01.12.2024 14:04 Patel has vowed to downsize the top intelligence body and pursue 'conspirators' in the government and media.01.12.2024 14:29 Thousands of mourners have gathered in southern Beirut where Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated.01.12.2024 14:3701.12.2024 15:00 Not everyone would want to spend their weekends dressed in a tunic fighting medieval battles, but my love of re-enacting is rooted in keeping history aliveIt is the summer of 1265. I am bottling leeches in an open-air apothecary as a medical apprentice of the church. Minstrels tune their musical instruments and soldiers sharpen their swords. Gloucester has just been captured by Prince Edward, and royal forces are growing in the west of England. The men come to me for yarrow to staunch their bleeding, comfrey to heal their injuries, and sulphur to soothe their sores. I smile at their faith in vinegar, a woman’s touch and prayer. But secretly I long to be a lowly foot soldier, fighting with the men in the mud.Eventually, I summon the courage to pick up an axe and infiltrate their ranks. My presence on the battlefield is not as unlikely as it might sound. Some of us, such as Margaret of Beverley, fought. Only a little cross-dressing is required. I swap my ankle-length kirtle for a tunic, the wimple on my hair for a coif and helmet, and wrap my legs in woollen hose over large linen trousers. A knife hangs at my side. My femininity is hidden beneath a heavy protective gambeson or tunic. Its stitches are grubby and grey, as if the garment itself is sewn together with gristle. The thick padding absorbs the shock of a weapon, though sometimes a blade still slips through. At this point I drop my axe, clutch my chest and groan. The crowds, delighted by the spectacle of death, begin to cheer. 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But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future.01.12.2024 15:24 Beijing lodges 'serious protests' with the US saying it 'strongly condemns' Taiwanese leader's stopover in Hawaii, Guam.01.12.2024 15:45 The Israeli prime minister wasted no time in appointing an ambassador to Washington who has a radical right-wing profile and is based in a West Bank settlement.01.12.2024 15:53 In a post on X on Sunday, the UNRWA chief listed how the humanitarian operation had become 'unnecessarily impossible.'01.12.2024 16:00 Stereotyping Jewish women is dangerously common.01.12.2024 16:00 Many of us saw lockdown as the ideal chance to get a cat. But now, a huge number of pets are being abandoned, and rescue charities are overwhelmedHelen Lecointe answers the phone sounding frazzled. As the senior manager of the Woodside Animal Welfare Trust in Plymouth, she is tasked with not only herding cats, but accommodating them, too, and this autumn, she says, the shelter is rapidly approaching breaking point. “It just feels as if it’s been nonstop,” she says. Long after the supposed end of kitten season, the shelter is still receiving a steady stream of newborns, along with pregnant cats.Out in the community, at the Plymouth dockyards and elsewhere, large colonies of feral cats have sprung up, and are multiplying exponentially. And then there is the increasing number of often beloved pets being relinquished by their owners, who can no longer look after them or afford their care. 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Not everyone would want to spend their weekends dressed in a tunic fighting medieval battles, but my love of re-enacting is rooted in keeping history aliveIt is the summer of 1265. I am bottling leeches in an open-air apothecary as a medical apprentice of the church. Minstrels tune their musical instruments and soldiers sharpen their swords. Gloucester has just been captured by Prince Edward, and royal forces are growing in the west of England. The men come to me for yarrow to staunch their bleeding, comfrey to heal their injuries, and sulphur to soothe their sores. I smile at their faith in vinegar, a woman’s touch and prayer. But secretly I long to be a lowly foot soldier, fighting with the men in the mud.Eventually, I summon the courage to pick up an axe and infiltrate their ranks. My presence on the battlefield is not as unlikely as it might sound. Some of us, such as Margaret of Beverley, fought. Only a little cross-dressing is required. I swap my ankle-length kirtle for a tunic, the wimple on my hair for a coif and helmet, and wrap my legs in woollen hose over large linen trousers. A knife hangs at my side. My femininity is hidden beneath a heavy protective gambeson or tunic. Its stitches are grubby and grey, as if the garment itself is sewn together with gristle. The thick padding absorbs the shock of a weapon, though sometimes a blade still slips through. At this point I drop my axe, clutch my chest and groan. The crowds, delighted by the spectacle of death, begin to cheer. Continue reading... ... 
When President Biden visits the country this week, he is expected to highlight a largely overlooked bond between Angola and the United States that was born out of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Despite accusations of Russian influence and alleged interference via TikTok, Sunday's parliamentary elections went ahead as planned.
An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future.
The Israeli prime minister wasted no time in appointing an ambassador to Washington who has a radical right-wing profile and is based in a West Bank settlement.
In a post on X on Sunday, the UNRWA chief listed how the humanitarian operation had become 'unnecessarily impossible.'
Stereotyping Jewish women is dangerously common.
Many of us saw lockdown as the ideal chance to get a cat. But now, a huge number of pets are being abandoned, and rescue charities are overwhelmedHelen Lecointe answers the phone sounding frazzled. As the senior manager of the Woodside Animal Welfare Trust in Plymouth, she is tasked with not only herding cats, but accommodating them, too, and this autumn, she says, the shelter is rapidly approaching breaking point. “It just feels as if it’s been nonstop,” she says. Long after the supposed end of kitten season, the shelter is still receiving a steady stream of newborns, along with pregnant cats.Out in the community, at the Plymouth dockyards and elsewhere, large colonies of feral cats have sprung up, and are multiplying exponentially. And then there is the increasing number of often beloved pets being relinquished by their owners, who can no longer look after them or afford their care. Continue reading... ... 
A little-known squad of New York’s medical examiner’s office uses dogs, DNA and any other available clue to identify bodies.
Wallace stepped back from role on MasterChef last week while allegations of sexual misconduct are investigatedThe MasterChef host Gregg Wallace has said accusations about him making sexual comments towards staff and guests have come from “middle-class women of a certain age”.Speaking in a video posted on his Instagram page, the 60-year-old said: “I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20 years, amateur, celebrity and professional MasterChef, and I think in that time I have worked with over 4,000 contestants of all different ages, all different backgrounds, all walks of life. Continue reading... ... 
From Squid Game to the NFL
Latino men vaulted into the spotlight with their greater than expected support for President-elect Trump. These are some of the returns they hope for on their votes.
At the Metropolitan Opera with Angelina Jolie.
On Monday, a Greenland court is due to rule for the sixth time on the prolonged pre-trial detention of the whale defender, arrested over five months ago. Denmark has been slow to respond to Japan's extradition request.
The Syrian military rushed in reinforcements Sunday to push back insurgents from advancing farther into the northern countryside.
MPs says what terminally ill people ‘really’ need is access to hospice care and proper end-of-life careDiane Abbott has warned it could soon be cheaper for GPs to encourage seriously unwell patients to “sign on the dotted line for assisted suicide” than to find them a place in a hospice.The senior Labour MP voted against changing the law because she fears vulnerable people will get swept up in the assisted dying route when “actually what they really need is access to hospice care and proper end-of-life care”. Continue reading... ... 
Met police say 34-year-old was arrested in Hertfordshire after reports of rape at London venue in NovemberA man has been arrested on suspicion of rape as part of an investigation into an alleged sexual attack at the Groucho Club in central London.The Metropolitan police said a 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening at an address in Hertfordshire and remained in custody. Continue reading... ... 
Officials, educators and parents are being confronted by what amount of religious-infused lessons they want children to have access to in public schools.