In hot conditions in Washington DC, both Raducanu and Sakkari struggled to hold their serves in the opening set, with the Briton converting three of her six break points and her opponent two from four. However, at 4-4, Raducanu struck the decisive blow, breaking Sakkari’s serve for the third time before converting a second set…

Maddy Kacmarcik and Travis Becker – SWNS A woman is counting her blessings that she was on the right road at the right time, after falling in love with a guy that she and her friend picked up hitchhiking. 27-year-old Maddy met Travis Becker while driving back from a night out with her friend in…

Indelible Telly/BBC Mhairi Black stood down as an MP ahead of the general election last year Former SNP MP Mhairi Black has left the party – predominantly over its stance on trans rights and Palestine, the BBC understands. Black, who was formerly the SNP’s deputy leader at Westminster, said there had been “too many times”…

Andrew with Champ – credit, SWNS A two-legged Chihuahua named Champ detected a potentially fatal heart attack before his owner even felt symptoms, saving his life in the process. 63-year-old Andrew Kuzyk says Champ’s unusual behavior—hugging his chest and whining —prompted lifesaving medical attention. It made Kuzyk take the “chest tightening” feeling seriously, and his…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged resident doctors not to follow their union down the “damaging road” of strike action, which is due to begin on Friday. Writing in the Times, Sir Keir said this would cause “huge loss for the NHS and the country,” as he criticised the British Medical Association (BMA) for “rushing”…

Good neighbor David Blenkle in his 2022 Mustang Mach-E In the course of being a wonderful, kind-hearted neighbor, a California man inadvertently demonstrated the incredible reliability and longevity of his electric vehicle. And being that it’s a Ford Mustang Mach-E, which many derided as an abomination of the badge, it’s a head-turning, heart-tugging piece of…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the UK to sign a free trade deal expected to lead to a multi-billion pound boost in exports. UK cars and whisky will be cheaper to export to India and Indian textiles and jewellery cheaper to export to the UK under the agreement, which also commits to a…

50 years ago today, Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti founded Giorgio Armani S.p.A (joint stock company) in Milan, Italy. Armani had no education in design, and instead studied medicine in advance of a two-year stint in the army. He got into fashion simply by working at department stores. By 2001, Armani was acclaimed as the…

A US judge has denied a bid to unseal grand jury material from the investigation into disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Judge Robin Rosenberg found that releasing files from his Florida case, a request that was made last week as the Trump administration faced mounting pressure over its handling of Epstein files, would violate state…

Tami Laird and her son Stirling – supplied by Tami Laird Despite a 2-day ordeal lost in deep woods, a mother and her son “did everything right,” stayed safe, and used a clever trick to help rescuers find them. The story began when Tami Laird and her son Stirling left their home in Calaveras County,…