Activists say Israeli troops have boarded a yacht trying to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. “Connection has been lost” on the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) campaign group said on the Telegram app. It posted a photo showing people in life jackets sitting with their hands up. The report could not be…
Arabella Duffy’s miniature strawberry short cake– SWNS Meet the 12-year-old who has turned her hobby into a career and has earned thousands selling her miniature doll houses and accessories. Arabella Duffy started making tiny food out of polymer and clay two years ago and spends up to six hours on each creation, whether a cookie,…
Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk offers US president Donald Trump the chance to live in his house for a week to experience the reality of the war in Ukraine. Source link
76 years ago today, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was published for the first time in the UK. This groundbreaking and best-selling novel has become a hallowed literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It birthed the incredibly useful term “Orwellian” as an adjective for government without limit, and many terms used throughout the novel…
Sarah Rainsford BBC correspondent BBC Sonny Olumati was born in Italy – but still has no citizenship at 39 Sonny Olumati was born in Rome and has lived in Italy all his life but the country he calls home does not recognise him as its own. To Italy, Sonny is Nigerian, like his passport, and…
Iconic Gardens By the Bay in Singapore by Scott Antcliffe – City life category Winner in the National Geographic Photography Competition (cropped) / SWNS Winners of the 12th annual National Geographic Traveller (UK) Photography Competition were revealed, highlighting the best in travel photography. Open to both amateur and professional photographers from across the UK and…
The NHS app will become the default method of communication for millions more patients in England and save the health service £200m over the next three years, the government has said. More test results, screening invitations and appointment reminders will be sent directly to smartphones as part of a £50m investment in the app, in…
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote…
Kilmar Ábrego García, a 29-year-old from El Salvador who was mistakenly deported in March, has been returned to the US to face prosecution on two federal criminal charges. He has been accused of participating in a trafficking conspiracy over several years to move undocumented migrants from Texas to other parts of the country. El Salvador…
Japanese scientists were thrilled to receive significant interest from the packaging industry over their new seawater-degradable plastic. Breaking apart into nutritious compounds for ocean-borne bacteria in just 2 to 3 hours depending on the size and thickness, the invention could be a major solution to reducing plastic waste in the environment. GNN has previously reported…
