A bronze sculpture honouring former NBA player Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, his daughter Gianna Bryant and the names of the others who died, is displayed at the site of a 2020 helicopter crash on a hillside in Calabasas, California, 26 January 2022. Photo: AP
IRISH NEWS: Declan Haughney arrives for a special sitting at Kilkenny District Court. The man was arrested on Wednesday and charged in relation to an incident in Carlow town last Friday in which a dead man was brought into a post office to claim his pension money. Photograph: Colin K
Keegan/Collins Dublin.
A bizarre race against time is under way for the US Navy to reach one of its downed fighter jets - before the Chinese get there first. The $100m F35-C plane came down in the South China Sea after what the Navy describes as a "mishap" during take-off from the USS Carl Vinson. The jet is the Navy's newest, and crammed with classified equipment. As it is in international waters, it is technically fair game.
Russian media refers to the UK and the US as 'Anglo-Saxons', and sees them as particular adversaries
The Kremlin is telling its people that Ukraine is preparing to mount an unprovoked attack on areas controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. And that the government is Kiev is encouraged by the West which is driven by a blind hatred of Russia.
Six young Japanese people are suing the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant after developing thyroid cancer in the years following the 2011 nuclear disaster.
The plaintiffs, aged between six and 16 at the time of the disaster, say they got cancer from radiation exposure. All of them underwent surgery to remove parts or all of their thyroid glands, their lawyer said.
Hundreds of Palestinian activists have been taking part in a rare online event strongly criticizing Hamas governance of the Gaza Strip. They accuse Hamas of not spending money on rebuilding Gaza after the war with Israel last year."Hamas has billions of dollars in investments in many countries, while people [in Gaza] starve to death and migrate in search of work," said another activist, Amer Balosha, during the social media event……
Budva, Montenegro
The mayor of Budva, Marko Carević, greets Novak Djokovic, who was receiving an honorary citizen award
Photograph: Stevo Vasiljević/Reuters
Dresden, Germany
The defendant covers his face as he takes his seat in court before the start of the trial over a heist in which 18th-century jewels were snatched from the state museum
Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images
Gaza Strip
Palestinian refugees warm themselves by a fire outside their home during cold weather. Most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip use batteries, generators or candles to light their homes. Home to 1.8 million people, Gaza residents experience about 16 electricity outages every day.
Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy complains war talk is causing panic in financial centres and depleting gold reserves. Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters
He said the UK and US are wrong to pull out non-essential diplomatic staff from Kyiv, adding: “We don’t have a Titanic here.”
A Russian military exercise has been moved further from the Irish coast, after pressure from politicians and fishermen. The decision to relocate the exercise had been made as a "gesture of goodwill", the Russian ambassador to Ireland, Yuri Filatov, said on Saturday.
“Of course it’s better to have the crowd on your side,” Nadal said. “Tonight was crazy for me. But I really believe he has a great future in front and he is going to feel this love of the crowd in the future because he deserves it.”
Cronies of Vladimir Putin own some of London’s most desirable addresses
Sanctions will make little difference against Putin. The oligarchs who keep him in power have long since moved their money to Britain, says Oliver Bullough.
Source: The Times
Londonderry, Northern Ireland
On the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday killings, people hold pictures of victims as they retrace the steps of the original 1972 civil rights march, in a walk of remembrance
Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
A military instructor teaches civilians holding wooden replicas of Kalashnikov rifles, during a training session at an abandoned factory in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
Spectators use their mobile phones as drones with lights fly over the Presidental Palace during the “Beating Retreat” ceremony in New Delhi, India, 29 January 2022.
Pedestrians and traffic make their way through heavy snow in Times Square, New York, 29 January 2022. A powerful winter storm packing heavy snow and high winds pummeled the US East Coast forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights as severe weather alerts were sounded across the region of around 70 million people.
A new investigation has identified a suspect who may have betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis.
The team including an ex-FBI agent said Arnold van den Bergh, a Jewish figure in Amsterdam, probably "gave up" the Franks to save his own family.
Cronies of Vladimir Putin own some of London’s most desirable addresses
Sanctions will make little difference against Putin. The oligarchs who keep him in power have long since moved their money to Britain, says Oliver Bullough. Source: The Times
Ukrainians sending a message to the country’s western allies in Independence Square in Kyiv on Sunday. Photograph: Vladimir Sindeyeve/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
London, England
The Foxes, a work by a father of 20th-century modernism, Franz Marc, will be offered for sale by Christie’s on 1 March with an estimate in the region of £35m. In 2021, The Foxes was restituted to the heirs of Kurt and Else Grawi of Berlin, victims of Nazi persecution, who owned the painting from 1928 to 1940
Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock
