Category Politics

Kylie Minogue and Richard E Grant have sent their warm wishes to Australian comedian Magda Szubanski following her diagnosis with stage four blood cancer. The 64-year-old Liverpool actress, known for her roles in family films Happy Feet and Babe and…

A huge mass of rocks and ice has damaged a village in the Swiss Alps, which authorities evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. Social media posts show a rumbling landslide near Blatten, in the southern Lotschental valley. Photos from…

Billionaire Elon Musk has criticised US President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and spending bill, saying it undermines his efforts to reduce the US budget deficit. “So I was, frankly, upset to see a massive spending bill that increases the…

A judge has stayed former model Jodie Marsh’s appeal against the council’s refusal of her application for a licence to keep lemurs at her animal shelter. Celebrity personality Ms Marsh, a former bodybuilder, has claimed at previous hearings that much…

A German court has ruled against a Peruvian farmer in a landmark climate lawsuit. He claimed that global warming caused by historic carbon emissions by energy company RWE had put his home at risk. Farmer and mountain guide Saul Luciano…

Airline passengers in Turkey who remove their seat belts, climb onto overhead bins or occupy the aisle before the plane comes to a complete stop could now face fines under new rules. Updated regulations issued by the country’s civil aviation…

Six people are still missing after an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China that killed at least five people and injured 19. The explosion occurred on Tuesday in an industrial area of Weifang city in Shandong province, blowing…

At least five people have been killed and 19 injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China, state broadcaster CCTV said. The powerful blast occurred at a facility in the eastern province of Shandong around midday on…

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk is “praying for a speedy recovery” for those injured after a car plowed into crowds following the Reds’ Premier League trophy parade in the city on Monday night. A 53-year-old man was arrested after his…

A group of 17 European Union states has called on Hungary to review a new law that gives the government the power to ban public events by the LGBT+ community, amid growing pressure on the country’s populist government for its…