8 h. ago Lewis Hamilton breaks Michael Schumacher record despite Singapore GP penalty heartbreak

Lewis Hamilton was frustrated by some late-race heartbreak at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, but the seven-time world champion still made a piece of F1 history.

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19 h. ago Researcher rewrites the history of one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks 110 years later

Once considered lost to the frigid depths, the ship was only found three years ago

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23 h. ago British breakthroughs and India pride as Delhi hails para athletics worlds a success

Empty seats catch the eye but history-making wins capture the imagination, with 35 world records tumblingThe headline, slightly stuffily, read “heartiest congratulations”. Underneath, an effusive Narendra Modi posted congratulations to his country’s para-athletics team. “A historic performance!”, the Indian prime minister wrote on social media, celebrating a record 22-medal haul for his country at the World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, which ended on Sunday. “I am proud of each and every member and wish them the very best for their future endeavours,” he said. “Hosting the tournament in Delhi has also been an honour for India.”This was India’s first time staging the biggest track-and-field event in disability sport, outside the Paralympic Games, and they made a suitable noise about it. After a last-minute decision that confirmed Delhi as hosts last December, the hope was that the championships might expand awareness of para-sport in India and, in the process, perhaps help ...

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3 d. ago French sees off Leigh to put Wigan in Grand Final after week of acrimony

Super League playoff semi-final: Wigan 18-6 LeighWigan grateful to Jai Field’s amazing second-half tackleIt was a week which began with unexpected controversy and the prospect of this game not even taking place. But in the end, there was an all too familiar outcome to a bristling derby as the reigning Super League champions moved to a place in the Grand Final and the verge of yet more history.Wigan Warriors’ stunned the rugby league world on Wednesday morning with a statement alleging that Leigh Leopards’ owner, Derek Beaumont, wanted to withdraw from this game in a row over ticket allocations, merely adding an extra layer of intrigue to the playoff semi-final. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Magdeleine Vallieres makes history with surprise gold at Cycling World Championships

Vallieres became Canada’s first world champion on the road after attacking up the final climb in Rwanda

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1 week ago New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic

Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are PictishThe Book of Kells was likely to have been created 1,200 years ago in Pictish eastern Scotland, rather than on the island of Iona, according to research that challenges long-held assumptions about one of the world’s most famous medieval manuscripts.The Book of Kells is an intricate, illuminated account of the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John that was long thought to have been started in the late eighth century at the monastery on Iona before being taken in the 9th century to the monastery of Kells in County Meath, Ireland, after a Viking raid. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Unbeaten world champion offers Terence Crawford the chance to make history

Unified champion Janibek Alimkhanuly has called out the three-weight undisputed champion for a world title fight at middleweight

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1 week ago England star determined to banish World Cup final demons as Red Roses set sights on history

The centre has established as one of the first names on John Mitchell’s teamsheet for this weekend’s final against Canada at a sold out Allianz Stadium.

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1 week ago ‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for goals

Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexityWhen the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, visited Jerusalem this month, the itinerary his Israeli hosts laid on involved more archaeology than anything else. On his first day, Benjamin Netanyahu took Rubio underground to excavations near the Western Wall. On the second day, Israel’s prime minister gave his American visitor the honour of inaugurating a tunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era street nicknamed the Pilgrimage Road, in a “City of David” archaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisation.Both events were intended to emphasise Jerusalem’s Jewish roots and its status, Netanyahu stressed, as “our eternal and undivided capital”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Most destructive arms race in human history’: Zelenskyy appeals at UN for intervention to stop Russia

Ukrainian president told world leaders that combination of drone technology and AI would end in catastropheEurope live – latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to global leaders to intervene to prevent Russia from leading the world through “the most destructive arms race in human history”, warning that the combination of drone technology and artificial intelligence would end in catastrophe.Speaking to the UN general assembly, the Ukrainian president tried to galvanise not just the west but also China. His chilling account of how Russia is using technology to change the face of war was the opposite of Donald Trump’s claim that Russia’s military may only be a paper tiger. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Zelensky warns UN: Russia could attack you next as Trump turns on Putin

Volodymyr Zelensky warned the UN General Assembly that the world has entered the ‘most destructive arms race in history’ as Russia develops a fleet of AI drones

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1 week ago Ukraine’s president says the world is in `the most destructive arms race in history’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is telling world leaders that the world is in “the most destructive arms race in history."

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2 w. ago An official Pokémon shop is coming to the Natural History Museum

An official Pokémon shop is coming to the Natural History Museum  Time Out Worldwide

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2 w. ago An official Pokémon shop is coming to London’s Natural History Museum

An official Pokémon shop is coming to London’s Natural History Museum  Time Out Worldwide

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2 w. ago Heirs and Graces by Eleanor Doughty review – what are aristocrats really like?

A journalist brings verve and expertise to a subject that is still weighed down by tedious dynastic detailA large number of paragraphs, maybe every paragraph, of Eleanor Doughty’s Heirs and Graces starts like this: “Bert was the son of Charles “Sunny” Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough.” Why do aristocrats insist on broadcasting their domestic nicknames to the wider world and to history, as though these are the passwords to polite society? “My dear, you thought he was called Henry? But anybody who’s anybody knows he goes by Boydy! Because of the time he once caught a ball, and ran around for a week, shouting, ‘I’m just like a real boy!’.”Like any jargon, it’s a system designed to dominate and exclude, dressed up in the language – not really language, more like mouth-noises – of the nursery, but reader, you do not have time to get irritated by this, because you will need all your resources of patience to get to the end of the sentence, without thinking: who cares wh...

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2 w. ago Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald: Who knows Take That best?

They are one of the most successful pop groups in British history, selling millions of albums worldwide and performing to millions of fans across the globe.

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2 w. ago Precious gold samples stolen in raid on French natural history museum

Museum says specimens taken are worth €600,000 based on price of gold but have ‘immeasurable heritage value’Historic gold samples with a street value of €600,000 but priceless to scientists and researchers have been stolen from the French national natural history museum in the latest of a series of museum robberies in France.“This has happened in a critical context for cultural establishments in France, particularly museums,” the Paris museum said. “Several public collections have been the victims of robberies in the past months.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago World's 7 deadliest fighter pilots – from the Red Baron to 'Cats Eyes' Cunningham

Fighter pilots have long been the stuff of legend, with their daring exploits in the skies above battlefields the world over earning them a place in the history books

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2 w. ago World's oldest mummies were 'smoked dried like BBQ brisket' in history changing discovery

The world's oldest mummies have been discovered in burial sites in southern China and southeast Asia, boffins have claimed in a newly published and potentially ground-breaking study

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3 w. ago 'Prettiest' capital city in the world is less than three hours from UK with £25 flights

Rome is often called the most beautiful city in the world, and it's easy to see why. The Italian capital is full of history, world-famous landmarks and beautiful buildings at every turn

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