Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” that became a sprawling franchise and a longtime favorite of children and adults, died on Dec. 25 in Los Angeles. She was 81. Her death was confirmed by her daughter Holly…
In the trilogy’s second book, “Small World” (1984), Morris Zapp, a slick theoretician delivering a lecture at a conference, uses the striptease style supposedly popular in the all-nude go-go bars of Berkeley, Calif., as a metaphor for what continental theory has uncovered about language: “This is not striptease, it is all strip and no tease,…
Syria’s new leaders met the French and German foreign ministers in the capital, Damascus, on Friday in one of the highest-level Western diplomatic visits since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad last month. Annalena Baerbock of Germany and her French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, arrived in Damascus for the first such trip in years on behalf…
A brave Ukrainian mother has told how Russian militants stripped her naked and had 15 men rape her before making a chilling threat on her little daughter’s life. Natalia Vlasova, born in 1981, was savagely tortured and sexually assaulted by the Russians after being seized in Donbas back in 2018, before Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine….
A young boy was rescued after surviving five days in a game park full of lions and elephants in Zimbabwe, a lawmaker in the east African country said this week. Mutsa Murombedzi, a member of Zimbabwe’s parliament, said in a Wednesday post on social media that Tinotenda Pudu had strayed into the Matusadona Game Park…
TOI correspondent from Washington: A storied socialist Senator who jumped into the H1B visa fracas by embracing the MAGA position that US big tech is “replacing good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad” was stung by critics from both sides of the aisle as America continued to buzz with arguments for and against…
Elon Musk wrote ‘yes’ to a post that asked whether King Charles should call for a fresh election in the UK. Elon Musk supported a call for King Charles to dissolve parliament and order a new General Election as he had been clashing with the Keir Stamer government over grooming gangs. Known for his strong…
The transition from joy to terror can be swift, especially when it involves tourists and wild animals. A recent incident saw a zookeeper mauled to death by lions while filming himself in an attempt to “impress his girlfriend”. The 44 year old, identified as F Iriskulov, was trying to corral three escaped lions at the…
By SABRINA PENTY Published: 14:28 GMT, 3 January 2025 | Updated: 15:32 GMT, 3 January 2025 A burning piece of space debris weighing 500kg plunged into Earth and landed in a rural Kenyan village. The scorching piece of metal was later identified to be the separation ring from a launch rocket that descended rapidly and…
A British woman has issued an emotional warning to travellers after being arrested and detained at a Delhi airport for carrying a common GPS device, which is banned in India. Heather, a qualified mountain leader based in West Yorkshire, was heading to the northern city of Rishikesh when security at the Indira Gandhi International Airport handed her…
