The Guardian says a large tornado touched down in New Orleans on Tuesday evening, causing damage and destruction to the city’s lower ninth ward.
Author: WTX News Editor
Wednesday’s front pages.
BBC News says the US has agreed to ease Trump-era tariffs on UK steel and aluminium shipments, resolving an issue that had strained relations between the allies.
BBC News says the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have arrived in Jamaica as part of their tour of the Caribbean.
Arab News says the Saudi health ministry has ended the need for key COVID-19 travel requirements for those entering the Kingdom.
Aljazeera says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said in an interview that Russia would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened.
TRT World says Climate change is now “the greatest threat to the future and security” of Australia, senior defence figures in the country have warned.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who returned to Britain after being jailed for six years in an Iran detention (only to be freed once the UK had settled in £400m debt with Iran) has faced online abuse.
Kaylea Titford was 16 when she was found dead at her home in Newtown, Powys in Mid Wales in October 2020. Today her parents have appeared in court charged with her death.
Burnt wreckage and charred personal belongings have been found at the site of the plane crash in southern China, according to rescuers at the site.
BBC News says refugees from Sudan in Wales have been denied free rail travel after staff wrongly told them a new scheme was available only to those from Ukraine.
Belfast Telegraph says Parents have been warned to expect disruption to children’s education across Northern Ireland due to industrial action this week.
The Independent leads with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s press conference, leading with the quote: ‘I should have been back six years ago’.
The Guardian says an investigation has linked more than £13bn of global assets to 35 oligarchs and Russian officials alleged to have close ties to Vladimir Putin.
Two journalists who revealed Russian war crimes in Mariupol have been taken to safety by Ukrainian troops after being placed on a Kremlin hit list, Metro reports.
Campaigners want Rishi Sunak to increase state pensions to help fight a rise in the cost of living, the Daily Express reports.
The Daily Mirror says a man accused of killing MP Sir David Amess had previously targeted cabinet minister Michael Gove.
Michael Gove was a potential target of the man accused of killing Tory MP Sir David Amess, according to The Sun.
The Guardian says Boris Johnson is “desperate” to go to Ukraine and has a “real emotional connection” with the Ukrainian people, the Tory party chair has claimed.
The Guardian says China has locked down an industrial city of 9 million people overnight and reported more than 4,000 virus cases, as the nation’s “zero-Covid” strategy is confronted by an Omicron wave.
The Guardian says a man who was trapped 15ft (4.5m) underground for two days in a San Francisco Bay area storm pipe the width of a large pizza was rescued.
The Independent says Vladimir Putin is resorting to extreme tactics because his “back is against the wall”, according to Joe Biden, including using hypersonic missiles in Ukraine.
The Independent says a man has been charged with murder following the death of 19-year-old Sabita Thanwani at student halls in Clerkenwell, London.
The Independent says the number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 has reached the highest it has ever been since the start of the pandemic as restrictions ease across the country.
The Independent says the first week of spring will usher in seven days of sunshine across the UK, forecasters have said.