London: The Saudi Arabian government is confiscating toys, clothes and other items bearing rainbow colors that it says evoke the well-known Pride flag and promote homosexuality in children. It’s the latest crackdown by Saudi Arabia and some of its neighbours on objects that feature gay characters or are seen to promote LGBTQ rights, including superhero […]
Rail revenues and passenger numbers are HALF of pre-Covid levels as switch to WFH dries up income from expensive season tickets, figures reveal Rail revenues and passenger numbers are at just over half of pre-Covid levels Industry generated just £5.9billion in ticket sales in the year to the end of March The rail industry relied […]
UK health chiefs aren’t considering jabbing babies against Covid yet – as US moves closer to controversially approving vaccines for under-5s US advisers yesterday unanimously voiced support for approving jabs in infants British regulator has yet to green light any Covid jabs in the youngest children Sources close to the current roll-out say we’re ‘still some […]
Moaning peers whine about Boris’s threat to move the House of Lords to Stoke as they insist MPs should also be joining them up north String of peers hit out at ministers’ suggestions they could be relocated to Stoke They question why – if they’re moving away from London – MPs won’t join them Michael […]
Chief of one of the UK’s largest police forces calls for cannabis to be decriminalised to free up officers’ time John Campbell, of Thames Valley Police, suggested policy could reduce violence Said: ‘It’s a recurring problem, so you might argue there has to be an alternative’ Other police chiefs told MPs decriminalisation could increase rates of […]
ELON Musk has said he's leaning towards backing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the 2024 presidential election. The Tesla mogul tweeted that he had voted Republican for the first time in the Texas special election that was held on Tuesday. Mayra Flores is projected to win the special election in the state’s 34th congressional district, […]
SNP claims Sturgeon’s Scottish independence referendum could happen in October next year – despite ministers warning she should wait until at least 2039 after ‘once-in-a-generation’ contest Nicola Sturgeon has launched a White Paper setting out independence bid She accused Boris Johnson of failing to respect democracy by refusing poll call Ms Sturgeon accused of focusing […]
The West Australian government will pay Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and engineering firm UGL $6.6 million two years after it axed a controversial $206 million contract to rebuild Metronet’s communications network. Transport Minister Rita Saffioti revealed in parliament on Tuesday the government had also entered into a $327 million contract with Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia […]
A visibly angry President Biden addressed the nation in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX, on May 24. Today’s violence marks the deadliest mass elementary-school shooting since the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, in 2012. President Biden was vice president at the time of […]
THIS is the epic moment a mother sloth bear got into a fight with a male tiger in an Indian wildlife reserve. The dramatic footage begins as the tiger chasing off a sloth bear that was headed with her cub toward a water hole. But the protective mother bear then charges the big cat and […]
