British cyclist Mark Cavendish, the world's most decorated sprinter, has brought down the curtain on a stellar ...

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When I saw the youth trembling in the dimness of my study, I had the feeling that I was looking at my own shadow.

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Guy Venables speaks for the world and most of us in America as well. I wasn’t even going to address the election today, ...

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Alabama man who identifies as 'just a regular guy' announces - out loud and in print - that he's voting for the Black woman for president.

Dr. Dang Nguyen, a specialist in traditional Asian medicine, literally grew up on Soviet cartoons, so in the 1990s he went to ...

As a global emblem of the present state of the Republican Party, the triumphalist “triumph of the will” Trump rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden this weekend has few peers. The cast of support ...

In January 2020, Joe Biden, then seeking the Democratic nomination for the US presidency, dismissed a request from BBC correspondent Nick Bryant in Iowa for a “quick word for the BBC”.

Rafa Nadal will call time on his illustrious but injury-plagued career after next month's Davis Cup Finals, the 22-times Grand Slam champion announced on Thursday, as one of the greatest players ...