The UK’s Labour Party would suffer huge losses of supporters should it allow Brexit to go ahead, a major YouGov poll has found. YouGov in collaboration with the People’s Vote UK surveyed more than 25,000 people over the Christmas period, making it the largest poll conducted on voters’ attitudes since the 2016 referendum. According to […] Read more
Russian Orthodox Christians have marked Christmas with a special midnight mass held in churches and cathedrals across the country. President Vladimir Putin attended a service in Saint Petersburg’s Transfiguration Cathedral, where his mother had him baptised in secrecy during Soviet times. In Moscow the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, led the mass […] Read more
By: Meghan Keneally Police in Texas just released harrowing footage of the daring rescue of an elderly man who was rescued from a burning car. The incident happened in Corpus Christi in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The vehicle with the 70-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was hit by another […] Read more
Two British special forces soldiers have been seriously injured in an Islamic State attack in Syria, the BBC understands. British special forces are believed to be operating in Syria but the Ministry of Defence would not confirm this. Social media reports said the two British soldiers were attacked by a missile near the town of […] Read more
Four-year-old Sachin, who has always lived in captivity, broke free on New Year’s Day and has not since been tempted by live bait. Drones, trained elephants and traps with live bait are being used to search for a leopard which has escaped from a safari park in India. Four-year-old Sachin, who has always lived in […] Read more
A large number of German politicians have been affected by a hacking incident. Politicians from Germany’s far-left Linke party were the first to confirm they had been affected, but then it snowballed as details from almost all parties were found to have been leaked. “I can confirm that there has been an incident”, the Linke […] Read more
A decades-old law could soon give Democrats their best shot yet at extracting President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service. But while the legal path to obtaining and publicly sharing Trump’s coveted tax filings may be relatively straightforward, some of the president’s supporters have already vowed to resist such a request from […] Read more
President Trump, white-collar crook. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Now it begins. With House Democrats gaining the power to investigate and issue subpoenas, 2019 offers one certainty: The chaos visited on us by Donald Trump is going to get much worse. Trump got a head start on his 2019 self-pity with a New Year’s Eve message that began, “While […] Read more
Five monks have been injured, one seriously, after being held captive at a Vienna church, police said. Police launched a search operation and deployed a helicopter to the area as well as putting in public transport controls to search for up to two men suspected of carrying out the attack, who were at large. Several […] Read more
By Gary McIndoe Last week, the UK government finally unveiled its long-awaited immigration paper. Amidst yet more cabinet splits, a sexist comment alleged to have been made by Jeremy Corbyn about Theresa May in the House of Commons, and threats by various Conservative ministers to resign the whip and leave the party if a no […] Read more
