• The Guardian

    Sunday with Lou Sanders: ‘A fireside pub table for games – Bananagrams, Scrabble’

    The comic snuggles her cats, goes to gymnastics, squeals in delight at vegan Yorkshire puddings

  • The Canadian Press

    With a vest and a voice, helpers escort kids through San Francisco’s broken Tenderloin streets

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wearing a bright safety vest with the words “Safe Passage” on the back, Tatiana Alabsi strides through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school, navigating broken bottles and stained sleeping bags along tired streets that occasionally reek of urine. Along the way in one of America’s most notorious neighborhoods, she calls out to politely alert people huddled on sidewalks, some holding strips of tin foil topped with illicit drugs. “Good aft

  • Reuters

    Russia blames Baltic countries for the severing of most ties

    "Because of the openly hostile line of Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn, all interstate, interdepartmental, regional and sectoral ties with Russia have been severed," Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian foreign ministry told the RIA state news agency, referring to the capitals of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. She added that Moscow will continue to use diplomatic measures of influence on the Baltic countries.