Winning the right to host the world’s most popular sporting event took years of planning, countless Zoom calls and a bit of luck with a broken-down bus.

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Take Back Power, which says it campaigns for higher taxes on the wealthy, claimed it was behind the act

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The defection has given Reform its first peer

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Three F1 world title rivals target a vital pole position ahead of the season-decider on Sunday

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A Hermès Birkin bag originally owned by the late Jane Birkin has sold at auction for $2.3m (£1.7m).

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The five-foot-tall figure sings to children on their way home from school

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The 48-year-old tutor first met the inmate in the summer of 2023

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A Charlton fan at the Valley required emergency medical treatment, leading to the Championship clash being abandoned after just 12 minutes

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Eleven years after Holloway beat the Brazilian, the pair will square off again

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This follows a 45-day sentence last year for similar supervised release violations

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Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested a 71-year-old man for allegedly posting seditious content on social media

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Louisiana is shrinking

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England 134/6 (trail Australia by 43 runs): The tourists are facing a 2-0 series deficit after Starc starred in Brisbane

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Drone video has shown the extent of the devastation in Aceh after Indonesia and parts of southeast Asia were hit by deadly flooding.

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England have endured a growing collection of increasingly familiar dismissals.

The shooting occurred at an unlicensed bar in a township west of Pretoria

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Four protesters have been arrested after splattering food on the case of a diamond-encrusted crown at the Tower of London

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Dr David Bull, the Reform chairman, promised the party would produce ‘scarves, hats and kilts’ for members north of the border

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Police have released audio of a McDonald’s employee’s 911 call after spotting CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione at the restaurant.

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McIlroy had the encounter with the stray fruit early in his third round at Royal Melbourne

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