NAZARÉ, Portugal — At the market in the ancient fishing village of Nazaré, Portuguese pensioners shopped for their fruit and vegetables. Retired fishermen chatted over coffee. And a record-breaking American surfer sipped on a cucumber and celery smoothie. It was Garrett McNamara, a 51-year-old from Hawaii who until recently held the world record for the […]
Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Horner and Emma Bunton announced a six-date tour of the UK last week – minus Victoria Beckham. Extra dates were added to the reunion after fans vented their frustration at missing out in the rush for tickets. The band were known for their girl power message during the 90s, but […]
Poland’s Eurosceptic leaders marked a century of national independence as 200,000 people marched through the capital in a parade involving far-right groups and neo-fascist activists from Italy. The march was a focus of debate about whether the ruling Law and Justice Party tacitly encourages groups with roots in the fascist and anti-Semitic movements. The party […]
Relatives of those killed in what became known as the “Ballymurphy massacre” hope it will finally provide answers. It was August 1971 when the British army launched Operation Demetrius – the introduction of internment without trial. Over the course of three days, members of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 10 civilians at Ballymurphy in west […]
Freedom of Information requests to councils and local authorities across the UK revealed that, since 2013, there has been a 242% increase in the number of home-educating parents who cite “avoiding or facing permanent exclusion” when they remove their child from school. Natalie Walker decided to home school her son earlier this year. Jay, 12, […]
St Mark’s Basilica in Venice needs urgent funding to save its precious marble and mosaic floor after flood water did decades worth of damage in a day, officials have warned. The Catholic cathedral, which attracts more than five million visitors a year, was filled with nearly three feet of water at the end of October […]
Michael D Higgins has been inaugurated for a second term as President of Ireland at a ceremony in Dublin Castle on Sunday. Former presidents Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese were in attendance. The Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Simon Coveney were also present. President Higgins was re-elected in October […]
An unnamed survivor has filmed the moment he revisited the area in the northern town of Paradise, Butte County, where people he knew were killed. The footage shows four burned-out cars, some of which have the charred remains of people still sat on the seats inside. Blue flames can be seen flickering inside one of […]
First there was the ‘thigh gap’, then the ‘Toblerone tunnel’, then next on the list of fad body trends came ‘ribcage bragging’, ‘inguinal lines’, ‘the thigh brow’, ‘hip cleavage’ and finally the painful-looking ‘ab crack’. Now the latest – and potentially harmful – social media craze which focuses on women’s body image is the ‘Russian […]
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