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'Cold' coach back at Olympics after Valieva scandal

When figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze's "tremendous coldness" was described as "chilling to see" at the last Winter Olympics, it may have been hard to imagine her returning to her sport's biggest stage. Four years later, the highly successful coach is at Milan-Cortina - and not everyone is happy about …

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Christchurch shooter seeks to overturn guilty plea

At the time of the sentencing in August 2020, then Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern said life imprisonment without parole meant Tarrant would have "no notoriety, no platform. and we have no cause to think about him, to see him or to hear from him again"

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Universities told to report foreign interference on campus to MI5

Meawhile, in November BBC News reported how a campaign of harassment and intimidation took place at Sheffield Hallam University in an attempt to shut down an academic's research into allegations of forced labour among Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China

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Venezuela's opposition says party leader kidnapped hours after being freed

The leader of the Justice First party, he was elected governor of the Zulia region in 2017 but barred from taking office after he refused to swear an oath before Maduro's National Constituent Assembly

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Skier Vonn has surgery on leg fracture after crash in downhill

American skier Lindsey Vonn has had surgery on a left-leg fracture after suffering heartbreak in what could be her final Olympic event as she crashed in the women's downhill competition in Cortina. The 41-year-old was competing just nine days after rupturing ligaments in her left knee, but hitting the gate …

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'Trump's psyche': The aide driving president's most controversial policies

It was heady stuff coming on the heels of America's surgically precise use of military force in Venezuela. And, for a president who a few days later would tell the New York Times that the only limit on his global powers are "my own morality" and "my own mind", it …

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In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks

"I'm from a tiny village in south Germany", he says. "The farmers there, they get up at five every day and work more than 12 hours per day, seven days a week. And they don't take any holidays, or maybe just two to three days when they can get someone …

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Bad Bunny piles on Puerto Rican patriotism at Super Bowl half-time show

Bad Bunny, who has been producing music since 2013, said in a 2025 interview with i-D that there were "many reasons" he would not be performing in the US this time around and "none of them were out of hate"

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Seahawks dominate Patriots to claim second Super Bowl

The Seattle Seahawks produced a devastating defensive display to beat the New England Patriots and claim their second Super Bowl victory. Two of the NFL's strongest defences battled it out in Sunday's showpiece and the Seahawks emphatically came out on top to win 29-13 at Levi's Stadium. It was a …

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Why McSweeney's departure could prove perilous for the PM

No 10's attempts to mollify backbenchers will continue in the coming days, with the 37 Scottish Labour MPs getting particular close attention. This is because many of them privately believe Starmer is a major drag on their chances for the Holyrood elections in May

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