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The Christmas season is in full swing in Finnish Lapland, where venue operators happily report that visitors have returned in numbers approaching pre-pandemic levels. Tourists from elsewhere in Finland and abroad come to revel in the festive spirit at the sprawling theme park, take a reindeer or husky sleigh ride and if they’re lucky, glimpse the Northern […]
US Open champion Emma Raducanu has capped an extraordinary 2021 by being named the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. The 19-year-old completed a fairytale in New York in September as she became the first qualifier ever to win a grand slam tennis tournament. She also became the first British woman since Virginia Wade in […]
President Joe Biden took a break from the White House to visit the Delaware gravesite of his first wife and their baby girl on the anniversary of the tragic 1972 car crash that took their lives. Biden was pictured with his family, including son Hunter and his one-year-old grandson Beau, on Saturday outside of St. Joseph on the Brandywine in his hometown […]
Archaeologists have unearthed the skeletons of five prehistoric mammoths at a site ‘where cave-dwellers dined 215,000 years ago’ after finding a Neanderthal axe in a Cotswolds field. Experts discovered the remains of five of the animals – two adults, two juveniles and an infant – at a quarry near Swindon. Digging at the site began after […]
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss looked stylish as they reunited at The Matrix Resurrections premiere at Castro Theatre in San Francisco, California on Saturday. The duo, who are reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity in the new film, both oozed glamour and elegance in chic black outfits that were worthy of the occasion. Reeves, 57, was […]
Il Divo star Carlos Marin has died in hospital after his life support machine was turned off following a Covid battle. The Spanish singer, 53, fell ill with the virus on December 7 and was later placed in a medically induced coma at the Manchester Royal Hospital. He had been in the intensive care unit and […]
A mother whose 12-year-old son was killed in Tasmania’s jumping castle tragedy was blocked from him for almost a year by Covid border closures until she was finally allowed a quick visit. Just five days after she arrived from South Australia, Miranda McLaughlin’s son, Peter Dodt, was one of six children killed in the horrific accident […]
Typhoon Rai has claimed at least 112 lives after it wrought devastation trampling through a paradise island province in the Philippines killing 63 people. Governor Arthur Yap of Bohol province said ten others were missing and 13 injured, and suggested the fatalities may still considerably increase with only 33 out of 48 mayors able to […]
The family of tragic toddler Star Hobson have hit out at the prison medics who saved her, arguing she should have been left to die after suffering two separate seizures while behind bars. Savannah Brockhill, 28 was jailed for life after she was found guilty of murdering the 16-month-old during a campaign of abuse at […]
An 11-year-old boy has become the sixth fatality of Devonport’s Hillcrest Primary School tragedy. Tasmania Police Commissioner Darren Hine says Chase Harrison died in hospital on Sunday afternoon. His death follows those of 11-year-old Addison Stewart and 12-year-olds Zane Mellor, Jye Sheehan, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones and Peter Dodt. A gust of wind sent a jumping […]