Celebrities are chipping in to help the region that’s helped them grow to prominence – southern California – as wildfires continue to sweep across the state. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles-area fires had killed at least 25 people, displaced thousands of others and destroyed more than 12,000 structures. Two of the largest blazes,…
Women who suffer a miscarriage should get two weeks of paid leave from work so they can mourn the loss of their baby, an influential group of MPs has said today. The government is under mounting pressure to introduce a new right of bereavement leave for women across the UK who lose their baby before…
1. 1. Edward Norton (British Mount Everest Expedition) 2. Giacomo Matteotti’s (assassinated) 3. A Passage to India (E M Forster) 4. Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell’s (Olympic Games. Chariots of Fire) 5. Leningrad (Petrograd prior to death of Lenin). 6. The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera by Janacek, premièred in Brno) 7. The Zinoviev letter (UK…
At a time when kids are reading at some of the lowest levels ever, Eagles’ A.J. Brown making reading all the rage could be a game-changer. Ravens, Bills put on A+ performance, Commanders stun Bucs USA TODAY Sports’ Mackenzie Salmon breaks down all the games from Wild Card Weekend. Sports Seriously A.J. Brown might have…
Bangladeshi police killed or injured at least 20 unarmed protesters in two previously undocumented incidents during the demonstrations that engulfed the country last year, according to newly examined video footage. The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), a rights group that documents alleged abuses, has analysed video footage of two incidents in Dhaka on 5…
I love Lime bikes because I live next to a secondary school, and I see those tearaways in every mood. Coming in, grumpy; going home, cranky; yelling at each other, kicking bins for no reason. Ah, the sweet hell of teenagehood. But when they get on the Limes, you can see in them both the…