Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Summary Here is a wrap of the day’s Cyclone Alfred news. Alfred’s track to the coast slowed down today, with the Bureau of Meteorology warning it is possible the cyclone won’t reach land until Saturday. It remains a Category 2 system….
China’s ministry of foreign affairs has promised that China will “fight to the end” with the US in a “tariff war, trade war or any other war”, marking China’s strongest rhetoric on US president Donald Trump since he entered the White House. On Tuesday, in response to Trump imposing an extra 10% tariff on Chinese…
This feelgood film directed by Sadie Frost is about the 60s fashion icon Twiggy; originally Lesley Hornby from Neasden in London, latterly Lesley Lawson after her marriage to actor Leigh Lawson, and then Dame Lesley Lawson with her DBE in 2019. (That is how she was gazetted, at all events, although Dame Twiggy has a…
An alarming rise in obesity in Africa has been compared with the HIV epidemic, with stigma and lack of treatment having a disproportionate impact on women. Almost half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by the end of the decade, according to a recent study by the World Obesity Federation. While people…
The story of the church of St Michael de Rupe begins – as all the best Dartmoor stories do – on a dark and stormy night. A sailor, stricken in a wild and furious sea, fell to the deck of his ship to pray for salvation. The almighty unveiled a mountain in the midst of…
Donald Trump has posted a fresh ultimatum to Hamas, telling the group to “release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you”. “‘Shalom Hamas’ means Hello and Goodbye,” he wrote in a social media post on Wednesday,…