The Louvre is used to tourists queuing at dawn, not thieves scaling its walls. Yet, on a crisp October morning in Paris, four masked intruders did just that — pulling up beside the Seine, extending a ladder, and slipping through a second-floor window into the Galerie d’Apollon. In under five minutes, they smashed two display…
A US federal judge has issued an order limiting the crowd control tactics that can be used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) towards “peaceful and unobstructive” protesters in Minneapolis. Judge Katherine Menendez ruled on Friday night that federal agents can’t arrest or pepper spray peaceful demonstrators, including those monitoring and observing ICE agents….
King Charles III has landed in Rome for what is being described as a historic visit. This is not merely an official state visit or a diplomatic courtesy. The King will meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican and pray alongside him, marking the first time since England’s break from Rome nearly 500 years ago…
EPA Syrian forces have entered the town of Deir Hafer The Syrian army is moving into areas east of Aleppo city, after Kurdish forces started a withdrawal. Syrian troops have been spotted entering Deir Hafer, a town about 50km (30 miles) from Aleppo. On Friday, the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia announced it would…
When King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive in the Sistine Chapel this week to pray alongside Pope Leo XIV, it won’t just be a royal photo-op — it will be the closest Britain has come to healing a five-century-old religious rift born of politics, power, and love.For the first time since Henry VIII’s Reformation…
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Getty Images The White House has announced the first members of its Gaza “Board of Peace”, and the list of names will do little to dispel the criticism from some quarters that the US president’s plan resembles, at its heart, a colonial solution imposed over the heads of the Palestinians. There are still several unknowns…
Turning crisis into opportunity was never this epic. When a Böcker Agilo forklift, built by the German company Böcker Maschinenwerke GmbH, was used in a daring daylight robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the manufacturer decided not to hide from the spotlight. Instead, it embraced the unexpected publicity with humour. The company shared a…
President Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of Thursday’s election extending his four decades in power by another five years. He gained 72% of the vote, the election commission announced, against 25% for his closest challenger Bobi Wine, who has condemned what he described as “fake results” and “ballot stuffing”. He has not provided…
Two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte’s once-invincible army met its doom in the freezing fields of Eastern Europe, scientists have uncovered new clues about what truly destroyed his forces, and it wasn’t just the brutal Russian winter. Using advanced DNA analysis, researchers have examined the teeth of soldiers buried in a mass grave in Vilnius, Lithuania,…