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The High Speed 1 line that carries Eurostar trains from London to the Channel tunnel has been forced by the regulator to cut the prices it charges rail companies in a push to open up the route to more operators.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said it hoped …

The Garrahan paediatric hospital in Buenos Aires swarms with patients, parents and medical workers. Families stand shoulder-to-shoulder waiting for appointments, while staff race between dozens of operating rooms. In wards decorated with cartoon characters, mothers and fathers rest cheeks on their children’s.

The Garrahan treats more than 125,000 patients each …

Mia Brookes, at just two days older than Luke Littler, became the second British teenager in two days to claim a world sporting title when she produced another incredible display of big air snowboarding on Sunday.

The 17-year-old Briton sealed back-to-back World Cup victories after December’s triumph in Beijing with …

The injustice of the NFL’s playoff seeding system rears its ugly head once again

Now that we know how the 2024 NFL playoffs are seeded from top to bottom, it’s time once again to complain about the league’s ugly secret: Its system for awarding playoff position, and thus which teams …

Back in 1997, artificial intelligence and robotics experts in Japan

came up with an intriguing challenge

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The Founders

The most famous of this troupe - Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks – are now as well known for …

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South Korea finds itself embroiled in its gravest political crisis since democratisation in the 1980s. Turmoil erupted just over a month ago, when president Yoon Suk Yeol imposed martial law on the evening of 3 December – the first such declaration in 45 years – claiming to shield …

Often referred to as the evening star, Venus is absolutely radiant in the gathering twilight this week. It reaches a configuration known as the greatest eastern elongation on 10 January, when it will be at its maximum angular distance east from the sun, about 47 degrees. This means that it …

Much like its gridlocked traffic, London’s position as the most congested city in Europe has remained unmoved, with it coming top of the list ahead of Paris and Dublin.

Drivers in the capital spent an average 101 hours sitting in traffic last year, a 2% increase from the previous year, …

A man accused of raping an Australian flight attendant in the early hours of New Year’s Day has been refused bail before a hearing in Fiji’s high court.

Ilaisa Tanoa Degei, 24, a farmer from Navosa, on Fiji’s largest island, Viti Levu, appeared before a magistrate, Mareta Tikoisuva,