A British man who has been running the length of Africa in a mammoth challenge which has seen him cross 16 countries and survive a gunpoint robbery and a kidnapping has crossed the finish line in Tunisia.
Russ Cook, an extreme marathon runner who calls himself ‘Hardest Geezer’ on social media, has covered around 10,000 miles from South Africa to Tunisia across 352 days, completing the equivalent of 386 marathons.
The 27-year-old, from Worthing, West Sussex, crossed the border into
Officially, abortion had nothing to do with the constitutional amendment that Ohio voters rejected today. The word appeared nowhere on the ballot, and no abortion laws will change as a result of the outcome.
Practically and politically, however, the defeat of the ballot initiative known as Issue 1 was all about abortion, giving reproductive-rights advocates the latest in a series of victories in the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Fearing the passage of an abortion-rights
In the history of Hollywood, very few people — 28 to be precise, all men — have had the sole directing credit on a billion-dollar movie.
Make that 28 men and one woman: Greta Gerwig.
“Barbie,” directed by Ms. Gerwig from a script she wrote with her partner, Noah Baumbach, will finish the weekend with more than $1 billion in ticket sales at the global box office, according to Warner Bros. No movie in the studio’s 100-year history has sold
For the first time, campaigners have proclaimed Friday 28 July 2023 as the date when the amount of plastic produced globally exceeds the capacity of waste management systems to absorb it, a move aimed at raising awareness about the issue.
Plastic Overshoot Day, announced by the environmental action network, Earth Action, is meant to raise awareness of the urgent need to tackle the plastic waste crisis.
According to their recently published report, combined international efforts to handle plastic waste will
Steve Wynn, the longtime Las Vegas casino magnate and major Republican donor, has agreed to pay Nevada a $10 million fine and to step back from its gambling industry in a settlement related to employee allegations of sexual misconduct, closing his yearslong battle with the state’s gambling regulators.
The agreement was approved on Thursday by the Nevada Gaming Commission. Mr. Wynn, 81, who did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement, agreed to be “entirely removed from any direct or indirect
4,000 families were dragged into paying inheritance tax (Image: Getty)
Tories ramped up the pressure for the hated inheritance tax to be ditched last night after the number of families hit by it has soared.
An extra 4,000 families were dragged into paying the death duty in a year, a 17 percent increase. Average bills were an “eye watering” £214,000 on the estates of loved ones.
Former Cabinet Minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg accused the Taxman of “grave robbing” by snatching
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In Wie weit das Licht reicht, Sabrina Imbler zeigt uns, dass der Ozean in all seinen Geheimnissen und seiner schillernden Pracht queer ist – das heißt, das Leben, das dort Gestalt annimmt, fordert heraus, wie wir Landratten unsere Lebensweisen wahrnehmen. Diese Sammlung von Essays erzählt die Geschichten von 10 Meeresbewohnern, wobei Imbler, ein queerer und gemischtrassiger Autor, Geschichten über ihre eigene Familie, Selbstfindung, Sexualität und Heilung
WASHINGTON — Within days, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision that could severely limit the federal government’s authority to reduce carbon dioxide from power plants — pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.
But it’s only a start.
The case, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general, conservative legal activists and their funders, several with ties to the oil and coal
The decision to make Tony Blair a Sir has been met with anger by many on social media, as the former Prime Minister was branded a ‘war criminal’, with more than 25,000 signing a petition to block the award.
Sir Tony has long faced a backlash over his decision to lead the UK into Iraq and Afghanistan, which cost the lives of 179 British personnel as well as many more civilians.
But it was announced last night that he had
