the finish of our discussions [with Guterres] in Kyiv, Russian rockets flew into … Read more
The Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez has spoken against his own organization for failing to prevent or end the ongoing war in Ukraine. Further on, he said that, the failure to stop the atrocities of Russia is creating a source of great disappointment, frustration and anger. He also added that, we tried to do everything in … Read more
From coach Joseph Kennedy’s perspective, the year long fight over his decision to pray on the 50-yard line following his team’s football games is clear cut: He made a promise that he would offer his thanks on the field – win or lose. The Supreme Court will tackle a dispute between public school officials and a former high … Read more
China’s national security law imposed on Hong Kong nearly two years ago has completely changed the territory’s political landscape. Free speech has been curtailed, civil society groups have closed down and only Beijing-approved candidates can stand in elections. The law has also upended several long-standing legal principles – with one of the most radical changes … Read more
Trevor Reed had been held in a Russian jail since 2019. He was traded for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian jailed on drug-smuggling charges. Speaking outside the Reed home in Texas, his mother said she felt “almost as good as the day he was born”. Reed is currently on his way back to the US, where … Read more
A lady has been accused of homicide after a pet duck assisted US with policing to break the instance of her missing grandma in North Carolina, authorities said. Nellie Sullivan, who would be aged 93 if she were still alive, disappeared sometime in 2020. Investigators have been searching for Ms Sullivan ever since without a … Read more
Russian hackers have completed no less than 37 digital assaults against Ukraine since the attack started, Microsoft has said in a report. The tech giant’s researchers said digital attacks on Ukraine began a year in advance of the invasion and may have laid the groundwork for military missions. It likewise observed that hacking and military … Read more
Russian soldiers are coming down on Ukrainian columnists in regions under Moscow’s influence, as indicated by Ukrainian common liberties ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova. Russian experts in the Zaporizhzhya Region, in the south-east of Ukraine, were abducting columnists, addressing them, holding onto their hardware and looking through their homes, the UNIAN news organization cited Denisova as saying. … Read more
Canada’s parliament has collectively denounced Russia’s activities in Ukraine as “massacre”. The officials settled on Wednesday that there was “clear and more than adequate proof of fundamental and huge atrocities against humankind” by Russian soldiers. The leaders of Poland and the US have both marked Russia’s killing of regular people “decimation”, yet other world pioneers … Read more
