Grilled and golden brown, it’s become a much-loved staple of British barbeques and summer salads, but all is not well in the hallowed world of halloumi. In Cyprus, which claims to be the true home of the distinctive squeaky cheese, […]
Dozens of companies have announced they will no longer be advertising on the Spanish version of the TV reality show Big Brother after it emerged that a contestant had been shown footage of her alleged rape. Carlota Prado was sent […]
A powerful typhoon barreling in from the Pacific towards the Philippines is the latest disaster to hit the Southeast Asian Games, an international sports event which has been plagued by embarrassing construction delays and complaints about poor facilities. Typhoon Kammuri, […]
An investigation has been launched in Australia after police strip-searched 30 children at a music festival. One officer ran his hands around the buttocks of a 17-year-old boy and touched his genitals during the potentially illegal searches at the Lost […]
Germany’s ruling coalition is facing collapse after the new leader of the junior partner to Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) branded the parties’ long-standing arrangement “crap for democracy”. The leftist duo of Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans won a […]
An Iraqi television network has been criticised after it brought a Yazidi woman face-to-face with the Islamic State (Isil) fighter who raped her in an encounter which ended with the young woman collapsing in front of the camera. Ashwaq Haji […]
The world’s first mobile phone detection camera regime was rolled out in Australia on Sunday in a bid to reduce the number of fatalities arising from phone-related crashes. Authorities in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, deployed the cameras […]
China has made it a legal requirement for people signing up to new mobile phone and data plans to have their faces scanned, in a major growth of the surveillance state. The new rules, outlined by China’s Ministry of Industry […]
Venetians have shunned en masse the fifth vote in 40 years on whether to choose autonomy from the mainland city of Mestre, which would allow the city to take issues around rising seas and the negative effects of tourism into […]
Angela Merkel’s political future was hanging in the balance on Saturday evening after the junior party in her coalition government voted for new leaders who reject her policies. Members of the Social Democrats, Germany’s oldest party, caused a political earthquake by […]