Queen Elizabeth laughs on video call to celebrate Australians of the Year
Queen Elizabeth laughs on video call to celebrate Australians of the Year
Kathleen Thompson, 47, was shot dead in her garden in Londonderry in November 1971.
Survivors of yesterday's missile strike on a shopping centre in central Ukraine have described to ITV News how they crawled through flames to safety. At least 20 others did not make it out alive. That figure could more than double. Over 30 people are still missing. For one mother whose daughter has disappeared without trace, the not knowing is unbearable. Russia insists it was targetting a nearby store of weapons and ammunition in Kremenchuk - not the shopping centre.
Dame Deborah James had a “special gift” which allowed her to have “difficult conversations” with the public that would ultimately save “countless lives”, a charity boss has said. The podcaster, who died on Tuesday, became a patron for Bowel Cancer UK following her diagnosis in 2016 and worked to raise money for and awareness of the charity. Its chief executive Genevieve Edwards told the PA news agency her legacy would live on through her campaigning work.
The whistle-blower lost his livelihood after flagging Martin Bashir’s deceitful tactics to the BBC.
The Russian view of the world was ‘something to worry about’, Ben Wallace said.
Met Office shows how a heatwave might look like in 2050 and how it might impact outdoor events like Glastonbury.Source: Met Office
Workers are accusing employers of "boardroom greed" and being "awash with cash".
Afghan finance and central bank officials from the Taliban-led government have departed for Qatar to meet with U.S. officials
Dutch flag carrier KLM says it is repaying the last portion of loans it got from the Netherlands government and banks to help it survive when the COVID-19 pandemic threw global aviation into a tailspin
Russia has denied targeting a shopping centre in Ukraine with missiles and claimed it was instead aiming for a nearby building it suspected was filled with weaponry. Its ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, insisted the Kremenchuk mall was empty, while describing the casualties as "collateral damage".
Last autumn a criminal barrister colleague of mine shared with me a redacted copy of a witness withdrawal statement from a rape trial. The witness was one of the prosecution’s two key witnesses and had withdrawn just weeks before from giving evidence in a trial of historic sex abuse and rape. The accused, a close family member, had been arrested in January 2016, charged in 2019, but the first date given for a trial was late 2021 as there were insufficient court rooms and a lack of availability prosecution and defence advocates.
Epstein victim says she hopes Ghislaine Maxwell 'dies in prison' after sentencing
<p>An 82-year-old British gran has broken the world record for the oldest woman ever to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats. <br><br>Gina Harris took 28 days to pedal 960 miles from Cornwall to Scotland, raising thousands of pounds for domestic abuse charities along the way.<br><br>The grandmother-of-five celebrated her epic journey with a huge slab of chocolate cake when she arrived at John O’Groats on June 23.<br><br>Gina, who turned 82 in April this year, is now the oldest woman ever to cycle the length of Britain.<br><br>Mavis Paterson, from Dumfries and Galloway, in Scotland, is currently the oldest woman to complete the gruelling feat, at the age of 81.<br><br>GIna, a retired photographer and gardener, only began cycling when she turned 50 and has previously ridden around parts of Europe and the US.<br><br>She was inspired by 87-year-old Laurence Brophy, the oldest man to have successfully completed the ‘end-to-end' challenge in 2019. <br><br>Gina, from Birmingham, said: "I rode my old steel touring bike and carried my luggage which was a combined weight of more than 30kg.</p>
The new contract means GPs need to offer appointments from 9am to 5pm on Saturdays, as well as until 8pm on weekdays.
Medical experts warn that repeated COVID-19 infections are getting more likely as the pandemic drags on and the coronavirus evolves
The iconic band is heading to Hyde Park to perform a special show as part of BST Hyde Park.
Survivors and relatives of the victims of the November 2015 terror attacks responded to Wednesday's guilty verdicts with a mixture of emotions, mostly relief.
Like some Hell’s Angel of the small-holding, Stuart Pritchard slaps ‘Born to be Mild’ on his headphones and rolls out on the most righteous ride-ons around…
The youngsters said they can relate to the British star because of her age.
Maxwell enticed vulnerable teenagers to Jeffrey Epstein’s various properties for him to sexually abuse between 1994 and 2004.