15 h. ago Cop, 26, playing for the combined British Police rugby team raped a university student in his hotel room after meeting her in a nightclub, court hears

A police officer playing for the combined forces British Police rugby team raped a university student in his hotel room after meeting in a nightclub, a court heard today.

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59 h. ago How Nest turned a $24,000 idea into a global movement supporting women artisans

In 2005, Rebecca van Bergen was a graduate student in social work at Washington University when she won $24,000 in a school innovation contest

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3 d. ago ‘They just see you as an Arab’: Israel’s Palestinian citizens given cursory protection from attack

Deaths of four family members sheltering in supposed ‘safe rooms’ in Tamra highlight racial inequality of Israel’s defence of its citizensMiddle East crisis – live updatesWhen an Iranian missile bound for the industrial port of Haifa dropped out of the sky on the town of Tamra on Saturday night, it fell on Israel’s most vulnerable, and in one devastating flash, lit up the country’s deepest divide.The missile demolished a three-storey stone house and killed four members of the same family: Manar Khatib, and her two daughters – Shada, a university student, and Hala, a 13-year-old schoolgirl – as well as Manar’s sister-in-law, Manal. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago I was disappeared under Argentina’s dictatorship. I know how autocracy begins | Miriam Lewin

Foreigners treated as enemies, judges under attack: the signs are everywhere in the US. But there are still reasons to hopeLike so many others, I watched the video of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish student at Tufts University, as she was surrounded by men dressed in black, some wearing masks. They carried guns. One grabbed her by the collar. The men surrounded her, and one handcuffed her. You can hear her short shrieks of fear.She must have been terrified. I know I was when, as a 19-year-old student, I was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires by members of an irregular taskforce. I know what it feels like and I know what it portends.Miriam Lewin is a leading Argentine journalist and survivor of the dictatorship. She is the author of six books, including Iosi, the Remorseful Spy forthcoming in English in July 2025 (Seven Stories Press). A seven episode podcast about Miriam Lewin’s experience as a prisoner of the state and her fight for justice is titled The Burden: Avenger Continue r...

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5 d. ago Mahmoud Khalil: US judge denies release of detained Palestinian activist

Setback for former student held since March as lawyers condemn government’s ‘cruel, transparent delay tactics’A federal judge declined to order the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a setback for the former Columbia University student days after a major ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to keep him detained.Khalil, a green-card holder who has not been charged with a crime, is one of the most high-profile people targeted by the US government’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism. Despite key rulings in his favor, Khalil has been detained since March, missing the birth of his son. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago GCHQ intern jailed over data breach which risked exposing 17 colleagues

Manchester University computer science student Hasaan Arshad, 25, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Computer Misuse Act.

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5 d. ago GCHQ intern jailed for taking top secret data home to Rochdale

University of Manchester computer science student Hasaan Arshad, 25, from Rochdale, was in "flagrant breach" of tight security rules

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6 d. ago Eddie Jones calls in university student to Japan squad ahead of Wales tour

The 21-year-old recently featured for Japan U23s on their tour of Australia in April

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9 d. ago Takeover fever grips City as three UK firms receive US offers

Alphawave, Oxford Ionics and Spectris targeted as flagging share prices leave British companies vulnerableBusiness live – latest updatesAmerican investors are poised to snap up three companies listed on the London Stock Exchange for a combined value of more than £5bn, as flagging share prices leave British companies vulnerable to takeovers.Alphawave, which is one of the few semiconductor companies listed in the UK, received an offer worth 183p a share from the US rival Qualcomm and on Monday the British company’s board recommended the deal to shareholders after months of talks. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The Prosecutor review – Donnie Yen leads mashup of legal drama and action flick

Suited and booted, Yen turns to role as public prosector cum ass-kicking vigilante as a late-stage career recalibrationDeveloped by China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate and directed by butt-kicking luminary Donnie Yen, The Prosecutor is a bizarre mashup of courtroom procedural and action flick; it is just as keen on lionising due process and the “shining light” of Chinese justice as it is on reducing civic infrastructure to smithereens in several standout bouts. But Yen, who looks undeniably good in a suit, is more convincing on his habitual fisticuff grounds than the jurisprudential ones.Yen plays Fok, a one-time hotshot cop who – leaving the force after some over-zealous policing – decides to man the “final gate” of justice and become a public prosecutor. Like a low-carb Perry Mason with years of Brazilian jiu-jitsu behind him, trouble keeps knocking on his door. Suspecting that a young drug smuggler (Mason Yung) whose case he is assigned has pled guilty to get his higher-ups of...

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1 week ago University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters

Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confrontedThe University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned.The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Britain's most prestigious rowing club which has scores of Team GB athlete members is 'plunged into rape scandal'

At least three male rowers are understood to have been accused of raping female club members within the last five years at the Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

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1 week ago Christine McGuinness and Dan Osborne 'exchanged flirty texts, had hotel meets and comforted each other' through their marital woes with ex Paddy and Jacqueline Jossa

Christine McGuinness and Dan Osborne reportedly comforted each other through their marital woes, sources claim.

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1 week ago Top US universities raced to become global campuses. Under Trump, it's becoming a liability

Three decades ago, foreign students at Harvard University accounted for just 11% of the total student body

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1 week ago Woman whose entire face was torn off by two violent dogs reveals what she looks like 4 years later after 28 operations

Jacqueline Durand, who was just 21 and a student at Texas University when she was viciously attacked, has revealed updates on her new face four years later.

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1 week ago Parents of university student, 18, who died from carbon monoxide poisoning at holiday cottage say portable gas heaters should be banned

Tom Hill, 18, was preparing to take a bath when he succumbed to the highly poisonous gas leaking out of the 'lethal' device at an 'idyllic' rental home in the Scottish highlands.

Society

1 week ago Gang followed Greek tourist from nightclub before stabbing, court hears

Antonis Antoniadis, 26, was allegedly followed and attacked on a doorstep in New Cross on July 7 last year

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1 week ago Model is hauled to court after being attacked by mother and daughter in furious nightclub toilets catfight

Bethany Brown left 23-year-old Amelia Begg with a bloody nose after attacking her when she was slapped by Amelia's mother, Heather, 40.

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2 w. ago Trump suspends Harvard University's foreign student visa program for 'undermining' national security

President Donald Trump has officially declared he will restrict foreign nationals from studying at Harvard University.

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2 w. ago Ireland's top university cuts all ties with Israel after major student protest

Ireland's prestigious Trinity College Dublin said on Wednesday that it would cut all links with Israel in protest at 'ongoing violations of international and humanitarian law'.

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