Queue-jumping triggers rows and resignations – and experts say it could undermine trust in the systemCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageVaccines against Covid-19 may represent a peak of human ingenuity and achievement – but tha…
It is much easier to deprive someone of their citizenship and rights when they have been reduced to a caricatureMaya Foa is the director of the human rights charity ReprieveToday’s supreme court judgment in Shamima Begum’s case offers little resolution…
PRINCESS Latifa of Dubai – whose disappearance has provoked international uproar and a UN enquiry – is being prompted to take her own life, her close friend has claimed. The princess, who was returned to the UAE in 2018 following a failed escape plan, has found “bags of razor blades” under her bed as guards […]
POLICE have found the rotting corpse of a 55-year-old who died on his couch FIVE YEARS ago at his home in a Spanish tourist hotspot. Officers were hit with the putrid stench of a dead body when they entered the house in the resort town of Cala Millor, Majorca, earlier this week. Concerned neighbours contacted […]
A WOMAN needed hospital treatment for horror wounds on her wrists after chaining herself to her boyfriend in the “ultimate show of love”. Viktoria Pustovitova, 28, and Alexander Kudlay, 33, made themselves inseparable on Valentine’s Day and claim to have mastered most problems from being so “up close” to each other. The barmy pair want to […]
A SHOCKING photograph that shows one person waiting for the Covid vaccination in a sea of chairs lays bare the EU’s botched jabs rollout. The photo, which was taken in Brussels, came as Belgian authorities warned of “serious delays” to the vaccine programme, as neighbouring France and Germany brace for further lockdowns amid a surge […]
Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled provision in $1.9tn Covid stimulus bill did not qualify for budget reconciliationThe progressive Democrat Ilhan Omar has called for the firing of the government official who effectively blocked the party’s pla…
Former French ambassador in London, who has written book in attempt to understand Brexit, says question of Britain’s identity was keyWhen Sylvie Bermann arrived in London in August 2014 as France’s new ambassador, it was, she says, a city of “dynamism …
AN UBER driver raped a teenage girl after telling her he could “make her ride cheaper” – then lied to police claiming she “wanted it”. Twisted Hafiz Babar picked up his 18-year-old victim from a party before assaulting her in the back of his car in Melbourne, Australia. The 32-year-old offered the university student a […]
Opposition leader faces accusations over nationalist past but allies call for support to ensure his safetyThe Kremlin is taking aim at Alexei Navalny’s reputation, as the opposition leader was sent to a prison colony in Russia, a journey into a “grey z…