Ian Poulter is set to play in LIV Golf’s Texas event this weekend, but right now, he doesn’t have anything to play with. The 48-year-old flew from Heathrow Airport to Texas earlier this week, but without his clubs. Midflight, the airline sent Poulter an email “to inform you that a bag has not travelled with you today” and told Poulter …
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Cat reunited with owner 12 years after disappearing from family home: 'Didn't feel real'
A cat has finally been reunited with its owner — 12 years after disappearing from the family home. Artie the cat went missing from the home of Theo-Will McKenna, 29, after the family moved from Blacon in Chester to Connah’s Quay in Flintshire, Wales, in 2012, according to SWNS, the British news service. Then just 17, McKenna, the cat’s owner, …
Read More »Former Brexit leader Nigel Farage is running in UK election, wants to ‘make Britain great again’
Former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage announced Monday that he is running in this year’s upcoming United Kingdom general election, vowing to “make Britain great again.” The decision from Farage comes less than two weeks after he said he would not take part in the race in order to focus his efforts on the U.S. presidential election. Farage previously has …
Read More »Ice hockey's trans inclusions policies comes under scrutiny in England
Transgender athletes playing in girls’ and women’s ice hockey is reaching a boiling point in England as parents express fear about their teenage daughters going up against biological males in the sport. Female ice hockey players as young as 14 years old have played against transgender girls in the sport, The Telegraph reported Saturday. One anonymous father told the outlet …
Read More »While men stormed Normandy, women worked as codebreakers, cartographers and coxswains to achieve D-Day success
What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War II, the answer to that question is often: quite a lot. The history of D-Day is often told through the stories of the men who fought and died when the Allies stormed the beaches of northern France on June 6, 1944. WWII …
Read More »British PM seeks election Hail Mary with youth national service plan: 'Last attempt to fix a broken nation'
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to institute a national service requirement should the Conservative Party win the general election on July 4. “The appeal of the idea is particularly geared to more right wing voters who might have been leaning to vote for the Reform Party and may now switch back to Conservative,” Alan Mendoza, co-founder and executive …
Read More »UK nurses launch lawsuit, claim transgender colleague harassed them in changing room
A group of nurses in the United Kingdom filed a lawsuit against a National Health Service hospital system, accusing it of siding with a transgender employee who allegedly harassed female employees in the women’s changing area. “[My manager] was basically told that we needed to be more inclusive, broaden our mindset,” one of the nurses who works for the hospital …
Read More »Annual cheese rolling race attracts thousands to England's Cooper’s Hill
Dairy-loving daredevils threw caution to the wind Monday for one of Britain’s most extreme annual events: cheese rolling. Cheered by several thousand spectators, scores of reckless racers chased 7-pound wheels of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England. The first racer to finish behind the fast-rolling cheese in each race gets to keep it. …
Read More »Vessel takes on water in Red Sea after suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels
A ship came under attack Tuesday in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, with a private security firm saying radio traffic suggested the vessel took on water after being struck. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who have launched a number of attacks targeting ships over Israel’s war on Hamas in …
Read More »'Lovely little bird' flies right into woman's car as she's driving on a country lane
A cheeky bird was rescued by a woman after it flew right through her car window and made itself comfortable in her vehicle as she was driving along a country lane in the United Kingdom. Jessica Mathews spotted the rooster on the side of the road as she made her way home along a country lane in Aston-on-Trent, Derbys, according …
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