Long before Vladimir Putin became Russian President and started his war with Ukraine, he worked as a KGB officer in Dresden, which was then part of East Germany or the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The now 70-year-old was first stationed there in the mid-Eighties
Comment on this story Comment Gloria Bruce and Shirley Clements weren’t supposed to be pen pals. Their 70-year correspondence resulted from a happy accident in 1953. Bruce wrote to a British girl, who decided to trade letters with a friend so each
A painting by Wassily Kandinsky that spent decades in a Dutch museum after its Jewish owner was murdered in the Holocaust has sold at auction for $44.9 million. “Murnau mit Kirche II” (“Murnau with Church II”) set a record price for the
A man has died at a hospital in London after waiting 12 hours to see a doctor at the A&E department. The 80-year-old arrived with a suspected blood clot before being taken for resuscitation when his condition worsened and he died of
Comment on this story Comment The tattered paper was stashed away in a brown suede pouch, along with her father’s driver’s license, a ring and various trinkets. Laura Carney looked down at it — her late father’s bucket list — scribbled on
NHS crisis: Dr Hilary Jones reads out messages from doctors The NHS is typically placed under extreme pressure during winter – January in particular – but amid soaring waiting times for emergency care, a “twindemic” of rising coronavirus and flu cases, and
The Scottish Government spent a quarter of a million pounds on its failed indyref2 legal case. Figures released by the Government show £251,728.69 was spent on the case which ended in November. A panel of five justices ruled the Scottish Parliament does