14 h. ago 'It will make your hair stand on end': SAM GREENHILL uncovers one man's legal battle with Ferrari over the safety of its supercars

Robert Ebert's Ferrari killed someone, Ricardo Du Bignon broke his neck and Tony Bohana ended up in a Somerset hedge. Robert told me he remembers it vividly.

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16 h. ago 'It will make your hair stand on end': SAM GREENHILL explores one man's legal battle with Ferrari over the safety of its supercars

Robert Ebert's Ferrari killed someone, Ricardo Du Bignon broke his neck and Tony Bohana ended up in a Somerset hedge. Robert told me he remembers it vividly.

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52 h. ago Are failing brakes in £200,000 Ferrari supercars causing a raft of devastating accidents? Robert's Ferrari killed someone, Ricardo broke his neck and Tony ended up in a Somerset hedge

British banker Robert Ebert braked so hard his back slid up the seat - yet his Ferrari killed a car park attendant. Read these devastating tales of Ferrari drivers that will make your hair stand on end

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3 d. ago Collina in favour of VAR rulings on corners at World Cup as long as there is ‘no delay’

Chair of Fifa’s referees committee offers his supportCollina wants to ensure changes do not slow down gamePierluigi Collina has said he would be in favour of the use of VAR to determine whether corners have been correctly awarded at the World Cup next summer. The chair of Fifa’s referees committee, speaking at a media briefing in Washington, made clear he supported the advance of technology.Collina said conversations were taking place over whether VAR could adjudicate on second yellow cards. They will continue at the next meeting of the International Football Association Board, the law-making body, in Wales next March, meaning there would be time for the ruling to come into effect for the World Cup. Collina also said discussions were ongoing over how best to combat time-wasting, including when goalkeepers go to ground, seemingly feigning injury to allow managers to hold team meetings. He added that Fifa wanted to explore AI-based innovations to help match officials and improve the g...

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3 d. ago A diving prince, sunken treasure and snared by the Titanic: Joe MacInnis on his ‘rip

At 88, the Canadian reflects on a golden era of underwater discovery and how shipwrecks and the cruel sea are the ‘greatest of all teachers’Joe MacInnis admits there are simply too many places to begin telling the story of life in the ocean depths. At 88, the famed Canadian undersea explorer, has many decades to draw on. There was the time he and a Russian explorer and deep-water pilot, Anatoly Sagalevich, were snagged by a telephone wire strung from the pilot house of the Titanic, trapping the pair two and a half miles below the surface.Another might be the moment he and his team stared in disbelief through a porthole window at the Edmund Fitzgerald, the 222-metre (729ft) ship that vanished 50 years ago into the depths of Lake Superior, so quickly that none of the crew could issue a call for help. MacInnis and his team were the first humans to lay eyes on the wreck.MacInnis diving in Lake Huron, off Tobermory, Canada, in 1969. Photograph: Don Dutton/Toronto Star/Getty Images Contin...

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4 d. ago Legal battle over Star Wars actor ‘resurrected’ in Rogue One moves to next stage

Peter Cushing’s likeness was featured in a 2016 Star Wars movie despite the actor passing away in 1994

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6 d. ago Surreal, erudite and always experimenting: Tom Stoppard was a playwright never likely to stand still

David Lister remembers the brilliant, complicated man whose work explored politics, science, love, Shakespeare, and even rock’n’roll

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6 d. ago Mum of Scots lawyer brutally murdered in LA launches legal battle to get custody of grandchild

The family of murdered lawyer June Bunyan are launching a custody fight to bring her baby daughter Regina to Scotland.

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7 d. ago Our Hollywood star neighbour is locked in ‘absurd’ row over £6m mansion’s fence – it’s outrageous

A HOLLYWOOD star is locked in a legal battle with a jobsworth council over the fence and gates to his £6million mansion. The actor has been told to tear down the new boundary he installed at his three-storey Grade II-listed mansion in West London, leaving his adoring neighbours stunned. Idris Elba, 52, swapped his old,...

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9 d. ago Celebrity crib sheet: Katy Perry has spent all year in the headlines – here are the six things you need to know

She made a short, and much-ridiculed, trip to space. She tried to buy a house and fell foul of public opinion. And she’s found love, apparently, with Justin Trudeau. Time to get up to speed before this singer next hits the headlinesDo you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? No? Just Katy Perry then. Seven months since her sense-defying jaunt into space, life on planet Earth hasn’t let up for the embattled hitmaker. She’s back in the headlines this week, implied to be raiding the pockets of a “disabled veteran” while facing scrutiny for her somewhat inexplicable new romance with Justin Trudeau. Yes, that Justin Trudeau. Shall we?1. Perry wins in court, but loses onlineBy one metric, such as “relative to the rest of 2025”, this might have been a good week for Katy Perry. Since 2020, she has been embroiled in a legal battle against Carl Westcott, who sold her an eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom mansion in Montecito for $15m. Westcott then attempte...

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9 d. ago Search under way after British man falls from cruise ship off Tenerife

Coastguard says 76-year-old passenger was reported missing from Tui-operated vessel on Thursday morningA British cruise company has said it is working with authorities after a passenger on one of its ships was seen entering the water in the seas around the Canary Islands.Marella Cruises, which is operated by Tui UK, said the guest went overboard as the vessel was heading towards La Gomera, the second-smallest of the main islands in the Spanish archipelago off the coast of north-west Africa. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Urgent search underway after British tourist, 76, falls overboard from cruise ship near Canary Islands

The 76-year-old man was reported missing from the Marella Explorer 2 on Thursday morning

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1 week ago The beautiful Victorian Greater Manchester park that's lovely on a winter's day

It's time to wrap up warm and explore some of Greater Manchester's most loved parks this winter

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1 week ago Katy Perry's legal victory as judge orders disabled veteran to pay singer nearly $2m over Montecito mansion

The legal battle over the home dates back to 2020, when the 41-year-old singer bought the home from 1-800-Flowers founder Westcott.

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1 week ago FIFA at risk of World Cup legal battle after Cristiano Ronaldo's controversial red card reprieve as nations ponder Court of Arbitration case

EXCLUSIVE - MIKE KEEGAN: FIFA could face legal action following their controversial decision to suspend Cristiano Ronaldo's ban and allow him to play in Portugal's first two World Cup games.

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1 week ago Jim Ratcliffe vs Ben Ainslie: Man Utd owner's bitter feud, legal battle and new statement

Sir Jim Ratcliffe sparked a dispute with Sir Ben Ainslie in January when he dramatically dropped him from his sailing team - and now the four-time gold medallist has spoken out

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1 week ago Katy Perry's downward spiral: From her comeback flop and embarrassing 'mom moves' to THAT space mission

She was once one of the biggest popstars in the world with her hits I Kissed A Girl, California Gurls and Teenage Dreams the soundtrack to the early 2000s. 

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1 week ago Virginia Giuffre died in Australia without a valid will – now the legal battles can resume

WA court appoints administrator to oversee estate after lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein victim and her housekeeper contest Giuffre’s sons being granted authorityAn interim administrator has been appointed to oversee the estate of Virginia Giuffre after she died without a valid will, meaning multiple lawsuits that had been on hold can now resume.Giuffre, 41, died on a small Western Australian farm, 80km north of Perth, in April. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man City handed 115 charges update as financial advisor 'reveals' public verdict date

Manchester City are still awaiting a verdict following their legal battle with the Premier League

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1 week ago Team Trump fumbles one legal battle after another — and then starts fresh one against space hero Mark Kelly

President Donald Trump’s enemies-list prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James were tossed by a federal judge on Monday, writes Eric Garcia. The same day, came word that the Pentagon is going after a NASA hero who dared challenge the commander-in-chief.

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