Videos from social media show the moment loud gunshots were heard in a classroom, during a deadly school shooting in Graz, Austria. Footage shows people panicking and looking outside through a window, as gunshots ring out in the background. Other footage shows armed police officers inside school corridors as pupils run towards the exit. Six...
Amber Heard has announced the arrival of twins in an Instagram post shared on Mother’s Day in the United States. The American actor revealed that she had welcomed daughter Agnes and son Ocean and was “elated beyond words” to celebrate the “completion” of her family. Heard, 39, welcomed her first daughter, Oonagh, in 2021. Under...
Duncan Leatherdale BBC News, North East and Cumbria PA Media The tree was planted on Hadrian’s Wall in the 1800s The tree at Sycamore Gap took well over a century to grow and just minutes to cut down. It was globally renowned, standing as it did at the edge of the Roman frontier in northern...
Tourists who were in Indian-administered Kashmir when deadly attacks took place are now returning to their homes. Describing the moment the violence broke out, one person said the gunfire had been mistaken for “tigers being hunted”. He survived but said three others in his group did not. The attack saw a group of gunmen fire...
I have an odd sense of humor, I admit, but when my wife told me about this bill (she works for the Minnesota Senate) I couldn’t stop chuckling. At first glance, you may not be as amused as I am, but hear me out. The bill in question is SF 3194, and it was heard...
In one of my posts yesterday, I went over how the French and German governments’ heavy-handed treatment – in some cases, outright persecution – of ‘right-wing’ parties and their members was backfiring on the establishment pretty spectacularly. It has to be maddening to the Brahmins of Brussels and their...
There’s still time to share your views on the final draft of Exeter’s new Corporate Plan 2025-2028. This important document sets out what the council wants to achieve in the years ahead and how it will deliver its vision for a happy, healthy and fully engaged city in the future. It will replace the existing...