"Winnie the Pooh" was banished from central Madrid ahead of a visit by Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, this week, sparing Spain from an embarrassing faux pas. A street performer who makes his daily living by posing for photographs in Sol Square dressed in a furry Pooh costume has told Spanish media that police officers asked…
Friedrich Merz, one of the frontrunners in the race to succeed Angela Merkel as leader of her party, has admitted he earns "around one million euros" a year, days after claiming to be middle class. In an interview published on Sunday, Mr Merz told Bild am Sonntag newspaper he earns around €1 million (£900,000) per annum…
In the remote township of Jabiru in the heart of Kakadu, Australia’s largest national park, the traditional Aboriginal owners are in a quandry. They want to attract more tourists in a bid to salvage the area but are grappling with a growing problem: crocodiles. The town, about 150 miles from the northern city of Darwin,…
Ukraine has barred Russian men of military age from entering the country amid an escalating military and diplomatic standoff following last weekend’s naval clash. Petro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, said the ban on male Russian citizens between the ages of 16 and 60 would be imposed under the state of martial law he declared…
Click:numerology life path number The ability to trade Pokémon with your friends is finally coming to Pokémon Go. It will arrive in the next week or so, with a new friends list feature locked in for this week. Trading has been a highly-requested feature since the app launched two years ago – but getting it…
US politicians introduced legislation on Wednesday urging the White House to consider sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the ongoing crackdown against Muslim minorities, and halt the sale of US technology potentially used by China for surveillance. A draft bill seen by The Telegraph calls specifically for sanctions against Chen Quanguo, a senior official and Communist Party…
Japan has taken a step towards relaxing its strict immigration laws with a new bill that could pave the way for an influx of hundreds of thousands of overseas workers. The controversial legislation, which opposition parties attempted to block, was pushed through the lower house of parliament by the ruling coalition. The new bill marks…
Italy’s populist government has escalated tensions with France by saying it will cancel the previously agreed loan of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci paintings to the Louvre for a major 2019 exhibition. Speaking to The Telegraph on Sunday, Lucia Borgonzoni, Italian undersecretary for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, said the government would block the Louvre…
NEW YORK — Just as “Black Panther” is setting records at the box office, a new study finds that diverse audiences are driving most of the biggest blockbusters and many of the most-watched hits on television. UCLA’s Bunche Center released its fifth annual study on diversity in the entertainment industry Tuesday, unveiling an analysis of…
Humans are being used as bait in a bid to catch a man-eating leopard after it killed three people in the space of a week in India’s western state of Gujarat, with forest rangers spending the night in a cage to lure the animal. The wild cat has killed three, including two children, and injured five people…