Winemakers in fizz over health warnings
Vintners in Germany and Italy are protesting against a plan to make bottles and cans of alcohol carry health warnings.
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Labour moves to oust Corbyn
The British Labour Party is preparing to deselect former leader Jeremy Corbyn and install a new candidate in his safe London seat.
West draws up ‘the mother of all sanctions’
US foreign relations committee chairman Bob Menendez has told Vladimir Putin invading Ukraine would trigger ‘the mother of all sanctions’.
Under-siege Boris Johnson digs in as rivals loom
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson – under police investigation over lockdown parties at Downing Street – is determined to fight on at all costs.
Ballad of ‘bitcoin Bonnie and crypto Clyde’
As the FBI searched her Wall Street apartment for evidence she was laundering stolen bitcoin, Heather Morgan pleaded to be allowed to find her cat. It was a ploy.
Space debris hints at old planet
Astronomers have discovered what could be a planet in the habitable zone of a dead star.
The new anti-racism is a danger to us all
John McWhorter, a black, Democrat-voting liberal intellectual, is sending shockwaves through America’s ‘woke’ left with his attack on the post-George Floyd racial awakening.
Labour wants rid of Corbyn, to fury of union backers
Discussions have been held about how to oust the former leader from his safe seat, putting the party at odds with its biggest funder.
We should only say sorry when we mean it
Our era is all tangled up in the apology industry: accusers scream for expressions of remorse, while the accused grovel over matters they may not even have been involved in.
Should we cancel Charlie Chaplin?
A new documentary about the first global cinematic star’s private life — including his three teenage wives — is shocking.
Be nice to your kids, tiger mums told
China’s domineering and ruthlessly competitive mothers are finally learning the cost of forcing children to the limit.
Wordle to the rescue of woman, 80, held hostage
Online game Wordle has helped police to rescue 80-year-old Denyse Holt who had been imprisoned by an intruder.
Scouts pay $3.8bn to sex abuse case claimants
Tens of thousands of ex-Scouts will share $US2.7bn ($3.78bn) in compensation over child abuse allegations, in the largest US bankruptcy case of its kind.
Melania goes her own way with social network deal
Melania Trump has struck a deal with online platform Parler, despite her ex-president husband preparing to launch his own network.
Elitist snobs are demonising truckers’ revolt
Instead of seeing the truckers’ protests as an explosion of frustration at Canada’s lockdown regime, the US left sees them as another harbinger of some neo-Nazi tide sweeping the West, from Brexit Britain to, who’d have thought? – Saskatchewan.
When you can’t tell your Gestapo from your gazpacho
Trump ally Marjorie Taylor-Greene lands herself in the soup with rant about the ‘gazpacho police’ on Capitol Hill.
Trump ‘tried to flush documents’ down loo
Donald Trump jammed his White House toilet with papers despite an order to retain presidential records, a new book claims.
Nuclear fusion breakthrough fuels dream of limitless energy
For five seconds one day last December the hottest place in the solar system lay just south of Oxford.
Police to question Boris over Downing St parties
If police decide Johnson has no reasonable excuse for attending six parties, he faces a criminal penalty and the end to his premiership.
Far-right conspiracists loved the Savile smear
Protesters who mobbed UK Labour leader Keir Starmer are part of a troubling new breed who can see a devious plot behind anything.
McConnell damns GOP for excusing Capitol riot
In a worsening feud with Trump loyalists, the leading Republican condemned the attack as a “violent insurrection”.
Stern Langer may just be what England need
Justin Langer inherited a cricket team broken, bruised and in need of strong direction … until it wasn’t. Now England could need exactly the heavy hand which cost him the Australian coaching job.
Kim’s secret missile base spotted on China border
North Korea has a missile base near its China border capable of storing weapons with the range to strike the US, satellite images show.
Baltic states ‘ready for the worst’ as Russia flexes
Russia deploys tens of thousands of troops within striking distance of Poland and Lithuania for a military exercise that starts today.
The practically soul-destroying challenge of motherhood
Netflix’s searing drama The Lost Daughter has rekindled the debate about how having children can make, or break, a woman’s sense of identity.
Nearly 420km/h is too fast even on autobahn
A Czech millionaire lured by the lack of speed limits on German motorways is in trouble with the police after apparently reaching almost high speeds during an early morning drive.
Africa’s plundered relics listed on eBay
A flood of ancient Ethiopian relics for sale online has raised suspicions about links to the reported plundering of churches and monasteries during the 14-month conflict in Tigray.
WWII vet fears fighting in the streets again
Ukrainian who fought for Stalin fears war on the streets once more.
Stop apologising to these lunatics: Trump to Rogan
Former US president tells Joe Rogan not to let ‘maniacs’ make him ‘look weak and frightened’ amid Spotify podcast furore.
It’s hot, flat and the people are fat: real estate agents tell the truth
In the midst of a great migration of Americans from California, estate agents who once made it their business to say nice things about their home states have begun telling the unvarnished truth.
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