England’s women have won the European football championship, bringing a major international trophy home for the first time since the men’s team won the World Cup in 1966, more than a lifetime ago for many of the fans who crowded into Wembley Stadium for the match. They beat Germany, EnglishContinue Reading
Wenn Rights Ltd/ALamy Pope Francis has said his recent trip to Canada showed he may one day need to retire if his health fails him. Although he was recently forced to deny rumours that he was about to step down, the 85-year-old Catholic leader has previously left open the possibilityContinue Reading
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann has returned after a two-year absence, being held this year in Mullingar, Co Westmeath. President Michael D Higgins formally opened the celebration of music, dance, song and storytelling on Sunday. The festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Mullingar stagingContinue Reading
Plus: A Google Chrome patch licks the DevilsTongue spyware, Android’s kernel gets a tune-up, and Microsoft fixes 84 flaws.Continue Reading
The recent story of Child Q, the 15-year-old black schoolgirl who was accused by her teachers of smelling of cannabis and subjected to a strip-search at her school in Hackney, London, without an appropriate adult present, has rightly elicited outrage. The Metropolitan Police and the child’s school have apologised. HerContinue Reading
Plus: Google delays the end of cookies (again), EU officials were targeted with Pegasus spyware, and more of the top security news.Continue Reading
In Mexico an average of 94 people were murdered every day in 2021, an increase of 76% since 2015, demonstrating a rapid rise in killings across the country. Understandably, researchers and government officials are urgently looking for ways to bring down this number down. The rise in deaths is largelyContinue Reading
Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s death penalty moratorium has been a myth. The junta has routinely targeted civilians for extra-judicial killing, including using army snipers to callously pick off peaceful protesters. There have been killings of prisoners too, with many of the dead reportedly exhibiting signs of torture on theirContinue Reading
Along with 27,444 other people, I was in Milton Keynes for the Women’s European Championship semi-final between Germany and France on Wednesday night. It was a high-quality, hard-fought contest, the Germans eventually toughing it out over the more skilful French, winning through to the final where they meet the hostContinue Reading
Wenn Rights Ltd/ALamy Pope Francis was recently forced to deny rumours that he was about to retire, instead making clear that he has no plans to step down just yet. But the 85-year-old Catholic leader, currently in Canada, has again been filmed using a wheelchair. Indeed, in an interview beforeContinue Reading
