Russell Brand has appeared live on stage in London hours after being publicly accused of rape and sexual assault. The comedian performed a show at the Troubabour Wembley Park theatre, which began just after 8pm on Saturday – roughly an hour after its scheduled start time, the PA news agency reported. A video of him
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The central dock in the port of Lampedusa now stands at the meeting point between the developed and the developing world – a point of conflict between the affluent EU and the inequities and poverty of the global south. This reality is uncomfortable and unacceptable for those who govern Italy’s most southerly point. With some
Sir Keir Starmer has described Conservative Party claims that Labour’s plans on immigration would increase asylum seeker numbers as “nonsense”. Speaking exclusively to Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, from a summit in Montreal, the Labour leader maintained the government has “no control” of UK borders. He said: “What concerns people is that basic idea that
Comedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse in a Sunday Times and Dispatches investigation – allegations he denies. Four women have made allegations of sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013 while he was at the height of his fame, according to the newspaper. The Sunday Times reports
Donald Trump has said he is against an age limit for running for US president but backed a competency test. The frontrunner for the Republican nomination argued some of the greatest world leaders had been in their 80s. But while Mr Trump did not think Joe Biden was too old, he said the current White
Mike Ashley, the high street billionaire, is in talks to sell the online clothing label Missguided to Shein, the giant Chinese online fashion player. Sky News has learnt that the two sides are in detailed negotiations about a deal, which would represent Shein’s first acquisition of a British fashion brand. City sources said that Shein
Rishi Sunak was persuaded not to quit as chancellor over his COVID lockdown fine after discussions with executives working for media mogul Rupert Murdoch, it has been claimed. Mr Sunak is reported to have shared a draft resignation statement with allies after both he and Boris Johnson were fined for attending the then-prime minister’s birthday
Never mind typing on WhatsApp, swiping on Tinder, or scrolling on TikTok; even after all these years, few apps are able to turn you into a phone-obsessed zombie quite like Candy Crush. More than a decade since it debuted on Apple and Google‘s app stores, the colourful tile-matching puzzle game remains an entertaining time sink
Russell Brand has denied “very serious criminal allegations” that he claims will be made against him by a newspaper and TV company. In a video posted on YouTube and X, formerly known as Twitter, titled “So, This is Happening”, the comedian denied the allegations that he described as “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive
Drew Barrymore has apologised for resuming production on her talk show amid the ongoing Hollywood writers strike. The actress posted a teary video to Instagram after facing days of public criticism for her decision to bring back The Drew Barrymore Show on CBS – with striking writers accusing her of being a “scab”. Barrymore said
Ashton Kutcher has resigned as chairman of the board of Thorn, the anti-child sex abuse organisation he co-founded in 2009. His wife Mila Kunis, who served as an observer on Thorn’s board, is also stepping down, Time magazine report. It comes following widespread condemnation of their letters of support to their That 70s Show co-star,
The centre of the eastern Libyan city of Derna is like one big graveyard – a mass of flattened buildings, wrecked lives and upended vehicles amid torn trees. Huge nine-storey buildings have been ripped off their foundations and smothered by volumes of mud. From where I stood, I could see at least three huge bridges
Beach cleans rapidly and dramatically reduce plastic fragments released into the environment, according to the first scientific evidence of its kind. Experts from Norce, one of Norway‘s largest research organisations, found that within a year of volunteers removing bottles, bags and other large pieces of plastic from the shore of an island near Bergen, the
At the main roundabout outside Port Talbot steelworks, union reps and those on their lunch break gathered holding a banner: “British Steel – Back It or Lose It!” Some 4,000 are employed by Tata Steel here, more than 12% of the town’s entire population. One of them is Greg Coggins, who has worked for Tata
Lough Neagh, the largest freshwater lake in the UK and Ireland, is being poisoned to death by a toxic blue-green algae on an apocalyptic scale. It is killing fish, birds and dogs and there are serious concerns about public health because the lough provides 40% of Northern Ireland‘s drinking water. Peter Harper, shoreline environment officer
Susan Hall, the Conservative candidate for London mayor, is reported to have liked tweets praising controversial former minister Enoch Powell. Ms Hall, who will go up against Labour’s Sadiq Khan in the mayoral election next May, liked a message in February 2020 quoting the far-right, anti-immigration politician as saying: “It’s never too late to save
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