Bayerns Innenminister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) hat « Lügenpropaganda » für den starken Zulauf zu einer Großdemonstration gegen das geplante neue bayerische Polizeigesetz verantwortlich gemacht. « Ich bin vor allen Dingen überrascht davon, dass die zum Teil auch Lügenpropaganda der letzten Wochen wohl auch manch unbedarfte Menschen in die Irre geführt hat », sagte Herrmann am Freitag im Bayerischen Rundfunk.…

Less than a month after his abrupt departure from WPP Plc, Martin Sorrell is planning his next act. “I am not going into voluntary or involuntary retirement,” the deposed 73-year-old ads czar said at a New York conference this week. “I’m going to start again.” So if Sorrell were to try to build an advertising giant anew,…

Before he directed such mind-bending masterpieces as Time Bandits, Brazil and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, before he became short-hand for a filmmaker cursed with cosmically bad luck, before he became the sole American member of seminal British comedy group Monty Python, Terry Gilliam made a name for himself creating odd animated bits for…

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Immy and the signed roof tile Michael Halliday, the former Ireland captain, has a broken pub roof tile on his mantelpiece. It is signed by Imran Khan. Because it was Imran who hit him out of Pagham Cricket ground when playing for Sussex against Ireland in 1977. Imran Khan made a hundred that day. When…

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Donald Trump claimed that « America is being respected again » and vowed to « secure peace » with North Korea.  Speaking at a rally in Elkhart, Indiana, the US president said his relationship with the secretive communist state’s leader Kim Jong-un was « good », adding that he would meet him « to secure a future of peace and prosperity for the world ».  He told his cheering supporters: « Something…

NITV News yesterday published a video which shows an unmarked police car in the Western Australian town of Thornlie swerving across the road toward William Farmer, an 18-year-old Indigenous man. Farmer was taken to Fiona Stanley hospital for treatment. « A WA Police Force officer at the centre of an internal investigation into an incident in…

Seven people have been found dead at a rural property in Western Australia (WA), police have confirmed. The bodies of four children and three adults were discovered in the town of Osmington, 280km (170 miles) south of Perth, on Friday. Two firearms were found at the scene. « The bodies of two adults were located outside…