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Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova announces her retirement from tennis in an emotional essay in Vanity Fair – three years after coming from a drugs ban By Jonathan Spencer For Mailonline Published: 13:08 GMT, 26 February 2020 | Updated: 13:21 GMT, 26 February 2020 Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement from tennis at just the … Read more
Pain of Greta Thunberg as she reveals her grandfather has died at the age of 94 17-year-old posted to social media that her grandfather had died yesterday Olof Thunberg had been due to turn 95-years-old and Greta paid tribute to him The activist described him as ‘one of the kindest people’ she had ever known … Read more
One in four 15-year-olds have a reading age of 12 or below and struggle to understand questions in their GCSE exams Test provider GL Assessment analysed the reading abilities of 370,000 pupils 25% have reading age of 12 or below and 20% have skills of 11-year-old and under Worryingly, 10% have a reading age equivalent … Read more
Rebecca Judd has blasted Internet trolls peddling a false conspiracy theory that bullied nine-year-old schoolboy Quaden Bayles is actually 18. The footy WAG, 36, said on The 3pm Pick-Up on Monday that the fake news surrounding Quaden’s age was a symptom of ‘cancel culture’. ‘Cancel culture really is an epidemic. Something bad happens to you, … Read more
Daredevil ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes has died after launching himself into the air on a homemade rocket that later crash landed. Footage of the incident shows Hughes, 64, propelling himself into the air on the steam-powered rocket on Saturday, near Barstow, California, before it crashed. The incident may have been filmed for a new TV show, … Read more
Britain’s top spy reveals how teenage school leavers are being recruited to MI6 after the intelligence service cut its minimum age to 18 as espionage adapts to the technological revolution MI6 hopes to capture early the hearts and minds of school leavers, aged 18 Sir Alex Younger invited 30 teenagers from inner London to Vauxhall … Read more
An Iron Age temple discovered at Tel Motza, near Jerusalem, calls into question the Biblical claim that Solomon’s temple was alone in the ancient Kingdom of Judah. Solomon’s Temple — which is also known as the First Temple — stood from the 10th Century BC until its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC. According to … Read more
Pioneering computer scientist who invented ‘cut, copy and paste’ commands for computers has died at the age of 74 The pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the cut, copy and paste commands for computers has died Bronx-born Lawrence ‘Larry’ Tesler died this week at the age of 74 The Stanford University graduate specialized in … Read more
Pioneering computer scientist who invented ‘cut, copy and paste’ commands for computers has died at the age of 74 The pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the cut, copy and paste commands for computers has died Bronx-born Lawrence ‘Larry’ Tesler died this week at the age of 74 The Stanford University graduate specialized in … Read more
Trains, Planes, Ships & Cars: The Golden Age 1900-1941 James Hamilton-Paterson Head of Zeus £30 Rating: Ah, the Golden Age of Travel! This is not a book to be read while you are standing cooped-up on a crowded staircase for ten minutes as part of Ryanair’s ‘Priority Boarding’. In James Hamilton-Paterson’s judgment, the Golden Age … Read more