Police attacked as protest breaks out in Southport Several officers have been injured and a police van set on fire during a protest just hours after a vigil took place to remember the victims of a knife attack in which three children were killed. The protest, which police said was believed to involve English Defence … Read more
Key moments from tense Secret Service congressional hearing The new acting head of the US Secret Service said he “lost sleep” over security failures that led to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump during a testy congressional hearing on Tuesday. At an hours-long US Senate hearing, Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate outlined … Read more
About 10 minutes into the latest preview build of Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s forthcoming open-world adventure, lead character Kay Vess enters Mirogana: a densely populated, worn-down city on the desolate moon of Toshara. Around us is a mix of sandstone hovels and metallic sci-fi buildings, crammed with flickering computer panels, neon signs and holographic adverts. … Read more
Arsenal’s failure to usurp Manchester City as Premier League champions in each of the last two seasons can be excused by several factors. Pep Guardiola’s side have only known winning for the last four campaigns, while Mikel Arteta’s players are trying to get over the line and deliver a first league title for more than … Read more
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have returned to Venezuela’s streets to decry Nicolás Maduro’s alleged attempt to steal Sunday’s election, as the country’s authoritarian leader vowed to squash what he called “a violent counter-revolution” and more than 700 arrests were made. Maduro’s disputed claim to have won the vote has plunged the South American … Read more
Simone Biles has won her fifth Olympic gold medal after anchoring the United States to a commanding win in the women’s gymnastics team final on Tuesday afternoon at the Bercy Arena. The five-woman squad of Biles, Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera returned the US to the top of the Olympic podium … Read more
Hundreds of people have gathered in Southport to pay tribute to the victims of a dance class knife attack as three children who died, and a yoga teacher who was injured trying to save them, were named. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, were killed in what police described … Read more
The far-right mob attack on two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bases in defence of soldiers accused of sexually torturing a detainee did not come out of the blue; the parallels to a 2016 incident were immediately obvious. In March that year, Elor Azaria, an IDF soldier serving in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, … Read more
BBC Mary, 71, became homeless when her landlord evicted her and she couldn’t find another affordable place to rent This isn’t the retirement that Mary had dreamed of. The former midwife spent years living on a cattle station with her husband on the north-western edge of Australia – outside her window, the vast and ruggedly … Read more
After the semi-final defeat against India in the men’s T20 World Cup last month – a match of tactical missteps that undermined England on the day – Matthew Mott claimed his partnership with Jos Buttler had been “galvanised” by the campaign and, given the chance to continue, the team would come back “bigger, badder and … Read more