Watch: How many pull-ups can you do? Trump revives fitness test for school kids
The test had been discontinued in 2012 and replaced with a fitness program during Barack Obama's term.
WATCH: How many pull-ups can you do? Trump revives fitness test for school kids
The test had been discontinued in 2012 and replaced with a fitness program during Barack Obama's term.
Melting glaciers threaten to wipe out European villages – is the steep cost to protect them worth it?
Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move away from the mountain villages at risk?
Shady foreign leaders are pouncing on Trump’s thirst for peace prize – Daily Kos
- Shady foreign leaders are pouncing on Trump's thirst for peace prize Daily Kos
- White House lobbying for a Nobel prize for Trump takes a farcical turn Yahoo Home
- Cambodia to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, says deputy PM Reuters
- Trump Should Get Nobel Peace Prize for Brokering Cease-Fire Deal, Cambodian Deputy PM Says The Wall Street Journal
- What’s behind Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize obsession? South China Morning Post
Syrian government, Kurdish-led SDF trade blame over northern Syria attack
Defence Ministry accuses Kurdish-led SDF of injuring four army personnel, three civilians in rocket attack near Manbij.
Watch: Massive crowd greets Pope at Catholic youth event
Hundreds of thousands of Catholics from around the world poured into Rome for the special Jubilee holy year event.
Pope greeted by vast crowd at Catholic youth event
Hundreds of thousands of Catholics from around the world poured into Rome for the special Jubilee holy year event.
Social media ads promoting small boat crossings to UK to be banned
Change to border security bill will also make it a crime to advertise fake passports, visas and work opportunities
Ministers are to outlaw social media adverts promoting journeys on small boats across the Channel to asylum seekers.
The government will create a UK-wide criminal offence that could lead to perpetrators being sentenced for up to five years in prison and a hefty fine.
Continue reading...Pope Leo brings youth jubilee to a close with mass for more than a million
Pontiff presides over culmination of ‘Catholic Woodstock’ that drew young people from 146 countries
Pope Leo XIV presided over a mass in Rome for more than a million young people on Sunday, the culmination of a pilgrimage that has drawn Catholics from across the world.
“Aspire to great things, to holiness, wherever you are. Do not settle for less,” the pope told the crowd.
Continue reading...How the mystery of Winston Churchill’s dead platypus was finally solved – BBC
The mystery of Winston Churchill’s dead platypus was unsolved – until now
The question of who, or what, really killed the puggle has eluded the world since 1943.
Canadian wildfire smoke triggers air quality alerts in US
Blazes across several Canadian provinces and territories pose health risks to Canadians and their southern neighbours.
How South Korea’s K-beauty industry is being hit by Trump tariffs
Buyers and sellers of South Korean beauty products are stocking up as the 15% US tariff rolls out.
Rescuers race to save Chile miners after collapse kills at least one – BBC
- Rescuers race to save Chile miners after collapse kills at least one BBC
- Three More Workers Found Dead in Collapsed Chilean Mine The New York Times
- Chile's Codelco says two more trapped workers at El Teniente mine found dead Yahoo Home
- Body found as Chile rescue workers search for missing miners CNN
- Body found in collapsed Chile mine as search continues for trapped miners The Guardian
Rescuers search for two trapped Chilean miners after four found dead
The state-owned Codelco company announced on Sunday that four workers are known to have died.
Police continue to search for Montana gunman who killed four people in a bar
Law enforcement were looking for 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, a US army veteran who lived in Anaconda
Authorities continued to search Saturday afternoon for the man accused of killing four people at a Montana bar.
Local, state and federal law enforcement were looking for 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, a US army veteran who lived in a small town, Anaconda, next to The Owl Bar, where on Friday morning he allegedly opened fire and killed a bartender and three patrons.
Continue reading...UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips
Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to
Labour MP Jess Phillips has said the UK has got “fat” from the free labour of women for decades.
The minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls said the country has relied on women providing charity, adding it was a “fundamentally sexist” practice that meant the government was less willing to provide the service itself.
Continue reading...US authorities investigating ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith
Without evidence, Trump and his allies accuse former US special prosecutor of illegal political activity.
Police find getaway car of army veteran suspected of deadly Montana bar shooting
The suspect, named as Michael Paul Brown, is believed to be "armed and dangerous", police say.
Hamas official boasts Oct. 7 ‘resistance’ revived Palestinian statehood push around the globe – The Jerusalem Post
- Hamas official boasts Oct. 7 'resistance' revived Palestinian statehood push around the globe The Jerusalem Post
- The 109-Year-Old Pact That Looms Over European Moves to Recognize a Palestinian State The New York Times
- Palestinians are prisoners of geography, but statehood is possible The Times
- Why it is a mistake to recognize a Palestinian state The Globe and Mail
- Hamas leader: Nations are recognizing Palestinian state due to ‘fruits of October 7’ The Times of Israel