French Olympic swimming champion Yannick Agnel will stand trial on charges of rape and sexual assault on the 13-year-old daughter of his former coach, according to officials.

Claudia and her stylist, Sinead McKeefry, are playing a blinder with the presenter’s outfits

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Author has been writing next ‘Game of Thrones’ novel since 2010

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Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.

In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.

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Old Trafford’s hierarchy are looking for a strong personality to lead the team, says Miguel Delaney in the latest Inside Football newsletter, confident that a quiet but significant transformation behind the scenes has finally changed the environment they are stepping into

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The Egypt international will return from the Africa Cup of Nations after the third-place play-off, following defeat in the semi-finals to Senegal

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Eddie Howe expects Fabian Schär to be out for three months. The defender underwent surgery on Thursday after sustaining an ankle injury in Newcastle’s victory against Leeds last week.

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Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison had reportedly selected the name from Japanese mythology, after the Shinto goddess associated with both creation and death.

Use rucking to upgrade your walks, build strength and boost your fitness

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Shopping for protein powder is a far from simple process. There are a wealth of options, with the packaging on each invariably displaying myriad marketing claims alongside pictures of muscular animals and other confusing motifs.

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The team behind Baby Steps discuss why they made a whiny, unprepared manbaby the protagonist – and how players have grown to love Nate as he struggles up a mountain

“I don’t know why he is in a onesie and has a big ass,” shrugs game developer Gabe Cuzzillo. “Bennett just came in with that at some point.”

“I thought it would be cute,” replies Bennett Foddy, who was formerly Cuzzillo’s professor at New York University’s Game Center and is now his collaborator. “Working on character design and animation brings you over to liking big butts. I could give you an enormous amount of evidence for this.”

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As head of an immigration charity, I’ve seen firsthand how hostility and toxicity have reached unprecedented levels

• Enver Solomon is the outgoing chief executive of the Refugee Council

It is difficult to think of another area of government policy that has weathered as much legislative hyperactivity as asylum and migration. I have been chief executive of the Refugee Council since 2020, and I am struck by the fact that there have been four bills that have become law since I started. A fifth one in as many years is expected soon as Home Office officials beaver away under the orders of the home secretary to quickly turn the proposed asylum reforms, published in November, into legislation.

As I prepare to leave the organisation this month, I have been reflecting on how the asylum and migration landscape has changed. It’s clear the rhetoric and intent behind all these new laws has been the same: to deter so-called asylum shopping, to disrupt the people-smuggling gangs, to ramp up removals of migrants, to fix the broken asylum system and, ultimately, deliver control of our borders.

Enver Solomon is the outgoing chief executive of the Refugee Council

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The postseason continues with the Broncos and Seahawks entering the fray, but there could be trouble for one of the frontrunners

What the Bills need to do to win: Keep winning short-yardage situations. The tush push on fourth down that propelled Josh Allen 10 yards and helped secure Buffalo’s win over Jacksonville last weekend epitomised how the Bills dominated the game’s crucial moments. The Bills converted four of their five third downs with four yards or to go last Sunday, and they finished fifth in third-down rate in the regular season in the same situations. Denver were eighth this season in third-and-short defensive efficiency (50.6%). Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady will have to find ways to create leverage for Allen and the Bills in those vital moments to keep the scoreboard moving.

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Mercedes “MJ” Javid stopped by the Page Six studio to chat with “Virtual Reali-Tea” co-hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real about her return to reality TV on “The Valley: Persian Style.” She dished on reuniting with fellow “Shahs of Sunset” alums Golnesa Gharachedaghi and Reza Farahan, while also sharing the latest on her divorce from...

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Jannik Sinner and Madison Keys are the defending champions as the opening grand slam of the year gets underway in Melbourne

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White House sources said Machado had committed the ‘ultimate sin’ by accepting the award in the first place

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Though many portions of the densely populated Interstate 95 corridor are seeing below average snow totals this winter, two separate systems could bring light snow from Washington, DC north to Boston through this weekend and into Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The latest season of ‘The Traitors’ is teeming with twenty and thirtysomething men who all look pretty similar, and it’s making the backstabbing and double-crossing in the castle even more impenetrable than usual, says Katie Rosseinsky

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Madison Keys plans to go quietly into the player tunnel at Rod Laver Arena before the season-opening major to take a photo of her name among the Australian Open champions and send it home to her mom

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Carlos Alcaraz, Aryna Sabalenka, Venus Williams and Emma Raducanu are all in action on the opening day of the tournament on Sunday

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The structure is clinging onto the cliff, with little of it left to support it

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Surrey Police confirmed it spent £15,990 on the chartered flight to bring HSTikkyTokky back from Malaga Airport

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