Adam Ramsay-Peaty becomes the latest to face the latter situation on Saturday – in the 100m breaststroke final at Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, shortly after 21:00 BST. The greatest breaststroker the world has seen is on his own journey – one which he hopes ends with a third individual gold at the Los Angeles Olympics in…
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During an Oval Office signing event on 10 June, President Donald Trump said, “I love the inflation” in response to a reporter’s question about news that it had surged to a three-year high of 4.2%. The president also revealed that the US has been “taking out millions of barrels of oil” from Iran, saying Tehran…
The BBC visited a block of flats in Romania’s eastern city of Galați, near the border with Ukraine, after it was hit by what the country described as a Russian drone on Friday. A resident of the building said he was afraid after the incident, which injured two people. “If I go back to my…
When Ellie Colton was 14, she thought she was dying. But doctors told her it was ‘just bad periods’. After years of debilitating pain she was finally diagnosed with endometriosis, a gynaecological condition that affects around 1 in 10 women. Her story is not uncommon – it takes an average of 8-9 years to be…
Kirklees Council remains without a majority – or a leader – after a chaotic annual meeting resulted in voting being postponed. It was the first full meeting since Reform UK took 29 out of the 69 seats to become the largest party on the council, but having failed to secure a majority it led to…
The crux of Brockman’s testimony so far has been that Musk was aware of plans to shift OpenAI to be more of a traditional for-profit business. When the company started, it was a non-profit, then it added a for-profit arm in order to raise billions of dollars in funding for investors, before deciding last year…
Sabastian Sawe has admitted to the BBC that he was surprised to break the marathon world record in London, becoming the first person to run an official sub-two-hour race. Before securing sporting immortality by finishing in 1:59:30, the Kenyan underwent 12 months of frequent drug testing, including 25 out-of-competition tests before last September’s Berlin Marathon….
Sabastian Sawe’s parents have shared their pride at the runner’s historic sub-two-hour London Marathon win. The 31-year-old Kenyan set a new world record after crossing the line in one hour 59 minutes 30 seconds on Sunday, more than a minute faster than the previous record holder’s time. Simion and Emily told the BBC they watched…
“As a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war,” Pope Leo XIV said about the war in Iran during his airborne press conference upon his return trip to Rome. “If there is regime change or no regime change, the question is how to promote the values in which we believe without the death of…
