A top official at the United States Olympic Committee was fired on Monday over his delayed response to the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. Interested in Larry Nassar? The USOC fired Alan Ashley, its chief of sport performance, in the wake of a searing report that claimed he failed to protect victims after learning of allegations against Nassar, who molested […]

Crime, violence, sex, climate change, the economy – we’re getting what we think we know about the world all wrong, according to a survey about global misperceptions. The 2018 Perils of Misperception study published this month by Paris-headquartered Ipsos, a consultancy and market research firm, highlights various ways in which people across 37 countries are misinformed about key issues and features […]

Politicians from the Lib Dems, Greens, SNP and Plaid have written to the Labour boss begging him to move a motion of no confidence in Theresa May. They think that will help pave the way for a second referendum on Brexit. Yesterday a desperate Mrs May pulled the vote on Brexit, admitting she would suffer a humiliating defeat if it […]

Half a million pound love songs! Healthcare tycoon hires Take That ‘for £500,000’ to perform at his wife’s 50th birthday in his back garden Ian Watson, 56, hired Take That to play at 50th party for wife Claire in Newcastle Guests were shocked when the band appeared and played a 50-minute set   Pop legends put on such a performance that police […]

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s Papua province who killed a group of workers building a bridge this month have rejected government calls to surrender and instead demanded a referendum to decide the future of the area. Security forces have launched an operation to hunt down members of the military wing of the Free Papua Movement (OPM), which claimed […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan aims to boost defense spending over the next five years to help pay for new stealth fighters and other advanced U.S. military equipment, a source with knowledge of the plan said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Defence will this month present a plan to spend 27 trillion yen ($239.5 billion) on its military over five years […]

Grenfell survivors accuse fire chief of bringing brigade into disrepute over her ‘woefully ill-judged’ and ‘insulting’ statements given to inquiry Commissioner Dany Cotton was branded ‘not fit’ to lead to London Fire Brigade  Earlier this year said she wouldn’t change any part of brigade’s response to fire  The inferno in a West London tower block last year killed a total […]

Andrea Leadsom accuses John Bercow of bias over Brexit after he lashes the Government for ‘deeply discourteous’ way it cancelled showdown on the deal Commons leader said John Bercow had made his own views on Brexit public  She said the Speaker’s impartiality was ‘absolutely essential’ to the Commons  Leadsom said his public position was a ‘challenge’ for the Government to […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s ruling party could lose power in three key states, four TV networks said on Tuesday, citing votecount leads, potentially handing Prime Minister Narendra Modi his biggest defeat since he took office in 2014, and months ahead of a general election. The main opposition Congress party could form governments in the central states of Chhattisgarh and […]

MANILA (Reuters) – Church bells taken as war trophies by U.S. forces more than a century ago arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday, ending Manila’s decades-long quest for the return of some of the most famous symbols of resistance to U.S. colonialism. The “Bells of Balangiga” landed in a military cargo plane at a Manila air base ahead of their […]