Rafael Nadal has been selected as the number two seed for the Wimbledon, meaning he is on the opposite side of the draw to Novak Djokovic, the defending champion of the tournament and top seed by ranking after the withdrawals of Daniil Medvedev, due to the exclusion and Alexander Zverev due to injury. Djokovic and…
More than 1, 200 people have died and at least 1, 700 were injured in Paktika province in Southeast Afghanistan, after a devastating 6.1 magnitude earthquake. The Taliban in Afghanistan has appealed for international support after the rescue efforts are being hampered by heavy rain and hail. The earthquake struck about 27miles (44km) from…
The Duke of Cambridge celebrates his 40th birthday on Tuesday and will spend it privately with his family. He has deliberately avoided the traditional royal photo and gone for something that portrays him “at work: on an issue that his staff says is very close to his heart Homelessness. Back in 2009, he slept out…
London Underground workers and Network Rail have also gone on strike in a dispute over pensions and job losses. Today sees the first of three national rail strikes across England, Scotland, and Wales as two more are planned for Thursday and Saturday. Now the RMT Union is advising not to travel. Only a fifth of…
The Jumbo restaurant, a famous Hong Kong Floating restaurant that closed in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, capsized on Sunday near the Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years. The vessel encountered adverse conditions and began to…
Matt Fitzpatrick (27) from Sheffield England claims the US Open title with a one-shot victory at Brookline Country Club. Fitzpatrick shot two-under 68 for a six-under total to beat world number one Scottie Scheffler (67) and Wil Zalatoris (69) in a thrilling battle that went to the final hole, which will be remembered for the…
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Canadian Grand Prix, after holding off a late challenge from Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, playing a cat-and-mouse game throughout the race and extending his lead over Leclerc to 49 points. The two started the final 15 laps neck and neck to tail after a late safety car but despite heavy…
Lahoud’s The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, its leader, and His Family, reveals the heroic tale of Americans and their work in the region. She pieces together a remarkable insider account of al-Qaeda’s history, based on the writings of bin Laden and his inner circle, and her conclusion…
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Three Women and our most eloquent and faithful chronicler of human desire ( Esquire), Lisa Taddeo’s Ghost Lover is a collection of nine riveting, fearless and ferocious short stories which brings to life the fever of obsession, the blindness of life and the mania of grief, exploring…
Agent Twister is the true story that happened in November 1974, John Stonehouse MP, once a star in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, and a former aviation and telecoms minister has sex betrayal, widespread criminal fraud and is the only known case of a UK minister spying decade-long for a Communist state, went missing in Miami,…