“Although we are trying to replicate Uganda and Kenya we are actually in Cheshire so the weather is slightly different,” admits Chester zoo boss, Jamie Christon, on a fresh and very grey Monday morning. But ignore the chilliness and screw your eyes and you could well be transported to a sweeping African savannah where, one…
A search was under way to find an 11-year-old girl after she fell into the River Thames in east London. Metropolitan police officers were called to reports that the child went into the river close to Bargehouse Causeway, near London City airport, at about 1.15pm on Monday. Emergency services launched a “large-scale response” to the…
As aid from China, Russia, India and the UK begins to flow into Myanmar, there is a conspicuous gap in global support from the world’s richest country: the US. The powerful 7.7-magnitude quake that struck central Myanmar on Friday has caused widespread destruction, flattening swathes of the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, and even a tower…
Iran has reacted with outrage after Donald Trump said the country will be bombed if it does not accept US demands to constrain its nuclear programme. The US president said on Sunday that if Iran “[doesn’t] make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen…
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has railed against a Paris court’s “political decision” to bar her from competing for the presidency in 2027, attacking the move to ban her from running for public office as “a denial of democracy”. In a day of high political drama, Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement…
Bradfield independent candidate apologies for allegedly making sexual joke at Sydney hairdressing salon Independent candidate, Nicolette Boele has apologised for allegedly making a sexual joke at a hairdressing salon in Sydney. Nicolette Boele is an independant standing for election in the federal seat of Bradfield. Photograph: The Guardian Boele, who is standing for the Sydney…