9 h. ago Wild about Wills! Prince is mobbed by VERY handsy Brazilian royal fans after setting pulses racing with his physique during beach volleyball

The Prince of Wales left fans swooning as he showed off his sporty side in Brazil on Tuesday.

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5 d. ago Wild theory Prince William can't read, is 'functionally illiterate' and prefers Batman films

The future King is said to the be the first monarch never to have read Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution and can't name a favourite author, leading to speculation that he can't read

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5 d. ago Wild theory Prince William won't read, is 'functionally illiterate' and prefers Batman films

The future King is said to the be the first monarch never to have read Walter Bagehot’s The English Constitution and can't name a favourite author, leading to speculation that he can't read

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7 d. ago Olympian convicted of raping child in UK banned from Beach Volleyball World Championships

Steven van de Velde of the Netherlands, who is a convicted child rapist, has had a visa application to enter Australia for the Beach Volleyball World Championships rejected

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7 d. ago Australia denies visa to Dutch Olympian convicted of child rape

Dutch Olympian Steven van de Velde has been denied a visa to compete in the beach volleyball world championships in Australia

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7 d. ago Dutch volleyballer and convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde denied Australian visa

Player’s visa application rejected ahead of world championships Van de Velde served prison sentence for raping 12-year-old girl in 2014Netherlands beach volleyball player and convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde has been banned from entering Australia for the looming world titles.Van de Velde had been named in a Dutch team to contest the world championships in Adelaide starting on 14 November, but the Australian government rejected his visa application. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘A force of nature who took no prisoners’: a tribute to Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki

The driving force behind Team Ninja was a game development samurai who almost always won his battlesGame designer and ex-Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki died last week aged 58. He was famous for his sunglasses, long black hair, leather jackets – and his penchant for using colourful second world war metaphors to describe game development, marketing strategies and just about anything else. A pugnacious talent, he rocked the boat and made waves in almost every aspect of his life.Itagaki joined Japanese game developer Tecmo in 1992, as a young programmer, where he led the creation of the fighting game series Dead or Alive, the first instalment of which was released in 1996. He famously picked a long-running fight with Namco’s Tekken series, after that company’s marketing team ran an ad that he found disparaging. The resulting one-sided beef put his fighting franchise on the world stage in the early 2000s. After Dead or Alive 3, he turned his attentions to beach volleyball as a palette ...

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