Month: April 2019

Eight times in history, an American president has died in office – history altered by a heartbeat. The accidental presidents who succeeded them, neither the “Close calls: when American presidents diced with death”

A British woman is facing two years in jail in Dubai for allegedly using disparaging language about her ex-husband’s new wife on Facebook, campaigners have “British woman faces jail in Dubai for ‘insulting’ ex-husband’s new wife on Facebook”

The long-awaited second series of the hit BBC drama Killing Eve will return to screens on Sunday night – but audiences in the UK may “Killing Eve fans in UK may have to wait months to watch season two”

Solange has cancelled her Coachella performance a week out from the Californian festival due to “major production delays”, organisers say. The R&B star was slated “Solange pulls out of Coachella 2019 due to ‘production delays’”

Democrats in Congress will “never” see Donald Trump’s tax returns, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday. Mulvaney accused Democrats of “Democrats will ‘never’ see Trump tax returns – White House chief of staff”

A no-deal Brexit at the end of next week would be “not nearly as grim” as many believe, one of Theresa May’s senior ministers has “Andrea Leadsom: no-deal Brexit next week would not be so grim”

The strangest thing about getting bad news is that your mind doesn’t quite act in the expected ways. When my oncologist told me that my “Game of Thrones, cancer and me…”

Billed as a rediscovered masterpiece by Kazimir Malevich, the portrait of a bohemian Russian woman holding a red bag was the charismatic star of a “Rediscovered masterpiece ‘was actually work of Malevich’s pupil’”

New Zealand’s privacy commissioner has lashed out at social media giant Facebook in the wake of the Christchurch attacks, calling the company “morally bankrupt pathological “Facebook are ‘morally bankrupt liars’ says New Zealand’s privacy commissioner”

One April evening in 1986, Bill Heine was sitting on the steps opposite his newly purchased terraced house in Oxford, drinking a glass of wine, “‘It went in beautifully as the postman was passing’: the story of the Headington Shark”