European leaders have voiced concerns over a US plan to end the Ukraine war and say draft proposals are “a basis which will require additional work”. In a joint statement issued at the G20 summit in South Africa, they said the plan “includes important elements that will be essential for a just and lasting peace”,…
30 years ago today, Toy Story, the world’s first computer-animated film was released to critical acclaim. Made out of a small studio called Pixar which released some of the most beloved children’s films in American history, the story revolves around the life and times of a boy’s favorite cowboy action figure named Woody, who’s position at…
Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will resign from office in January, an unexpected turn for the high-profile Republican days after a public feud with President Donald Trump. Greene, who became one of Trump’s Maga superstars in US politics, posted a video statement on social media announcing she would leave Congress on 5…
Lavonne Schaafsma (Courtesy photo) From NPR’s Unsung Heroes column comes the story of a woman whose purse was saved from a thief by two women she didn’t know—and she wasn’t even there. She had left her purse by accident on a bench, and it was the mere optics of the situation that drove two Samaritans…
Chris Ewokor,BBC Africa, in Abuja, and Wycliffe Muia Google An unknown number of pupils have been abducted by armed men from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass school kidnapping this week. The latest attack targeted St Mary’s School in Papiri, Niger state, where authorities had already ordered the temporary closure of all…
Submitted by Darcy Clarke A couple from Nova Scotia was left with their jaws on the floor after they received $40 and an apology letter all the way from Alabama. The letter was penned by a man who searched for his local Bentley’s Burgers and mistakenly found theirs, ordering a doomed pair of burgers for…
Fergus WalshMedical Editor Getty A major prostate cancer screening trial aimed at finding the best way to detect the disease has been launched in the UK. The first letters have been sent out from GPs inviting men to join the study, the biggest of its kind in decades. The £42 million Transform trial is funded…
Alan Macdonald, of Bishop Cleeve – credit, Tom Wren / SWNS When a corporate shoe repair chain wanted to open a location in a Gloucestershire, town, locals rallied in a signature gathering campaign to protect their local cobbler. An example of small-town sanctity, a petition to reject the corporate newcomer was promoted on social media…
Migrants who are in the UK legally could have to wait up to 20-years before they can settle permanently, under government proposals. The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain will be extended from five to 10 years, and will apply to the estimated 1.6million who arrived since…
Seal in Florida – Credit: Robert Woeger via Unsplash An experienced wildlife photographer with a penchant for marine mammals like whales recently bore witness to a lone seal miraculously surviving a hunt by 8 killer whales. Far more than just bearing witness, it was more or less the photographer’s presence that allowed for it to…
