Horses galloped through towering flames on Friday in a centuries-old annual tradition in the Spanish village of San Bartolome de Pinares to honor St. Anthony the Abbott, the patron saint of animals.
With punchy electric-assisted torque and sharp styling, the Cupra Formentor plug-in hybrid delivers thrilling performance, everyday usability and surprising economy (if you can tame its acceleration), finds Sean O’Grady
The Irish actor’s heart-wrenching performance in ‘Hamnet’ has got critics talking (and cinemagoers sobbing). Katie Rosseinsky charts her rise from being body shamed in the “messed-up world of reality TV” to becoming the toast of Hollywood
The Oscar-nominated star of ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ talks to Patrick Smith about ‘H Is for Hawk’, the Irish attitude to death, toxic scripts, the dangers of overenthusiastic parenting, and actors losing their looks
Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield’s attorneys told a court he should be released while he awaits the outcome of child sex abuse charges against him
Work starts around sunrise for the federal officers carrying out the immigration crackdown in and around the Twin Cities, with people in tactical gear streaming from a bland office building
The murder case against a former television news anchor accused of killing her mother is now on hold after a judge ruled she is not mentally competent to stand trial.
Artemis II mission could launch on 6 February, sending astronauts on a 685,000-mile journey
Nasa is preparing to roll out its most powerful rocket yet before a mission to send astronauts around the moon and back again for the first time in more than 50 years.
The Artemis II mission is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida as early as 6 February, taking its crew on a 685,000-mile round trip that will end about 10 days later with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear
“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carlos, the African American sprinter who raised his fist in a black power salute from the podium of the 1968 Olympics, once told me. “The beginning don’t matter. The end don’t matter. All that matters is what you do in between – whether you’re prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we’re getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.”
Claudette Colvin, who died earlier this week in a hospice in Texas, did her job while she was here on the planet, although it was several decades before her physical and material sacrifice was acknowledged. On 2 March 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, aged just 15, Colvin took a stand and refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman.
Gary Younge is a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester
Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical
It was noon by the time Jacques Katutu first saw the newborn mountain gorillas. Cradled in the arms of their mother, Mafuko, the tiny twins clung to her body for warmth in the forest clearing in Virunga national park, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Katutu, head of gorilla monitoring in Virunga, has seen dozens of newborns in his 15 years as a ranger. But, he tells the Guardian, even he was touched by the sight of the fragile infant males, who face serious obstacles if they are to become silverbacks one day.
A Texas fugitive was arrested in connection with the "suspicious" death of a 37-year-old woman while wearing an ominous sweatshirt threatening to abduct people.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Venezuela Thursday to meet with interim leader Delcy Rodriguez and other top officials – 12 days after the US military operation that captured dictator Nicolas Maduro.
US District Judge Kate Menendez's ruling addresses a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists who have been observing the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers.
Parts suppliers ‘put production on hold’ amid mounting confusion as China restricts purchase of the chips and US puts 25% roundabout tariff on their sale
Suppliers of parts for Nvidia’s H200 have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the newly approved artificial intelligence processors from entering China, according to a report.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report, which appeared in the Financial Times citing two people with knowledge of the matter. Nvidia did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment made outside regular business hours.
Anselmo Mugabe, in stripy shirt, who runs a hair Salon in Thembisa, a township north east of Johannesburg, uses the BPowerD batteries in order to run his business.
Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which had banned music. A new policy of deportations by Pakistan threatens this community of exiles.
Report claims unrestricted online access will be a ‘government privilege’, limited to individuals vetted by regime
Iran is planning to permanently break from the global internet, only allowing individuals vetted by the regime to connect online, according to Iranian digital rights activists.
“A confidential plan is under way to turn international internet access into a ‘governmental privilege’,” according to a report from Filterwatch, an organisation monitoring Iran’s internet censorship, citing a number of sources in Iran.
Grieving, bruised and divided on the wisdom of foreign-backed revolt, how can the Iranian people achieve change?
The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami in his novel 1Q84 may have foreshadowed the great and indelible rift Iranian society is about to experience. “The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don’t want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can’t turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
Inside Iran, contrasting memories are already being brought into even sharper relief and made more traumatic by the blanket propaganda from Iran state TV portraying protesters as drug-crazed or pawns of a foreign power attracted to a violent terrorist culture reminiscent of Islamic State.
Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie have gone from waiting tables to ‘One Direction-level’ fame in a matter of months, upstaging A-listers at the Golden Globes last week. What’s next?
Tough luck if you prefer your romcoms PG-rated, or ice hockey leaves you cold: there is no escaping Heated Rivalry. The steamy coming-of-age series has been a sensation in North America, making instant stars of its leads as producers rush to make more of it. It’s hard to remember the last TV show to spark such a furore, let alone one from Canada’s “Crave network”. So who are the young men at the centre of the frenzy – and how are they coping with all that thirst?
Marine Le Pen is milking rural fury over the Mercosur pact. France’s politicians, of all stripes, are too cowardly to defend a good deal
Once again, France’s farmers have been blocking motorways with their tractors in protest, this time at an impending EU trade agreement with a group of South American countries in a common market known as Mercosur, which has been 25 years in the making.
The tragedy is that while the EU can finally claim an important victory in its strategy of sealing rules-based free-trade pacts with key regions and countries worldwide to counter aggressive US trade protectionism, in so doing it is helping the Eurosceptic far right to electoral victory in France. Losing the support of France, a founding member, for European integration if the far right wins power, would have a more damaging impact on the long-term stability of the EU than any trade boost with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre
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