The world’s oldest toys date back thousands of years – but determining whether ancient children played with them, and how, remains a mystery archaeologists are piecing together. O Over the two decades
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British number one Emma Raducanu put a dampener on Serena Williams’ farewell tour after thrashing the American great in the Cincinnati Open first round. Williams, 40, plans to retire after the US
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In 1929, a young volunteer of the Indian National Congress party had a moment of epiphany. Nanik Motwane was watching the venerated national hero Mahatma Gandhi struggling to get himself heard at
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A fire has torn through a popular shopping area in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, following powerful explosions that local media say came from a fireworks warehouse. At least three people died and dozens
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Author Salman Rushdie is still in a critical condition but “his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact”, his son says. Zafar Rushdie said his father had sustained life-changing injuries,
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Former US President Donald Trump has said he declined to answer questions as part of a New York investigation into his family’s business practices. Mr Trump arrived at the New York attorney
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Foreign ministers from the G7 group of nations say Russia must immediately hand back control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Ukraine. They accused Moscow’s forces of putting the entire region
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South African authorities have charged seven men with 32 counts of rape after a mass assault at an abandoned mine near Johannesburg. A group of eight women were attacked while filming a
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China is halting co-operation with the US in several key areas including climate change, military talks and efforts to combat international crime. The new measures follow a trip to Taiwan by a
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Three children and seven adults have died in a house fire in the US state of Pennsylvania, and a firefighter called to the scene was horrified to find the victims were his
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