(Reuters) – Britain’s India Lee and Denmark’s Magnus Ditlev were the first winners of the inaugural T100 long distance triathlon on Saturday in Miami, besting a highly competitive field of the world’s top triathletes. The debut race of the newly launched series, staged on a route at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, included a 2-km swim in …
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DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) -England’s seemingly ageless James Anderson on Saturday became the first seam bowler to claim 700 test wickets, achieving the feat in the fifth and final test against India at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium. Playing in his 187th test, the 41-year-old dismissed Kuldeep Yadav caught behind to become only the third …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, has said she was targeted with “hateful” online abuse during her two pregnancies, criticising the toxicity and lack of humanity on the internet and in parts of the media. Meghan married King Charles’ second son Harry in 2018, and the couple have two children, Archie, 4, and …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A pro-Palestinian activist slashed a painting of the early 20th-century British foreign minister Arthur Balfour at Cambridge University on Friday, saying his 1917 declaration was the reason the Palestinians had lost their homeland to Israel. A video posted on social media by the Palestine Action protest group showed a woman spraying red …
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(Reuters) – A U.S. court found the former premier of the British Virgin Islands guilty on charges of drug trafficking, according to court documents published on Friday, a month after the original verdict following an unusual delay in which two jurors voiced doubts. Andrew Fahie, who served as premier of the British territory between 2019 …
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By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Manchester United do not plan to leave Old Trafford, the club confirmed on Friday, and have appointed Sebastian Coe as chair of a task force to study whether to renovate the 144-year-old stadium or build new on adjacent club-owned land. The Old Trafford Regeneration Task Force comes on the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British police have arrested an 11-year-old boy found driving a BMW car along a main motorway while towing a stolen caravan, police said on Friday. Police received a call about a stolen caravan from a holiday site near Thirsk in northeastern England and were informed that a black BMW was towing it …
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By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles will on Monday miss the first major royal event since his cancer diagnosis, but there is no sign of the monarch vanishing from public view let alone contemplating stepping down from his role, experts say. Charles, 75, has been forced to postpone all public engagements since …
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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England said on Friday it would raise staff pay by 4% after a 3.5% pay rise in 2023, an increase that matches current inflation but is below what most other big employers have offered. The increase takes effect this month, and the BoE said it was …
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By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -The actions of a senior British informer in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) codenamed “Stakeknife” probably cost more lives than they saved in Northern Ireland’s sectarian conflict, an independent inquiry found on Friday. The nationalist IRA, which opposed British rule in the province, was responsible for more than half the …
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