Catherine Doyle BBC News NI Reuters Officers were attacked with petrol bombs, heavy masonry, bricks, fireworks and a hatchet in Ballymena Families hid in attics and wardrobes during violent disorder in Ballymena, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable has said. This comes following three days of violence in Ballymena, and some other...
Two Belgian men have claimed they hid in a toilet at Munich’s Allianz Arena for 27 hours in order to watch last weekend’s Champions League final for free. Neal Remmerie and Senne Haverbeke told Belgian broadcaster VRT News they managed to get into the ground the day before the match then emerged to watch Paris...
Is anyone really surprised by this? Even at the White House, which had hoped for a peace agreement rather than a confrontation? Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is its timing, given the context of the current situation. The UN’s nuclear watchdog has completed an investigation...
During the COVID pandemic, public health officials were obsessed with presenting a united front and a grossly oversimplified message regarding anything pandemic-related. Is masking up a good or bad idea? There was little to no data that it was a good idea, but once the idea was pushed out there, everybody fell in line. That...
Josh Parry LGBT & identity reporter Getty Images James’s career went from Drag Race star and into the mainstream, appearing in the West End and on various TV programmes. The sister of James Lee Williams, better known as The Vivienne, says her family only learned of the drag performer’s battle with ketamine addiction after watching...
Nobody knew about the COVID-19 virus in particular at the time, but there is plenty of evidence that it was circulating in Wuhan in mid-2019, and US soldiers who participated in the World Military Games held in Wuhan in October 2019. But as part of a Congressionally mandated investigation, the Biden administration was required to...