Russell T Davies has said gay society is in the “greatest danger I have ever seen”, since the election of Donald Trump as US president in November. Speaking to the Guardian at the Gaydio Pride awards in Manchester on Friday, the Doctor Who screenwriter said the rise in hostility was not limited to the US…
A Peruvian fisherman who survived 95 days lost at sea in the Pacific Ocean by eating turtles, birds and cockroaches has been rescued and reunited with his family. Maximo Napa Castro, 61, set off for what should have been a two-week fishing trip from the coastal town of Marcona, on the southern Peruvian coast, on…
The Trump administration has sent hundreds of Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador, pushing the limits of U.S. immigration law seemingly after a federal judge ordered that the deportation flights not proceed. President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador posted a three-minute video on social media on Sunday of men…
If you receive an unsolicited text claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service, it’s almost certainly a scam. This is especially relevant during tax season. The Better Business Bureau warns about phishing attempts in which scammers use the promise of automatic payments for $1,400 stimulus checks as a lure to steal sensitive data. While…
A plane carrying more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US has landed in El Salvador – in apparent defiance of a US judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from doing so. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social media that 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had arrived, along with…
A couple who were fined £1,500 after reporting a boy who had stowed away on the back of their motorhome for their journey from France to Essex have had the penalty cancelled. Adrian and Joanne Fenton, from Heybridge, were fined by the Home Office for “failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed” when…
Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas BBC News Getty Images Voice of America launched in 1942 with a mandate to combat Nazi and Japanese propaganda Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strip back the global, independent and federally funded news organisation Voice of America. The president’s order targets VOA’s parent company US Agency for…
The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes there is an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions as well as “too many people being written off” – factors he said were the key drive for the government’s welfare measures. Speaking to broadcasters, Streeting was repeatedly challenged on whether ministers were leaving disabled people uninformed…
A Peruvian fisher was found alive after drifting at sea for 94 days, a navy official said on Saturday, as he was discharged from hospital after his ordeal. Maximo Napa, 61, was rescued in his small fishing boat on Tuesday after being spotted by an Ecuadoran vessel off the coast of Chimbote in northern Peru….
Fifty-one people have been killed and about 100 more injured in a massive fire that broke out in a nightclub in North Macedonia’s eastern town of Kočani, the interior minister has told a press conference. The blaze began at around 2.35am on Sunday morning during a concert by a local pop group, according to the…
