42 h. ago Kathleen Turner, 70, leans on walker during rare public outing after sparking concern with 'slurring' performance

Kathleen Turner, 70, looked frail and shaky when she made her way along a New York City street to an awaiting vehicle with the help of a walker.

Politics

45 h. ago Oxford Street pedestrianisation could shake investor confidence and cause crime spike, City Hall warned

Plan to remove motor traffic from ‘nation’s high street’ seen as ‘enormously contentious’ by local residents, Soho Society argues

Events

66 h. ago Horror as truck mows down multiple pedestrians in downtown Boston

The horror crash unfolded around 12.45pm at Harrison and Kneeland Street in the Massachusetts city's Chinatown neighborhood.

Events

3 d. ago Huge fire near famous Rangers themed Louden Tavern pub in Glasgow

Police locked down Duke Street in the city at around 7pm as firefighters tackled the blaze.

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4 d. ago 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto PinochetThis is the concluding part of Philippe Sands’s extraordinary trilogy – part history, part moral investigation, part memoir – that documents the legal and personal battles to bring to account Nazi war criminals and their disciples.In East West Street he recounted the plight of Lviv, the city now in Ukraine, whose Jewish population either fled before Nazi occupation or, like many of Sands’s extended family, was thereafter wiped out. Two Jewish lawyers who got out early were instrumental in creating the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide that were introduced at the Nuremberg trials. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Scots woman feared attack after being harassed by man on busy city street

Hannah Biss, 27, said a recent experience on the streets of Edinburgh, where she has lived for several years, made her feel unsafe for the first time.

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6 d. ago The US government is effectively kidnapping people for opposing genocide | Moira Donegan

Rumeysa Ozturk, a visa holder, was snatched off the streets by Ice agents and sent to a detention center 1,000 miles away for opposing war crimes in GazaThe abductors wore masks because they do not want their identities known. On Tuesday evening, Rumeysa Ozturk exited her apartment building and walked on to the street in Somerville, Massachusetts – a city outside Boston – into the fading daylight. Ozturk, a Turkish-born PhD student at Tufts University who studies children’s media and childhood development, was on her way to an iftar dinner with friends, planning to break her Ramadan fast.In a video taken from a surveillance camera, she wears a pink hijab and a long white puffer coat against the New England cold. The first man, not uniformed but wearing plain clothes, as all the agents are, approaches her as if asking for directions. But he quickly closes in and grabs her by the wrists she has raised defensively toward her face. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Man dies after falling from the 755ft Heron Tower near Liverpool Street

City of London Police said the incident is being treated as non-suspicious

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9 d. ago Bloody violence erupted in busy city street with man beaten with battery in sock

Gavin Thomas, 48, and David Smith, 39, became involved in a fight in Queen Street in Cardiff city centre, which was captured on CCTV and left one of them bleeding

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9 d. ago Bloody violence in busy city street sees man beaten with battery in sock

Gavin Thomas, 48, and David Smith, 39, became involved in a fight in Queen Street in Cardiff city centre, which was captured on CCTV and left one of them bleeding

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1 week ago Second teen appears in court charged with 'murder' of Glasgow schoolboy Amen Teklay

Amen, 15, died after he was found seriously injured on Clarendon Street in the Maryhill area of the city on Wednesday, March 5.

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2 w. ago Police scene in place off Market Street in Manchester following incident

A street was taped off with officers at the scene in the city centre

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2 w. ago Scotland's 'most expensive street' home to wealthy families and international buyers

A Scottish city street has been named the "most expensive" in the country for property.

Society

2 w. ago Boxhall City: Boxpark announces new concept with 13 London restaurants

Sourdough Sophia, Club Mexicana and Old Chang Kee are all on the bill

Politics

2 w. ago King Charles' poignant words as he and Queen Camilla down whiskey during surprise trip

King Charles and Queen Camilla travelled to Northern Ireland to visit Belfast today to celebrate its local culture and community and walked down what has been dubbed the city's "most attractive street"

Politics

2 w. ago Forget Warsaw and Krakow – this Polish city has street art, film history and £2 pints

With industrial chic neighbourhoods filled with street art, museums and hip cafes, Tamara Hinson says it’s time we started paying more attention to Lodz

Economics

2 w. ago ‘They lock us in like sheep’: new Israeli checkpoints and barriers raise fears in the West Bank

Israel’s iron gates and roadblocks are cutting off communities from major transport routes, disrupting work, education and aid suppliesThe road to Atara from Ramallah winds through the hills and valleys of the occupied W est Bank. To drive the nine miles to the village from the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority should take about half an hour, despite the potholes and traffic.These days, the taxi drivers waiting for fares on Radio Street in the north of the city shrug when asked when they will arrive at their destination. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘New York plows ahead’: how the English invaded and changed a city

Russell Shorto returns to fascinating history of a unique city in Taking Manhattan, a book showing how New Amsterdam became New YorkIn lower Manhattan, at Pearl Street and Coenties Alley in the oldest part of New York City, walls and a cistern are visible under the sidewalk, through pains of clouded glass. Next to them, the outline of a 17th-century building is marked in colored brick.“That is the footprint of the original Stadt Huys, which was first the city tavern and then became” the city hall of New Amsterdam, the author and historian Russell Shorto said. “When they were excavating to put in that skyscraper [85 Broad Street, built for Goldman Sachs in the 1980s], the archeologists identified and marked out those little bits. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago YouTuber stabbed to death while livestreaming on city street in horror attack

Police in Japan say they have arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of Airi Sato

Events

3 w. ago Girl, 15, ‘grabbed by men who tried to drag her into car’ while walking down street

An urgent manhunt has been launched by police after a teenage girl was said to have been grabbed by two men who tried to bundle her into a car as she walked down a city street

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