• Monday, March 10, 2025

John Lyon students achieve good GCSE results; progress to sixth…

John Lyon students have achieved good GCSE results and advance to sixth form, a statement said on Thursday (25). Avi, who achieved straight nine 9s, is a county cricketer and second highest first XI run scorer in 2022 (average of 55, comprising four half-centuries and an unbeaten century) will be…

Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp says he is working as…

Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has revealed that he has been working as a lifeguard at his local pool this summer. The actor, who shot to overnight fame with his character Will Byers in the globally successful Netflix series, said during an interview that his summer job allows him to…

American Sikh journalist deported within hours of landing in India,…

A Punjabi American documentary producer, whose recent request for a journalist visa was rejected by India, was deported within hours of his arrival in Delhi, his family said on Thursday. Angad Singh, who had made a documentary on the prolonged protests against India’s contentious Citizenship Act, landed in the national…

Feminist refuses to call her spouse ‘husband’ says the word’s…

Audra Fitzgerald, 26, who has a degree in linguistics, explains in a recent TikTok video that since the word husband has sexist connotations, she refers to her spouse as ‘wer’ because being a feminist she doesn’t like the word ‘husband’ which is supposed to mean “master” or “controller of the…

Sathnam Sanghera’s new book will be published in June

Puffin books will publish award-winning British Indian author Sathnam Sanghera’s new book Stolen History: The Truth about the British Empire on 8 June 2023, the publisher said in a statement. It claimed that the book will be an essential introduction to the British Empire for readers aged 9+ and the paperback will…

Bollywood star Deepika Padukone to feature on Meghan Markle’s podcast…

According to reports, Bollywood star Deepika Padukone, known for such blockbusters as Om Shanti Om, Bajirao Mastani, and Padmaavat, is set to be a part of Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle’s new podcast Archetypes. For those not in the know, the podcast series will “investigate the labels that try to…

‘Please help the other women who are still in Afghanistan,’…

Afghanistan’s famous newsreader, who was forced out of her job by the gun-wielding Taliban, has implored the British government to help women in her home country who are robbed of their freedom. Now in London – more than 7,500 km away from the television studios in Kabul where she passionately…

Sydney nightclub bans staring without ‘verbal consent’ to ensure women…

In an effort to brand the venue as a “safe space” and clamp down on inappropriate behaviour, Club 77 in Sydney, Australia has introduced a strict new policy of throwing out anyone who is caught staring at a person without ‘verbal consent.’ The New York Post informs, Club 77 in…

Terrific at the top! Surge in highest grades builds on…

With 85.6 per cent of GCSEs (General Certificates of Secondary Education) at QE awarded level 8 or 9 grades – equivalent to the old A* – the first pupils to sit public examinations at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet, since 2019 have put in a “terrific” record-breaking performance. In fact, results…

UK police appeal to underworld after girl, 9, shot dead

Police in Liverpool, northwest England, on Wednesday urged criminals to give up a gunman after a nine-year-old girl was shot dead in the crossfire of a suspected gang war. Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed on Monday night when the shooter’s intended target, a 35-year-old man, burst into her house to try…