A shooting incident at the White House Correspondent's Dinner took focus away from the war in Iran, as Iran's foreign minister planned to return to Islamabad, the site of previous peace talks. (Image credit: Meysam Mirzadeh)
In a huge moment in sports history, Sabastian Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday. (Image credit: Ian Walton)
Shareholders including the Church of England back call for protest votes against the bank’s chair NatWest is at risk of an embarrassing showdown at its shareholder meeting this week, as investors and leading scientists call for an urgent reversal of what they describe as “climate backtracking”. Campaigners, including ShareAction, are calling for protest votes against the bank’s chair, Rick Haythornthwaite, at its annual meeting in Edinburgh on Tuesday. Continue reading...
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No indication grandmother knew what Markel Lee, 17, was suspected of doing, and she later identified him to police Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A 17-year-old accused of murder in Thursday’s mass shooting at a Louisiana mall that left a high school senior dead while wounding five others got a ride away from the crime scene from his grandmother – and was arrested after investigators used surveillance video and license plate readers to track her car
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Men in tuxedos and women in dresses dove under tables, like a scene from a dozen Hollywood movies, but now it was happening to me Shocking. Unnerving. Unpredictable. Violent. For a decade I have been following the twists and turns of Donald Trump’s America with the privilege of journalistic distance. On Saturday night I felt the darkness come viscerally close. Bang! Bang! What was that? Where was it? At 8.36pm panic and pandemonium reigned in the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton hotel
NPR News · Oct 8
King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive Monday for a four day U.S. state visit. Some hope the royal touch can heal the transatlantic rift that's emerged under Trump. (Image credit: Yui Mok/AP)
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Prime minister says ‘you never hear from … the people who are supportive, loyal and just want to get on with the job’ Good morning and welcome to today’s live coverage of UK politics. Despite several calls for his resignation from within his own party, Keir Starmer told the Sunday Times that the “vast majority” of the Labour party are supportive of his leadership. Continue reading...
