Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Pete Hegseth has made the bizarre claim that he would not trust Stephen Miller or Marco Rubio to babysit his children, as questions around the…
Published on: Dec 03, 2025 04:06 pm IST Sri Lanka needs around $7 billion to rebuild homes, roads and industries destroyed by Cyclone Ditwah, which so far has left at least 465 people dead. Cyclone Ditwah, which originated southeast of Sri Lanka last week, has caused mass destruction across Southeast Asian countries, with the death…
The farmhouse would be converted into two new homes, with a barn converted into a third home and a row of garages demolished to make way for a fourth Joe Griffin, Local Democracy Reporter 05:00, 03 Dec 2025 18 Church Street, Stanground garages and barn(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service) Plans to redevelop a 17th century…
POLLSTERS HAVE been burning through their nine lives. First, as caller ID spread, people stopped answering their phone calls and response rates tumbled to single digits. Then political polarisation and distrust made some Americans even less likely to answer surveys. That contributed to a series of embarrassing polling misses in elections where Donald Trump was…
A conservation group is celebrating after a years-long effort to spot an elusive feline known as the “ghost of the Andes” finally bore fruit. Big Cat Rescue posted footage on YouTube of a family of Andean mountain cats captured on film by a trail camera. In a Facebook post, it described the scene as “a…
The grainy footage—which Ukrainian intelligence says shows a strike on a Russia-linked oil tanker—offers a glimpse into Kyiv’s widening campaign against Russia’s energy architecture. Ukraine is now targeting the Kremlin’s shadow fleet, which relies on an opaque web of ships to skirt sanctions on its oil exports and reap funds for its war in Ukraine….
Two decades ago Sampson Boamah did something unusual for a Ghanaian high school student: he became a Mormon. Back then the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the American Christian sect is formally known, was on the fringes in Africa. Many viewed it as “the white people’s church”. On his first mission in…
A lower turn-out was seen just seven months after the May local elections Owen Ferron (centre, blue jacket) is the new Reform UK councillor for the Long Eaton North division(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service) Reform UK have narrowly retained a seat on Derbyshire County Council following a snap by-election caused by the sudden resignation of…
Danny FullbrookBedfordshire BBC Bereaved parents are raising awareness and money for children diagnosed with brain tumours A report has found that children with brain tumours face “uneven” NHS care, depending on where they live. Louise Fox, from Barton-le-Clay, Bedfordshire, whose son George died from a glioblastoma in 2022 aged 13, said it was “heartbreakingly clear”…
Ishara Danasekara,News Editor, BBC News Sinhalaand Koh Ewe Watch: Sri Lankan communities under water after catastrophic flooding Sri Lankan actor and musician GK Reginold rides a motorised fishing boat through Colombo’s suburbs, hoping to bring food and water to those in desperate need. Some of the families, Mr Reginold says, have not received aid for…