Philip Patrick

In a dramatic and unnanounced move, South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday in a live broadcast on YTN television.

There are extraordinary theories as to what motivated President Yoon, or at least what motivated the timing of the martial law declaration.

In one of his last official acts US President Joe Biden has issued an order blocking the $14.9 billion acquisition of US Steel by the Japanese company Nippon Steel.

In extraordinary scenes more reminiscent of a South American coup than a supposedly stable first world democracy, fights broke out between protestors

(Getty) In extraordinary scenes more reminiscent of a South American coup than a supposedly stable first world democracy, fights broke out

South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has been arrested after police officers scaled fences and cut through barbed wire to detain him

South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has been arrested after police officers scaled fences and cut through barbed wire to detain him in his luxury Seoul residence. Suk-yeol, the first ever sitting South Korean leader to be taken into custody, was held in connection with his failed attempt to impose martial law last month. But while South Korean authorities have finally got their man, this is far from the end of the saga.

Legal drug ‘shooting galleries’ will destroy more lives, not save them

Erling Haaland is to be paid £1 million a week from Manchester City. Shouldn’t the most beautiful players get the highest fees?

Oh dear… it appears that birthday and greetings cards are sexist. This is, at least, the claim of a group of MPs who have submitted an EDM (Early Day Motion) calling for more representation of female footballers on such items by their manufacturers. The motion was tabled by Liberal Democrat MP for Epsom and Ewell,