Seven people died when a boat capsized during tensions over an oil vessel's removal in Rivers State, prompting HOMEF to demand an end to petroleum operations that put commercial interests above community safety and environmental protection.
Casserole dishes, electric heaters and silk shirts: your autumnal favourites show you’re hunkering down – with one eye on party season • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? But while you were drawn to the indoor pleasures of heaters, hot casseroles and hotter coffee, you’ve also had your eye on party season, or at least been thinking about venturing into those corners of your wardrobe that haven’t seen daylight since March.
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The hallucinatory crisis of a war-scarred jurist with a painkiller dependency makes for frustrating reading Of the cohort of experimental novelists whose renown grew in the wake of the 2008 financial crash – names include Deborah Levy, Eimear McBride and Claire-Louise Bennett – it was Tom McCarthy who first demonstrated the benefit of bypassing orthodox routes to market. Further evidence for the theory is supplied by his riddling new novel, The Rhyl Poster, another abstruse spy drama, this time set deep inside the polyglot operations of Luxembourg’s Court of Justice of the European Union…
Academics and lexicographers are exploring how swearing is tied to national cultural identities – and how the internet may cause new, creative cursing to ‘flourish’ Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email From Kath & Kim’s “pack of shunts” to Colin from Accounts’ call to “Go and trim your fuckin’ hooves for netball, cunt!”, the way Australian TV shows have incorporated creative vulgarities into their dialogue mirrors the way people like to swear – and linguistic researchers say younger generations of Australians in particular see once-taboo profanities as signifiers of cultural identity.…
Plus, the new one from Serial’s Sarah Koenig “I never thought I’d be back here with the fluorescent lights and lukewarm coffee,” says recovering addict Tim (Rob Delaney). It rewinds to Tim escorting millennial pop star Lucy (Bel Powley) to rehab in Arizona on an eventful road trip.
More people are fitting keyless devices to their front door – but are they worth it and do they affect your insurance? But you need to make sure you have the right lock for the door – and that your insurance isn’t invalidated by installing it.
With just a few short hours of daylight, the usual boundaries marking time fall away in Abisko, one of the most reliable places to see the northern lights Looking over the edge of the snow-smoothed canyon down to dark rushing water, we thought we saw a moose or a reindeer, but it could have been a rock. I was already using up three days’ holiday travelling by train from London to Abisko.
High-society plotting is afoot as nouveau riche arrivistes threaten the old order. Plus, David Harewood’s dogged Pierre won’t let a spot of angina slow him down.
Disco cauliflower and bhajis: Cauliflower is a flavour sponge, but miraculously stays satisfyingly al dente.
Looking for some easy dinners to add to your regular rotation? We have you covered with these simple and tasty dishes that work equally well as the main course as they do as a side.
She explains why she loves a work in progress, the importance of anger in mourning, and how she gave up smoking – only to become a champion vaper Had Jo Brand, who turns 70 next year, been spending a long time thinking about getting older? Had it become the subject that consumed her, and the reason why, now, she felt impelled to write a book about the vagaries of ageing?
Rob Whittaker's last fight in Sydney was so long ago he can barely remember it, but Australia's first UFC champion, now bulked up, is finally coming home for his first hometown fight since 2014.
Access Canberra says it's "more likely than not" a pop-up food stall that appeared at Big Splash water park on Sunday meets the site's lease requirements for an "unlicensed family restaurant".
Multimillionaire lifestyle mogul says her costume was ‘insensitive and not funny’ after provoking furious backlash Martha Stewart has apologised after sharing an image of herself dressed as a homeless person for Halloween, which provoked a backlash online. The 85-year-old media personality, who is worth an estimated US$400m, shared a picture of herself on Instagram on 31 October, in which she had a dirty face and wore ripped jeans and a beanie while holding up a sign that read: “I AM HUNGRY HELP ME!!”
By DELE SOBOWALE Vanguard’s cartoonist, Oladejo Akande, on the Editorial page of the paper published a brilliant and comical piece about the high food import bill. Israel’s Kibbutz system produces for domestic consumption and export more tomatoes than Nigeria.
The Confederation of African Fashion (CAFA) is targeting the growth of Africa’s fashion economy from an estimated $30 billion to $500 billion, with plans to unveil its roadmap at the 2026 Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX WKND) in Lagos. Registered in Rwanda, with an office in Kigali and a desk at the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, CAFA is also working with Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs towards securing African Union adoption of the Charter.
UK children’s minister Josh MacAlister has travelled to Copenhagen to see what can be learned from Danish system In a quiet suburb on the outskirts of Copenhagen sits a large white house, set back from the road behind a purple-leaved plum tree. It looks much like the rest of the buildings on the street and there is little outward sign this is Josephine Schneider’s House, considered one of the best children’s homes in the world.
Architect Michael Roberts spent thousands on gas appliances for his dream home in Albany, only for authorities to reveal the city's gas network would be shutting down.
Vivianne-Lee Watson is determined that ancient skills are passed on to every generation and do not get lost.
Television and radio producer Chuck Thomas wondered on X whether it could be a Derren Brown-style psychological experiment; a Ghostwatch-esque stunt; or even a dark TV comedy in the vein of the genre-bending series Inside No 9. As more information was revealed about the show – including that its players would stake their own money, in a UK television first – Thomas considered whether this was in fact “an elaborate anti-gambling stunt”.
Home owners are struggling to obtain or afford insurance as they recover from north Queensland floods almost two years on.
A team of just three people works to make life a little easier for those without a roof over their heads in Tasmania.
