A near-death experience makes some people more focused, serene, blessed with new perspectives and thankful for second chances. Brian May’s brush with mortality, though, seems to have lit a fire. If he’s going to hang…
Covid UK news – live: Lockdowns ‘unlikely to…
Lockdown and social distancing measures are ‘unlikely’ to be needed in future (PA Archive)Government scientific adviser Neil Ferguson has warned that Covid cases could rise again but that lockdowns are “unlikely” to be needed in…
Tokyo Olympics LIVE: USA’s Molly Seidel wins bronze…
(Getty Images)Day 15 of the Tokyo Olympics started with the women’s marathon being held in sweltering conditions in SapporoTeam USA runner Molly Seidel won a bronze Olympic medal in only her third ever marathon.Seidel, 27,…
Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Poland’s Dawid Tomala wins final…
(AFP via Getty Images)Day 14 of the Tokyo Olympic games had an early start with the 50km men’s race walk, which got underway before the heat of the day developed in Japan.Round three of the…
Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Final ever 50km race walk…
(AFP via Getty Images)Day 14 of the Tokyo Olympic games had an early start with the 50km men’s race walk, which got underway before the heat of the day developed in Japan.Round three of the…
Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Katarina Johnson-Thompson out of heptathlon…
Pedo Quintas of Team Brazil warms up prior to the Men's Skateboarding Park Preliminary Heat on day 13 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Urban Sports Park on August 05, 2021 in Tokyo,…
Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Teenage skateboard stars take to…
(AFP via Getty Images)Day 12 of the Tokyo Olympics will see American stars Sydney McLaughlin and Dalila Muhammad go head to head in the women’s 400m hurdles.In the second track and field session of the…
Tokyo Olympics LIVE: Max Whitlock wins historic gymnastic…
Great Britain’s Max Whitlock celebrates with his gold medal after winning the men’s pommel horse final in Tokyo (Mike Egerton/PA) (PA Wire)Day 10 in Tokyo is underway and we have another full schedule of Olympics…
Philippe Lacôte on his sensational prison drama Night…
In a densely forested national park at the edge of one of Africa’s most populous cities, Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, stand the enormous concrete walls of La Maca prison. The trees press up against them.…
Will Young: ‘Even five years ago, people would…
Will Young is being the familiar self we know from TV, charming and informal, confiding that he’s enjoying talking to me because it delays the wrist-melting chore of signing 3,000 copies of his new album.…