86 m. ago Glenn Maxwell steers Australia to T20 series win over South Africa in thriller

Third T20i: Australia, 173-8, bt SA, 172-7, by two wktsMaxwell’s 62 gets hosts home with one ball to spareAustralia’s Glenn Maxwell produced an unbeaten half-century in a tense chase to help the hosts edge out South Africa by two wickets in the third and final T20 international in Cairns on Saturday. Maxwell’s unbeaten 62 off 36 balls helped Australia chase down 173 with one ball to spare at the Cazalys Stadium, completing a 2-1 series victory in style.After 18 overs, it was a run-a-ball target for Australia with Maxwell in the middle. The South African bowler Corbin Bosch (three for 26) claimed two wickets and kept Maxwell away from the strike. Needing 10 off the last over from Lungi Ngidi, Maxwell took six from the first four balls before reverse-sweeping for four to seal Australia’s dramatic victory. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Casey Affleck's girlfriend Caylee Cowan calls for Ben's ex JLo to give up fur as she takes a stand for PETA

The 27-year-old is the face of a new PETA campaign - and in an interview with Daily Mail, revealed how the megastar can make a stand for the animal kingdom.

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22 h. ago As civil rights books are pulled from school shelves, one Alabama town is refusing to forget its story

The Scottsboro Boys Museum tells the story of nine African American men who were falsely accused of the rape of two white women in 1931

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25 h. ago African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate mapThe African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.Created by the cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America. “It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” the African Union Commission deputy chair, Selma Malika Haddadi, told Reuters, saying the Mercator fostered a false impression that Africa was “marginal”, despite being the world’s second-largest continent by area, with more than 1 billion people. The union has 55 member states. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Inside AD Ceuta as the Spanish club in Africa prepares for its first game in La Liga 2

EXCLUSIVE AD Ceuta will make history on Friday night when they become the first club from the African mainland to play a professional game in Europe in the modern era

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39 h. ago Safari becomes a zoo? Queues,  armies of influencers, legions armed with drones.. the new crowded African wilderness

For many nature fans, it's the ultimate adventure holiday...but safari holiday destinations have soared in popularity in recent years, with hoardes of influencers posing up a storm in Africa's plains.

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47 h. ago How much it costs to stay at Chester Zoo's safari lodges with lakeside views and giraffe enclosure

The new luxury lodges promise the "ultimate African safari experience right here in the UK" from £396

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49 h. ago Ice deported three US citizen children, including a boy with cancer, to Honduras, suit alleges

Suit filed in Louisiana says agency didn’t give parents choice as to whether children should be deported with themA lawsuit filed in Louisiana on behalf of two mothers and their four minor children, including one with cancer, claims the two families were unlawfully denied due process and deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to Honduras in April 2025.The lawsuit, which names attorney general Pam Bondi, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and various Ice officials as defendants, alleges Ice violated its own policies, and multiple federal laws, when officers secretly detained the families, denied access to counsel and swiftly deported them to Honduras, ignoring legal filings. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Ice deported boy with cancer and two other US citizen children to Honduras, suit alleges

Suit filed in Louisiana says agency didn’t give parents choice as to whether children should be deported with themA lawsuit filed in Louisiana on behalf of two mothers and their four minor children, including one with cancer, claims the two families were unlawfully denied due process and deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to Honduras in April 2025.The lawsuit, which names the attorney general, Pam Bondi, Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, and various Ice officials as defendants, alleges Ice violated its own policies, and multiple federal laws, when officers secretly detained the families, denied access to counsel and swiftly deported them to Honduras, ignoring legal filings. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Four bodies found floating in famous river as police admit 'there's a lot of questions'

Authorities determined that three of the men were of African descent with the fourth being of North African descent - their bodies have been taken away and will undergo an autopsy

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51 h. ago Model who swapped the catwalk for the Kalahari desert: Why I ditched life of glamour to live with bushmen

A Norwegian model has opened up about how she fled her glamorous life in the fashion industry to live in African desert after she was robbed at gun point as a teenager.

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54 h. ago Bursary student looks to break boundaries in professional cricketing world

South African-born student Caleb Falconer has joined Middlesex on an academy contract and hopes to turn professional

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58 h. ago Model ditches her life for the African desert after being robbed at gunpoint

When young model Aleks was mugged by thugs and held up at gunpoint, she made a massive life change that very same night. She would spin the globe and move to wherever it landed...

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59 h. ago London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war

National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s coloniesThe forgotten story of African and Indian troops who fought in south Asia against Japanese forces during the second world war and who have largely been omitted from the official history is to be brought to life in a London exhibition.The National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma: Forgotten Armies show includes rare items from Indian and African soldiers who toiled in some of the harshest conditions seen anywhere during the conflict. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Photos of taxi drivers in Zimbabwe showing off team colors for the Premier League soccer season

Minibus taxi drivers in the African nation of Zimbabwe gear up for the start of the Premier League soccer season by adorning their vehicles with the colors of their teams.

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3 d. ago 'Fantastic' BBC period drama epic about real life rivalry ‘nobody has done before’ lands this month

The BBC's upcoming big budget period drama epic King & Conqueror stars James Norton and has been branded a 'must watch' for fans of The Last Kingdom and The Winter King.

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3 d. ago The Medieval Brits with West African ancestry: Bodies buried in 7th

Two people buried in early medieval England had West African ancestry, experts have revealed, in a discovery that rewrites British history.

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3 d. ago The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar review – whimsical fantasy in a kingdom long, long ago

In this first adult novel from the acclaimed children’s author, an immortal magician returns to tell the story of a royal court where he cast his spells some 500 years beforeThe American author Louis Sachar’s most celebrated book, 1998’s YA novel Holes, was a huge word-of-mouth success on both sides of the Atlantic. Its short, punchy chapters tell the story of plump, hapless Stanley Yelnats, sent to a summer camp for wayward boys, where a terrifying Warden has peculiar ideas about character reformation. The 5ft-deep holes the boys are required to dig turn out to have a surprising purpose. Shifts of time, register and perspective render a simple premise mesmerisingly intricate. It has peril, love, crime, wickedness, redemption and friendship in, well, spades.A quarter of a century later, Sachar has written his first supposedly adult novel, in which many of the same ingredients reappear. A man “dressed like a typical American tourist”, but with an odd habit of storing cake crumbs in t...

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3 d. ago Inside Ellen DeGeneres' life in the UK after being 'pushed out' of Hollywood and leaving because of Trump

Ellen DeGeneres shocked her fans when she said goodbye to the United States in favor of the United Kingdom after the 2024 presidential election.

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3 d. ago Archaeologists perplexed to find West African ancestry in early medieval England

Findings show clear signs of non-European ancestry of buried individuals with affinity to present-day groups living in sub-Saharan West Africa

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