Financial Times’, chief features writer, Henry Mance, a vegan, would very much like you to be, too. His argument why lies at the centre of How to Love Animals, is challenging and funny. For some it could prompt moral reasons that those of us who love animals, but also profit from their suffering cravenly managed…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson *(56) has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds (33), the first PM to get married while in office in nearly 200 years, at Westminster Cathedral in a secret wedding on Saturday afternoon. The couple would celebrate again with family and friends next summer with their honeymoon delayed until that then. Their son…
A Metro train in Kuala Lumpur carrying 213 passengers collided with an empty one in a tunnel near the Petronas Tower and KLCC station, at about 20:45 (12:45GMT). The empty train had just been repaired, and was going in the opposite direction on the same track as the full one. 47 out of 213…
BLM activist Sasha Johnson was shot in head in Southwark, London in the early hours of Sunday following numerous death threats. Sasha Johnson a prominent member of TTIP, which has been described as “Britain’s first Black-led political party” rose to prominence after last year’s BLM protests spread around the country. Helping to organise marches and…
“This morning after lava flows from Nyiragongo volcano eruption, most of Congolese evacuated to Rubavu are returning home/ Rwanda received around 8, 000 people last night”, according to the ministry’s twitter account. Thousands of residents in Goma, a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, spent the night outdoors following eruption, according to a…
A cable transporting passengers from the resort town of Stresa up the nearby Mottarone mountain in the region of Pidemont, Northern Italy, fell on a mountain near Lake Maggiore after the cable failed about 894ft (300km) from the top of the mountain, Killing 14 people at 12:00 local time (11:00 BST) on Sunday. According…
Nineteen people have already died and seventy seven people are missing after a barge off the coast of the Indian City of Mumbai sank amid Tauktae storm. The Indian Navy said it had rescued 184 of the 261 people aboard. Thirty five people have also been rescued from another of the three other commercial barges…
Mexico’s president Andrės Manuel Lōpez Obrador has formally apologised to the indigenous Mayan people for abuses committed against them over the five centuries since the Spanish conquest. He focused on the 1847-1901 Caste War revolt in which around 250, 000 Mayan people are believed to have lost their lives. Mexico is due to hold legislative…
Several train carriages plunged to the ground crushing at least one car killing 24 people and dozens injured after a metro overpass collapsed at around 22:00 local time on Monday (03:00 GMT) near the Olivos station on the metro’s Line 12, in the south-east of the city, in Mexico City while a train was travelling…
Ronilza Johnson 46, from Britain, has died in hospital after a Brazilian botched bum lift operation which costt her £1, 194 believed to have been injected with polymethyl methacrylate – known as PMMA, the plastic compound resin which is also used to make shatterproof windows. It can cause blood clots or infections if accidentally injected…