2 h. ago Icelandic women urged to strike on Friday to mark 50th anniversary of seminal protest

President, who will join ‘Women’s Day Off’, says Iceland is not free from feminist backlash being seen around worldIceland is the only country to have closed the gender gap by more than 90%, according to the World Economic Forum, and, for the first time in its history, every national leadership position – including president, prime minister, bishop and police chief – is now held by a woman.But as people go on strike on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of “kvennafrí” (“Women’s Day Off”) strike, the protest that kickstarted a global equality revolution, the Icelandic president warned that her country was not immune to gender-related “red flags” and a global “backlash” against feminism. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Glasgow council pleaded with SNP Government to suspend liberal homelessness rules two years ago

EXCLUSIVE: A request was made in 2023 to suspend the "local connection" decision believed to have put extra pressure on the council.

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3 h. ago Woman charged with murder after mum and two boys killed in horrific house fire

Jordana Johnson, her son Jordan Norris, 13, and his friend Chazz Mather, 13, were killed when a fire broke out at a home in Toolooa - police have now charged a woman

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4 h. ago Former Lord Speaker Baroness D'Souza is suspended from House after lobbying Met Police chief about her 'unfair' speeding fines

A House of Lords Conduct Committee report said Lady D'Souza chose to highlight how losing her license would impede her parliamentary work which showed the seriousness of her misjudgment.

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7 h. ago Prince paranoid? Andrew 'is convinced King Charles is trying to force him out of Royal Lodge and give it to Queen Camilla'

The disgraced prince, 65, is refusing to move out of the lavish 30-room property near Windsor Castle , despite pressure from MPs and the public to relocate to a more humble home.

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7 h. ago Spa worker sues after she was suspended for refusing to escort a transgender woman to the locker room

Jeriah Sellers, a devout Christian and part-time worker at Hershey’s MeltSpa in Pennsylvania, claims her employer violated her religious freedoms

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8 h. ago Emotional moment Sally Becker reunites with woman she saved from war at Pride of Britain awards

This is the moment Sally Becker reunited with a woman she saved from war as she received the Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement award on Thursday (23 October).

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8 h. ago 'Entitled mum made my flight a nightmare after I refused to swap seats – was I wrong?'

A passenger took to Reddit to share her frustration on her recent air travel experience when someone asked her to swap seats on a plane

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9 h. ago DC man who followed troops around playing Darth Vader theme sues over his arrest

Sam O’Hara posted his Star Wars–themed protests of Trump’s DC troop deployment on TikTok, racking up 1 million likes

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9 h. ago Trump reveals the friends who convinced him to call off surging troops into San Francisco: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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9 h. ago Driver was drunk when his Corvette slammed into another car at 135 mph and killed a 25

Drotar had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.126 percent shortly after the crash, according to blood test results

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10 h. ago Colorado woman found guilty of voter fraud for casting ballots for late ex

Prosecutors in Colorado say a woman has been found guilty of voter fraud for casting ballots for both her late ex-husband and son in the 2022 election

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10 h. ago Sally Becker's emotional Pride of Britain reunion with woman she saved from death

Maja Kazazic was just 16 years old when Sally arrived at the makeshift hospital in Bosnia, to find her clinging onto life. She presented the award on behalf of all children whose lives were saved by Sally, the 'Angel of Mostar'

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10 h. ago Former Lord Speaker Baroness D'Souza is suspended from House after lobbying Met Police chief about her 'unfair' speeding fines

A House of Lords Conduct Committee report said Lady D'Souza chose to highlight how losing her license would impede her parliamentary work which showed the seriousness of her misjudgment.

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11 h. ago Katie Price is accused of 'turning herself into a woman of colour' by outraged followers after inadvertently sparking blackface storm with her latest look

The former glamour model opted to ditch her trademark straight hair in favour of a distinctive auburn balayage after paying a visit to celebrity hair-colourist Dominic Ackah-Amihere.

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11 h. ago Tech CEO and guest on Bravo’s reality show ‘Below Deck’ is charged with murder in hit

William ‘Billy’ Rodriguez is charged with murder after allegedly striking a woman on a scooter with his car in Palm Springs in October 2024

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12 h. ago A murder charge is in the works in Kada Scott's death as video reveals a possible accomplice

Investigators say they have video evidence suggesting two people may have been involved in moving and burying the body of Kada Scott, a Philadelphia woman who disappeared Oct. 4

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12 h. ago Trump won’t send federal troops to San Francisco after ‘friends in the area’ asked him not to: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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12 h. ago LeBron James dragged into NBA mafia gambling scandal after his private information is 'leaked' as Chauncey Billups and Heat star are suspended: Live updates

Follow all the live updates from the FBI's press conference into the ongoing NBA gambling investigation, after Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier were arrested on Thursday morning.

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13 h. ago So many guests wore white to my sister’s wedding so I shamed them online – even my mother

A GROUP of wedding guests have come under fire after breaking the unspoken wedding rule – arriving to the ceremony in a white frock. In fact, so many guests showed up to the nuptials in white the bride's sister, Ellie, took to social media to shame them. In the viral clip the woman showed the...

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