Mon 24 October 2022: The Holy See announced that Pope Francis and French President Emmanuel Macron had a private audience on Monday at the Vatican. “During the cordial discussions, which took place in the Secretariat of State, the parties focused on matters of an international nature, starting from the conflict in Ukraine, with special attention […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: Sunak has been declared the new leader of the Conservative Party by the head of the 1922 Committee of Conservative legislators, placing him on course to be the UK’s next prime minister. Graham Brady, the 1922 committee’s chairman, said Sunak would address Conservative MPs at 2:30pm (13:30 GMT) following his leadership […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: Rishi Sunak leads the race to replace Liz Truss as Conservative Party leader and looks set to become the United Kingdom’s new prime minister. Rishi Sunak, 42, was born in Southampton to Indian parents who came to the UK from East Africa. His father was a doctor and his mother owned a chemist shop. Following […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: Instagram has updated Hidden Words and added new features to protect users from abuse. If you block someone, you can now block additional accounts they may have to make it more difficult for them to connect with you again, according to the company in a blog post. Based on the results […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: A large study published on Monday suggests that frequent use of hair-straightening products may significantly increase the risk of developing uterine cancer. The study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, incorporated data from almost 34,000 women in the United States over a period of around 11 years (10.9 […]
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Mon 24 October 2022: Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has hit out at RT after a presenter said Ukrainian children who saw Soviet Russians as occupiers should have been drowned. “Governments which have still not banned RT must watch this excerpt,” he said on Twitter, linking to the clip and adding that Ukraine would put presenter […]
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Sun 23 October 2022: Boris Johnson left the Conservative Party’s leadership contest. Rishi Sunak now has access to No. 10 due to his withdrawal. 59 Tory MPs publicly supported the former prime minister, but he still needed 100 votes to win. With more than 140 supporters, the former chancellor Sunak has a sizable lead over […]
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Sun 23 October 2022: Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after the attack he suffered while preparing to deliver a lecture in New York state two months ago, his agent has confirmed. “(His wounds) were profound, but he’s (also) lost the sight of one eye,” Andrew Wylie, a New […]
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Sun 23 October 2022: Donald Trump, a former US president, has said he might have to run for office again in 2024. “I ran twice. I won twice. I did much better the second time than I did before,” Trump said at a rally in Texas late Saturday. “And now in order to make our […]
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Sun 23 October 2022: Climate activists seem to have developed a liking for foods for their actions, with two demonstrators, albeit from a different movement, arrested in London about a week ago after throwing tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” In latest incident, two climate activists from the Last Generation movement flung mashed potatoes […]
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