Year: 2021

The Daily Mirror says: A woman has voiced her fury after coming home to discover builders had put a massive 20-foot high concrete wall on the edge of her garden.

France24 says the Taliban announced an interim government drawn exclusively from their own loyalist ranks, with established hardliners in all key posts and no women.

The Mirror says: Northerners were more likely to die from Covid 19, spent almost six weeks longer in lockdowns and were made poorer than the rest of England during the first year of the pandemic, official figures have revealed.

Arab News says more than 700 people died in Yemen’s southern city of Aden in August following the third wave of coronavirus in the war-torn country.

Aljazeera says a fire tore through an overcrowded block in a jail in Indonesia’s western Banten province, killing at least 41 people and injuring dozens.

TRT World says putschists who seized power in Guinea at the weekend have pledged to release “political detainees” held under ex-president Alpha Conde.

TRT World says Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has approved legislation which limits social media companies from removing content or accounts.

The Guardian says Britney Spears’ father has filed an unexpected request to terminate the controversial conservatorship that has controlled the singer’s life for 13 years.

BBC News says MPs will vote later on whether to raise National Insurance to fund health and social care, a day after Boris Johnson announced the manifesto-breaking move.

Rapper Bugzy Malone punched two strangers and broke their jaws, whilst defending himself to a suspected burglary. As it transpired…