Cooper tops shadow cabinet vote
Mr Murphy, who ran the failed leadership campaign of Mr Miliband’s brother David, said he was “delighted” to be on the top team. He added: “Of course it is sad there are some really good people who didn’t win but I look forward to working with Ed Miliband and all the new team in taking […]
‘Cocaine call centres’ set up across Europe, drugs agency says
Reuters Authorities are seizing and destroying record quantities of cocaine Enterprising criminals have set up “cocaine call centres” across Europe to provide fast and flexible delivery services, the EU drugs agency says. Distributors are utilising encryption services on their smartphones in an “Uberisation” of the trade, it adds. The findings appear in an annual report […]
The rise and fall of a glamour model
Getty Images Price with fiance Carl Woods arriving at court on Friday, before her sentencing Katie Price was spared a prison sentence at a court hearing on Friday, after she admitted breaching a restraining order forbidding her from contacting her ex-husband’s fiancee. But the 44-year-old’s recent problems are in stark contrast to the 2000s, when […]
The many reasons why dogs love to roll in poo
Getty Images Sometimes our dogs will roll in something disgusting and there are a number of reasons for why they do this (Credit: Getty Images) Dogs have a baffling obsession with rolling in foul-smelling substances. It may be part of a form of communication we are only just starting to understand. It would happen whenever […]
Councils ‘not obliged’ to provide weekly bin collection
The government is to remove most of those powers from English councils but town halls will be able to issue fixed-penalty notices of between £75 and £100 to people who allow rubbish to pile up, or those who fly-tip. Ms Spelman said the government’s emphasis must be on ideas to enable households and businesses to […]
Jennie Formby to stand down as general secretary
Getty Images Mrs Formby said she had taken on the role to support Jeremy Corbyn and his “inspiring” message Jennie Formby is to stand down as the Labour Party’s most senior official. She said it was the “right time” to make way as general secretary, with the party under new leadership following Sir Keir Starmer’s […]
Why misogyny is at the heart of South Korea’s presidential elections
Getty Images Hundreds of South Korean men organized an Anti-#MeToo rally in 2018 Park Min-young, 29, spends most of his day talking to angry young men in Seoul. His fingers relentlessly tap the keyboard as he replies to dozens of their messages at his desk in the centre of a busy campaign office for one […]
SZA was ‘scared and freaked out’ at Glastonbury
Getty Images SZA topped the bill on the last night of Glastonbury, earlier this year US singer-songwriter SZA says she was “scared” and “freaked out” during her headline set at Glastonbury festival in June. The star’s performance was beset by technical issues, which left her voice muffled and distorted for at least 30 minutes. She […]
Europe’s flying taxi dreams falter as cash runs short
Volocopter The VoloCity made demonstration flights in Paris over the summer One of the innovations at this year’s Paris Olympics was supposed to be an electric flying taxi service. Germany’s Volocopter promised its electric-powered, two-seater aircraft, the VoloCity, would be ferrying passengers around the city. It never happened. Instead the company ran demonstration flights. While […]
Missouri tornado: Joplin storm kills dozens
Nearly 100 patients at the St John Regional Medical Center in Joplin were having to be evacuated from after the hospital took a direct hit. A resident living 45 miles (70km) away said debris from the hospital had landed in his yard, including medical supplies and X-rays. At a pre-dawn news conference on Monday outside […]