More than 200 people attended the European Mullet Festival in Quievrain, Belgium. The festival has been running since 2019, and hosts a mullet contest, conga dancing and a range of hairdressers on site. Festival spokesman Edgar Funkel said the festival inspired people to try it for the first time and that it helped people show...
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Family given stranger's ashes after mother's death
A daughter had an urn in her house for months before discovering it did not contain her mother’s ashes. Source link
Ex-lawyer Michael Cohen says he paid hush money for Trump’s benefit
Testimony from the star witness in Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial has repeatedly tied a 2016 hush-money arrangement back to the ex-president. On the stand, Michael Cohen said he spoke to Mr Trump immediately after wiring the $130,000 (£104,000) payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. It was one of many times he operated “at the direction...
Eurovision responds to complaints of bad behaviour
The EBU says it “regrets” that some countries “didn’t respect the spirit” of the contest in Sweden. Source link
Fears 2,000 Tata Steel job cuts could gut town
Workers have already started leaving Port Talbot to work at places like Hinkley Point in England. Source link
Labour pledges ‘iron-clad’ support for Ukraine against Putin
A Labour government would have an “iron-clad commitment” to supporting Ukraine against Putin, two shadow ministers have said. The pledge came as shadow foreign secretary David Lammy and shadow defence secretary John Healey visited the country’s capital, Kyiv. The pair visited to discuss a “new UK plan” to help ensure victory against Russia’s “imperial invasion”....
MPs arrested for sex offences face Parliament ban
Liberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain, who proposed the amendment to change the threshold to arrest, said this would align Parliament with other workplaces. “As a former police officer… arrest on suspicion doesn’t just take place on basis of an allegation,” she told the Commons. “Yes, some vexatious complaints do occur but what message do we...
Michael Cohen details what life was like as Trump’s lawyer
Testifying just a few feet away from his former boss of a decade, Michael Cohen walked a Manhattan courtroom through the highs and lows of working behind-the-scenes for Donald Trump, a man for whom he once pledged to take a bullet. “The only thing that was on my mind was to accomplish the task, to...
Lambeth shooting victim named as Jazmel Patterson-Low
A man shot dead in south London in the early hours of Saturday has been named as Jazmel Patterson-Low. The 26-year-old was shot in Lambeth and died half an hour after a car dropped him off at hospital at about 02:30 BST. Police said Mr Patterson-Low, whose cause of death was found to be a...
Why has Putin removed ally Sergei Shoigu as Russia’s defence minister?
But what’s interesting is that Vladimir Putin chose this moment to make the switch. The president had stuck by Shoigu in 2022 when Russia was suffering military setbacks in Ukraine. He’d stuck by him again in 2023 during the minister’s very public spat with the late Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had accused Shoigu...