At 21, Rodney Wilkinson was the best fencer in South Africa: national champion in foil and sabre, second in epee. He had toured Europe and Argentina. He had not stood on the Olympic podium, because So

The £5 entry is a good start. So is the loud, lively music booming down the nightclub’s stairway. But when I finally reach the dancefloor, hidden behind a curtain, my hopes for a wild night out in Bir

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Jewish children in Australia face antisemitic abuse at school, see swastikas daubed on walls and witness classmates perform Nazi salutes: they live with antisemitism “all day, every day”, a Sydney Jew

An acclaimed Canadian fiddle player has launched a $1.5m civil lawsuit against Google, alleging that the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summar

Pep Guardiola praised Manchester City’s refusal to accept defeat at Everton, but admitted the destiny of the Premier League title is out of their hands after dropping two precious points at Hill Dicki

Widow of falsely accused murder suspect plans to sue Scottish authorities The widow of a businessman who was falsely accused of a 1997 murder has urged the Indian prime minister to back her family's b

'Rivals circle Starmer' and bid to reopen Hormuz pushes region 'to the brink'3 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSeveral of the papers focus on Sir Keir Starmer's future, with the Times sugg

'We won't see her because she's Asian': How Lea Salonga fought to be seen on Broadway The year was 1991 and Lea Salonga already had won a Tony for her performance as the lead character in Miss Saigon

Poverty and technology fueling record levels of slavery in UK The rising cost of living and new technology have fueled record levels of exploitation in the UK, the independent anti-slavery commissione

Explosion at China fireworks factory kills 21 people A blast at a fireworks factory in China's Hunan province has killed 21 people and left 61 wounded, according to state media. The explosion at the H

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered a potentially open-ended ceasefire beginning on Wednesday to Vladimir Putin, whose defence ministry has demanded that hostilities should cease for Friday and Saturday s

Slavery in the UK is at record levels and is expected to worsen over the next decade, the government’s independent anti-slavery commissioner has warned. According to the number of referrals to the na

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A parade that made 25 years of heartbreak worth it After 25 long, long years, including a stint in England's fourth tier, Coventry City are back in the Premier League - and on Bank Holiday Monday they

Pulitzer prize officials awarded the fiction award to an author with a long history in fantasy, horror and young adult novels: Daniel Kraus, cited for Angel Down, a first world war narrative that unfo

Elon Musk settled the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil lawsuit accusing the world’s richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial purchases of stock in Twitter, now k

GameStop’s shares fell more than 10% on Monday as questions emerged about how the company would finance its surprise $55.5bn bid for eBay. In an interview with CNBC, Ryan Cohen, GameStop’s CEO, skirt

Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found. Norway is the larges

Two marine rescue volunteers have died as they sought to assist a stricken yacht in a deadly rescue mission. Three people died during the rescue effort as volunteers went to the aid of a yacht at the

From 3h ago 16.39 EDT Four Australians on cruise ship with suspected hantavirus outbreak Four Australians are stuck on a luxury cruise ship stranded off the coast of Cape Verde after a suspected outbr

As the ticker tape rained down on Wu Yize and the Chinese flag was draped over the shoulders of snooker’s newest superstar as he clutched the game’s most famous prize, it was hard not to imagine that