22 m. ago 10,000 passengers hit by last minute flight cancellations due to very unusual reason

ONE popular airline was forced to stop flights this week after a 'freak' maintenance issue. Thousands of passengers have had their flights cancelled or delayed due to an unusual safety problem. According to Finnair, the issue that caused the cancellation was aircraft seat covers being cleaned incorrectly. A statement from the airline revealed that the...

Events

30 m. ago Mum takes out £15,000 loan to get son home after 40ft hotel balcony fall

Will Hannington, 23, jetted off with his friends to Dubrovnik in Croatia on September 24 for a week-long holiday.

Society

30 m. ago Katie Price reveals Harvey has lost 1.5st after starting fat jabs and has smashed THREE iPads in one week

KATIE Price has revealed that her son Harvey has lost 1.5st after starting fat jabs. She also revealed how he smashed THREE very "expensive" iPads in one week. The 46-year-old former glamour model appeared on her podcast, The Katie Price Show, this week and opened up about her eldest child's weight loss success. Sitting down...

Politics

30 m. ago Bananas can ripen 'overnight' when wrapped in 1 common household item

If you're looking to ripen your bananas quickly, there are a few techniques you can use to speed up the process - and one of them involves a common household item

Politics

36 m. ago River Island and New Look shut down full list: Hundreds of fashion retailers close down across UK

A growing trend sees River Island and New Look among numerous fashion brands shutting UK stores in 2025

Politics

43 m. ago Because Of You: Claudia Winkleman shines a light on Good Causes funded by The National Lottery

A series of powerful and emotive films cover the difference National Lottery funding is making to grassroots projects supporting the arts, communities, heritage, film and sport

Politics

44 m. ago Crash shuts road closed overnight and two seriously injured in hospital

The main road through Bedwas, near Caerphilly, has been closed for almost 20 hours following the serious collision

Events

46 m. ago Multiple dead and mass casualties after building explodes with 'hospitals in emergency mode'

A residential building in Calea Rahovei, Bucharest, Romania was left a wreck after an explosion saw 17 injured and several dead, with hospitals now in 'emergency mode'

Events

51 m. ago Millions of UK households to receive letters about £150 energy bill discount from next week

People will be sent out to households next week

Economics

51 m. ago Photographer Graciela Iturbide: ‘Working with my heart is the only rule – nothing else’

The revered 83-year-old Mexican photographer talks about her groundbreaking career as she celebrates her first ever retrospective in New YorkIf you’re at all familiar with contemporary Latin American photography, you’ve probably encountered the unforgettable image of a Zapotec woman crowned with live iguanas, radiating quiet, unshakable dignity. Captured in 1979 by Graciela Iturbide, Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán was neither planned nor staged. It was taken on impulse, guided by the artist’s instinct and deep respect for her subject, and has since become a touchstone of Mexican visual culture and feminist photography.“What drives my work is surprise, wonder, dreams, and imagination,” Iturbide recently told the Guardian. Continue reading...

Culture

52 m. ago Tame Impala: Deadbeat review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week

(Columbia)Australian indie’s breakout star takes a dancefloor diversion, but amid the four-four fun are fears about fame’s effect on his domestic lifeIn May, Dua Lipa introduced a special guest at her Sydney gig: Kevin Parker, who duetted with her on a version of The Less I Know the Better, the biggest hit Parker has ever released under the name Tame Impala. The pair have a longstanding creative relationship – Parker co-produced and co-wrote most of Dua Lipa’s last album, Radical Optimism – but nevertheless made for quite the study in contrasts. She was resplendent in a glittering lace catsuit, stiletto-heeled boots, a fake fur stole draped over her shoulder. Lank-haired, clad in a baggy multicoloured cardigan and a string of wooden beads, Parker looked not unlike a man who had arrived onstage direct from a very long night up at Glastonbury’s stone circle.You could see it as a visual metaphor for Parker’s unlikely journey to pop’s upper echelons which began, improbably enough, while...

Events

53 m. ago Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman

Only a handful of North American athletes have spoken out against Israel’s assault on Gaza, a silence shaped by fear, sponsorship and the policing of speech“I will not just shut up and dribble I get to sit up here and talk about what’s really important.” So proclaimed LeBron James in 2018 when confronted with the question of whether athletes have the right to speak about the political and social justice questions of their time.Yet since 7 October 2023, elite athletes in North America have had startlingly little to say about what most human rights groups in the world, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and the United Nations have characterized as Israel’s genocide in Gaza (a situation currently in flux due to a mutually agreed upon ceasefire and prisoner exchange).Nathan Kalman-Lamb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick. Derek Silva is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King’s University College at Western University. They are ...

Politics

53 m. ago Literary fiction of the highest order: BOG QUEEN by Anna North, HEAP EARTH UPON IT by Chloe Michelle Howarth, THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER by Chris Kraus

Anthony Cummins reviews this week's literary fiction

Politics

53 m. ago M&S issues urgent recall for chocolate treat that could cause deadly reaction

Shoppers have been urged not to consume the chocolate snack.

Events

54 m. ago Bananas won't 'turn brown' and will stay 'fresh for longer' by pouring 1 drink over them

Bananas are a staple in most UK households, but they have a notoriously short shelf life - unless you know this clever hack

Politics

56 m. ago Inspectors praise St Bride’s Primary School and Nursery in Cambuslang

Education Scotland were impressed with the attitude of the pupils, showing confidence, happiness, enthusiasm and a great sense of pride in their learning community.

Politics

57 m. ago Alaska floods: What we know as hundreds evacuated after devastating storm

Hundreds of residents from remote Alaska Native villages are being airlifted after a storm battered their communities

Events

88 m. ago Brian O'Driscoll speech hijacked by crowd amid shouts of 'shame on you'

The former rugby player was speaking at an event held in Dublin on Thursday

Politics

96 m. ago People's Postcode Lottery results: The winning streets for October 11 to 17

A street in Hertfordshire split £1,000,000 this week in the People's Postcode Lottery

Politics

97 m. ago Strange seat issue leads European airline to cancel flights with 10,000 impacted

Finnair has had to cancel a number of flights this week after safety concerns were raised about how its seat covers were cleaned, a spokesperson for the airport has said

Politics