Month: November 2018

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Conservationist Damian Aspinall and his wife, Burberry executive Victoria, are mourning the death of their beloved gorilla, Babydoll, Via: Britain's oldest gorilla dies aged 57: Conservationist mourns loss of 'kind old lady' named Babydoll

Photographer famed for portraying lives of China’s dispossessed, disappeared more than three weeks ago An award-winning photographer whose work exposed the lives of people on the margins of Chinese society has been taken away by security agents, his wife has said.Lu Guang was travelling in Xinjiang on 3 November when Read more…

Ballybrack FC claimed Fernando Nuno La-Fuente had diedClub have apologised after player was tracked down in SpainAn amateur football team from Dublin has apologised after erroneously reporting that one of their players had died.Ballybrack FC had informed the Leinster Senior League (LSL) side that Fernando Nuno La-Fuente had been killed Read more…

Reversal comes two months after country agreed to host COP25 conference in 2019 – and one month after far-right climate sceptic won electionBrazil has abandoned plans to host crucial UN climate talks in 2019 amid growing signs of the anti-internationalism of the new government being formed by president-elect Jair Bolsonaro.The Read more…

‘It cannot be right that in just three working days, the UK’s top bosses will have made more money than the typical full-time worker will earn in the entire year’ Via: Customers could vote on executive pay under new plans considered by Labour