A woman who lost her job after claiming people cannot change their biological sex insists her views are a “material reality,” an employment appeal tribunal has heard. Maya Forstater’s contract was not renewed in March 2019 after she posted tweets opposing government proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow people to identify as…
Sacked Woman Stands by View on Transgender Issues, Employment Appeals Panel Told
UK Survey Finds Rising Unease About AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine
LONDON—British enthusiasm for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has faded in the past month, reflecting rising unease about its possible links to rare adverse side effects, though overall UK confidence in vaccines is high, an updated survey has found. The survey of almost 5,000 people showed a significant increase in the proportion who said they want…
UK Watchdog to Probe Funding of Boris Johnson’s Flat Renovation
The UK’s political spending watchdog said on Wednesday it will conduct a formal investigation into the source of funding for the refurbishment of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat. The Electoral Commission said there were “reasonable grounds” to suspect an offence had been committed. Johnson came under pressure to explain how the expensive refurbishment…
Teenager in Court Following Crawley College Armed Incident
A teenager appeared in court on Wednesday after being charged following an incident at Crawley College on Monday when shots were fired. Sandijs Dreimanis, 18, of Barton Walk in Crawley, West Sussex, England, was named by police earlier in the day and “charged with possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, two…
UK Conducts COVID-19 Testing at Leicester School After 3 Cases of Indian Variant Found
UK health authorities are conducting further testing at a school after three cases of the new Indian variant of the CCP virus were found in Leicester. Professor Ivan Browne, Leicester’s director of public health, said on Wednesday that Public Health England (PHE) had been notified of three cases of the variant known as VUI-21-APR-01, which…
Chinese National Sentenced to 14 Years for Laundering Drug Money for Mexican Cartels
A federal judge in Illinois on Tuesday sentenced a Chinese national to 14 years behind bars for laundering the proceeds of illegal narcotics on behalf of Mexican drug traffickers, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin imposed the sentence on April 27 after a hearing in federal court in…
India Tops 200,000 CCP Virus Deaths as Surge Strains Health System
India’s CCP virus surge has, as of Wednesday, claimed over 200,000 lives, a grim milestone in a pandemic-ravaged country whose health system is strained to the breaking point. The health ministry reported a single-day record of 3,293 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing India’s total fatalities to 201,187, as the world’s second-most populous…
New York’s Cuomo Urges Challenge to Census Over State Losing Congressional Seat
The 2020 census data that showed New York grew more slowly than other states, leaving it poised to have one less seat in the House of Representatives, may be subject to a legal challenge. If New York had just 89 more people in the census count, officials said, then it would have kept the seat…
FBI Abused Secretive Surveillance Program, Court Finds
The FBI continued abusing the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act program, including searching for information on people who had gone to the bureau to report they were victims of a crime, a newly declassified document shows. One FBI information specialist between April 11, 2019, and July 8, 2019, conducted approximately 124 queries of information obtained…
Photographer Snaps Pink Cloud Perfectly Shaped Like a Heart in Sky Over Paris
Love was truly in the air in the most romantic city in the world when art director Thibaut Buccellato, 29, snapped an incredible photograph. The stunning shot shows a pink cloud perfectly shaped like a heart resting in the sky as the sun sets over Paris. The self proclaimed “lover of sunsets” quickly pulled out…
-
Recent Posts
-
Archives
- May 2025
- April 2025
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- September 2013
- July 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- December 1
-
Meta