In early April, inmates at Bahrain’s Jau prison crowded into the corridors to protest. They were angry about a lack of medical treatment and fearing for their lives after the death of another inmate. Their sit-in at building 13 lasted 10 days,
Sir David Attenborough has warned that the government is pursuing “short-sighted political and financial attacks” on the UK’s television networks, as ministers prepare to announce plans to privatise Channel 4. The wildlife broadcaster has put his name to a campaign saying that ministers risk
Venice has missed tourists – but not their bad habits. In an echo of the pre-pandemic era, authorities have been cracking down on uncouth behaviour as visitors flock back to the lagoon city. A French tourist was fined €150 (£128) after paddling
Tessica Brown, AKA “Gorilla Glue Girl”, the woman who went viral in February for accidentally gluing her hair to her head, has launched her own range of haircare products. Brown’s Forever Hair range will feature a hairspray named Forever Hold, a play on her
Old rivalry is now more visceral in politics than football and this match may be memorable only if Scotland cause a shock It’s hard to convey now, in our splintered multi-platform age, just how inescapably, grotesquely enormous an event England v Scotland was in
Boris Johnson has been accused of putting trade before torture after he met senior Bahraini officials in Downing Street to discuss a free trade deal with the Gulf states. Neither the Foreign Office nor Downing Street advertised the meeting with the country’s
Italy’s public broadcaster Rai has come under fire for broadcasting leaked CCTV footage of a fatal cable car crash that killed 14 people near Stresa, in the north of Italy. Last month, the cable car connecting the Lake Maggiore resort town of Stresa to a nearby mountain
London’s hopes of attracting more technology companies looking to float on the stock market have received a shot in the arm after the fintech firm Wise chose the City for a rare direct listing expected to value the company at up to £9bn. The
The Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from jail after serving more than six months for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during 2019 anti-government protests that triggered a crackdown on dissent by mainland China. Chow, 24, was greeted by a crowd
Police in Austin, Texas, said they were searching for a suspect in a shooting early on Saturday that injured 13 people in the city’s downtown entertainment district. Authorities said they had responded to reports of multiple shots fired about 1.30am and had initially