Former MLB All-Star Alex Rodriguez can still play some ball, even if it’s not on the diamond. The three-time American League MVP, who now works as an MLB analyst for Fox, knows his way around the basketball court as well – as he showed Sunday afternoon. At halftime of Bucknell’s college basketball game against Army,…
An imposing bronze statue of Francisco Pizarro, Peru’s Spanish conqueror, has been returned to a spot near its former location in Lima’s main square, 22 years after it was removed, in an apparent attempt to rehabilitate the conquistador’s controversial legacy. Weighing 7 tonnes and standing 5 metres tall, the Italian Renaissance-inspired sculpture of Pizarro astride…
After 12 episodes, eight “murders” and 14 banishments, the winners of The Traitors were revealed after a nail-biting finale. More than 7 million viewers tuned in to see project manager Jake Brown and former soldier Leanne Quigley triumph and share a prize pot of £94,600. The pair revealed their identities as faithfuls after interior designer…
More than half of the increase in disability benefits is due to more mental health claims, according to research. Since the pandemic, the number of working-age adults in England and Wales paid disability benefits has increased by nearly 1 million people to 2.9 million in 2024, with 7.5% of 16-64 year olds claiming. A report…
A civil servant who blew the whistle about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and Boris Johnson’s involvement in a decision to evacuate a pet charity from Kabul has won her case for unfair dismissal against the government in a legal first. An employment panel of three judges unanimously found the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office…
Outside a jeweller’s courtyard in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, Can Manap watched the rain fall. “I was under a huge tree in the middle of the bazaar,” he says. “Watching the droplets fall, the composition – a marriage of natural and architectural lines – struck me immediately.” While Manap had his camera on him, he decided to capture…