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Jack Draper: ‘A lot of good things have come from trying to be a better man’
Deep inside the Vienna Ice Skating Club, an enormous ice rink temporarily adapted into indoor tennis courts in October, Jack Draper was hard at work before one of his final tournaments of the season. His sparring partner for the day was Frances Tiafoe, a fellow top-20 player well known for …
More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights
More than 600 Brazilians, including 109 children, have been secretly removed from the UK – on the three largest Home Office deportation charter flights in history – since the Labour government came to power, the
Observer
has learned.The Home Office has never before removed any nationality in such …
Claws are out as Jaguar heads down EV rebrand road
A new Christmas single – but do they know it’s Ed Davey?
Alec Douglas-Home v Harold Wilson: the 1964 general election
Tory tweed, grouse shooting and the Bomb, or Labour brass bands, flashing the cash and red tape? In the
Observer
’s 1964 election dossier, that was how the choice the electorate faced was represented photographically, complete with lookalikes of Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Wilson.James Callaghan had a ‘slower …
Taiwan president stops in Hawaii during Pacific tour, drawing ire from China
The Taiwanese president, Lai Ching-te, has begun a two-day US stopover in Hawaii as part of a Pacific tour after declaring his democratically governed island a key force for promoting global peace and stability.
The trip has sparked fury from China, which views Taiwan as its own territory and …
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Monique was three years old when a white man from the government came to her village and changed everything. Everyone came out to see him, including Monique, who, as always, was with her “little auntie”, a girl of nine who was also her best friend. Monique cannot recall what the …
Gisèle Pelicot is not my adversary, says defence lawyer treading a fine line in mass rape case
Béatrice Zavarro, a diminutive figure in a long black robe and heavy red glasses, who has described herself as the “devil’s advocate”, stood up in a packed courtroom in Avignon to sum up the defence for Dominique Pelicot, on trial for drugging his wife, Gisèle, and arranging more than 50 …
Australia restricting number of domestic workers foreign diplomats can bring into the country, UN official says
The Australian government has restricted foreign diplomats bringing domestic workers into the country, a UN anti-slavery expert has reported, after two recent federal court cases exposed systemic exploitation a judge described as “slave-like working conditions”.
The United Nations special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery concluded a visit to …
Jacob Bethell makes dynamic debut to blast England to victory over New Zealand in first Test
England had whizzed their way to Hagley Oval on e-scooters hoping that the fourth day would be a similarly frictionless cruise. There was a bit of resistance from New Zealand in the end but not enough to prevent the tourists claiming an eight-wicket win and a one-nil lead in this …