‘Keep your heads high’ Poland’s Tusk urges Europeans, but warns ‘the time of comfort is over’ Polish prime minister Donald Tusk delivers his speech at the European Parliament. Photograph: Pascal Bastien/AP Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has been speaking in the European Parliament, delivering a wide-ranging speech on the future of the EU, with some…
US LBM Coaches Poll: Ohio State claims top spot after national title run See where your team landed in the final US LBM Coaches Poll ranking of the year. Sports Pulse The year is done. All assignments have been completed, for better or worse. Sorry, but there is no opportunity for extra credit. Now that…
Experts and water providers have called for a broad ban on so-called “forever chemicals” at a Senate inquiry into PFAS, warning of environmental harm and increasingly costly removal. The Water Services Association of Australia’s executive director, Adam Lovell, said a ban should be imposed on PFAS in non-essential consumer products. “We need to reduce now,…
April may be the cruellest month – but January is easily the most depressing. The weather outside is frightful and, around this time, everyone’s despondently giving up their new year resolutions. It’s dreary and dark and, if you’re the complaining sort (which, you may have noticed, I quite definitively am), there’s – waves hands vaguely…
A Maine Coon cat named Mittens became an accidental jetsetter this month when her cage was overlooked in a plane cargo hold and she made three trips in 24 hours between New Zealand and Australia. Mittens, eight, was booked for one-way travel with her family from Christchurch, New Zealand to their new home in Melbourne,…
Lloyd’s Register, the maritime and industrial group owned by one of Britain’s biggest charities, has apologised for its role in the trafficking of enslaved African people but has been criticised for not going far enough. Founded in 1760 as the Society for the Registry of Shipping by merchants and underwriters who met at Edward Lloyd’s…