Bomb scare at parliament

Read More The South African Police Service mobilised its bomb disposal specialists after officers noticed a suspicious package left unattended outside parliament on Wednesday morning.  It turned out the package belonged to a staff member at parliament and carried no explosives.  Officials at the legislature have been on alert since a fire damaged the precinct […]

Ryan Giggs ‘confused and scared’ after accusation of head-butting, court hears

Read More Ryan Giggs has told a court he was “confused and scared” after being accused of head-butting his girlfriend during a “tug of war” over a mobile phone. The former Manchester United and Wales footballer insisted he did not deliberately head-butt Kate Greville and that they accidentally “clashed heads”. Giving evidence for a second […]

‘Nobody is in charge’: Tory peer hits out at ministers over inflation

Read More The veteran retailer Stuart Rose has urged the government to do more to shield the poorest from double-digit inflation, describing the lack of action as “horrifying”, with a prime minister “on shore leave” leaving a situation where “nobody is in charge”. Responding to July’s 10.1% headline rate, the Conservative peer and Asda chair […]

Suicidio assistito: arriva l’ok dell’Asur Marche al farmaco di fine vita per “Antonio”

Read More “Antonio”, paziente marchigiano tetraplegico dal 2014, è il secondo italiano che potrà accedere legalmente al suicidio assistito in Italia. Dopo Federico Carboni, ora anche “Antonio”, assistito dal collegio legale dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, è riuscito a far valere il proprio diritto di vedere rispettata la sua volontà di accedere al suicidio medicalmente assistito. “Stavo […]

Grant Shapps’ bike licence plates proposal ‘a strange and pointless idea’

Read More Transport groups and opposition parties have reacted with bafflement to a proposal by Grant Shapps to look at mandatory insurance and registration for cyclists, something previously rejected by the Department for Transport (DfT) as impractical and counter-productive. In an interview with the Daily Mail that appeared to surprise his own officials, the transport […]