Pat Cullen has said that nurses are “desperately trying to save the NHS”. The chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing told BBC Breakfast that negotiations have “never been more urgent” She added: “We had optimism about a w…
Hong Kongers flock to annual flower fair ahead of Lunar New Year
Hong Kong’s annual Lunar New Year fair returns for the first time since the Chinese border reopening. Flower markets and stalls are set up all over the city in the week leading up to the Chinese New Year, where residents come to buy plants — typically…
PROFILE: Pablo Sarabia, Spanish attacking midfielder
File images of Spanish midfielder Pablo Sarabia, who will move from Paris Saint-Germain to Wolves in a £4.4 million ($5.4 million) deal. The 30-year-old has agreed a two-and-a-half-year contract with the Premier League club. Sarabia made 98 appearances…
Malaysian aquarium holds underwater lion dance for Lunar New Year
Turtles and fish swim around divers performing an underwater lion dance in a Malaysian aquarium ahead of the Lunar New Year festival. Carrying oxygen canisters, the dancers inside a single lion costume jump in the water before landing on the sandy floo…
Aftermath of helicopter crash outside Kyiv which killed 16
Images of the aftermath of a helicopter crash in the town of Brovary, located around 20 kilometres northeast of Ukraine’s Kyiv. Ukraine’s interior minister was among 16 people, including two children, who were killed when the helicopter crashed near a …
FILE: Trial of former Guantanamo detainee Saber Lahmar
File photos of former Guantanamo detainee Saber Lahmar, sentenced to 10 years in jail for jihadist propaganda in France, and file footage shot at the opening of the correctional trial in May 2022, as his appeal trial opens in Paris. FILE IMAGES
Bordeaux Opera stages cost-effective version of Mozart’s Requiem
“The fact that we are staging this work with few resources gives us the idea that we are relatively naked in the face of death,” says Stéphane Braunschweig, director of Mozart’s Requiem at the Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux. Reusing old sets and costumes in…
Why 200 millionaires want higher taxes: Inequality is “eating our world alive” – CBS News
Why 200 millionaires want higher taxes: Inequality is “eating our world alive” CBS News200 millionaires sign an open letter asking to pay more taxes • FRANCE 24 English FRANCE 24 EnglishOver 200 millionaires urge Davos elite to up…
Over 200 millionaires urge Davos elite to up taxes on the ultra-rich
Over 200 millionaires called on the elite attendees of this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos to “tackle extreme wealth” and “tax the ultra-rich.”