Britain’s top spies from GCHQ have released a children’s puzzle book while challenging the public to solve one of their brain teasers. In its latest puzzle book – the agency has already published two for adults – children will be tested on languages, engineering, decoding, analysis, math, coding and cybersecurity. Puzzles for Spies is set […]
Campaigning Republicans remained largely silent on the day of the Queen’s funeral, but assured those who had not taken part in the monarch’s national mourning that “they were not alone”. The campaign group Republic said he had not organized any events around the day of the Queen’s funeral as it would not have been appropriate, […]
Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out targeted strikes in the cities of Kherson and Luhansk against local officials who collaborated with Moscow. At least five Himar missiles crashed into the central administration building in Kherson, which Russian troops have occupied since March after arriving from Crimea. Video from the scene showed smoke billowing from the […]
The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex walked side by side behind the Queen’s horse-drawn coffin as her body was driven from Buckingham Palace to lie in state at Westminster Hall, ahead of Monday’s state funeral. The Queen’s grandsons followed the same route along the Mall and Whitehall 25 years ago when, as […]
Key events Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature Here is an image of the hearse as it traveled down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile before reaching its destination today. People watch the hearse carrying the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II through the streets of Edinburgh. Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters The daughter of Queen […]
The Royal Family meet well-wishers outside Balmoral Members of the Royal Family left Crathie Kirk near Balmoral after a service to meet members of the public. Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, was seen speaking to the crowd, as was Princess Anne, the Princess Royal who walked alongside her husband, Commander Timothy Laurence. Anne’s children, […]
The nation’s prayers are with the Queen, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said, as British leaders sent messages of support for the monarch, who has been placed under medical supervision after medics raised concerns for his health. As her four children, Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, gathered at Balmoral Castle to […]
Last reactor of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant disconnected after Russian bombardment, operator says The last working reactor block of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has been disconnected after Russian bombings interrupted power lines, according to the Ukrainian energy operator . In a Telegram statement, Energoatom said: Today, following a fire caused […]
When Arthur Kingsley Porter disappeared from the remote island of Inishbofin off the Atlantic coast of Ireland in 1933, he made the front page of The New York Times. “Archaeologist lost from a boat in the storm”, titles the title. The inquest – the first in Ireland without a body – concluded that the prominent […]
Tropical Storm Danielle has strengthened to become the first hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic Ocean season for such storms, the US National Hurricane Center said on Friday. The hurricane, now about 885 miles west of the Azores in the mid-Atlantic, is currently producing maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour and is expected to […]
