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British police officer pleads guilty to rape and kidnap of Sarah Everard
Her body was found in a bag in woodland in the county of Kent one week after she vanished in a case that outraged Britain.
- by Jennifer Hassan
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World’s toughest animal frozen for 24,000 years, can still reproduce
Bdelloid rotifers may be the toughest, tiniest animal you’ve never heard of, but scientists say they can survive anything.
- by Marion Renault
The push for French to oust English at the centre of EU power
Already letters from the European Commission in English are going unanswered.
- by Anna Pujol-Mazzini
UK sports race storm grows as Johnson blasts cricket, hedges on soccer
The British PM has defended a cricketer suspended over historic racist tweets and refused to condemn fans who boo the national soccer team for taking the knee.
- by Ben Rumsby
‘The jabs are working’: Only three fully vaccinated people hospitalised in UK with Delta variant
Nearly 76 per cent of adults in the UK have had at least one shot of vaccines by AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna, and 52 per cent two doses.
- by Bevan Shields
Zero-COVID countries face ‘genuine dilemma’ about how to reopen: WHO
The World Health Organisation says Australia and other countries face a “genuine dilemma” about how to move away from their zero-COVID approach and are now more at risk than other countries as a result of their elimination strategies.
- by Latika Bourke
Sitting on a platform of wood, Amsterdam’s historic canal districts are crumbling
For the next two decades, the scenic city and tourist magnet is going to look more like one gigantic construction site.
- by Thomas Erdbrink
He ‘drove on to hunt fascists’: Last liberator of Auschwitz dies at 98
The Red Army soldier flattened the electric fence of the Nazi death camp with his T-34 tank, found “skeletons everywhere” and kept going.
Royal family: Lilibet joins a long line of succession to the Queen’s throne
Prince Harry now sits in sixth place, with his first child Archie in seventh. Prince Andrew, meanwhile, has been pushed down to ninth in line.
- by Victoria Ward
Reactions to the birth of Meghan and Harry’s baby Lilibet Diana
British TV presenter Piers Morgan, who had clashed with the couple, declined to comment on Lilibeth ‘Lili’ Diana Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth in California.
- by Frances Kerry
Pope voices ‘pain’ over Canadian school deaths, doesn’t apologise
Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run residential schools and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on “this sad affair.”
- by Frances D'Emilio