43 h. ago Faith Kipyegon’s audacious bid to be first woman to run sub four

Olympic champion to ‘push boundaries and dream big’Milestone ‘within reach’ despite ‘impossible’ challengeIt remains one of the most enduring images in the history of sport: Sir Roger Bannister collapsing at the finish after becoming the first person to shatter the four-minute-mile barrier. Since that day in 1954, when Bannister achieved a feat many had thought was impossible, just over 2,000 others have followed in his footsteps – all of them men.But the pages of history could soon be freshly rewritten after the Olympic 1500m champion, Faith Kipyegon, and her sponsors Nike, announced plans “to make the impossible possible” again by becoming the first woman to run a sub-four-minute mile this summer. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Wood caps Forest’s blistering start at Tottenham to refuel European dream

There is no need to attempt to rewrite history by arguing that Tottenham Hotspur failed to see what they had in Nuno Espírito Santo. All that matters now is that this meticulous, softly spoken manager is the perfect fit for Nottingham Forest. They have provided Nuno with the perfect platform for his counterpunching tactics and, in what would surely be the story of the Premier League season, are ­closing in on Champions League football after cruising to victory over Ange Postecoglou’s limp and ­uninterested Spurs side.This was cool, clinical and resilient from Forest as they bounced back from two successive defeats by rising into third place with five games left. Nerves, it seems, are not for them. They struck early through Elliot Anderson and Chris Wood, who punished diffident defending, and then leant on their defensive prowess to claim the points. Spurs, stuck in 16th after falling to their 18th defeat in 33 games, were beaten inside 16 minutes, a header from Richarlison coming to...

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7 d. ago I'm not rewriting history on support for gender reforms, claims Anas Sarwar

Scottish Labour had backed the SNP’s gender reform plans - but now says mistakes were made.

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8 d. ago Rare space rock reveals Earth's water didn't come from asteroids, rewriting planet's history

A new study has upended a long-held theory that asteroids brought water to Earth – as it turns out it may have always been here

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1 week ago Caroline Flack's pals 'concerned new Disney+ show about her death is rewriting history'

A new documentary about Caroline Flack's final weeks is in production, but according to show insiders and friends of the late star, there are concerns over the format

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1 week ago Newly found mummies reveal new human ancestor that broke off from humanity thousands of years ago

Shocking DNA findings pulled from two mummies discovered in Northern Africa may rewrite the family tree of human history.

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1 week ago Caroline Flack's mother's hunt for answers has left friends fearing being 'thrown under bus', sources tell KATIE HIND

'Some of the people who have been approached believe this is an attempt to rewrite history and find someone new to blame for this total tragedy,' a source told Kate Hind.

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1 week ago How Caroline Flack's mum's hunt for answers about night she died is exposing old wounds. TV show leaves friends fearing being 'thrown under bus', sources tell KATIE HIND

'Some of the people who have been approached believe this is an attempt to rewrite history and find someone new to blame for this total tragedy,' a source told Kate Hind.

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2 w. ago Now schoolchildren are being told in English lessons that French heroine Joan of Arc was non

The wording has caused fury among some in the academic community, with one professor calling it 'insulting' and a women's rights campaigner calling it an 'example of attempting to rewrite history.'

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3 w. ago As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist | Charlotte Higgins

The Smithsonian’s museums have been ordered to root out ‘divisive narratives’. It’s part of a pattern: the battle lines are now clearIt has come to this: we are now in Ministry of Truth territory. In Washington DC, the Smithsonian Institution, the US’s ensemble of 21 great national museums, last week became the subject of an executive order by President Donald Trump. “Distorted narratives” are to be rooted out. There will be no more of the “corrosive ideology” that has fostered a “sense of national shame”. The institution has, reads the order, “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” that portrays “American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive”. The vice-president, JD Vance, is, by virtue of his office, on the museum’s board. He is charged by Trump to “prohibit expenditure” on programmes that “divide Americans based on race”. He is to remove “improper ideology”. The order is titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. George Or...

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3 w. ago ‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history

Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complexIn a brightly lit gallery, they see the 66m-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. In a darkened room, they study the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem. In a vast aviation hanger, they behold a space shuttle. And in a discreet corner, they file solemnly past the casket of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman in the US south.Visitors have come in their millions to the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s biggest museum, education and research complex, in Washington for the past 178 years. On Thursday, Donald Trump arrived with his cultural wrecking ball. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for ‘improper ideology’

JD Vance to lead plan as Trump says there’s been ‘concerted’ effort to rewrite US history with ‘distorted narrative’Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order on Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology”.The president said there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite US history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth”. Continue reading...

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