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TV tonight: a perfect finale for French super-soldier thriller The Sentinels
The Sentinels9.50pm, BBC FourThis French counterfactual thriller about lab-grown super-soldiers in the first world war has sustained itself convincingly; as the final two episodes drop, the political intrigue and...
‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?
Of all the things that happened in the fraught days after 72-year-old Liz Spooner had her leg amputated at the Royal Cornwall hospital in Truro in 2022, one memory...
‘We stared into an abyss’: the heroes battling to tame France’s ‘megafire’
By noon it is time for a break. The temperature is about 35C, the smell of ash, cinders and burnt wood hang acrid in the air. At tables laid...
‘Who could have done this?’ Mystery over Briton found dead in a suitcase in Athens
Two worlds separated by sheets of corrugated iron: one, a tree-lined road, bordered by a park and the home of Greece’s oldest sports club; the other a wasteland of...
Singapore bans Massive Attack for showing Palestinian flag, breaching ban on foreign emblems
British trip-hop band Massive Attack has been barred from performing in Singapore after an investigation found two members unfurled a Palestinian flag during a concert, police said.Singapore, known for...
‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: how a Bali run club reignited tourist tensions on holiday island
When Annisa Rahmadani posted online about being rejected from a social running club in Bali, she expected a few sympathetic comments. Instead, her story went viral, prompted national politicians...
Ukraine war briefing: Missile attack on Kyiv kills at least four as Zelenskyy pushes to use Starlink for attacks in Russia
Kyiv was once again under attack by ballistic missiles early on Saturday as Donald Trump retreated further from a promise to let Ukraine manufacture its own Patriot air defence...
Gianni Infantino, Fifa and the week that rocked the football world
What has been happening?It has been a week that has rocked football. The news caught everyone by surprise. When reports first emerged on Tuesday afternoon that Fifa, world football’s...
Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash
Gianni Infantino’s proposal to sell chunks of the World Cup to private investors has sensationally collapsed, with the Fifa president admitting the project “has created divisions of a nature...
Justice department moves to dismiss its charges against Olympian over reflecting pool
The justice department has moved to dismiss a criminal case charging former Olympian David Hearn with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial‘ reflecting pool, instead blaming damage to the pool...