Section: The Week (The United Kingdom)
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 28 Apr 2015
EIGHT MILLION HIT BY NEPAL EARTHQUAKE The UN has said that eight million people have been affected by Nepal’s worst earthquake for 80 years. More than 4,000 are confirmed to have died – with 8,000 injured – and 1.4 million will need food aid. An RAF plane has left for Nepal carrying UK aid and troops, including Gurkha engineers and...
Ukraine: Yanukovych ally Oleg Kalashnikov shot dead in Kiev
Credits SERGEY BOBOK/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text A Ukrainian soldier stands guard as residents collect food parcels A number of officials with ties to ex-president Viktor Yanukovych have recently died in suspicious circumstances One-Minute Read Thursday, April …read more Source: The...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 8 Apr 2015
ASSAD CRITIC SHOT DEAD IN CAR IN LONDON A former Imam, born in Syria, who has been an outspoken critic of Syria’s autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, was found dead in London on Tuesday morning. Police have launched a murder investigation into the death of Abdul Hadi Arwani, found with gunshot wounds to his chest in a car in Wembley....
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 2 Apr 2015
LEADERS’ TV DEBATE: BOOKIES TIP FARAGE Ukip’s Nigel Farage is the bookmakers’ favourite to ‘win’ tonight’s seven-way party leaders’ TV debate. There are expected to be four snap polls immediately afterwards – and while Farage is the bookies’ tip, YouGov thinks David Cameron will win. He is said to...
Britain ‘to send more troops to Falklands amid invasion fears’
Alt Text Soldiers Falklands Fallon will reportedly bolster defences on Falkland Islands to reflect ‘increased nature of the threat’ One-Minute Read Tuesday, March 24, 2015 – 8:40am See related Falklands War 2? Argentina’s …read more Source: The...
Week in pictures: 8 – 14 March
From riders at Cheltenham racecourse to Zoolander and Hansel on the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week Gallery Sunday, March 15, 2015 – 6:30am Cheltenham Ferguson Kate Middleton England cricket world cup Gaza Istanbul Charlize Theron …read more Source: The...
North Korea and Russia’s ‘year of friendship’: what does it mean?
Credits Getty Alt Text Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin forge a ‘pariah alliance’ to ‘poke a finger’ at America and the West Briefing Friday, March 13, 2015 – 3:54pm …read more Source: The...
Is Putin ill? Kremlin denies rumours, but publishes old picture
Credits SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Alt Text President Vladimir Putin Russian officials insist ‘everything is fine’ amid ongoing speculation that Vladimir Putin is seriously ill One-Minute Read Friday, March 13, 2015 – 11:48am …read more Source: The...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 10 Mar 2015
HUNDREDS OF SEX OFFENDERS MISSING Almost 400 registered sex offenders, who are supposed to be monitored by police, are missing across the UK, according to information published under a Freedom of Information request. One convicted sex offender in Gloucestershire has been missing since 2000, while another in Northumbria disappeared in May 2002....
Week in pictures: 1 – 7 March
From an avalanche in Afghanistan to Harrison Ford’s plane crash and a pampered pooch at Crufts Gallery Sunday, March 8, 2015 – 6:30am Afghanistan Harrison Ford crufts Ukraine Chelsea Tottenham Jose Mourinho …read more Source: The...
