Author: Olivia Carter

Harry Kane has said that Bayern Munich’s Club World Cup win over Boca Juniors was played amid “one of the best” atmospheres of his career and added that he is “loving this tournament so far.”The England captain opened the scoring with an 18th-minute strike as the 2-1 victory, played in front of a full Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, saw Bayern qualify for the knockout stages.Argentine football fans are renowned for their passionate support and the atmosphere they can create is considered one of the most intense in world sport.Boca supporters have made their presence known in Miami with fans…

The Benin Bronzes were artefacts stolen during the UK’s imperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria.The Netherlands has officially handed back 119 ancient sculptures stolen from the former Nigerian kingdom of Benin more than 120 years ago during the colonial era. Olugbile Holloway, director-general of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, said on Saturday that the artefacts were the “embodiments of the spirit and identity of the people from which they were taken from”. “All we ask of the world is to treat us with fairness, dignity and respect,” he said at a ceremony held at the National Museum…

Xbox has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a chunky console. It’s recently taken on the form of an Asus gaming handheld, and it might even be packaged as a VR headset soon. According to an image leaked on X and Game Sandwich, Xbox is reportedly teaming up with Meta to release an Xbox-branded Quest 3S headset in the coming days. The rumored specs show a very similar build to the base model Quest 3S with 128GB of storage, but will reportedly be bundled with an Xbox wireless controller, a Meta Quest Elite strap and three months…

Move over Romeo: theatre’s second most famous balcony scene has stolen the show.Every night this week Rachel Zegler has emerged halfway through Jamie Lloyd’s production of Evita at the London Palladium to sing its biggest number to the Oxford Circus crowds. Last weekend the Hollywood ingenue was serenading surprised shoppers, but since her performance of Don’t Cry For Me Argentina went viral it’s become the hottest (free) ticket in the West End.Some stand in wait for two hours to catch the seven-minute scene. But what is the experience actually like – and is it worth hanging around for?Onlookers capture Zegler’s…

Tragedies come faster than we can keep up with these days—war and famine, earthquakes and hurricanes, floods and droughts. Everywhere, it seems, as people go about their daily lives, the unthinkable happens. And nobody will ever be the same again.But why does an air crash feel different? Is it because of how close to home it is for me personally? An Air India flight from my home country, flying to London, where I currently live? Is it because of the additional tragedy of its crashing into a medical college? Is it because of the lone survivor, who miraculously walked away…

Good afternoon. First, and most importantly, I’d like to express our deep sorrow about these events. But first and most importantly, I would like to express our deep sorrow about this event. This is a difficult day for all of us at American Airlines, for all of us at Air India, and our efforts now are focused entirely on the needs of our passengers, crew members, partners, first responders, along with their families and loved ones. And our efforts now are focused entirely on the needs of our passengers, crew members, their families, and loved ones. I know that there…

How green is this? We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in diesel tankers, then burn it in a Yorkshire-based power station.Welcome to the scandal of Drax, where Britain’s biggest polluter gets to play climate hero. The reality is that billions in public subsidies has enabled Drax to generate electricity by burning 300m trees. Now the government is trying to force through an extension that would grant Drax an estimated £1.8bn in public subsidies on top of the £11bn it has already pocketed, keeping this circus…

A member of the House of Lords lobbied the government to get financial support worth millions of pounds for a commercial deal he was steering, documents reveal.It is the second time that Richard Dannatt, a former head of the British army, has potentially broken parliamentary rules that forbid lobbying.He is under investigation by the House of Lords authorities over a separate set of allegations, following undercover filming by the Guardian.The new documents reveal Lord Dannatt personally pressed ministers and a senior official to give political and financial backing to a venture he was chairing that was seeking to buy a…

Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major comics work, and in a Zoom interview with TechCrunch, he admitted that the intervening years have had their frustrations. At one point, he held up a large stack of drawings and said the public hasn’t seen any of it yet. “Making graphic novels is not like…

The Trustees of the British MuseumGouache painting on paper depicting goddess Lakṣmi A new exhibition at the British Museum in London showcases the rich journey of India’s spiritual art. Titled Ancient India: Living Traditions, it brings together 189 remarkable objects spanning centuries.Visitors can explore everything from 2,000-year-old sculptures and paintings to intricate narrative panels and manuscripts, revealing the stunning evolution of spiritual expression in India.Art from the Indian subcontinent underwent a profound transformation between 200BC and AD600. The imagery which depicted gods, goddesses, supreme preachers and enlightened souls of three ancient religions – Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism – was reimagined…