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Itβs time to grab your best fit and hit the blacktop of Chavez Ravine. Tyler, the Creator had his fans searching for words after he announced the lineup for his annual music festival Camp Flog Gnaw in a puzzling manner. The βIgorβ artist posted an actual word search on his Instagram containing the name of…
Curbing the power of judges in asylum cases to tackle the migrant hotel crisis is a typical Keir Starmer response to a problem. The former director of public prosecutions would appear to see overhauling court procedures and the legal process as the answer to any tricky situation. Yes, the proposed fast-track asylum appeals process is…
When she was 15, Lizbeth Jacqueline Ovalle traveled alone by bus for up to nine hours to play for the Mexican national team, with no payment other than the cost of her ticket. Her talent and determination helped her play in the U17 World Cup and make her 2017 debut in the then-nascent Liga MX…
The owners of New Look, the high street fashion retailer, have picked bankers to oversee a strategic review which is expected to see the company change hands next year. Sky News has learnt that Rothschild has been appointed in recent days to advise New Look and its shareholders on a potential exit. The investment bank’s…
If history has taught us anything, itβs that no one is truly safe. That gathering dread fueled some great β70s paranoid thrillers, such as βThe Parallax Viewβ and βThe Conversation,β but itβs been difficult to replicate that eeriness in todayβs extremely online world, when our devices explain and obfuscate with abandon, conspiracies are lifeblood and…
Criminals face being banned from pubs, sports grounds and concerts under new government plans to give judges powers to pass tougher community sentences. The new measures, which would apply to people in England and Wales, “should remind all offenders that, under this government, crime does not pay”, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said. Offenders’ freedom could…
Perched in the hills outside Rome sits the Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the centuries-old lakeside summer home for popes, which is also home to the Vatican Observatory, established in 1891 to help bridge the chasm between religion and science. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists and students for whom the Church’s observations of the heavens…
High school football scores from across the Southland for Saturday, Aug. 23.
A union has welcomed the government taking over a troubled steel company, but is warning that payment for workers must be a top priority. Speciality Steels UK – which employs almost 1,500 people – was pushed into compulsory liquidation on Thursday, and is the third-largest producer in the country. It is part of the Liberty…
Ron Howardβs new film βEdenβ is a true story about disenchanted Europeans, who, in the 1930s, escaped from their society and decamped on a lonely rock in the Galapagos, only to see their handmade utopia devolve into petty power struggles and murder. Itβs also lurid proof that Charles Darwin missed out on the truly juicy…
