Australia take firm grip on Lord’s Test
Steve Smith scored an unbeaten 85 to guide Australia to 339-5 as England wasted favourable bowling conditions on the first day of the second Ashes test at Lord’s on Wednesday.
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Presumed human remains and shattered Titanic submersible returned to shore
Presumed human remains and debris from the tourist submersible crushed to pieces in an undersea implosion that killed all five people aboard were recovered from the ocean bottom and brought ...
Second night of unrest erupts in France after police shoot teenager
Protesters shot fireworks at police and set cars ablaze in the working class Paris suburb of Nanterre on Wednesday, in a second night of unrest following the fatal shooting of ...
Ukrainian forces advance ‘slowly but surely’ at front -official
Ukrainian forces are advancing “slowly but surely” on the front lines in the east and southeast of the country as well as around the longstanding flashpoint of Bakhmut, senior military ...
Australia urged to ban online gambling ads to curb growing addiction
Australia should phase out advertising for online gambling in three years, a parliamentary committee of inquiry recommended on Wednesday as it looked to limit the “havoc” it caused in one ...
Hungary delays ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership -media
Hungary’s parliament will not ratify Sweden’s NATO membership before the summer recess as it has not included the vote in the agenda of next week’s session, Hungarian ...
Smoke hangs over U.S. Midwest, East, hurting air quality
Hazy, smoke-filled skies from raging Canadian wildfires hovered Wednesday over the U.S. Midwest and East, where millions of Americans were urged to limit outdoor activities as the poor air ...
Biden using CPAP machine for sleep apnea, officials say
U.S. President Joe Biden has begun using a continuous positive airway pressure machine to address what is a long-standing problem with sleep apnea, White House officials said on Wednesday.
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As Russia teetered, the elite trembled, and private jets left
As one of the world’s most brutal mercenary forces marched on Moscow, some among Russia’s elite trembled in fear that the world’s biggest nuclear power was teetering ...
Kevin Spacey appears in London court for start of sex offence trial
Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey appeared in a London court on Wednesday at the start of his four-week trial on a dozen sex offence charges.
Spacey, 63, denies allegations of historic offences ...
Twin sisters among 11 killed in Russian attack on Kramatorsk
Two 14-year-old twin sisters were among at least 11 people killed in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kramatorsk, officials said on Wednesday.
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Protesters burn Koran at Stockholm mosque on Eid holiday
A man tore up and burned a Koran outside Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday, an event that risks angering Turkey as Sweden bids to join NATO, after Swedish police ...
Zelenskiy calls Russian leaders ‘bandits’, rules out frozen conflict
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described Russia’s political and military leaders as bandits on Wednesday, and ruled out any peace plan that would turn the war on Ukraine into a frozen ...
Italy pledges to stamp out anti-Semitism from football stadiums
Italy has signed a letter of intent aimed at eradicating anti-Semitism from football stadiums across the country.
Instances of racism and anti-Semitism are commonplace in Italian stadiums, with fans regularly ...
Macron says police killing of teenager ‘inexcusable’ after riots
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called the shooting dead of a 17-year-old by police during a traffic stop near Paris “inexcusable” in rare criticism of law-enforcement hours after the ...
Over half of Americans have faced online hate
Over half of Americans surveyed in the last year reported facing online harassment and hate during their lifetime, including more than 75% of transgender responders, advocacy group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said ...
UBS to cut more than half of Credit Suisse workforce
UBS Group (UBSG.S) is looking to cut more than half of Credit Suisse’s workforce from next month as a result of the bank’s takeover, Bloomberg News reported ...
Britain records more foreign investment projects but fewer new jobs
Britain attracted more foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in 2022/23 than the previous year, but they generated fewer new jobs, government figures showed on Tuesday.
Data from the Department for Business ...
Protesters halt second Ashes Test match at Lords
The first morning of the second Ashes test at Lord’s was interrupted when two Just Stop Oil protesters ran on to the ground and scattered orange powder on the ...
Actor Julian Sands confirmed dead, months after vanishing in California mountains
British-born actor Julian Sands, best known for his role in the Oscar-celebrated film “A Room with a View,” was confirmed dead on Tuesday, five months after he went missing while ...
Brazil fan leaves everything to Neymar in will
Leaving everything you own to a multi-millionaire footballer would not be everyone’s idea of a good cause, but one Brazilian fan could not think of a more deserving recipient ...
ECB policymakers see little chance of rate hike pause as inflation stubborn
European Central Bank policymakers don’t generally expect evidence that stubborn inflation is easing to be clear enough for them to pause the longest streak of interest rate hikes in ...
Rapper Stormzy, Palace’s Zaha to buy Croydon Athletic
Rapper Stormzy has teamed up with Crystal Palace striker Wilfried Zaha to buy ninth-tier English soccer side Croydon Athletic, the club said on Tuesday.
Zaha was born in the Ivory ...
One in seven Britons faced hunger in 2022, says food bank charity
One in seven people in the United Kingdom faced hunger last year because they did not have enough money, according to a report published on Wednesday by food bank charity ...