Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

INSANE: Robert dover - The Real Truth

Straw flies as shin-kicking champion crowned at ancient rural games

The event was first run on a Gloucester hillside in 1612.

Evening Standard

New shin-kicking champion crowned at centuries-old rural games

More than 2,500 spectators attended the anicent games

The Independent UK

Trump’s Board of Peace launches into a warring world

This newsletter was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox.

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Ukraine: battered by bombing and scarred by corruption

The Conversation

Signal-gate security blunder overshadows Black Sea ceasefire

Depending on what you think of Donald Trump, his administration could fit either of the following two descriptions. Chaotic, vindictive and accident-prone, marked by mendacity, driven by impulse and bent on securing the will of the leader, rather than – as in the US constitution – the will of the…

The Conversation

World Update: where Trump’s election leaves Ukraine

It would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall in Volodymyr Zelensky’s office on the morning of November 6 when it became clear that Donald Trump had won the US election. You can’t imagine it would have been an upbeat gathering. A lot will hang on…

The Conversation

‘Axis of impunity’: How Putin-Kim deal could challenge existing world order

Two leaders signed mutual defence pact during Putin’s high-profile visit to North Korea, his first in 24 years.

Al Jazeera

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Gaza Update: as Israel begins its ground offensive, the conflict's reverberations are being felt far beyond the Strip

The ground assault on Gaza is now well underway and, as they advance into the Strip’s urban areas, the Israel Defence Forces are coming up against an elusive enemy that has been preparing for this conflict for years. For Hamas’s military wing, a key part of those preparations has been…

The Conversation

Let the bog snorkelling commence! 10 of the weirdest sporting events in the UK

From ferret racing to shinkicking, we round up some of the country’s most eccentric sporting events. Oddly, cricket isn’t among them …

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine recap: Russia's 'modern siege tactics' fail to break the people's will to resist

First, let’s clear up some unfinished business from last week. We reported here that Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, had been talking up the idea that Ukraine was planning to use a “dirty bomb” and specified a couple of facilities which he said were involved in the preparation of such…

The Conversation

Ukraine recap: what Putin's mobilisation order means for the war and the west

The political climate got a few degrees warmer this week after Vladimir Putin announced a plan for partial mobilisation of Russian reserves, calling on a reservoir of somewhere between 300,000 and a million troops to bolster the Russian military’s parlous position in Ukraine.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Israel Defence Forces

58 stories

the University of Portsmouth

29 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.