We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Michael Fagan, an out-of-work painter and decorator, hit headlines around the world in 1982, when he climbed the railings at Buckingham Palace to visit the Queen. Mr Fagan shinned up a drainpipe, […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The former First Lady added the president elect’s success over the weekend “isn’t a magic wand”. Her comments came following Mr Biden’s election victory over the weekend after he secured the necessary […]
A man is being hunted after a poppy collection box was stolen over Remembrance weekend. The suspect walked into a butchers on Mill Lane in West Derby, Liverpool, on Saturday morning and took the fundraising pot. Officers probing the theft have now released a photo of a man they believe could help with their enquiries. […]
MOSCOW — For years, state propaganda in both Russia and China has painted Western democracy as dangerously chaotic compared to what it described as the safety and stability of the countries’ authoritarian systems. With President Trump’s unfounded allegations that Democrats stole last week’s presidential election, Moscow and Beijing got a fresh chance to claim vindication. […]
Another 194 people with coronavirus have died across the UK in the latest 24-hour period – compared to 156 a day earlier, government figures show. It brings the UK total deaths to to 49,238, the figures show. However, separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies for deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death […]
LONDON — A peer in the House of Lords, Britain’s unelected second chamber of Parliament, drew heavy criticism from lawmakers on Monday for referring on Twitter to Kamala Harris, the United States vice president-elect, simply as “the Indian.” The peer, Lord Kilclooney, a former elected member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, said on Twitter on […]
PARIS — It was an unusual object to spot in the flat grassy fields of eastern France: A small aluminum capsule found in the middle of nowhere near Ingersheim, a town in Alsace. Inside was another surprise: a message written in ink in Gothic-looking script on a thin slip of paper. Jade Halaoui, who discovered […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Charles, like many royals, served in the RAF and the Royal Navy for five years, while his son Harry served for a decade in the Armed Forces. Royals with military accolades always […]
LONDON — A peer in the House of Lords, Britain’s unelected second chamber of Parliament, drew heavy criticism from lawmakers on Monday for referring on Twitter to Kamala Harris, the United States vice president-elect, simply as “the Indian.” The peer, Lord Kilclooney, a former elected member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, said on Twitter on […]
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have often been hailed as a perfect example of a loving couple still working to support each other after over 70 years of marriage. Her Majesty […]