Local man Matthew Mulhern is currently running from John O’Groats to Lands End in 30 days. He is half way at the moment, having run on average 30 miles a day for 15 days straight.
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BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) – China on Tuesday welcomed a visit by a delegation of European Union lawmakers – the first in eight years – as a chance to further stabilise ties strained by trade policies and political mistrust. The group of European lawmakers overseeing market and consumer protection began their visit on Tuesday, Chinese

BERLIN (AP) — A wolf bit a woman in a shopping area in Hamburg before it was pulled out of a lake in Germany’s second-biggest city, authorities said, in what is believed to be the first such attack since wolves returned to the country in 1998. The fire service said that the woman was taken

Gold prices are set to record their sharpest monthly fall in more than 17 years, as investors shifted towards the US dollar as the preferred safe haven. Gold is generally viewed as a safeguard against inflation and global uncertainty. Gold is moving towards its weakest monthly performance in over 17 years. (Bloomberg/File Photo) Globally, bullion

MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) – Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are used by millions of Russians to get around internet controls and censorship, Russia’s digital minister said. In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia’s “great crackdown”, the authorities have repeatedly blocked mobile internet and jammed major

WASHINGTON—President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway and leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date. The Albina bulk carrier sits anchored at Sultan Qaboos

A group of 12 European foreign ministers, as well as numerous lower-ranking officials, arrived by train in the Ukrainian capital where they were welcomed by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, who noted the “grim anniversary” of the shocking atrocities in Bucha. Russian troops quickly occupied Bucha after invading Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. They stayed
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has one clear advantage over his co-belligerent. Unlike Donald Trump, his public supports the conflict. According to a survey by the Israel Democracy Institute in the fourth week of the war, some 68% of Israelis think America and Israel should fight on. That number has fallen—it was 81% at the
Donald Trump’s former counterterror chief Joe Kent has said the US President was “led to believe” that the US military could go in and remove the Iranian regime after the success of the operation against Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. This is not the first time that Joe Kent has suggested that the US-Iran war was

Before the ongoing US-Iran war, before the presidency, US President Donald Trump was already talking about taking oil. Trump has long spoken openly about taking control of oil resources, a stance that has again come into focus as the war in the Middle East drags on. His latest remarks about “taking the oil” from Iran,
Israel and US strikes have wiped out senior Iranian leaders and hit key targets across the country. But after a month of fighting, it is arguably Iran that has secured the most significant strategic victory — a tightening grip over traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has now passed a law introducing a toll

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared a video showing large-scale explosions, just as reports emerged of US-Israeli airstrikes targeting military infrastructure in Iran’s Isfahan. The video Trump shared shows a series of explosions and is reportedly from Iran’s Isfahan The video, posted on Trump’s social media platform without any caption or context, shows multiple

US President Donald Trump claimed that he was negotiating with the Iranian parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, to end the US-Iran war that has been raging for over a month now. Monday’s back-and-forth between Donald Trump and Iranian officials mirrored previous exchanges over whether there are actually negotiations to end the war. (Reuters/ AFP) Ghalibaf,

In a major escalation of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, a fully laden Kuwaiti oil tanker was attacked by Iran in the anchorage area of Dubai’s port on Tuesday, damaging the hull and triggering a fire that the Dubai authorities later said was extinguished. An oil tanker was attacked in the Dubai port,
US President Donald Trump has told aides he is willing to end the US military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, according to The Wall Street Journal. This is as the war between the US and Iran crossed four weeks. US President Donald Trump waves as

Researchers have developed a novel compound that could transform the way we treat Alzheimer’s disease, offering not just a new weapon but potentially a new strategy for battling the most common form of dementia worldwide. While current drugs for Alzheimer’s mostly focus on removing amyloid-beta plaques associated with the disease, the new compound takes a

new video loaded: Paintings Worth Millions of Dollars Stolen From Italian Museum 0:35 Thieves stole three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano, Italy. By Meg Felling March 30, 2026 Humpback Whale Stranded Off German Coast Is Freed by Rescuers 1:23 Russia Launches Large Daytime Attack on Ukraine 0:59 Attack

Sigh. I know, I know. It’s Monday. Again. It really does feel like no matter how hard we try, Monday just…persists. On the positive side, my incredibly detailed research predicts that by midnight tonight, it will no longer be Monday (can’t wait to see if I’m right)! In the meantime, though, at least we’ve got

In a night of further terror for civilians, on 28 March, a drone strike hit the Odesa Maternity Hospital No.5 with dozens of pregnant women and newborns inside. The patients were safe due to the underground shelter, and no one was hurt in the strike, according to the UN World Health Organisation (WHO). 32 new

March 30 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pronounced his tour of Middle Eastern countries a success on Monday and said a number of security cooperation accords had been clinched or were under discussion. Zelenskiy embarked on a tour of the region to offer Ukrainian expertise on how to counter attacks from drones fired by

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump would be interested in calling on Arab countries to pay for the cost of the Iran war, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday, adding that she thinks Trump would have more to say on the issue. Leavitt, asked at a news briefing