Pope Leo XIV has been pictured celebrating Mass from hospital, in the first images of him released by the Vatican since he underwent lung surgery. The 71-year-old pontiff was diagnosed with lung cancer after the surgery at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, which the Vatic...
Rama has been touring some of the damaged buildings and blaming Sali Berisha for instigating chaos. “All of this is the work of the very same hand – the hand that has gripped the Albanian opposition by the throat, the hand that has burned and destroyed Albania more than once, a...
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is “only standing up for Ukraine’s interests” after scathing criticism from Donald Trump, who said he was “more difficult to deal with than [Russian President Vladimir] Putin”. The US president, who recently made a cont...
A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, operated from a church in Mpumalanga province, was discovered during an operation ...
Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of India’s “cockroach” movement, and a few others were detained in Delhi as pigs tried to stop a protest demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief. Hundreds had gathered in Connaught Place, one of the capital’s busie...
Brearey also gave his thoughts about his hopes for wider cultural change in the NHS in the wake of the inquiry, but indicated he remained sceptical about the speed of change in some areas. He said Lady Thirwall had recommended “the uncontroversial duty of every manager to put patient...
The mother of the man who murdered Henry Nowak could be released from prison early as part of the government’s plan to tackle overcrowding in jails. Kiran Kaur, 53, was jailed for three years in July for removing the knife her son, Vickrum Digwa, used to kill the 18-year-old student ...
Yorkshire Wildlife Park has reopened for the first time since a man was killed by a tiger in an enclosure. William Chapman, 24, was mauled to death at the park near Doncaster on Saturday. The public were evacuated after the incident with the attraction closed since then. An inquest that op...
Educational and child psychologist Dr Sasha Hall, who’s mum to a three-year-old boy and five-year-old girl, says the first thing to understand is that this scenario is “completely normal”. “Unfortunately it’s going to happen to all our children at some point i...
The Princess of Wales has launched a project promoting the use of nature to help develop young children’s social and emotional development. “Nature is such an extraordinary environment for us all and, in this tech-driven, digital age, spending quality time outdoors has never be...