Sports
Britain is in the running to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, UK Athletics chief executive Jack Buckner said on Monday, the day after the conclusion of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.London organised the event in 2017, while Glasgow hosted the world indoor championsh...
Sports,Football
If it was a boxing match, the referee would have stopped it. If this was baseball, they would have invoked the mercy rule. If this was a park game, they would have mixed up the teams.The first half of Sheffield United's match against Arsenal was as one-sided an exhibition of football as has been...
Chelsea striker and Matildas captain Sam Kerr is set to face trial after being charged with racially aggravated harassment of a London police officer.The 30-year-old Australia international pleaded not guilty to the offence at a court hearing on Monday, the Crown Prosecution Service said.Kerr is sch...
If the events that unfolded in Paris St-Germain's last game are anything to go by, it is going to be an interesting final few months for Kylian Mbappe at the French club.Mbappe has agreed to join Real Madrid this summer and, although that has not been officially confirmed by PSG, it seems they a...
World,Back Page
The German parliament has backed a new law to allow the recreational use of cannabis.Under the law, over-18s in Germany will be allowed to possess substantial amounts of cannabis, but strict rules will make it difficult to buy the drug.Smoking cannabis in many public spaces will become legal from 1 ...
A court in Spain has found former Barcelona and Brazil footballer Dani Alves guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub.He has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.The 40-year-old, who is one of the most decorated footballers in history, had denied sexually assaulting the woman i...
Sony Music Group is understood to have paid at least $600m (£475m) for half of Michael Jackson's catalogue.If accurate, it would mean the singer's musical assets are worth more than $1.2bn (£950m).The deal would also be the biggest ever for the work of a single musician.Michael J...
The city of Belo Horizonte is little known outside Brazil. Despite being a state capital and Brazil's sixth-largest city, Beagá, as locals affectionately call it, doesn't have beautiful beaches or colonial architecture to help put it on the map. Until recently, the city didn't eve...
Taylor Swift stole the show at this year's Grammy Awards, becoming the first performer to win the prize for album of the year four times.The superstar had previously been tied on three best album wins with Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Frank Sinatra.She received the prize from Celine Dion, who m...
World,Front Page
Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been jailed for 14 years, the second sentence handed to Pakistan's former prime minister in two days.The two sentences come just a week before the South Asian country is due to hold an election in which he is barred from standing.Khan, who was o...
Demonstrations are taking place across major cities in Kenya to protest against the rising cases of femicide and other violence against women.Hundreds have gathered in Nairobi, Nakuru, Mombasa, Nyeri and Lodwar, some carrying placards with the names of those who were killed.A 2022 survey found at le...
World
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a grand temple to Hindu god Ram in the flashpoint city of Ayodhya.He said it heralded "a new era" for India - the temple replaces a 16th-Century mosque torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992, sparking riots in which nearly 2,000 people died.Top ...
Australia has axed its so-called "golden visa", which granted wealthy overseas investors the right to live in the country.Designed to attract foreign business, it was cut in an immigration overhaul after the government found it was "delivering poor economic outcomes".Critics have...
With Ron DeSantis suspending his presidential campaign on Sunday, Nikki Haley gets the one-on-one match-up with Donald Trump for which she's been longing."At one point in this campaign, there were 14 of us running," she says in an email fundraising pitch, sent out shortly after the DeS...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has again rejected the idea of creating a Palestinian state.His comments came hours after a phone call with US President Joe Biden after which the US leader indicated Mr Netanyahu may still accept the idea.Mr Netanyahu's remarks appeared to deepen a...
Germany is wrestling with a potentially explosive debate over whether to ban the far-right party Alternative for Germany, or AfD.Germans have been shocked by revelations that senior figures attended a meeting where mass deportations were allegedly discussed.A growing backlash has sparked large prote...
A Singapore cabinet minister has been charged with corruption, in a rare case that has shocked a nation which prides itself on squeaky-clean governance.Subramaniam Iswaran pleaded not guilty to 27 charges including "obtaining gratification as a public servant".He is known for overseeing Si...
Business
Boeing says there will be more quality inspections for its 737 Max aircraft after an unused door blew off an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight.The US plane maker said that an outside party would be brought in to assess its production practices.It will also check the work of the firm that supplies and...
Bilateral ties between the Maldives and India - that have hit rock-bottom in recent weeks - have taken another tumble after Male formally asked Delhi to withdraw its troops from the island nation by 15 March.The demand was conveyed at the first meeting of a high-level core group between the two side...
One of Taiwan's last diplomatic allies has cut ties with the island in favour of Beijing, just days after a new president was voted in in Taipei.Nauru, a tiny Micronesian island, was just one of 12 countries that kept diplomatic ties with Taipei.But in recent years, Beijing - which insists Taiwa...
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