The father of a soldier who died after being injured in a live firing exercise has said he is “heartbroken”. Sergeant Gavin Hillier, a member of the Welsh Guards, died on Thursday at the Castlemartin RAC Range in Pembrokeshire. His father, Mark Hillier, wrote in an emotional post on Facebook: “Absolutely devastated to be writing
Month: March 2021
The Pope has performed Mass in a Baghdad cathedral after earlier holding a historic meeting with Iraq’s top Shia cleric. Francis was greeted by enthusiastic well-wishers at the Chaldean Cathedral of Saint Joseph on the second day of his visit to the country. Only 100 or so people were allowed in because of COVID restrictions
Ralph & Russo, the British couture fashion brand which has secured the backing of some of Britain’s wealthiest investors, has deferred salary payments to employees, raising doubts about the state of its finances. Sky News understands that Ralph & Russo informed some staff last month that it could not pay them after seeing sales slump
The women responsible for some of the pandemic’s most exciting breakthroughs say they hope to inspire more women to enter the science, engineering, and technology fields. Many of those behind the vaccine advancements during the pandemic have been female. Among them are Katherine Jansen one of the leading researchers at Pfizer, immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett who
Protesters in Cyprus are demanding the withdrawal of a Eurovision song they say promotes Satanism. They gathered outside the state broadcaster with signs reading: “We’re protesting peacefully, no to El Diablo”, “Repent and return to Christ” and “Christ saves, Diablo kills”. But according to the artist behind the track, entitled El Diablo, the song is
The creator of a series of deepfake Tom Cruise videos says he wants to make people more aware of what they are watching – and that it might not be real. Viewed more than 11 million times, Chris Ume’s videos appear to show Cruise playing golf, doing a magic trick, and falling over while telling
The proposed 1% pay rise for NHS staff is a “slap in the face” and large numbers of nurses could quit after the pandemic, a union has warned as pressure grows on the government over the row. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said the 1% offer had reinforced some of their members’ belief “that
The young black poet made internationally famous by her recital during the inauguration of Joe Biden says she was followed home by a security guard because she looked “suspicious”. Amanda Gorman, who was the US’s first National Youth Poet Laureate and was widely praised for her performance in January, says she was regarded as a
Anti-virus software creator John McAfee has been charged in the US with conspiracy to commit fraud and money-laundering. The charges relate to two cryptocurrency schemes, the US Justice Department said on Friday. Authorities said McAfee and his bodyguard, Jimmy Gale Watson Jr, exploited McAfee’s large Twitter following to artificially inflate prices of “altcoins” through a
New variants of COVID-19 are “very unlikely to send us back to square one” as coronavirus restrictions are lifted in the UK in the run-up to summer, a top scientist has said. Professor Sharon Peacock, who is in charge of tracking strains of the virus in Britain, said the country is well equipped to “stay
Pope Francis has met Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani – Iraq’s top Shia cleric – at the Islamic scholar’s home in the Iraqi city of Najaf. The Pope arrived at the cleric’s small home in a bullet-proof vehicle. As he entered the house, white doves were released, reflecting the themes of this four-day visit to
The government has been accused of “snatching away” a previously suggested pay rise of 2.1% for NHS workers, as four major unions expressed their dismay at the 1% increase on offer. NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts in England, said a long-term plan set out years ago by the government had assumed a pay rise
An Army sergeant has died after he was injured in a live firing exercise in southwest Wales. It is understood the incident – first reported by The Sun newspaper – happened at Castlemartin Training Area in Pembrokeshire on Thursday. A spokesperson for the Army confirmed the death and said their thoughts were with the soldier’s
COVID test kits will be made available free of charge to small firms as well as larger companies, in a move aimed at giving employers and staff peace of mind. All businesses in England, including those with fewer than 50 employees, will be able to sign up to the government’s free COVID-19 workplace testing programme.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has taken its first drive on Mars, just weeks after landing on the Red Planet. The one-tonne robot travelled 21.3ft (6.5m) in a mobility test that the space agency said will allow the checking and calibrating of the rover’s systems and instruments. Once Perseverance really gets going, it is expected to undertake
A nun who knelt in front of armed security forces in Myanmar to stop them firing on civilians has said she was prepared to die to save protestors’ lives. In extraordinary scenes in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Sister Ann Roza Nu Tawng can be seen pleading with police and soldiers not to shoot. The intervention has
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