A Swedish minister’s phobia of bananas has reportedly led to government officials asking for rooms to be free of the fruit. Local media outlet Expressen has quoted from leaked emails it has seen, in which staff working for minister Paulina Brandberg ask for any bananas to be removed before official visits. Brandberg, the country’s gender…
Reuters Tulsi Gabbard – a former Democrat congresswoman who joined the Republican Party to back Donald Trump – is the president-elect’s pick for director of national intelligence. The wide-ranging role would mean she oversees US intelligence agencies like the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA), which focuses on intelligence gathering. The nomination has…
Reuters E.coli linked to slivered onions on some McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers in America has caused 104 people to become ill, according to US health officials. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in an update on Wednesday that 34 people had been hospitalised in connection to the outbreak and that one man had…
Satirical news publication The Onion has purchased Infowars, the media organisation headed by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, which spread false rumours about the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The sale price was not immediately disclosed. Infowars and its assets were auctioned off to pay Jones’s debts. He declared bankruptcy after the Sandy…
BBC Edith Nyachuru says her brother was due to become head boy at his school when he died The sister of a 16-year-old boy who drowned while swimming naked at a Christian holiday camp in Zimbabwe run by child abuser John Smyth blames the Church of England for his death. “The Church knew about the…
A brief yearly silence has once again enveloped South Korea, as half a million students across the country sit for the most important test of their lives. Planes were grounded, construction work halted, and car honking discouraged as the Suneung, an eight-hour university placement exam billed as one of the toughest in the world, kicked…
Daniel Burguet was filmed rescuing trapped children during the Valencia floods Floods and torrential rain returned to the Valencia region on Wednesday night, but this time they were ready for it, and the areas hit two weeks ago escaped further disaster. More than 220 people died in this eastern coastal area at the end of…
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National Crime Agency A boat alleged to have been supplied to people smugglers A man suspected of being a significant supplier of small boats equipment to people smugglers has been arrested. The man is suspected of supplying engines and boats to smugglers in northern France, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The Turkish…
FRANCK FIFE/AFP Paris police are treating the event as a high-risk match and aim to pre-empt any trouble Thousands of police are being deployed in Paris to ensure security at Thursday’s France-Israel football international, a week after violence in Amsterdam in which Maccabi Tel Aviv fans came under attack. Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez says…
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