Getty Images Finally, after five years of changing approaches to exams and grading, this is it. This is the year that A-level grades across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are back, more or less, to where they were before Covid. Most students getting level three results were in Year 9 when the pandemic started. They … Read more
Delhi High Court on Friday refused to grant an urgent listing of low-cost airline Spicejet’s plea. (Photo: Wikipedia) 5 min read Last Updated : Aug 16 2024 | 12:07 PM IST The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to grant an urgent listing of low-cost airline Spicejet’s plea challenging an order to ground three … Read more
Angela Rayner has been warned that the government could risk missing its housing targets by placing too much emphasis on creating new towns across England. The deputy prime minister announced plans last month for the “largest housebuilding programme since the postwar period”, kickstarted by the construction of a generation of new towns. Designed to help … Read more
PA Media Bristol has been shocked by a recent rise in knife crime, which has claimed the lives of numerous teenagers and sent many others to prison. The BBC joined a team trying to protect young people by getting weapons off the streets. “That’s the car, the grey one,” says an undercover officer, pointing to … Read more
The last time Elliot Page appeared in a film, it was literally a car crash. Page, who was nominated for an Oscar at the age of 20 for the teen-pregnancy comedy Juno, was starring in a remake of the Julia Roberts thriller Flatliners, playing one of a group of medical students who engineer near-death experiences … Read more
The day before it happened was the last good day of John Balson’s life. It was Sunday 17 March 2024. He took his three-year-old daughter swimming, then came home and cooked lunch with his family. He drank some wine and played video games for a while, but it was hard to concentrate. Balson was tired. … Read more
Climate records are tumbling at a galloping pace. The world has just experienced its hottest ever single day on record, amid a string of record-breaking months that followed the planet’s hottest recorded year. But how does this cascade of new highs in the era of modern record-keeping compare with the Earth’s deeper history? Those who … Read more
Los Angeles: Five people including his personal assistant and two doctors have been charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s death in what prosecutors called a “broad underground criminal network” dedicated to getting the “Friends” star the powerful surgical anesthetic that killed him. The doctors preyed on Perry’s history of addiction in the final months of … Read more
Banksy has become famous for being famous, which is quite an achievement considering we are not certain who he is. Like all famous artists, he is often reduced to a cash value – making his artworks as nickable as they are memetic. The animals Banksy has been painting in unlikely London sites this summer are … Read more
Hamas appears unlikely to participate in a new round of talks on a Gaza ceasefire deal on Thursday, further eroding hopes of an agreement that might stave off expected retaliatory strikes by Iran against Israel for the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran last month. Most observers already had low expectations of the ceasefire … Read more