America is back! Fireworks fill the sky in DC to the backdrop of the Washington Monument and NYC prepares for its biggest display EVER as COVID restrictions are lifted and a weary nation celebrates Crowds in Washington, D.C. celebrated America’s 245th birthday with a monumental fireworks display This year holds special significance as the country slowly returns to a sense […]

BOYS aged just 8 and 9 have been charged after “fatally shooting a man in the back with a rifle while he was riding a tractor”. Both boys are said to have shot Danny Andrew Smith, 62, with a .22 rifle while he was cutting down brush in a South Carolina field near Westminster on June 23, authorities said. Smith […]

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A billion schooldays lost to the pandemic: Typical pupil has missed half a YEAR of class time since Covid lockdowns started, analysis shows The total includes two terms when national lockdowns caused kids to stay home Despite devastation, the Government has set aside only £3billion in catch-up  The analysis of lost school days was carried out by the Centre for […]

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban’s march through northern Afghanistan gained momentum overnight with the capture of several districts from fleeing Afghan forces, several hundred of whom fled across the border into Tajikistan, officials said Sunday. More than 300 Afghan military personnel crossed from Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province as Taliban fighters advanced toward the border, Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security said […]

Bunsen burners are beginning to make way for electric hot plates as natural gas is progressively phased out as an energy source in Victorian schools. Several newer schools are in line to have their gas heating connections switched off this year. The energy switch is being pursued on environmental and cost-saving grounds as wholesale gas prices soar on Australia’s east […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday to demonstrate against President Mahmoud Abbas, hoping to inject new momentum into a protest movement sparked by the death of an outspoken critic in the custody of security forces. Palestinian security forces and groups of men in plainclothes violently dispersed a similar […]

ROME (AP) — A Vatican judge on Saturday indicted 10 people, including a once-powerful cardinal, on charges including embezzlement, abuse of office, extortion and fraud in connection with the Secretariat of State’s 350 million-euro investment in a London real estate venture. The president of the Vatican's criminal tribunal, Giuseppe Pignatone, set July 27 as the trial date, though lawyers for […]

California corrections officer ‘with a depraved mind’ who cut a hole in her pants for sex with inmate in front of 11 other prisoners is sentenced to seven months in jail A former correctional officer at the Fresno County Jail has been sentenced for a sexual relationship she had with an inmate Tina Gonzalez, 27, was given two years probation […]