On 1 September 1974 two men made the fastest ever journey between New York and London. The astonishing trip – at three times the speed of sound – took less than two hours and set a record that still stands 50 years later. Even the mighty Concorde, which set the record for the fastest commercial … Read more
Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Sherwood on BBC One. Please don’t read it unless you have watched series two, episode three. Siblings in crime – and a surprise comeback The community reeled from news of the Skegness slaughter. “The execution of two citizens under our protection,” a rattled police bigwig called it. … Read more
It was a magnificent day for ParalympicsGB in Paris – their most successful of the 21st century, with 12 gold medals to slide into the team tracksuit pocket. Even if it has not gone to plan for all Britain’s former champions this Games, it did for Hannah Cockroft, who collected her fourth consecutive T34 100m … Read more
There were three gold medals for Britain on a triumphant day at the velodrome, starting with a gold and silver in the men’s B 1,000m time trial and finishing with a happy redemption gold for Kadeena Cox in the C1-5 750m team sprint. Cox, who crashed out of her C4-5 500m time trial final on … Read more
Hyderabad: A division bench of the Telangana High Court took on file a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the inaction of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in considering the concerns over illegal leasing of lands by the ministry of tourism. The two-judge panel comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sreenivas Rao was hearing a PIL … Read more
Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Sunday night and a general strike was called for the country amid an eruption of public outrage over the government’s handling of the war in Gaza after the deaths of six hostages being held deep underground by Hamas. The discovery of the hostages’ bodies in … Read more
New Delhi: Calling the pendency of court cases a big challenge, President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday said that efforts need to be made to change the “culture of adjournments” in courts to ensure swift justice. Addressing the valedictory event of the two-day National Conference of the District Judiciary organised by the Supreme Court, the President … Read more
Watch: Russian missile strikes Kharkiv near metro and supermarket Russian air strikes have injured at least 41 people in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials have said. Regional head Oleh Syniehubov said five children were among those wounded and he accused Moscow of “aiming exclusively at civilian infrastructure” in the city. Among the buildings damaged … Read more
In the glitzy world of showbiz, where chiselled jawlines and bulging biceps once reigned supreme, a new trend is shaking up conventional notions of masculinity. Enter the era of the “sexy rodent men”, a phenomenon captivating audiences and redefining what it means to be a leading man. Gone are the days when the epitome of … Read more
After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the former West German chancellor Willy Brandt predicted that reunification would finally allow “what belongs together to grow together”. How optimistic that image of organic healing sounds 35 years on. Tonight’s historic election results from Thuringia and Saxony paint a picture of a Germany whose eastern and … Read more