North Korea is creating lethal viruses and bacteria as part of the hermit state’s “national level” biological warfare programme, US intelligence has discovered. Officials say the despot, who inherited absolute power over the country in 2011, has added germ sprays and poison
A rare early football programme from before the First World War has sold for more than 20,000 times its original value at auction. The booklet was produced for a match between Sheffield United and Middlesbrough in the old Division One from 1911,
The US fears Iran is significantly escalating its plot to deploy weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) as part of its nuclear programme. In the 2024 Annual Threat Assessment document, the US Deparment of National Intelligence (DNI) claimed “Iran has greatly expanded its
Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether a GB News programme with Rishi Sunak breached impartiality rules. People’s Forum: The Prime Minister, which saw the PM take questions from the public in a live Q&A in Co Durham last Monday, has prompted
The fixture between Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers on February 8, 1958 was called off following the tragedy which occurred two days earlier. A 12-page magazine was taken off the production line when news of the Busby Babes plane crash came through.
The then-proposed incoming chair of the BBC, Richard Sharp, told MPs on Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee in January 2021 that he believed the programme had more Remainers than Brexiteers as panellists in the lead up to the UK leaving the
An episode of the recent BBC Arabic programme, “Trending”, has been taken down by the broadcaster after it stirred debate over the accuracy of its coverage of the Hamas attack on Kfar Aza kibbutz leading. The attack on October 7 led to
Britain has rejoined the European Union’s £85 billion Horizon science research programme under a new bespoke deal. The development follows a call between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday. Mr Sunak secured improved financial terms
The Covid booster jab programme has been brought forward four weeks early amid growing concerns over the new variant detected in England on August 18. While scientists are yet to classify it as a “variant of concern”, the high number of mutations
While Western media kept their audience updated step by step as Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared close to having his troops invade Moscow, mainstream Russian TV preferred to inform their viewers of other, perhaps less pressing, issues. Author Beth Knobel took