Month: August 2021

The i leads with bright red flames contrasted against its headline. The paper says that the UN has found global warming is set to breach the 1.5C limit 10 years earlier than predicted.

The Sun says: VIRGINIA Roberts Giuffre has launched a legal battle against Prince Andrew accusing him of sexually abusing her at Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion.

TRT World says R. Kelly, the R&B superstar who faces a battery of sex abuse charges in several US states, appeared in court as jury selection began in his federal New York trial.

The Guardian says 150,000 students who did not receive offers from any university, or missed their required grades at A-level, will be hunting for remaining places on Tuesday.

BBC News says a US woman who alleges she was brought to the UK aged 17 to have sex with the Duke of York has filed a civil lawsuit in New York claiming he abused her.

France24 says the Taliban seized a sixth Afghan provincial capital on Monday following a weekend blitz across the north that saw urban centres fall in quick succession.

Aljazeera says tensions over scarce fuel supplies in Lebanon descended into deadly violence involving guns, knives and a hand grenade on Monday, leaving three men dead.

Arab News says candidacy requirements to take part in Qatar’s Shoura Council elections have sparked widespread controversy on social media in the emirate, the BBC has reported.

“Pedal of honour” is the Sun’s headline as it reports that Olympic couple Jason and Laura Kenny will become a knight and a dame following their success at the Tokyo Games.

The Daily Mail leads with a report on the cost of coronavirus testing for foreign travel, which it says now amounts to five times the cost of cheap European flights.