Presidential candidate Joe Biden remains the front-runner for the Democratic nomination despite getting a rough ride in the latest televised debate. For those not familiar with US Presidential candidate debates they are not what you expect – being more about mudslinging and personal attacks than discussing important future policy issues. He was attacked on his…
92-year-old Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, is reportedly hospitalised after suffering a “severe health crisis”. No further details have been released however social media reports of his death have been branded fake news by the PM Youssef Chahed. Mr Essebsi won Tunisia’s first free elections in 2014 following the so-called “Arab Spring” and to date,…
Although the alcohol carry-on limit was introduced quite some time ago on Eurostar it is only fairly recently that people spotted the somewhat draconian nature of it – limiting passengers to one bottle of wine and a max of four cans of beer or lager; bottles of spirits were banned. Now at first glance, this…
Video footage of a verbal altercation between Lee Pomeroy who suffered 18 knife wounds in an assault which led to his death and Darren Pencille has been released. Mr Pencille denies murder on the grounds of self-defence and the trial is continuing with the Jury having been shown the trains CCTV film of the final…
Schools in and around Paris are closing early today due to what looks like being a near unprecedented heatwave in the area. Temperatures look set to soar to above 40C as exceptionally hot air continues to blow in from the Sahara, and many schools in the Essonne region, just south of Paris sufficient air conditioning…
A deeply distressing photo of recently published has heightened the awareness of the dangers Central American migrants are facing in their attempts to make a better life for their families. The image which we find too upsetting to reproduce shows an El Salvadorian father and his young daughter lying drowned in the Rio Grande in…