The campaign group Led By Donkeys has received £27,000 in compensation after a giant banner it displayed in Parliament Square saying “Yes It’s A Genocide” was seized by Greater London Authority officials and destroyed. Representatives of the GLA arrived on the scene in central London and confiscated the 40-metre by 40-metre banner after it was…
One of the most entertaining riders in the race was Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz of EF Education-Easypost. He toiled earlier in the race before coming into great form to claim the king of the mountains’ polka dot jersey. He won stage 18 and Saturday’s stage 20 after topping the race’s highest point first and after 5,450km…
On Friday, Western Cape high court judge Andre le Grange halted the parliamentary committee from proceeding with its hearings “pending the determination by this court of the applicant’s review” – a reference to Ramaphosa’s case against the panel. The ruling effectively buys more time for Ramaphosa – time in which the president hopes he will…
Bad Bunny’s former girlfriend may proceed with a lawsuit accusing the reggaeton star of using a recording of her voice saying “Bad Bunny baby” on his 2022 song “Dos Mil 16” without her permission. In an 80-page ruling obtained by Rolling Stone, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court found that Carliz De La Cruz Hernández can…
Eala played tennis as a youngster with her brother and grandfather, telling BBC TV she “still can’t keep up” with her older brother, even now. She first rose to prominence in 2022, when she was on the cover of Vogue in her home country after becoming the first Filipina to win a junior Grand Slam…
Over the past year, it may have appeared that the pro-Palestine protest movement in the United States has lost momentum in the face of smears, crackdowns, indifference and fatigue. But a string of electoral wins by critics of Israeli abuses appears to indicate that activism’s success can only be measured in the long term. Recommended…
Published on 02/07/2026 – 21:52 GMT+2•Updated 22:06 A year after being chosen to deliver the speech on Portugal Day, Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge, one of the country’s leading contemporary literary figures, has received the highest distinction awarded to authors writing in Portuguese, the Camões Prize. Jorge thus succeeds the Angolan poet Ana Paula Tavares, who…
Learning through playCyber Defenders is a free-to-play game built on Roblox, one of the platforms most popular with children today. Rather than lecturing young players about online dangers, the game places them inside interactive missions where they learn, through play, how to spot and respond to threats such as fraud, identity theft, and grooming.The initiative…
A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize. Jamir Nazir’s story The Serpent in the Grove went viral after being named as a regional winner in mid-May, with critics on X and Bluesky claiming it showed “obvious markers” of AI…
American writer Ben Lerner has won this year’s Orwell prize for political fiction for Transcription, a novel exploring technology and memory. In nonfiction, the prize went to Karen Bartlett for The Escape from Kabul, which looks at Afghan women lawyers who came under threat after the fall of Kabul in 2021. The prizes, which aim…
