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Ed Miliband unusually takes up Britain’s seat on the World Bank board so he can push his Net Zero agenda globally
Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, has reportedly taken up the UK’s seat on the World Bank’s board, an unusual move for a serving Cabinet minister that is said to be aimed at promoting his Net Zero and climate agenda on the international stage. Such positions are typically held by Treasury officials or dedicated executive directors…
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Teacher argued that being called ‘Mr Baldy’ was sexual harassment – now a judge has dismissed his case with a brutal truth bomb
A high school teacher in the Australian Capital Territory has lost a legal case in which he argued that being called “Mr Baldy” by pupils and colleagues amounted to sexual harassment and workplace bullying. A judge dismissed his claim, ruling that the nickname was a comment on his baldness rather than his sex, and did…
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Distraught families given ashes of strangers as bodies of loved ones left to rot in ‘horror scene’ funeral parlour tell court ‘no sentence could ever be enough’
A court has heard harrowing accounts from grieving families after bodies left in the care of a funeral parlour were found decomposing in what was described as a “horror scene,” with some relatives given the cremated remains of strangers instead of their own loved ones. The case has caused widespread distress, with families telling the…
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Jamie Campbell Bower has his say on ‘Stranger Things’ “conformity gate”
The article text supplied for this piece consists only of website navigation and menu elements (site sections such as Music, Film, Travel, Art, News and a “Cover Story” link) rather than any actual reporting. As a result, no substantive information about Jamie Campbell Bower’s comments on the so-called “Stranger Things conformity gate” was included in…
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Ancient Egyptian settlement discovered from era that fueled Exodus debate
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient settlement dating to the Second Intermediate Period, an era central to long-running scholarly debates over the historical backdrop of the biblical Exodus. The find was made at the Tell el-Koua site in the Wadi Tumilat region, a corridor historically linking the eastern Nile Delta with Egypt’s eastern frontier,…
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Haex – a wilder, weirder open-world adventure
Dead Astronauts, a Scandinavian studio founded in 2024, is developing Haex, an online co-operative open-world survival game set in a sub-Arctic landscape. Its defining feature is the “Seed” – a plantable device that terraforms the world in real time, altering vegetation, terrain, story threads and enemies as players progress, meaning each player’s world evolves uniquely…
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Adam Peaty’s family hits back at swimmer after his swipe at estranged relatives over ‘hurtful’ Commonwealth Games performance
Adam Peaty’s family have publicly hit back at the Olympic swimmer after he appeared to blame estranged relatives for a disappointing performance at the Commonwealth Games, branding his comments “hurtful”. The family dispute has become a public spat, playing out through the media rather than privately, after Peaty suggested strained family relationships had affected his…
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‘The greatest album never made’: the untold story of George Michael’s secret, star-packed duets project
In 1992, George Michael secretly recorded an album of songs intended for stars including Aretha Franklin, Janet Jackson, Sade Adu and Bryan Ferry, working under the alias the Trojan Souls. The project, born out of frustration with a bitter legal dispute with Sony Records and his exhaustion with being marketed as a sex symbol, was…
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How ingenious Aussie couple came up with the perfect solution to beat the housing crisis – but now council wants to kick them out over red tape
A Queensland couple built a tiny home on their rural property near Toowoomba as a low-cost housing solution amid Australia’s ongoing housing crisis, only to find themselves in a dispute with the local council over planning regulations. The case highlights the tension between grassroots efforts to ease housing pressure and the bureaucratic hurdles that can…
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Adam Ramsay-Peaty snubs his estranged family while paying tribute to his wife Holly for supporting him during ‘whirlwind’ 24 hours as she watches him reach 50m breaststroke final after 100m heartbreak
Adam Peaty has reached the final of the 50m breaststroke, following a 24-hour turnaround after missing out in his stronger 100m event, with the swimmer crediting his wife, Holly Ramsay, for her support through what he called a “whirlwind” period. He publicly thanked Holly while notably making no mention of his estranged family, highlighting a…