Pope Francis set to make London-born teenager, who died aged 15, first millennial saint
The Vatican has approved canonisation of Carlo Acutis, whose spreading of teachings of the Catholic church online led to him being called ‘God's influencer’
The Vatican has approved canonisation of Carlo Acutis, whose spreading of teachings of the Catholic church online led to him being called ‘God's influencer’
“They told him we’ll all have to go to Spain and start a new life there, or that we should separate and he should go back to Spain by himself - it’s just horrible"
Tanya Kach was 14 years old when she vanished in 1996. A decade later, she was found at her middle school security guard’s home, where she was being kept captive. Now, with the help of fellow kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart, she’s telling her story. Andrea Cavallier reports
Residents living by a picturesque marina have been ordered to pay £10,000 for a new fence - to stop them helping boat users with their shopping. People living in Albion Mill in Worcester have been banned from passing bags over the existing railings. To avoid a 20-minute walk carrying heavy bags, boat owners leave their shopping at metal railings on the opposite side of the pontoon where their boats are moored. They then walk around the apartments to access Diglis Marina and have their bags passed over the railings by kind-hearted Albion Mill residents. Apartment managers now plan to erect a 2m (6.5ft) high 35m (114ft) long fence to block off the pontoon after two people complained about boat owners trespassing. They say the current practice means boat owners access a private car park and say some people have been climbing over the metal railings. But furious residents claim they are being punished for helping boat owners.
A school has fined a father who took his 14-year-old daughter out of class to attend the D-Day commemorations.
Bradley Tams had been friends with Gavin Train for more than a decade before the unthinkable happened
The victim - a man aged in his 70s - was rushed to hospital with fractured ribs
Clive Myrie, the BBC Mastermind host, said he was left “shaken” after receiving death threats which involved “talking about the kind of bullet that he’d use in the gun to kill me”.
Police and paramedics attended but the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
Thomas Bradley was arrested returning to the UK via Holyhead
Carl Wylie, 40, returned to the UK after being made redundant in South Africa
One used to lunch in the restaurant at Tate Britain and study the remarkable 1927 mural by Rex Whistler, The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats. Whistler was barely out of the Slade, and just 21, when he began this fantasy, showing people about the same age as the artist going through an imaginary landscape looking for food. Part of the mural’s delight is its sheer romanticism, at odds with the modernism of the time when it was painted. However, it is now contended that to admire it is racist.
Disgraced police officer Michael Holman, a suspect in the slaying of librarian Patricia Jeschke, died in 2015
Firefighters can be seen tackling a blazing fire in a residential block in central London. The footage, taken by an anonymous bystander, shows a raging fire in the four-bed flat on the third floor of a 22-storey residential block in Spitalfields, London. Around 60 firefighters and eight fire engines attended the scene, with onlookers reporting a response time of around 10 minutes. One woman was led to safety by firefighters wearing breathing apparatus, and a further three people were treated on scene by London Ambulance Service. All four people were taken to hospital as a precaution.
The Home Secretary has demanded an urgent explanation after police officers rammed a cow that was charging around a residential area.
Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized.
A police officer who was driving a marked car used to ram an escaped calf has been removed from front-line duties, Surrey Police has confirmed.
A Labour candidate was forced to abandon leafleting outside a mosque on Friday after a crowd barracked him as a “Zionist devil” with “the blood of Palestinian children on his hands”.
A COUPLE were busted dealing drugs at a hotel in Milford Haven after they aroused suspicion by acting strangely and being aggressive to staff.
A distorted narrative painting Israel as a country of “colonisers” has become an accepted truth, particularly among a generation whose concept of global politics has been formed by social media sized snippets.
Three men accused in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger are due in court Monday for a plea hearing and sentencing. The combined hearing for Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon is to be held in federal court in northern West Virginia. Plea deals for the three were disclosed May 13, nearly six years after the 89-year-old Bulger was beaten to death in his cell hours after being transferred to a troubled West Virginia prison.