Fri 15 May 2026: David Beckham, the former Manchester United star, has become Britain’s first billionaire sportsman according to the 2026 Sunday Times Rich List. In contrast, the club’s co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has seen his wealth decline over the past 12 months. The collective wealth of Beckham and his wife Victoria passed the billion-pound […]
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Fri 15 May 2026: There’s now a vast, rapidly expanding global trade in counterfeit goods: imitation clothes, shoes and electronics, and even fake cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Some fake products can pose serious health risks to unsuspecting buyers. Health authorities have warned consumers to “exercise extreme caution when buying medicines and medical devices online”. These include counterfeit weight-loss products falsely claiming to […]
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Fri 15 May 2026: Prosecutors in Germany announced Wednesday that a pediatrician has been charged with 130 cases of rape and other forms of sexual abuse involving children. The unidentified suspect who worked in clinics in Brandenburg state near Berlin allegedly committed the crimes over 12 years, they said in a statement, without specifying how […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille says South Africa has embarked on one of the most important reforms in the tourism and immigration ecosystem — the rollout of the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). “This is not just a digital upgrade; it is a fundamental shift in how we welcome visitors, how we […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: When players arrive in the US this year for their World Cup pre-tournament media shoot, they will each step into a scanning chamber to capture their precise body-part dimensions and create 3D, AI avatars. Why? Because even when you’re the biggest sport in the world, you can’t afford to stand still. […]
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Thu 14 May 2026: An estimated 43,000 people of the 172,000 injured in Gaza since October 2023 have sustained life-changing injuries, including around 10,000 children, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, said the updated estimates reflect the […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: New allegations of cow-related vigilante violence have emerged in Haryana after videos spread online allegedly showing two Muslim men being beaten, humiliated, and forced to drink what appears to be cow urine by a self-proclaimed cow protection group. The incident this week has triggered anger among minority groups and rights activists, […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: As of May 8 end-to-end encryption is no longer available on direct messages on Instagram. Meta, in announcing the policy reversal, said it had done so because few people used the feature. But this has raised questions about its impact on user privacy and whether it will improve child safety on the platform. Instagram […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: Mexico’s government and the CIA have rebutted a report claiming that US intelligence agents have participated in the targeted assassinations of alleged drug cartel members in the Latin American country. The denials on Tuesday came after CNN reported that the CIA has been deeply involved in deadly operations aimed at dismantling Mexico’s drug cartels. CIA operatives have “directly participated” in several attacks […]
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Wed 13 May 2026: Columnist says there was ‘no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes,’ but argued Israeli authorities had built ‘security apparatus where sexual violence has become,’ citing UN report, one of Israel’s ‘standard operating procedures’ A New York Times opinion columnist has alleged that Palestinian detainees have been subjected to widespread sexual violence […]
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