Warning: the following article contains images some readers may find distressing. The deadly attack at a synagogue in Manchester is the main story in Friday’s papers. “A hate-filled knifeman unleashed terror at a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar,” leads the Metro’s top story. The paper reports on eyewitness testimonies describing the…
Germany’s Munich airport has reopened after several drone sightings forced it to close and cancel more than a dozen flights on Thursday night. At least 17 flights were grounded in Munich, affecting nearly 3,000 passengers, while the airport said it diverted a further 15 flights to nearby cities. On Friday, a spokesperson for German flag…
Mark SavageMusic correspondent TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift’s 12th album comes from “the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place”, she said ahead of release The last time we met Taylor Swift, she was spiralling. Her last album, The Tortured Poets Department, was an emotional purge – a stunned post mortem of two bitter, messy break-ups….
A Texas pastor who founded one of the largest megachurch congregations in the country pleaded guilty on Thursday to sexually abusing a girl of 12 in Oklahoma in the 1980s. Robert Morris, 64, entered the guilty plea during a hearing on Thursday, admitting to felony charges of lewd or indecent acts with a child. As…
Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent, London Space X The UK launched the Tyche military imaging satellite into orbit on a Space X rocket last year Russian satellites have been stalking British military satellites, according to the head of the UK Space Command. In an interview with the BBC, Maj Gen Paul Tedman has for the first time…
Watch: Britain must defeat ‘rising hatred’ PM says Sir Keir Starmer has promised to do “everything” in his power to protect Jewish people as he said Britain must defeat antisemitic hate. The prime minister was speaking after two people were killed in a car and stabbing attack at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Crumpsall, north…
Besides the small step on the road to recovery that was the Scottish Premiership win at Livingston at the weekend, Rangers haven’t managed to lose sight of the starting blocks. In Austria, they had an opportunity to build a bit of momentum and make a case for their head coach, who remains under huge pressure….
Marianna SpringSocial media investigations correspondent BBC The inquest into the death of Paloma Shemirani, the daughter of a British conspiracy theorist, was like something out of a TV show. As it unfolded, the medical world clashed with “Conspiracyland”, with experienced doctors questioned in courtrooms by people who believe in medical disinformation. Paloma Shemirani, a Cambridge…
Marc WaddingtonNorth West Watch: Armed police at the scene of Manchester synagogue attack The man who carried out an attack at a synagogue in Manchester which left two people dead has been named by police. The attacker, Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British man described as being of Syrian decent, was shot dead outside the Heaton…
Reuters Emergency services at the scene after the attack on Thursday morning Two Jewish people have died in a car ramming and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Manchester. The attack came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar, and is being treated by police as a terror incident. Police say…