Czechia Olympic hockey coach Radim Rulik said referees were "afraid to call" penalties against Canada after his team's 4-3 overtime quarterfinal loss.

Did you know that a 5,700-year-old piece of gum held an entire human genome sequence, and that the Mona Lisa has a mailbox for fan mail?

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested Thursday over his ties to convicted rapist and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

King Charles III is speaking out after his brother, former Prince Andrew, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. “I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office,” he began in a stastatement issued by Buckingham Palace. “What now follows is the full,...

The police raided Andrew’s Norfolk home this morning

• Full report: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested

• What we know so far as King Charles III’s brother arrested

Before the arrest was announced, the prime minister told BBC Breakfast “nobody is above the law” when asked about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Keir Starmer added:

Anybody who has any information should testify.

So whether it’s Andrew or anybody else, anybody who has got relevant information should come forward to whatever the relevant body is, in this particular case we’re talking about Epstein, but there are plenty of other cases.

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Keir Starmer gave the seemingly prescient warning in an interview with the BBC early Thursday when asked if the king's brother should dish on what he knows about his late friend, notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

MILAN -- To no surprise, Canadian men's team captain Sidney Crosby missed practice on Thursday, a session that's expected to be the squad's lone tune-up before its Friday semifinal against Finland at the Milan-Cortina Games. Read More

A bill banning the sale and use of plastic and metallic glitter has yet to go through in Brazil as the capital’s sandy shores bear cost of carnival’s shine

Whether it is embellishing elaborate costumes, delicately applied as eye makeup, or smeared across bare skin, glitter is everywhere at Rio de Janeiro’s carnival in Brazil. The world’s largest party, which ended on Wednesday, leaves a trail of sparkles in its wake.

At one bloco last weekend, a huge sound truck and dancers in leopard print led thousands of revellers down the promenade at Flamengo beach. Among them was Bruno Fernandes, who had jazzed up an otherwise minimalist outfit of navy swimming briefs by smearing silver glitter over his body.

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(Dead Oceans)
Whether retreating from fame or heartbreak, the US musician writes gorgeous songs about the appeal of disconnection, flecked with horror and humour

Last month, Mitski released Where’s My Phone?, the first single from her eighth album Nothing’s About to Happen to Me. Its raging alt-rock is a more robust take on the lo-fi fuzz of her third album Bury Me at Makeout Creek, while UK listeners might detect a certain Britpoppy swing about its rhythm, and it ends with a guitar solo so jarringly distorted it sounds as if something is wrong with the stream. It was accompanied by a video that featured the singer as a headscarf-sporting rural mother, trying to protect her family from the attentions of the outside world with increasing violence: a milkman gets attacked, her daughter’s potential suitor is beaten bloody. It’s both funny and unsettling: there are references to Rapunzel, Grey Gardens, Grant Wood’s American Gothic and Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle – a litany of the wilfully isolated.

The visuals set the tone for the rest of Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, an album on which you’re never far from its author expressing a longing to disappear; to be, as she puts it on Instead of Here, “where nobody can reach”. On opener In a Lake, she extols moving to the city from a small town, not in search of bright lights and excitement, but obscurity, a means of obliterating your own history: “Some days you just go the long way to stay off memory lane.” On I’ll Change for You, she hymns bars – “such magic places” – precisely because of their anonymity: “You can be with other people without having anyone at all.” And on Rules, she’ll “get a new haircut … be somebody else”. All this is set to beautifully crafted music that splits the difference between alt-rock, country-infused acoustic lamentation and grander ambition: the brilliance of Rules lies in the disparity between the hopelessness of its lyric and the thickly orchestrated, perky, early 70s easy listening backing.

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As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

These drug-resistant germs, the CDC warned, are responsible for more than 3m infections in the US each year, claiming the lives of up to 48,000 Americans.

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Two law professors outline strategies for equality’s survival in a Trumpian post-DEI era in new book How Equality Wins

The Trump administration’s “war on woke” seems to have claimed its biggest victim in DEI. Not so long ago, diversity, equity and inclusion was the favorite term of Fortune 500 CEOs and the political elite. More recently, it has been blamed for everything from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the deadly Los Angeles wildfires to the crash between a regional jet and a helicopter in Washington DC.

“DEI means people DIE,” Elon Musk wrote last year.

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The federal government is being called on to send aid to Cuba in the wake of tightening restrictions against the Caribbean island nation by the United States. Read More

"She was the best partner I ever had," investigator Matthew Kerin said of Labrador retriever Leah.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of the U.K.’s King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office after further details of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged. Read More

McAlister, who shares a 4-year-old son with her husband, Rob, last talked to her family the night she left, telling them she would be returning home the next day but could stay in The Peach State an extra day.

The 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie is believed to have been kidnapped from her home in Tucson, Arizona while she slept during the early morning hours of Feb. 1.

‘Air cavalry’ commander John B Stockton was the inspiration behind Duvall’s napalm-sniffing Lt Col Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war epic

The actor Robert Duvall, who died this week, is known for many memorable movie roles, but none so much as his cameo as the Stetson-wearing Lt Col Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. In Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war epic Duvall plays the commander of a helicopter squadron who flies into battle with Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries blaring from loudspeakers and utters the immortal line: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

Duvall’s scene-stealing portrayal earned him Bafta and Golden Globe awards for best supporting actor as well as an Oscar nomination in that category. What is less well known is that his character was based on a real officer who fought in Vietnam. Lt Col John B Stockton was hard to miss. Like Duvall in the movie, he wore a black Stetson and spurs on his boots. He carried his papers in leather saddlebags and even had his unit’s mascot, a mule called Maggie, smuggled into Vietnam despite a strict “no pets” policy. And he really did play Wagner from side-mounted speakers fixed to his helicopter when going into action.

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Staff are using stoves and generators to keep lions, camels and Ukraine’s lone gorilla safe from winter and war

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Kyiv zoo’s most famous resident lays on his back watching television. On screen: a nature documentary.

For a quarter of a century, Toni has been the zoo’s star attraction, drawing tens of thousands of visitors. He is Ukraine’s only gorilla. At 52 – old by western gorilla standards – he needs warm conditions similar to the lowlands of central Africa.

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"It is a common belief in this agency that this case has become an ego case for Sheriff Nanos," said Sgt. Aaron Cross, president of the Pima County Deputies Organization.

MILAN - It has been the overriding mission statement of Hockey Canada's women's program since its inception, though never has it been put to the test quite like this. Read More

We’re about to endure a tanktastic final two months of the NBA season.

If convicted, the former royal could face a maximum sentence of life in prison.