Stop – the crazy world
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Low water levels can be seen in Llwyn-on reservoir in Taf Fawr valley, Wales Recent weather in the UK has been unprecedented and astounding, scientists say.The bright weekend has cemented the spring as by far the sunniest on record – and the total will be even higher when the…
1 Jun From the section Tennis We can’t offer you any French Open action at the moment but we can give you a quiz to help fill the void.While we wait for the rearranged Roland Garros, see how much you can remember about British players’ exploits in Paris.Bonne chance! French Open: Sue Barker’s 1976 win…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Forth Bridge provided a backdrop for sunseekers in South Queensferry People across Scotland flocked to parks and beaches as the easing of some lockdown restrictions coincided with a weekend of glorious weather. The new rules allow Scots to sunbathe and meet friends or family from one other household…
Every time she has to buy groceries lately, Lily Marquez gets worried. She lives in a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco with her two young children, her husband, her chronically ill mother-in-law, and her husband’s grandmother. Both of the older women are at high-risk of becoming severely ill if they get COVID-19, and she doesn’t…
The U.S. went to war in Afghanistan with one goal in mind: ridding the country of the threat of al-Qaeda just weeks after the group killed nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now, after nearly 20 years of fighting in which more than 3,500 American and coalition lives have been lost, President Donald…
A text to a colleague that he was “surrounded by soldiers” was the last that was heard of journalist Ibraimo Abú Mbaruco after he left work in the northern Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique on April 7. Since then, the reporter and news presenter for Palma Community Radio broadcaster hasn’t been seen, nor has he…
Hospital wards with corpses left unattended in hallways. Patients asked to sleep on the floor until beds open up. A woman with brain damage who died because she was refused medical help until her family could prove she was virus-free. The public health-care system in Mumbai, epicenter of India’s worsening coronavirus outbreak, is overwhelmed as…
(NEW YORK) — Herbert Stempel, a fall guy and whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a 1950s quiz show helped drive a national scandal and join his name in history to winning contestant Charles Van Doren, has died age 93. Stempel’s former wife, Ethel Stempel, told The Associated Press on Sunday…
(NEW YORK) — The mayor of New York City’s own daughter is one of the nearly 790 people who have been arrested in the city since protests over the death of George Floyd began last week. A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter tells The…
(WASHINGTON) — Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker on Friday night as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades. Trump spent nearly an hour in the bunker, which was designed for use in emergencies like terrorist attacks, according…