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Man found dead on Christmas Day in Staffordshire named as Louis Price
A man who was found dead at home in Staffordshire in the early hours of Christmas Day has been named as Louis Price.
A 33-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after officers from Staffordshire police were called to an address in Norton Canes, near Cannock, at about 3.25am, …
South Korean lawmakers impeach acting president Han Duck-soo
South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach the acting president, Han Duck-soo, plunging the country deeper into a political crisis that has caused policy deadlock and damaged its international reputation.
On Friday, the national assembly approved an impeachment motion introduced on Thursday by the main opposition party by a 192-0 vote. …
‘Let’s see who will be leaving’: Georgia’s presidential standoff nears crunch point
All eyes in Georgia are fixed on the elegant 19th-century Orbeliani Palace in Tbilisi, where a defining moment looms. Who will occupy its halls on 29 December?
On Sunday, Georgia’s pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, is supposed to hand over the keys to her successor, Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former football player …
NFL playoff race: Vikings host Packers in potential NFC postseason preview
Game of the week
Green Bay Packers (11-4) v Minnesota Vikings (13-2)
The scheduling gods have flexed their muscles and pushed another potential warm-up for the postseason into the choice late-afternoon slot. We have a late festive feast in Green Bay heading to Minnesota, in favor of a damp squib …
Cummins conjures special delivery as Australia heap pressure on India
Batters have signature shots. That’s a given. Certain shapes or sequences of shapes that you associate with that player forever. The Ponting pull, the Lara follow-through over the shoulder, fill your own list. It’s much rarer for bowlers to have signature dismissals. There are so many ways to get players …
More than 28,000 UK retailers face ‘significant’ financial distress
More than 28,000 retailers are facing “significant” financial distress at the end of 2024, driven by rising business costs and weak consumer confidence, according to a report.
The number of retailers under the more severe measure of “critical” financial distress jumped 25% to 2,124 in the final three months of …
Chess: Carlsen targets Rapid and Blitz gold on Wall Street this weekend
Friday briefing: Will Trump 2.0 turn America into an autocracy?
Good morning.
The global surge of authoritarian rule in recent years has been stark and alarming. Strongman leaders like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have systematically consolidated power, while a new wave of autocratic rulers have emerged from Asia to South America.
This trend has only been further amplified by …
From dream to reality: Go-op, Britain’s first cooperative railway
The idea for the country’s first cooperative rail service came to Alex Lawrie in 2004 after another frustrating trip across Somerset.
Having moved to Yeovil four years earlier with his young family, his job as a cooperative development manager involved daily trips across the south-west trying to set up member-owned …
Plantwatch: the smelly deception of titan arum’s phallic spadix
It looks like a giant erect penis, stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a human body. This is the inflorescence of the titan arum,
Amorphophallus
titanum
, a plant with a phallus-shaped spike called a spadix that stands up to three metres tall, warms …