Madeline Halpert BBC News, in court in New York REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg The disgraced hip-hop mogul fell to his knees and buried his head in a chair at the defence table where he had just spent two months on trial for sex trafficking and racketeering. Twelve New York jurors gathered at 10:00 on Wednesday in the...
We all know now that students’ ability to learn suffered significantly during the pandemic. Some kids struggled to pay attention and some just dropped out entirely, never to return. National test scores since then show that most students haven’t recovered even five years later. Nevertheless, I guess I’d had it in the back of my...
Back in January, when firefighters were doing their best to fight the blaze in the Pacific Palisades, the fire hydrants started running out of water. Developer Rick Caruso commented about this on local television and his comments went viral. That led to this amazing video in which a local news anchor tried to debunk Caruso’s...
When 25-year-old McIlroy claimed the fourth major of his career – at the 2014 US PGA Championship – it felt inevitable he would quickly complete the collection at the Masters. Back-to-back majors at the Open Championship and US PGA – having previously won the 2011 US Open and 2012 PGA – signalled his dominance. A...
Lucy Ashton BBC News, Yorkshire BBC Uriah Rennie, 65, was hospitalised for five months after a rare condition left him paralysed from the waist down Uriah Rennie became a familiar face to millions of football fans after becoming the Premier League’s first black referee. Once described as the “fittest” match official in global football and...