When Tim Boddy couldn’t leave his home more than once a day for exercise, because of lockdown restrictions, he used the time to gather local flowers and leaves in and around Bow in East London.He then used a photographic technique that dates back to the mid-1800s to create colourful silhouettes […]
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An Australian man has been killed in a shark attack off Queensland’s Gold Coast, marking the first fatal attack at the tourist city’s beaches in over 60 years.Nick Slater, 46, was at Greenmount Beach at Coolangatta – a well-known surf spot – when a shark mauled his leg on Tuesday.Nearby […]
Two incidents have turned Wisconsin into the latest epicentre of America’s police protests. What can the footage from two different shootings tell us about US policing? The first saw Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black father, shot several times by a white officer, leaving him paralysed in hospital. The second followed […]
US President Donald Trump is to visit the city in Wisconsin which has seen widespread unrest since a black man was shot in the back and seriously injured by a policeman. Mr Trump will travel to Kenosha on Tuesday, the White House said. The president will meet with law enforcement […]
Police in Berlin have arrested 300 demonstrators during protests against Germany’s coronavirus restrictions. Some 38,000 people took to the streets in the city for mostly peaceful demonstrations. Later hundreds of protesters, many from the far right, tried to storm the Reichstag, the home of Germany’s federal parliament. A number of […]
When Moscow announced on 11 August it had registered the first vaccine against Covid-19 and was naming it Sputnik V, the message was hard to miss. Back in 1957, the Soviet Union had launched the Sputnik satellite and won the race for space. Now, Russia was saying it was pushing […]
In 2009, six-year-old Mostafa accompanied his mother on a visit to her sister in Cairo. But what was meant to be a one-day trip away from his hometown in northern Egypt turned into over seven years of agony, despair and very little hope. On the way to his aunt’s house […]
The announcement that Russia is forging ahead with its locally developed vaccine for Covid-19 has not only led to international concerns over its safety, but also generated a great deal of both misinformation and humour on social media platforms. We’ve been looking at some of the more widely shared posts. […]
Sumner Redstone, one of the US media giants who shaped the modern entertainment industry, has died at the age of 97. Redstone took over his father’s drive-in movie theatre business National Amusements and turned it into a multi-billion dollar cinema and media empire. It controlled names including Viacom, Paramount Pictures, […]
The release of annual results at Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group – formerly Sports Direct – have been delayed for the second year running. The group’s profit and sales figures for the last 12 months were due to be published on Thursday 13 August, but have been put back a week. […]