I was on the phone to a friend talking about our kids as I clicked through a new report launched at Westminster a couple of weeks ago. It was about how children are facing a “crisis of lost learning” because they are being suspended or excluded from school, or they’re not attending because their needs…
ARod thinks international games for the MLB could be a huge success Alex Rodriguez is showing his support in the MLB international and Japan games. Sports Seriously SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Jared Porter hung up the phone. He couldn’t move. He couldn’t speak. He was in an utter state of shock. It was all over. His…
Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens celebrate their 70th birthday. But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian…
Zelenskyy accuses Russia of creating an ‘impression’ of a ceasefire as shelling on Ukraine continues Welcome back to our live coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of creating a mere “impression” of a ceasefire as Moscow reportedly continued shelling areas of Ukraine overnight. In a televised meeting with…
The future Edward VII looks out from a white marble bust at the start of The Edwardians: Age of Elegance. His eyes have a familiar exophthalmic bulge beneath heavy Saxe-Coburg lids. The sculptor has turned the prince’s head a fraction, to give him a flatteringly distant air of authority, but is otherwise faithful to the…