A young girl who lives in Germany has proposed to design a headscarf emoji. The girl, Rayouf Alhumedhi, is originally from Saudi and has submitted her idea to The Unicode Consortium. This company is a non-profit organisation that develops and reviews new emoji ideas. If her idea is given the...
A new report has emerged that has laid the blame for the destruction of Libya squarely at the door of David Cameron and his government. The UK parliamentary report was highly critical of France and Britain in 2011, when they collaborated to bring down Muammar Gaddafi, then the Libyan leader....
It is a story that will melt your hearts, like the sun melts his ice-pops, after over £150,000 was raised on-line for an old Chicago ice-pop vendor, who had been snapped pushing his cart in some difficulty. Fidencio Sanchez, 89, from Chicago, had to come out of retirement after his...
Brexit and what it means to the UK is something that is yet to be resolved. One of the only issues that seemed to have been put in place was that PM May would trigger Article 50 without a vote in Parliament. However, now that has been questioned by the...
Cannabis is widely used across the UK, in the treatment of illnesses and simply for recreational use. It remains an illegal drug, but an influential group of MPs want it to be made legal for medical use. Cannabis is already used as a medicine in Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Israel,...
A huge change to constituencies across the UK may cost the Labour party a huge number of seats, possibly wiping out their chances of forming a Government again. Having lost Scotland to the SNP further cuts in their MP numbers would leave them a huge task to win a majority...
Trips to mainland Europe have become very simple and cheap since the UK joined the EU and the cost of airfares plummeted. However, now we have decided to leave the EU, UK citizens may need to apply and pay for visas to travel into Europe. Amber Rudd, Home Secretary, admitted...
A new study has ranked Middlesbrough as the worst place to be a girl. Charity Plan International UK took various factors into account to make the decision. They assessed child poverty, educational attainment and teen pregnancy rates. Sadly for Middlesbrough it came top of the list, not an enviable place...
The NHS is at breaking point and the Conservative Government’s dream of a seven-day NHS will not work unless there is a huge injected of funds, which is unlikely to be sanctioned. Chris Hopson, boss of NHS Providers has a vey bleak assessment of the public sector health service in...