Tag: Christmas

“I have no qualms about it,” he remarks on the newly released dispatch. “When it’s so far down the line, all the criticisms – justified or otherwise – have been acknowledged and dealt with. But come on, it was a slow news day. Some poor old fellow has died ...

At least seven people including a nine-year-old girl have lost their lives in wild weather hammering Australia's east coast as a frantic search continues for those still missing.Five of the deaths occurred in Queensland where ferocious storms, heavy rain and powerful winds have been targeting the state's southeast since ...

Pakistan skipper Shan Masood in conversation with Australian captain Pat Cummins | Credits: Twitter/PCB Former Australian spinner turned commentator Kerry O'Keefe admitted to be surprised by Pakistan cricketers gesture for Australian counterparts during Christmas celebration on Monday, December 25. In a video shared by Pakistan Cricket Board, touring party ...

Christmas day in the occupied West Bank began with an attack on the Jenin refugee camp and several arrests. The raid on Monday morning followed several others across the territory, which saw dozens of arrests and the shooting in the neck of a 17-year-old boy. Among towns hit was ...

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud paid tributes to the four Armymen who were killed in a militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch on Thursday (December 21) on the occasion of Christmas. Addressing a Christmas programme in the Supreme court, he said, “We lost four members of ...

A popular European folktale goes like this: On the eve of Christmas in 1870, while the Franco-Prussian war was raging, a French soldier jumped from the trenches and began singing “Cantique de Noel – O Holy Night”, a carol describing the birth of Jesus. Time stood still, and people ...

FRANKFURT, Germany - Christians around the world were striving on Christmas Eve to put aside the worries and fears of an unsettled, war-torn world as they prepared to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Before leading Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, ...

When I think of the Queen, I think of her seduction and her glamour; not the hollow gaudiness that passes for these today, but the charm and elegance of an age that is lost. In the final episodes of the Crown, which dropped on Netflix this week, its three Elizabeths, Claire ...

It was a 'life saving' moment Muzhda Naderi had feared would never happen and when this week she finally stepped onto British soil, she said it was 'like a beautiful dream come true...'For more than a year after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the former British Council (BC) ...

Recent hitsHouse of GucciAstonishing and preposterous in equal measure, this is Ridley Scott’s sweeping retelling of the rise and fall of the Gucci family. During its best moments (of which there are many) this plays like wonderful high camp; bringing the best actors of their generation together simply to ...