A police force in the north of England is trying to discourage children from trick or treating this Halloween because of Covid-19. South Yorkshire police (SYP) have produced a poster residents can print out and put in their windows saying “No trick or treaters”, with a picture of a silhouetted pumpkin crossed out like a no-entry sign. The force said: “This year our communities will be celebrating...
Russia plans to launch the biggest war in Europe since 1945 by attacking Ukraine in a “bloody and protracted conflict”, Boris Johnson has warned as he vowed to use “all the pressure we can bring” to “make sure that this this venture does not succeed”. The UK prime minister vowed that Nato would not be “pushed back” to appease Moscow and stressed that Vladimir Putin was “totally wrong” to think...
A Madagascan minister was one of two survivors to have swum about 12 hours to shore after their helicopter crashed off the island’s north-east coast, authorities said. A search was continuing for two other passengers after Monday’s crash, the cause of which was not immediately clear, police and port authorities said. Serge Gelle, the country’s secretary of state for police, and a fellow police...
A man wanted in an apparently unprovoked fatal shooting on a New York City subway train surrendered to police on Tuesday, hours after authorities posted his name and photo on social media and implored the public to help find him. Andrew Abdullah, 25, turned himself in at a Manhattan precinct to face charges in the death of 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez. Enriquez was shot while heading to brunch on...
International reaction to the turmoil in the financial markets which saw the pound fall to its lowest level ever against the dollar is devastating in its condemnation of the new government’s policies, and the astonishment and shock focused in particular on the chancellor’s willingness to experiment with one of the world’s most stable economies. In the US, criticism was led by the former US...
Rudy Guede, the only person definitively convicted of the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher, has been freed from prison after completing 13 years of a 16-year sentence. A judge in the Italian town of Viterbo agreed to further reduce Guede’s sentence, which had been due to end on 4 January, by an additional 45 days due to good behaviour. Francesco Maresca, the lawyer representing the...
Afghans who worked for the British but were not able to get on flights out of Kabul said the revelation that Boris Johnson appears to have personally approved the evacuation of animals last August added to their pain and despair. “People have died in Afghanistan, because of their connections to the UK, but the prime minister was just allowing animals to get out of there,” said Asif*, a senior...
The BBC reports that Kane Robinson, 26, of North Shields, was sentenced to 32 months. Richard Graham, a 22-year-old from Leicestershire, was sentenced to 21 months. At previous hearings, both men admitted they were guilty of the charge of illegal distribution of music. The Dancing Jesus site had links to more than 250,000 music tracks over its lifespan, according to the British Phonographic...
In 2013, the subreddit r/antiwork was born. “Unemployment for all, not just the rich!” read its tagline. America was experiencing a mood change at that time. Occupy: The Movie had just hit theaters, lodging the eponymous movement in the national consciousness; the Socialist Alternative party had just won its first ever seat on Seattle’s city council; and Senator Bernie Sanders, the longtime...
An RAF Chinook helicopter hovers over the slipped pieces of concrete, delicately dropping sandbags into a neat pile across the damaged spillway of the 100-plus year old dam holding back the Toddbrook Reservoir. Behind the damaged wall waits 1.3 million tonnes of water, ready to crash into the town of Whaley Bridge below. About 85 per cent of the residents of the Derbyshire town’s 6,500 residents...