A selection of some of the most striking sports photographs taken around the world over the past seven days: Florian Schieder of Italy prepares at the start for the first Men's Downhill training ...

Mourners including Steps singer Ian ‘H’ Watkins and former Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall have arrived for the funeral of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner The Vivienne. Watkins, wearing a red ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians moved north on Monday after Israeli forces withdrew from ...

Rigney is correct in saying what’s happening in the church is spilling over into society. Unfortunately, the sickness that is spilling over isn’t empathy, but a lack of respect for women. Of course, ...

The 2025 Oscar nominations have been revealed and in a few weeks, one of 10 movies will join the illustrious ranks of Best Picture winners and become the 97 film to hold that honor. It’s the ...

House-holders, farmers, businesses and local authorities around the country are assessing the damage caused by caused by Storm Éowyn. People are being advised that the impact of the storm and the ...

As luck would have it, this year’s crop of best picture Oscar nominees – ten movies, to be exact – are largely available for viewing from the comfort of your own home. So, while the Academy ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

(Trump won more than 80 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2024.) Not a single area of Trump’s life is untouched by corruption. Although white evangelicals have been firmly in his corner ...

Perhaps even more so than usual, Best Picture runs the gamut from worthy to decidedly not. The best of the nominees was truly the best movie of the year. The worst would make for a historically ...