‘I feel like an idiot’: Funeral officer emotional as he discusses No 10 party
The European Union must draw up proposals in the coming weeks for a new security deal that it would then negotiate with Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, calling for a "frank dialogue" with Moscow. Speaking amid growing worries over a Russian military build-up at Ukraine's borders, Macron did not spell out what a "new stability and security order" could entail but said it must ensure Europe defends its interests. "We will make sure that Europe makes its unique and strong voice heard," he told the European Parliament.
The BBC is so much more than a subplot in the Tory soap opera. Nadine Dorries’ threats remind me of Brexit – progressives must do more than try to save institutions from the wreckers
Keep a cuppa warm all day, or a cold drink from freezing on a wintry walk with one of these clever containers
Fitness guru shares military technique on how to get to sleep in under two minutes
Plus, a lawyer explains the legal battle over Canada’s discriminatory First Nations child welfare system. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
LGBT+ veterans whose lives were “shattered” by the pre-2000 military ban will be invited to share their stories as part of a new government review.
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Downton Abbey actress Michelle Dockery has got engaged to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s brother Jasper. The announcement read: “The engagement is announced between Jasper, son of Michael Waller-Bridge of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and Teresa Waller-Bridge of Battersea, London, and Michelle Dockery, younger daughter of Michael and Lorraine Dockery of Gidea Park, Essex.”
Almost five years on from the deadly Grenfell Tower fire, work has not been finished on 40% of buildings with the same type of cladding.
On climate, the French leader urged the EU "to move from words to deeds" and proposed adding the protection of the environment into the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rghts.View on euronews
Boris Johnson will reportedly need to be dragged ‘kicking and screaming’ from Downing Street.
The Hong Kong government is scrambling to cull about 2,000 small mammals -- mostly hamsters -- under its "zero-Covid" strategy
Is midnight upon us? Doomsday Clock panel to set risk of global catastrophe. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to unveil its measure of how close human civilisation is to the edge of extinction
Under Britain's ETS the authority can intervene in the market if average prices remain above a certain level for three consecutive months. "While UK ETS prices have remained elevated and triggered the CCM again, after careful consideration, the Authority judged that, on balance, prices were responding to fundamental market drivers and therefore concluded that intervention was not warranted on this occasion," the government said in a statement. "This decision, like that in December, is aimed at upholding the objectives of the UK ETS as a market-based approach to reducing emissions and incentivising participants to find the most cost-effective solutions to decarbonise," the government added.
The latest figures show a decrease in infections across most parts of the UK and among all age groups apart from younger children.
A newly discovered coral reef off the coast of Tahiti could prove there might be more ecosystems in the ocean's depths that have not been damaged by pollution and global warming, scientists hope. Stretching out for thousands of metres, the pristine rose-shaped corals are a sight to behold. Most corals are found at depths above 25m - where they get most of the sunlight they need to reproduce.
Travel tests have virtually no effect in preventing the spread of Covid variants from abroad unless restrictions are introduced within a day of the strain first being imported to the UK, according to a scientific analysis.
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