(Reuters) – Scotland’s first undisputed boxing world champion Ken Buchanan has died at the age of 77, the former lightweight’s charity foundation said on Saturday. Edinburgh-born Buchanan beat Panama’s Ismael Laguna in Puerto Rico for the WBA title in 1970 and took the vacant WBC belt a year later after fighting Ruben Navarro in Los …
By Phil Noble HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) – King Charles laid a wreath in memory of the victims of the allied bombing in World War Two during a visit to Hamburg’s St Nikolai memorial, the remains of a church in Germany’s northern port city severely damaged by the air raids. The gesture comes on the last …
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By Shrivathsa Sridhar and Rohith Nair (Reuters) -Wimbledon lifted its ban on Russian and Belarusian players on Friday and will allow them to compete in the grasscourt Grand Slam this year as “neutral” athletes in a climbdown from the stance it took after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The players will be prohibited from …
(Reuters) – UK Athletics will apply World Athletics’ rules on exclusion of transgender women from elite female competitions, the governing body said on Friday, adding that it had received the “required assurances” on the legality of the measures. Athletics’ global governing body last week voted to ban competitors who have gone through male puberty from …
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(Reuters) -Former England captain Michael Vaughan has been cleared of using racist language towards ex-Yorkshire team mate Azeem Rafiq in verdicts released by the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) panel on Friday. The panel found the charge against Vaughan was not proved, after the case against him and five other former Yorkshire players was heard in …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Amazon workers <AMZN.O> at a warehouse in central England are to hold six more days of strikes in April in a dispute over pay, a statement from the GMB trade union said on Friday. GMB said more than 560 workers at the warehouse in Coventry would walk out on April 16-18 and April …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British house prices slid in March at the fastest annual rate since the financial crisis, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Friday. House prices fell 3.1% year-on-year, the biggest such drop since July 2009, Nationwide said. Compared with February this year, prices were 0.8% lower. Economists polled by Reuters had expected prices to …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s Dignity Plc said on Friday it continued to be in “significant need” for capital after the funeral services provider posted a 68% slump in annual operating profit, hurt by lower prices and cost pressures. The company, which in January agreed to a 281 million pound ($348 million) takeover by a consortium backed …
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By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Friday agreed to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a trade pact based around the Pacific rim, as it seeks to build ties around the world after leaving the European Union. Here are some details of the agreement as Britain seeks post-Brexit trade …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British businesses were their most confident this month since May 2022 and pricing expectations, which are being watched by the Bank of England as it grapples with high inflation, cooled to a six-month low, a survey showed on Friday. The Lloyds Bank Business Barometer rose in March by 11 points to 32%, …
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