ADDS CAUSE OF BLACK SMOKE IN THE BACKGROUND.- A plume of smoke caused by an Iranian strike is seen in the background an an Emirates plane is parked at the Dubai International Airport after its closure in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) A British holidaymaker has been arrested in…
Darren Cooper awarded £12k after taking his Sainsbury’s boss to court for being left out of social media tribute A long-serving Sainsbury’s store manager has been awarded nearly £12,000 after an employment tribunal found he was unfairly treated when his boss left him out of a social media post celebrating male leaders in the company….
Mary Trump argues Trump launched the Iran war to divert attention from political pressures threatening his power. When Donald Trump returned to power, he did so on a promise he repeated with unusual clarity: the United States, he said, had spent too long fighting other people’s wars.The pledge was central to his political identity. Trump…
collage of Allan Ramsay’s portrait of Queen Charlotte Sophia For generations, historians and genealogists have argued over an unusual question in British royal history: could Queen Charlotte, the German-born wife of King George III, have had African ancestry? The debate, once largely confined to academic circles, has resurfaced in popular culture through Netflix’s Regency drama…
Italian YouTuber Zazza is escorted by two policemen, who watch over him amid the lawless streets. High in the Peruvian Andes, more than 5,000 metres above sea level, sits La Rinconada, a settlement widely described as the highest permanent city on Earth. Around 50,000 people live there, scattered across a bleak landscape of corrugated metal…
David Booth had ten nights of chilling visions showing the deadly crash of Flight 191 that killed 273/ Youtube In the history of aviation accidents, some tragedies acquire strange stories that linger long after investigators determine what went wrong. One of the most unsettling accounts linked to a major air disaster involves American Airlines Flight…
Daniel Jackson is the self-declared president of the Free Republic of Verdis, leading its online government and citizen community./ Image: X In an era when nearly every piece of land on Earth belongs to a recognised state, the idea of starting a new country can sound almost impossible. Yet Daniel Jackson, a 20-year-old with British…
collage of Allan Ramsay’s portrait of Queen Charlotte Sophia For generations, historians and genealogists have argued over an unusual question in British royal history: could Queen Charlotte, the German-born wife of King George III, have had African ancestry? The debate, once largely confined to academic circles, has resurfaced in popular culture through Netflix’s Regency drama…
A new book claims Queen Victoria used cocaine, cannabis and laudanum during Britain’s global opium trade. Queen Victoria is often remembered as the figurehead of a moral, industrious era in British history. Yet the global economic machinery that operated during her reign included one of the most controversial trades of the 19th century: the export…
Antonia Bettridge, 25, from St Helens, faces possible life imprisonment in Dubai over narcotics charges./ Image: Echo A British woman working as a personal trainer in Dubai could face life imprisonment after being detained in the United Arab Emirates on suspicion of narcotics offences, according to legal advisers assisting her family. Antonia Bettridge, 25, from…