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Mark Knopfler, 40 years after Dire Straits’ groundbreaking album: ‘I’m not good enough to improvise like a jazz musician’

Mark Knopfler, 40 years after Dire Straits’ groundbreaking album: ‘I’m not good enough to improvise like a jazz musician’

Mark Knopfler wrote the lyrics for Money for Nothing half-hidden behind a stack of microwave ovens, sitting next to the window of an appliance store. He wanted to capture the bizarre scene he was witnessing: a delivery boy, taking a break — and...

World's 'safest countries' in case of nuclear war as Iran-Israeli conflict deepens

World's 'safest countries' in case of nuclear war as Iran-Israeli conflict deepens

04:44 ET, 20 Jun 2025 With whispers of another global conflict stirring, people worldwide are scouring for sanctuaries amidst Russia's continual nuclear saber-rattling towards Western nations, simmering strife in the Middle East, and suggestions...

The day the fates of Jordan and Maradona diverged

The day the fates of Jordan and Maradona diverged

On June 21, 1995, God was recovering in a hospital bed. The surgical thinning of his “jowls” had been successful. “I’ve lost so much weight that they began to look inflamed and were totally unaesthetic,” Diego Maradona said through a translator....

35 hot new books to fit your summer mood

35 hot new books to fit your summer mood

Summer, for a lot of us, is peak reading season. Those extra hours of sunlight mean more time to sneak in just one more chapter, whether you’re stretched out in the grass, relaxing on the beach or a balcony, or hiding from the heat indoors. To...

A brief history of the global economy, through the lens of a single barge

A brief history of the global economy, through the lens of a single barge

In 1989, New York City opened a new jail. But not on dry land. The city leased a barge, then called the “Bibby Resolution,” which had been topped with five stories of containers made into housing, and anchored it in the East River. For five years,...

The remarkable quest to identify Captain Cook’s Endeavour

The remarkable quest to identify Captain Cook’s Endeavour

The announcement that a shipwreck in Newport Harbor, 200 miles up the coast from New York City, has been proven to be James Cook’s HMS Endeavour, will not surprise those who have followed the search for years. In 1768, when Cook set out to record...

Pubs giant in plan to convert city centre landmark into hotel

Pubs giant in plan to convert city centre landmark into hotel

Regeneration specialist Artisan Real Estate has submitted a planning application to the City of Edinburgh Council to transform the sandstone office building on the edge of the New Town into a 102-bedroom hotel. The current occupiers of Albany...

British Overseas Territories: how you can visit or even live in one of these tax-free havens

British Overseas Territories: how you can visit or even live in one of these tax-free havens

From the financial hub of the Cayman Islands to the rugged natural beauty of South Georgia, British Overseas Territories (BOTs) might ring a bell - but do you truly grasp what they are? Are these "British" locales simply tax havens for the...

Our Changing World: Getting ready for H5N1 bird flu

Our Changing World: Getting ready for H5N1 bird flu

New Zealand, Australia and Oceania are the last places in the world where H5N1 bird flu has not yet been detected. Photo: Jenny Edwards Five years after Covid-19 reached New Zealand shores, we are bracing for the arrival of another deadly virus: a...

Beautiful 'picture postcard' UK village is like stepping into another world

Beautiful 'picture postcard' UK village is like stepping into another world

Sitting on the edge of the Cotswolds is a village not as traditional as its neighbours. The ‘picture postcard’ destination is defined by cottages in a different shade but just as charming and impressive. Great Tew is located five miles east of...

Today in High Prairie: June 15, 2025

Today in High Prairie! See what’s happening today in town, celebrity birthdays, local history, world history and your daily horoscope. Please send your birthdays and community events to southpeacenews@hotmail.com and/or spneditor@outlook.com....

How British Overseas Territories work - and how you can visit or live in one of them

How British Overseas Territories work - and how you can visit or live in one of them

The British Overseas Territories (BOTs), from the financial powerhouse of the Cayman Islands to the untamed beauty of South Georgia, are often recognised but not fully understood. Are these "British" spots merely havens for the rich to avoid...

PETER YOUNG: Need to de-escalate conflict between Israel and Iran

By PETER YOUNG With the crisis in the Middle East moving so fast following Israel’s first long-anticipated strike on Iran last week, it is hard to comment meaningfully at this early stage. Observers are still assessing the significance of this and...

Today in High Prairie: June 14, 2025

Today in High Prairie! See what’s happening today in town, celebrity birthdays, local history, world history and your daily horoscope. Please send your birthdays and community events to southpeacenews@hotmail.com and/or spneditor@outlook.com....

Yukonomist: Canada's quickest, cheapest and most doable Arctic sovereignty gambit

Yukonomist: Canada's quickest, cheapest and most doable Arctic sovereignty gambit

The Arctic and the Yukon are back in global headlines and Canada is, once again, scrambling to react. Fortunately, the Yukon can offer a gambit that is one of Canada’s quickest, cheapest and most doable moves to bolster its Arctic sovereignty. But...

Citizen Journalism: A Reading List

Citizen Journalism: A Reading List

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. The next time you watch user-generated news content—say, a street demonstration filmed on a smartphone—you might recognize that clip as part of a wider democratic movement. Citizen...

Adam Curtis paints Britain’s death pangs

Adam Curtis paints Britain’s death pangs

Adam Curtis’ last series, TraumaZone, used archive footage and an increasingly abstract editing style to portray the dissolution of Soviet society. It showed political leaders slowly realising their mental models bore no relation to reality, that...

Red Arrows flightpath route and exact timings to see Trooping the Colour flypast over London

Red Arrows flightpath route and exact timings to see Trooping the Colour flypast over London

A map showing the route of the Red Arrows flightpath has been created and shared for eagle-eyed observers as preparations get underway for the King's official birthday celebrations. Trooping the Colour takes place once again on Saturday, June 14,...

John McDonnell proposes to save the Labour Party from Starmer

John McDonnell proposes to save the Labour Party from Starmer

John McDonnell has issued a public call in the Guardian for Labour Party members to “take back control of the party.” The angry, forceful and urgent headline of the MP, currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party, reads, “Starmer and...

On This Day: Army established as 1st U.S. military branch

On This Day: Army established as 1st U.S. military branch

On this date in history: In 1623, in the first breach-of-promise lawsuit in the United States, the Rev. Greville Pooley sued Cicely Jordan in Charles City, Va., for jilting him for another man. In 1775, the Continental Congress established the...

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