World’s largest GPS penis traced across Bannau Brycheiniog for charity

Terry Rosoman formed image on 75-mile run across Welsh mountains formerly known as Brecon BeaconsA record-breaking 75-mile GPS image of a penis has been scrawled across south Wales on the exercise app Strava to raise money for charity.The outline of the male genitalia – drawn by the on-foot journey of Terry Rosoman – stretches from Hay-on-Wye to Abergavenny via a double circuitous route taking in Crickhowell and Llangenny. Continue reading...

From abortion to immigration, here’s what’s at stake if Trump wins the election

A second Trump term will threaten everything from freedom of the press and gun safety to foreign policy and climate change. The impact will be felt in many aspects of American life and across the worldUS election 2024 – latest updatesUS election results 2024: live map and trackerIf Donald Trump returns to the White House for a second term as president, the impact will be felt in many aspects of American life and also across the world.On almost every issue of domestic US policy – from immigration to the environment to gun laws to LGBTQ+ rights – Trump has tacked far to the right of the American mainstream. Continue reading...

French pupil’s father on trial for spreading lies that led to teacher’s Islamist beheading

Eight charged in connection with murder of Samuel Paty in Paris suburbs in 2020It was a killing that started with a lie. In October 2020, an Islamist terrorist tracked down and decapitated professor Samuel Paty as he left school on the last day before half-term holidays.In the days preceding his murder, Paty, 47, who taught geography and history, had been the subject of an intense campaign of online harassment sparked when a 13-year-old student claimed he had discriminated against his Muslim pupils during a class on moral and civic education. Continue reading...

Frantic campaigning by Trump amid Iowa poll shock – US election live updates

Republican nominee to hold events in three swing states as the presidential race enters its final hoursDonald Trump and his many campaign surrogates have been engaged in a strategy of publicly raising expectations among their followers which may create a well-spring of discontent should Kamala Harris win, especially if her victory is narrow or propelled over the line by a late-breaking wave of Democratic ballots.“If we could bring God down from heaven and he’d be the vote counter, we’d win this, we’d win California, we’d win a lot of states,” Trump said last week in a typical piece of bombast about his prospects.We have an opportunity in this election to turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other. We’re done with that,” she said in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday.The only free aid they are going to get is a free ride back home,” he said at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Saturday. Continue reading...

Trump aides confident in his chances – but admit results are wildly unknown

Some polls offer promising outlook for Trump in swing states and reveal most believe US is on the wrong trackDonald Trump’s aides are bullish about their prospects with their internal polls showing them ahead of his rival Kamala Harris during the final weekend of the campaign before the election, even as they also concede they actually have no idea how America’s election will ultimately break.The confidence is mainly coming from two places: some polls that show the former US president ahead in every battleground state and Republicans holding onto early vote leads in places like Nevada, which they extrapolate to read that the Sun Belt states may be increasingly out of reach for Harris. Continue reading...