Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said she is confident disagreements with campaigners over a new law designed to stop cover-ups can be resolved before it returns to Parliament on Monday. The Hillsborough Law would introduce a legal obligation for public authorities to cooperate and tell the truth in inquiries. However, bereaved families and some Labour…
Syrian troops fighting Kurdish forces in north-eastern Syria have seized the country’s largest oilfield. The Omar facility and nearby gas fields are under army control after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pulled back, officials and monitors say. Earlier the army captured the strategic Tabqa dam on the Euphrates river. The push came after the…
The internet is used to seeing Paris through rose-tinted lenses, glowing sunsets, perfect lighting, perfect selfies, carefully framed shots that make every corner look cinematic. So when a set of unedited photos showed up online recently, the contrast was jarring enough to stop people mid-scroll. The pictures are without any filters (it’s rare nowadays to…
Raducanu made encouraging progress in 2025, climbing back into the world’s top 30 and playing more matches than in any previous season of her career. However, the off-season technical work she planned to put in with coach Francisco Roig – who helped Rafael Nadal win 16 of his 22 major titles – was hampered by…
The Boston Globe/Getty Images Warning: This article contains themes you may find upsetting Gina Russo was watching a gig with her husband-to-be, Fred Crisostomi, one night in 2003 when she realised something wasn’t right. Great White, an 80s hair-rock band, had opened their set with a thrash of guitar chords, as four large pyrotechnic flares…
There are tiger reserves in central India, a national park that’s the only home of Asiatic lions, and more that combine thrilling safaris with landscapes at their seasonal best in January. Source link
Becky MortonPolitical reporter EPA Nigel Farage has insisted Reform UK will not become the Conservative Party 2.0 following the defection of former senior Tory Robert Jenrick. Writing in the Telegraph, the party’s leader said Reform “is not a rescue charity for every panicky Tory MP” and any potential defectors would have to be prepared to…
Chris BockmanIn southern France Pascal POCHARD-CASABIANCA/AFP Alain Orsoni was shot at his mother’s funeral service in his native village of Vero The mourners had gathered in the small village of Vero, a half-hour drive from Ajaccio, the capital of the picture-postcard Mediterranean island of Corsica. In their midst was former nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, 71,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday performed the Bhoomi Pujan of the Kaziranga Elevated Corridor Project in Kaliabor, Assam, marking the start of a major infrastructure initiative aimed at improving connectivity while safeguarding one of India’s most sensitive wildlife regions. The project, officially the 4-laning of the Kaliabor–Numaligarh section of National Highway-715, involves an investment…
UK’s position on Greenland is ‘non-negotiable’, says Lisa Nandy The culture secretary has said the UK will not compromise on its position that Greenland’s future must be decided by its own people. Lisa Nandy said US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on the UK and other European allies over the issue is “deeply…