Society and Culture

Police seek the woman who attacked the son of musician Keyon Harrold. She accused the teen of stealing her phone; turned out she left it in a cab.
Traffic flow is improving at the Port of Dover but stranded lorry drivers have been hit by delays after Storm Bella ripped through Kent.
Thousands of drivers stuck at the French border have been forced to spend Christmas Day in their cabs.
Feminist Collages London is a branch of a movement that started in Paris in 2019 where activists paint letters on A4 sheets of paper and paste slogans on walls around the city. From femicide, to trans rights to abortion rights, the group writes highly political messages to give, “women a way of feeling community”. The collective also promotes osrganisations covering subjects from domestic labour in Lebanon to African & Caribbean heritage women and girls affected by domestic and sexual violence.
He can now be named as Jesse Shane Kempson, New Zealand’s Supreme Court has ruled.
Gheorghe Nica, 43, and Eamonn Harrison, 24, were also convicted them of their part in a wider people-smuggling operation.
Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and Jews talk about the "emptiest year imaginable" and the emotional toll of having their celebrations cancelled.
"There remains a difference between what you are being permitted to do... and what you should do," WHO says in an appeal to European countries.
It wasn't seen as 'inhumane' to cancel households mixing for Eid hours before the celebrations began, writes Mariam Khan.
McCann was originally sentenced to an ‘unduly lenient’ 30 years in prison.