A man suspected to have led an operation to steal a Banksy mural in a city outside of Kyiv now faces up to 12 years in prison if found guilty, Ukrainian officials say. In a statement, Ukraine’s interior ministry said the individual
Matt Gaetz leaves after meeting with Kevin McCarthy Kevin McCarthy is staring down the barrel of a humiliation not felt in US politics for 100 years. Since 1923 no nominee for Speaker of the House has lost on the first ballot, but
Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with a fresh round of missile strikes in the last hours of 2022 – with one bearing a chilling “Happy New Year” message apparently scrawled on it by a Russian soldier. In total, 45 Iranian-made
Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP have been warned she must act now after damning new figures showed the number of food parcels distributed by poverty charities to children in Scotland has skyrocketed since 2017. Food poverty organisation Trussell Trust has released mid-year statistics that
The global population will expand more than 7.9 billion people by New Year’s Day – 7,942,645,086 to be exact, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a release this week. The number is a more than 79 million-person increase from January 2022 worldwide.
Russia has reportedly fired more than 20 cruise missiles in Ukraine on Saturday killing at least one person in Kyiv and leaving more than a dozen injured, a news report has claimed. The incident was described by one of the officials as
Comment on this story Comment Alexis McCrossen once took her daughter to New York City for New Year’s Eve. The little girl was only 5 years old at the time, so they didn’t stay out very late. But the McCrossens woke the
Gin and tonic producers in the UK have every reason to raise a toast to 2023, with tariffs on all products going to Australia due to be removed under the UK-Australia FTA brokered thanks to Brexit. The UK-Australia deal – the first
The world population is projected to be 7.9 billion people on New Year’s Day 2023, with 73.7 million people added since New Year’s Day 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. That marks a 0.9% increase in the world population over the
Comment on this story Comment Over the last few years, CNN’s annual New Year’s Eve special has become the go-to place to see your favorite serious journalists down shots of alcohol and get sloppy, or, as New York magazine put it, to