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Florida’s House of Representatives voted to pass a bill allowing teachers to carry guns in the classroom, reports Huffington Post. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign into law a bill that would allow classroom teachers to be armed, after the state's House voted 65 to 47 for the measure on Wednesday. The bill states that teachers who volunteer to carry a gun on campus will first need to undergo screening and a 144-hour training course. A state commission...

Sister Eugenia Bonetti shared her controversial opinions with Pope Francis, families and priests from around the world at an annual Good Friday sermon.

The newly-re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Biyamin Netanyahu vowed today to name a settlement in the Golan Heights after Donald Trump.  The move by newly elected Netanyahu is to thank Trump for flouting international law and recognising Israeli sovereignty over the lands just before the Israeli elections. Israel captured the region to its North along the Syrian border during the Six Day War in 1967 and it has been occupied ever since despite UN resolutions against Israel’s annexation of the strategic...

Buckingham Palace has just confirmed a state visit from the US president between June 3 and June 4. Donald and Melania Trump last met the Queen on a visit to the UK in July 2018 amid large public protests. As well as visiting the Queen who hosts state visits, Donald Trump is to meet the Prime Minister at Chequers and travel to his Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland. Trump’s visit last year was greeted by hundreds of thousands of protestors...

Sir David Attenborough has issued his harshest warning yet on the threat posed to life on Earth by climate change. As Extinction Rebellion protests hit 80 cities in 33 countries around the planet to highlight a “climate emergency” the veteran nature broadcaster warned we "irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies". Extinction Rebellion Blackfriars (c) Lucy Cartwright Highlighting the catastrophic extinctions facing the planet unless drastic action is taken, Attenborough says: “in the 20 years...

It is estimated about 2.5 million sharks and rays are accidentally caught in nets each year from small fisheries operating in the south-west Indian Ocean.

As tragic images of Notre Dame Cathedral burning were beamed across the world, Donald Trump decided to hand the French some, awful, advice. Instead of joining in with the worldwide sadness at the horrific blaze he Tweeted that "perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out". Unsure of whether or not he was referring to, you know, clouds, Twitter set out to torment the US president with a barrage of brutal replies. Here are some of the...

The disruption is to be the UK element of what organisers hope will be an international movement to protest against environmental and ecological des

Sanjay Bahe fell down a well while working and pierced his head on the rod