American Ben Shelton was furious when play in his second-round encounter with Rinky Hijikata at Wimbledon was suspended because of bad light as he was about to serve for the match. After winning the first two sets 6-2 7-5, 10th seed Shelton was leading 5-4 in the third and potentially on course to wrap up...
Megha Mohan & Yousef Eldin & Sophie Eastaugh BBC World Service BBC Kara joined the Army in 2008 and transitioned 10 years later After 17 years in the US Army, Maj Kara Corcoran, 39, was preparing to graduate from an elite military leadership programme. But there was a complication. Two days before the ceremony, Kara...
Ah, these Mondays. These Memorial Day Mondays. Honoring the sacrifice of so many and remembering what conflicts, large and small, have cost us in the nation’s blood and treasure. There are so many beautiful places of honor where many of them now rest. NAS Pensacola has a National Cemetery. When we first moved here, it...
Another 2,800 homes in Exeter are set to receive weekly food waste collections. The new additions will mean nearly half the city is now receiving the service. The latest roll-out of kerbside collections will cover areas of Newtown and St Leonards, Pennsylvania, Heavitree and St James, as plans to get the whole city involved continue...
South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada says he is serving a provisional suspension for failing a drugs test. The 29-year-old returned home from the Indian Premier League where he was playing for Gujarat Titans at the start of last month to “deal with an important personal matter”. But he has now confirmed it was because...
America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS),...