A devastating swarm of tornadoes ripped through Kentucky and five other US states, killing dozens of people and leaving a trail of destroyed homes, factories and warehouses. Videos and pictures shared on social media on Saturday from the city of Mayfield in Kentucky showed buildings […]
The former director of Barcelona’s youth teams, Albert Benaiges, has been accused of sexually abusing dozens of former pupils at a public school where he worked in Barcelona, Spanish media reported on Saturday. Catalan newspaper ARA reported that more than 60 of Benaiges’s former students […]
Tens of thousands gathered in Austria’s capital Vienna to protest mandatory COVID vaccines and home confinement orders for those who have not yet received the jab. Police said an estimated 44,000 people attended the demonstration on Saturday, the latest in a string of huge weekend […]
Environmental protesters have blocked roads in Serbia for a third consecutive weekend to oppose plans for lithium mining, despite a bid by the country’s populist government to defuse the demonstrations by agreeing to the key demands of organisers. Several thousand people braved rain and cold […]
A “travesty of justice” is how Amnesty International describes it. “Dangerous and misguided,” says Julian Assange’s partner. She says the founder of the WikiLeaks website is planning a last-gasp appeal to the United Kingdom’s highest court to stop extradition to the United States. The UK’s […]
On Monday, December 13 at 19:30 GMT:In a world first, Rohingya refugees are suing Facebook for $150 billion over allegations the social media giant did not take action against inflammatory hate speech that led to violence against them. They say that negligence, and the algorithms […]
Two staff members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) abducted last month in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been freed, the humanitarian organisation has said. The ICRC said in late November that one Congolese citizen and an international staff member had […]
Foreign minister of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations gathered in the British city of Liverpool have sought to demonstrate “a show of unity against global aggressors”, with the host, the United Kingdom, expressing deep concern about the build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine’s […]
The British government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the Omicron variant and prevent a new surge in COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths, British scientists said on Saturday. UK health officials say Omicron is spreading much more quickly than the Delta […]
Libya’s election commission said it would not publish a list of presidential candidates until after it settles some legal issues, leaving almost no time to hold the vote as planned on December 24. “Given the sensitivities of this stage and the political and security circumstances […]
