Stop – the crazy world
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAll you need to know about Wales’ schools returning full-time in SeptemberFully reopening schools in September has been described as “the biggest challenge” to face education in Wales since the creation of the assembly.Gareth Evans, a leading academic, warned the pandemic’s impact on pupils’ learning had been…
Housemates Jemma Reekie and Laura Muir dominated their track events on a successful day for British athletes at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting.Reekie, 22, won the 800m – her fourth victory this season – in one minute 59.68 seconds and fellow Scot Muir, 27, clocked three minutes 57.87 to take the 1500m.Holly Bradshaw cleared 4.69m…
Alcohol charities are warning of the dangers of more people drinking during the pandemic.Addiction services say they have seen an increase in referrals and different groups of people trying to access help.One support organisation has recorded a 200% increase in people contacting its online service in Scotland.They are calling for more resources to continue to…
Image copyright Reuters More staff, extra teaching space and greater clarity on what to do if there is a spike in cases is needed for schools to reopen safely, the UK’s largest teaching union has said.The National Education Union (NEU) accused the government of letting down pupils, teachers and parents by failing to have a…
Image caption Chris has now been sober for more than two months Before lockdown, Chris McLone was looking forward to a good year. In his late 40s, he felt fit and healthy, enjoying life with a successful career as a sales manager, Always a very social person, Chris enjoyed nights out with friends and going…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Many had found the mural offensive The Israeli authorities have covered over a mural known as Peeping Toms at a beach in Tel Aviv in response to an outcry over the suspected gang rape of a teenage girl at another beach resort. The mural shows two young men in bathing…
(BERLIN) — Alexi Navalny’s wife and a top aide visited him Sunday in a Berlin hospital where the comatose Russian dissident is being treated by German doctors after a suspected poisoning. Navalny was flown to Germany on Saturday from Siberia after doctors determined he was stable enough to be brought to the capital’s Charité hospital…
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran has retrieved some data, including a portion of the cockpit conversations, from the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally downed by the Revolutionary Guard forces in January, killing all 176 people on board, an Iranian official said Sunday. That’s according to a report on the website of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, which…
(LIMA, Peru) — Thirteen people died in a stampede at a disco in Peru after a police raid to enforce the country’s lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday. The stampede happened at the Thomas disco in Lima, where about 120 people had gathered for a party on Saturday night, the Interior Ministry said.…
