BBC Sport’s Joe Lynskey looks back at the boxing career of former world champion Ricky Hatton, who has died at the age of 46. Source link

40 years ago today, the Penang Bridge officially opened connecting the Malay Peninsula with the island of Penang. Stretching 5.2 miles across the Penang Strait, it’s the second-longest bridge over water in Malaysia. Architects decided to use a cable-stayed suspension design similar to the Golden Gate Bridge rather than the steel-tied arch style of the…

Reuters A memorial service for right-wing activist Charlie Kirk will be held on 21 September at State Farm Stadium in Arizona, a venue which can seat more than 60,000 people. Turning Point USA, the organisation Kirk co-founded, made the announcement on social media, inviting the public to celebrate his “remarkable life and enduring legacy”. Kirk,…

Jake Scrace on his kite-surfing tow-up over Isle of Wight for Guinness World Record – SWNS A British kite-surfer has set a new world record for flying over 1,500 feet in the air above an iconic landmark. Jake Scrace was lifted 450 meters above the spectacular Isle of Wight coastline after being towed-up by a…

Daniel SandfordUK correspondent, central London and Maia Davies Aerial video shows scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protest More than 100,000 people have joined a march in central London organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson, with a counter-protest by anti-racism campaigners also taking place. Protesters forming the “Unite the Kingdom” rally have gathered in Whitehall where…

Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote…

Several papers lead with the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. Robinson was arrested after his “anguished dad” helped turn him in, the Daily Mirror reports. Robinson, who a neighbour says came from a “good God-fearing family”, could face the death penalty if found…

– credit, courtesy of Sembcorp How do you decarbonize a city state? With so little space, so many demands on power, and so many citizens, generating any meaningful electricity from renewable energy is a major challenge for urban planners. But over its history, the planners of Singapore have shown themselves to be nothing if not…

Labour MP Clive Lewis has said Sir Keir Starmer “doesn’t seem up to the job” as anger grows over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as an ambassador and the handling of his sacking. Mandelson was fired over links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The men’s friendship had been known about at the time of his appointment but…

The ampurta, or crest-tailed mulgara – credit, Bobby Tamayo, Simpson Desert, Queensland CC 4.0. For an Australian marsupial facing extinction on a continent-wide scale, the news of an oncoming drought back in 2001 probably felt like the coming of the end times. But in a surprising break from the narrative, the ampurta (Dasycercus hillieri) a…