Two hospitals sent into lockdown, government buildings shut down and local schools evacuated Two hospitals in Springfield, Ohio, were sent into lockdown after bomb threats, police said Saturday, marking the fourth such case in as many days that appears linked to false claims circulating among the far right that Haitian […]
Mike Jeffries, now 80, has been accused of exploiting young men for sex in cities around the world from 2009-15 The former chief executive of the American fashion brand Abercrombie & Fitch faces new allegations this weekend of exploitation and abuse at sex events held around the world. One witness […]
Military claims the sanitation worker had been throwing explosive devices at its troops from the roof of his home in the el Far’a camp A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered […]
US and UK leaders’ talks dominated by row with Russia over use of Storm Shadow missiles Joe Biden dismissed sabre-rattling threats made by Vladimir Putin as the US president met with the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, at the White House on Friday. Biden said he did not accept that […]
Exclusive: Ormiston academies trust says impact of phones on learning and mental health has been ‘catastrophic’ How going phone-free taught pupils ‘to socialise, old school’ A national academy chain is to become the first in England to be phone-free, removing access to smartphones from its 35,000 pupils during the school […]
State is a tight race for vice-president and Donald Trump, with less than a percentage point between them on Friday Kamala Harris, in an interview with Brian Taff of Philadelphia’s 6abc Action News, re-emphasized many of the points she made in Tuesday’s debate and throughout her brief campaign, including her […]
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore make first public comments since capsule left for Earth without them Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said on Friday it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without them. It was their first public comments since last week’s return of […]
Son of opposition figure who led botched attempt in May is among three Americans sentenced to death A Briton and three Americans are among 37 people sentenced to death on Friday over an attempt to overthrow the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Six people were killed during […]
Junk food ad ban, age limit on energy drinks and expanded water fluoridation among measures planned to help NHS Plans to ban junk food ads and to stop children buying high-caffeine energy drinks are among radical public health measures being drawn up by ministers to prevent illness and so ease […]
UK PM responds to Putin’s threat that use of long-range British missiles inside Russia would put it at war with Nato Keir Starmer has told Vladimir Putin that he started the war in Ukraine and could end it at any time after the Russian leader warned that any use of […]