Author: Pheodora Waqanibaravi
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Rafael Nadal will miss the French Open for the first time in 19 years after a hip injury ruled out the record 14-time men’s singles champion. “I didn’t make the decision, my body made the decision. To play Roland Garros is impossible,” he said. “Next year will probably be my last year. That is my […]
The ruler of Ghana’s Asante people is pressing the British Museum to return gold items in its collection.The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, who attended the Coronation of King Charles, later met the museum director Dr Hartwig Fischer for discussions. The British Museum’s collection includes works taken from the Asante palace in Kumasi during the […]
An IT worker sued her boss for sexual harassment after believing his use of “xx”, “yy”, and “????” in an email asking for more information was a coded way of asking for sexual relations. Karina Gasparova also claimed that when Alexander Goulandris renamed a work file with his initials ‘ajg’ it was an abbreviation of […]
Harrison Ford has emotionally accepted Cannes Film Festival’s honorary Palme d’Or lifetime achievement award, the most prestigious honour offered at the annual event. Ford was at the world renowned film festival in southern France ahead of the premiere for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the fifth instalment of the adventure saga. […]
A woman has visited her own heart at a museum 16 years after it was removed during life-saving transplant surgery.Jennifer Sutton, from Ringwood in Hampshire, said it was “incredibly surreal” to see the organ as an exhibit at London’s Hunterian Museum. The 38-year-old said she hoped it would help promote organ donation, describing it as […]
Outside a stadium in France , a little boy sadly had his phone stolen before a soccer game, but to his suprise he caught the attention of the crowd who were waiting around the stadium and they all threw their hands in to help him raise enough funds to replace his phone. A truly heart […]
An ambitious plan to fly travellers across the world via space would see the flight time between the UK and Australia drop to a mere two hours. The flights would enter space for a period of time before descending back into the Earth’s orbit – slashing a good 20 hours of flying time in the […]
A wild male lion believed to be one of the world’s oldest has died after being speared by herders.Loonkiito, who was 19, died in Olkelunyiet village after preying on livestock.Conservation group Lion Guardians said he was “the oldest male lion in our ecosystem and possibly in Africa”. Most lions live to around 13 […]
A baby has been born using three people’s DNA for the first time in the UK, the fertility regulator has confirmed.Most of their DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman.The pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases.Fewer than five such […]
Tom Hanks says he has written his first novel as a “release from the never-ending pressure” of making movies.The two-time Oscar winner is publishing The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, inspired by his own screen career.The long grind of shooting a film, he tells the BBC, means you can “just run out of […]
