Europe

While only 185 kilometers separate Bath from London, it will have taken a little more than a century for a letter posted in this city in the west of the country to arrive in the British capital. As CNN and the Guardian report, an envelope dating back to 1916 was …

Lawmakers in Spain definitively adopted this Thursday a law allowing to change gender via a simple administrative declaration from the age of 16. This was the source of heated debates within the ruling left-wing coalition. The text removes the obligation to provide medical reports attesting to gender dysphoria and proof …

Galatasaray players will donate their salaries to victims of the earthquake that left more than 35,000 dead and millions homeless in Turkey, the club president announced on Wednesday. “Many of our players gave up their salaries to [fund] earthquake relief operations,” Dursun Özbek told a news conference. Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and …

The Polish-British parents of seven gave birth to five new babies in one fell swoop just for Valentine’s Day, with the mother saying on Tuesday she felt “better than expected” after such a pregnancy. Dominika Clarke, already mother of seven children aged 10 months to 12 years, gave birth to …

A 32-year-old Briton was arrested by police on Monday in connection with an investigation into the theft of 200,000 chocolate eggs in the Birmingham area of northwestern United Kingdom. The man, who admitted the facts, faces about two years in prison for theft and degradation. It was the previous Saturday …

American billionaire Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, which is in charge of the Starlink satellite Internet access system, has confirmed that Kyiv can no longer use this network for the control of combat drones. Already icy, relations between Elon Musk and the Ukrainian government are likely to strain a little …

How should we gender God? Do you just have to specify your gender? These are the questions that currently agitate the Anglican Church, while voices have been raised for several decades on the relevance of speaking of “God” only in the masculine, notes Sky News. The institution has even appointed …

Was Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu really found alive under rubble from the earthquake that killed more than 11,200 people in Turkey and Syria? The Ghana Football Association and Ghana’s ambassador to Turkey said they found the player on Tuesday, the day after the first 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit. But now …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected in the UK on Wednesday, Downing Street confirmed in a statement released in the morning. The Ukrainian leader will meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and address parliament. He will also visit Ukrainian troops in training across the Channel. “President Zelensky’s visit to the …

A London court on Tuesday sentenced a former police officer, David Carrick, to life imprisonment for dozens of rapes and sexual assaults on twelve women. Considered one of the worst sexual predators in recent UK history, David Carrick, 48, was sentenced to life in prison with a 30-year security period. …