A bombed-out building in Marawi in 2022, five years after Islamic State-affiliated militants and government forces waged a devastating battle for control of the city.
At least 15 people, aged between 10 and 87, were killed when two gunmen opened fire on a Hanukah celebration in Sydney on Sunday
Holocaust survivors, dedicated volunteers, faith leaders, and heroes who tried to stop the shooting have been named among the 15 victims of the Bondi beach terror attack in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.
Most were attending a celebration for the first day of Hanukah when the shooting began. It is the worst mass shooting in Australia since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
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"At that point, I was literally stuck there with the dude that kept saying that he's gonna break my jaw ... Over a seat? Seriously? Like, come on. It's 7 in the morning. Nobody pays $2.90 for that."
Chancellor’s claim to be helping trade met with disbelief in England and Wales amid soaring staff costs, energy bills and other overheads
Emma Harrison has begun to wonder how her business will survive in recent weeks. The managing director of the Three Hills pub in Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, is struggling to see how she will make a profit after examining the impact of her rising tax bill.
“I’m really terrified about this coming year,” Harrison says. “We’re a well-run pub, we’ve won lots of awards, but this is going to be really hard.”
Demands for oversight grow after inquiry calls sector an ‘unregulated free for all’ and families seek stronger safeguards
Ministers are expected to back calls to regulate England’s funeral industry for the first time, after a series of scandals over the handling of remains.
Bereaved families have called for a new investigatory body and rules governing professional qualifications after an official inquiry declared the sector an “unregulated free for all”.
Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banks
As a leader of one of the oldest gnostic religions in the world, Sheikh Nidham Kreidi al-Sabahi must use only water taken from a flowing river, even for drinking.
The 68-year-old has a long grey beard hanging over his simple tan robe and a white cap covering his equally long hair, which sheikhs are forbidden from cutting. He says he has never got ill from drinking water from the Tigris River and believes that as long as the water is flowing, it is clean. But the truth is that soon it may not be flowing at all.
A ruby-red, melt-in-the-mouth delight and an ice-cream encased in chocolate and marsala-drenched panettone – both to make ahead of time
While strictly speaking this is a zuccotto – that is, a dome-shaped cake filled with ice-cream and enrobed in chocolate – I take disproportionate pleasure in the fact that it looks very much like a Christmas pudding. Even more delightful is the knowledge that it can be made weeks ahead of time, and whisked out of the freezer and brought to the table as needed. There’s allo a wibbly-wobbly jelly with a soft melt-in-your-mouth set, rather than the more solid, gelatinous variety I so strongly associate with childhood tea parties. Plus, it has sparkling booze in it, which, of course, makes the whole thing feel very grown-up.
"He's that uncle. He's that grandfather. He's that best friend. He's all in one," Shrimp Basket chef Donell Stallworth said of Charlie Hicks, his regular customer of 10 years.
Australian officials say the Bondi Beach gunmen carried bombs, ISIS flags and had recently traveled to the Philippines, confirming the massacre was ISIS-inspired.
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