It is fair to say that Rhun ap Iorwerth, the leader of Plaid Cymru, was on safe ground at the national Eisteddfod in Wrexham this week. More than once, festivalgoers interrupted his... Read more »
Named locally as Ian Walsh (49), he was found at a property in Carrick-on-Suir, in south Tipperary, early yesterday morning when family members and neighbours went to check on him after becoming... Read more »
Gusts of more than 100mph from Storm Floris have brought travel disruption, power cuts and the widespread cancellation of events across large parts of the UK. Central and northern Scotland was the... Read more »
Scientists in Germany are studying a 1.2-million-year-old ice core retrieved from Antarctica after years of planning and months of drilling in temperatures of -35 degrees Celsius (-31 Fahrenheit). International teams reached depths of... Read more »
This handout photo provided by the Southwest Area Incident Management Team shows smoke from the Dragon Bravo fire on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona on July... Read more »
Despite the noise around England’s sewage scandal, the political response so far has mostly generated headlines, not real consequences. Ministers performatively “rage” about polluting water companies. Regulators are rejigged. Laws are passed.... Read more »
Russian forces have temporarily decreased the number of assault operations in Kherson Oblast over the past day as they regroup in preparation for more active assaults on islands in the Dnipro River,... Read more »
No 10 says Hamas won’t have ‘veto’ over UK recognition of Palestine, implying it won’t require further hostage releases Keir Starmer is now all-but-certain to recognise Palestine as a state in September.... Read more »
Hundreds of Lebanese have gathered solemnly near Beirut’s coast to commemorate a half-decade since the cataclysmic port blast of 2020, when more than 200 people were killed in one of the largest... Read more »
The Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister-party to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), appears to have persuaded its big sibling to implement one of its own pet projects:... Read more »