Wada revealed details of a state-sponsored doping programme in 2015, and declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code. But Wada’s executive committee voted to reinstate Rusada in September 2018, subject to a number of strict conditions. The move was condemned in some circles at the time with one critic calling it…
A hand emerges from a rough white marble block, its elegant, polished fingers reaching toward the heavens. In its palm are tiny nude figures, male and female, locked in a passionate embrace. “Hand of God,” a late-19th-century sculpture by Auguste Rodin, references the biblical creation of Adam and Eve, but also Michelangelo, the Renaissance artist…
Just before midnight on March 23, an empty car was set alight in the Jewish district of Antwerp, Belgium, breaking the quiet of the night. The police quickly arrested two teenagers. Several hours later, blurry footage appeared online of the incident, showing one person pouring liquid on a car and a second person lighting it…
With the flow of energy through the Middle East still mostly blocked and oil prices rising, policymakers in Europe are confronting the immediate impact of higher costs and trying to decipher the potential economic damage of a prolonged conflict. On Thursday, officials at the European Central Bank and Bank of England are expected to hold…
King Charles III of Britain fed chickens in Harlem. His wife, Queen Camilla, visited with Winnie-the-Pooh at the New York Public Library. In the morning, the royal couple laid a bouquet at the Sept. 11 memorial, and by evening, they were hobnobbing with the city’s cultural and artistic elite at Rockefeller Center. After a day…
In a lengthy phone call on Wednesday, President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia agreed that there should be a brief cease-fire in Ukraine in the coming days, according to both Mr. Trump and a top adviser to Mr. Putin. The cease-fire would coincide with the May 9 Russian holiday marking the end…
Two men were stabbed on Wednesday in the north London area of Golders Green, a hub of Jewish life in Britain, in an attack that the police said was being treated as terrorism. The attack, which unfolded in late morning on High Field Avenue, left the men — one in his 70s and one in…
In its statement late on Tuesday, the Russian defence ministry said this year’s parade would include representatives of all branches of Russia’s armed forces and a colourful fly-past. However, it made clear that “cadets from Suvorov military schools, Nakhimov [naval] schools, and cadet corps, as well as a column of military equipment will not participate…
Meta has failed to implement needed safeguards to keep children under the age of 13 off Instagram and Facebook in violation of a European Union online safety law, officials said on Wednesday. Meta does not have an adequate system to identify and remove the accounts of the children who flout the social media giant’s age…
King Charles III quoted Oscar Wilde, joking that the British have everything in common with America “except, of course, language.” President Trump said the morning’s gloomy rain reminded him of a “beautiful British day” and noted that his mother thought young Prince Charles was “so cute.” Both men waxed poetic about the bonds between their…
