April 30, 2019
A café that caused controversy after charging a man tax for male customers has insisted that it wasn’t the cause for its closure.
Handsome Her in Melbourne in Australia gained international notoriety for offering women priority seating and charging male customers an 18 per cent premium to “reflect the gender pay gap”.
It has now shut its doors after two years of trading to the delight and dismay of people across the world.
In a statement the owners said that the business was profitable, but it was shutting because they are “young, educated and off on their next adventure”.
April 30, 2019
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two women were found in a freezer in an apartment in east London.
The suspects, are aged 34 and 50 and are in police custody. Detectives say that they are attempting to identify the victims and trace their families.
But it is believed one could be 38-year-old mother-of-two Mary Jane Mustafa who disappeared last May and – according to neighbours - was a friend of the resident of the flat.
April 30, 2019
The Conservative Party have crashed to fourth place in the polls in London for the forthcoming European elections — trailing the new Brexit Party and the Change UK Party.
A shock YouGov poll found the party of Prime Minister Theresa May limping on just 11 per cent in the capital — half of the 22 per cent share they enjoyed in 2014 when they came second.
Embarrassingly, they are six points behind the new, pro-European Change UK, which is on 17 per cent, while another new group the Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage is on 19 per cent.
Mrs May’s party is only one point ahead of two other pro-European groupings, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, meaning she risks slipping to a humiliating fifth place if the campaign goes badly.
April 30, 2019
Authorities in Venezuela say that they are overcoming a small coup attempt after the opposition leader posted a video saying he was in the final phase of ending the rule of President Nicolas Maduro.
Juan Guaido – who declared himself interim president in January and is backed by a number of countries - appeared flanked by soldiers and military vehicles and called for a peaceful uprising from the people.
He is hoping that the food and medicine shortages, power cuts and hyperinflation that are affecting the country will push more members of the military to Mr Guaido’s side.
Mr Maduro meanwhile has taken to twitter to say that he has spoken to regional military commanders who expressed their “total loyalty" to his government.
April 30, 2019
Courts in France have given 447 fines in eight months as part of new laws to tackle harassment of women.
The "outrages sexistes" law means offenders can be fined up to 850 dollars for breaking it.
The first man to be fined was in September 2018 for slapping a woman’s bottom and making lewd remarks.
Marlène Schiappa, the Equality Minister said that the new figures show the approach was working.
April 30, 2019
The US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has confirmed that he is resigning his role.
He was expected to step down in March but stayed longer to help Attorney General William Barr manage the public release of the Special Counsel's Russia probe.
Mr Rosenstein was frequently the subject of President Donald Trump’s ire after he appointed Robert Mueller to investigate links between the Russian government and his election campaign.
But in his resignation letter, the Deputy Attorney General thanked President Trump for his “courtesy and humor” in their personal conversations.
April 30, 2019
Indian army mountaineers claim to have discovered existence of the Yeti during an expedition in the Nepalese Himalayas.
In a post on Twitter accompanied by pictures, the Indian army said it had sighted footprints measuring 32 by 15 inches close to a camp near Mount Makalu.
The Yeti is said to live in the snow-capped mountains and is part of Nepali folklore, however it is largely regarded by the scientific community as a myth.
April 30, 2019
Tear gas was fired on the leader of the opposition in Venezuela after he started what appeared to be military uprising in the country.
Ahead of an anti-government rally, Juan Guaido posted a video in which he is flanked by soldiers and where he promises to end the rule of President Nicolas Maduro.
In the three minute speech, Guaido tells followers that the “moment is now” and says that the move will “achieve liberty and democracy for Venezuela”. He also called for the public to come onto the streets in peace.
However the Information Minister said that Mr Guaido was working “against the constitution and peace of the Republic” and insisted President Maduro’s government “will win”.
April 30, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a grassroots vote to oust her, meaning she is the first Conservative leader to face a challenge from members in the party’s 185-year history.
An emergency general meeting of 800 constituency chairmen and women and senior activists was triggered after a petition was circulated.
The move came from members who were unhappy with the way Mrs May handled the issue of Brexit.
While the June vote is non-binding, if she loses it she will be under huge pressure to step down.
April 30, 2019
A man who hacked a soldier to death has asked to be moved from a British prison to one in Nigeria.
37-year-old Michael Adebowale was one of two terrorists who stabbed Fusilier Lee Rigby to death outside an army barracks in London in 2013.
According to the Sun newspaper he fears for his safety in prison in the UK and has requested a transfer to one in Lagos.
It’s been reported that his request is unlikely to succeed as his parents, not he, were born in Nigeria.
