Donald Trump is losing patience with Vladimir Putin’s stalling tactics over the Ukraine ceasefire, the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, said after spending nine hours with the US president – including winning a golf competition with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday. Stubb, who also spent two days with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr…
It may be the oldest art form in the world, practised 5,000 years ago by Ötzi the iceman and his fellow copper age Europeans. But with its more recent associations with red-light entertainment and gangland crime, modern tattooing has long been shunned by the galleries that turn lines on canvas into financial assets. A new…
For the past 37 years, on the anniversary of his nephew’s death, Don Craigie has made a pilgrimage to the Tamworth police station to hold a press conference demanding answers about the grim mystery he has made it his life’s mission to solve. This week, he hopes to get some. The body of 17-year-old Mark…
I first got drunk at 13 in the upstairs room of a cheap Italian restaurant, sip by sip on other people’s wine. I giggled as the floor lurched, telling my companions, It’s like being on a boat. I first got paralytic at 13, a few months on. Remembering the pleasant, silly sensation I’d experienced, I…
Jon Scheyer to uphold Coach K’s legacy with Duke’s Final Four berth Jon Scheyer isn’t worried about the pressure of coaching Duke after Coach K, he’s looking to build on his legacy. Houston is headed home to Texas, but it’s to San Antonio for the NCAA men’s tournament Final Four. The Cougars, who lead the…
Rescue volunteers, many of them poorly equipped local people, raced to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings across central Myanmar, two days after a huge earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand. Red Cross officials said Myanmar was facing “a level of devastation that…