Whoopi Goldberg has joined the chorus of people calling on the royal family to apologize for their colonial past, insisting that the crown cannot 'ignore the fact that Britain ran roughshod over India for years' - just one month after she was suspended from her ABC talk show The View for saying that the 'Holocaust wasn't racist'.

An indefinite strike by some Spanish truck drivers over rising fuel prices has triggered supply chain problems across the country, leaving several sectors struggling to cope, business associations have said. Spain’s Guardia Civil have been called out to guarantee the transportation of essential services in some areas [see video in Tweet below]. The strike that was called by a minor truck driver union started on Monday, with protestors demanding action over the soaring cost of diesel which they said was leaving them in a ‘catastrophic’ situation.....................On Wednesday evening, the government said it was going to take steps to reduce the price of energy and fuel, but did not spell out how. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is currently on a European tour to lobby for a common EU response to soaring energy prices.

Gucci's creative director has claimed men are turning to 'flamboyant and feminine' outfits to express their 'freedom' and crush gender stereotypes. Alessandro Michele, 49, has been credited for bringing gender fluid fashion to the catwalk since he started spearheading Gucci's revamp in 2015. A pair of £960 trainers designed by luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton has been compared to a £12.99 pair from budget supermarket Lidl with fashion fans saying the shoes look very similar. According to the luxury brand, the LV Trainer sneaker, which it describes as an 'icon of the Louis Vuitton shoe collection', is made in Italy, and hand stitched, with every pair taking seven hours to make.

A Russian journalist who defied Vladimir Putin's crackdown on free speech to denounce his war on Ukraine on live TV has said she fears for her safety but does not plant to leave the country. Marina Ovsyannikova, 43, dubbed the 'bravest women on television', said she is 'extremely concerned' after being handed a £210 fine by a Russian court - a mere fraction of the retaliation expected, raising fears that more punishment awaits her.

FIRE crews dealt with a record 1,640 requests for help from obese Brits trapped in their homes last year. The number has tripled from 587 five years ago and equates to over 30 calls a week.he total was more than the 943 occasions emergency teams were called out in 2020/21 to save stranded pets. A dishonest doctor from East Yorkshire who mistakenly injected a patient with local anaesthetic and steroids in the wrong hip and then tried to cover it up with lies has been struck off. A tribunal found the Hull doctor's actions showed a 'serious departure from good medical practice and throughout his evidence giving he continued to show elements of dishonesty.

A huge fire has broken out in a block of flats and offices near London's Algate East underground station - sending 'glass panels crashing hundreds of meters to the ground'. Around 125 firefighters in 20 vehicles are currently at the scene of the inferno on the 17th floor of a high rise building on Whitechapel High Street in Aldgate, east London. Calls are growing for people to boycott Coca-Cola as they have yet to pull operations out of Russia despite Putin's invasion of Ukraine entering its twelfth day. Trends on Twitter including #BoycottCocaCola surfaced over the weekend as it emerged the company, which has 10 bottling plants in Russia, is not making any changes to operations following the outbreak of war in Ukraine.

The Catholic Church in Spain will have to prove ownership of over 1000 properties, whichare currently being contested by local authorities. (29.01) Spain’s government handed over a list of almost 1,000 properties claimed by the Catholic Church in Spain on contested legal grounds to a federation of local authorities on Thursday, taking a first step towards resolving long-running feuds over ownership. The Federal Government Backtracks On Decommissioning Cofrentes Nuclear Plant Miodrag Pepic. Despite objections from environmentalists and the Valencian government, the Generalitat, Cofrentes nuclear plant will remain in operation for an additional seven years… Route 99 Valencia’s Answer To The Camino De Santiago. Valencia is promoting Route 99, a brand new tourist initiative that includes 24 Valencian Community towns with fewer than 100 inhabitants, dubbed “a kind of Camino de Santiago a la Valenciana.” Residents of Benimaclet barrio were the first in Valencia to openly protest against “botellones” that take place almost every night in this neighbourhood. Residents from Valencia’s Benimaclet neighbourhood gathered on Saturday morning to protest against botellones (street drinking and partying), demanding that the people who live in the area be respected. They have declared the current situation unsustainable and have requested assistance from the City and the police.

Headteachers at schools in Brighton have sparked anger from parents by cancelling the words 'mum' and 'dad' and replacing them with 'grown ups' - to avoid discriminating against 'non-traditional' families. .Anti-racism campaigners have criticised new Government guidance on political impartiality in the classroom as 'disturbing', while teachers' leaders have said it will stop pupils from engaging with challenging issues in the classroom. The Government released guidance on Thursday aimed at helping teachers avoid 'promoting contested theories as fact' in England.It suggests that the teaching of historical figures should focus on 'factual information' about them, and that teaching of the British empire should be presented in 'a balanced manner'.

A retired Spanish doctor who has been campaigning to maintain face-to-face customer services at banks, presented a petition in Madrid on Tuesday with more than 600,000 signatures to the secretary of state for the treasury, Carlos Cuerpo, at the Economy Ministry. He also presented his petition to the Bank of Spain. Carlos San Juan, aged 78 and from the Valencia Region, used the slogan of ‘SoyMayorNOidiota’ (‘I’m old, not an idiot’) for his campaign against the Spanish banks’ growing use of digital services.