US citizen files claim for $50 million in damages after federal agents raid his business
Day: September 28, 2025
Two years after the tree was cut down, the National Trust says it wants to turn a sense of loss ‘into a sense of hope’
Artists are being asked for ideas to create a “nationally important” work from the wood of the illegally felled Sycamore Gap tree which, organisers hope, will be galvanising and inspiring.
The National Trust has revealed details of a huge creative commission, offering the chance for artists, organisations or creative agencies to use half of the tree’s timber to produce something incredible.
Eight members of the family were inside of a jeep when it collided with a semi-truck.
Cameron Young became the first Team USA player to win the first two matches of his career, with both by at least four points, since Patrick Reed in 2014.
The Michigan high school football player who suffered a fractured spine when his opponent pancaked him received a hero’s welcome as he returned to the gridiron sidelines..
President Maia Sandu says parliamentary vote is Moldova’s ‘most consequential election’ and warns against falling deeper into Moscow’s orbit
Moldovans began voting on Sunday in parliamentary elections that could see the country neighbouring Ukraine swerve from its pro-European path towards Moscow, with the government and the EU accusing Russia of “deeply interfering”.
Moldova, an EU candidate country, has long been divided over closer ties with Brussels or maintaining Soviet-era relations with Moscow.
How Alabama’s Week 1 loss fueled a statement-making victory over Georgia
In once-occupied Sloviansk, war has become so routine that nobody pays attention to air-raid sirens
On a sunny afternoon this week the beach in the frontline Ukrainian city of Sloviansk was busy. Bathers paddled in a lake, sunbathed and sipped tea. At 3.30pm there was a sudden thunderclap. An artillery shell had crashed nearby, sending up a plume of twisting grey smoke. Ducks took off in panic. The swimmers glanced nonchalantly upwards and carried on bobbing in the salty water.
“After three years of fighting we’ve got used to booms. They don’t bother us any more,” Alyona, a pensioner in a swimsuit, explained. She pointed to a concrete box beyond a row of wooden changing cabins and outdoor showers. “If the bombs are close we’ve got a shelter,” she said. Alyona and her friend waded into the shallows. A man selling grapes sat engrossed reading a book.
The accused murderer’s attorney found a brown bag with a crystal-like substance, believed to be meth, in a nearby trash can.