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The BBC has apologised to the parents of a young person who made a complaint about the suspended BBC presenter Huw Edwards, admitting it should have acted more quickly.The corporation launched a review into its complaints procedure after the scandal in July last year.Edwards has not made any public statement since he was named as the BBC presenter accused of a string of allegations, including paying a 17-year-old for sexually explicit photos for several years since 2020.The veteran news anchor was named in a statement released by his wife, which said he was suffering from “serious mental health issues” and,…

A lawsuit filed by one of the sons of the Houston Texans owner seeking to have her declared incapacitated was dismissed Monday.Robert Cary McNair Jr. filed in November to appoint a guardian for 87-year-old Janice McNair. But on Monday, Cary McNair’s attorneys and others involved in the case filed a motion to collectively dismiss the lawsuit.Skip past newsletter promotionsRegister to Playing football with Jonathan WilsonJonathan Wilson provides expert analysis of European football’s biggest storiesPrivacy statement: The newsletter may contain information about charities, online advertising and content funded by external parties. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy. We use…

Germany’s minister of state for culture has insisted she was only clapping the Israeli but not the Palestinian half of a film-making duo that won one of the major awards at the politically charged closing ceremony for the Berlin film festival.At Saturday night’s awards event, the Palestinian film-maker Basel Adra and the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham jointly took to the stage on Saturday to accept the best documentary prize for their joint film No Other Land, which charts the eradication of Palestinian villages in the West Bank.Adra said he struggled to celebrate his film’s success while people in Gaza were…

Ollie Robinson’s future for the national team is once again in doubt within England’s top brass Issues of debate.Brendan McCullum, speaking after his team’s 3-1 loss to India with one game remaining, said he would support Robinson but that in his two years as Test head coach, This fiercely positive New Zealander is a rarity. He also openly admitted that one of his players was underperforming.”Everything he’s done in the Test matches suggests that we’re not just going to see the Ollie Robinson we saw before, but we’re going to see a better version of him,” McCullum said at the…

The Prince of Wales has pulled out of attending a memorial service at Windsor Castle for for one of his godfathers due to a “personal matter”.Kensington Palace would not elaborate further but said the Princess of Wales, who is recovering from abdominal surgery, continued to be doing well.William was due to deliver a reading at the service in St George’s chapel for Constantine II of Greece, who died in January last year.The Prince of Wales called the former Greek king’s family, who are attending the service, to let them know he was unable to attend.Kate is away from official royal…

phosphorusPicture this: The main left-of-centre party returns to power after more than a decade of being dominated by the right. A technocratic leader in his 60s who was naturally cautious suddenly found himself leading a country that seemed to have lost its way. The economy is faltering, growing sluggishly, and in urgent need of public investment. But he has maintained strict fiscal discipline, downplaying key policies including the climate crisis to meet strict spending rules. In the more than two years since he took office, the government has been erratic and widely seen as lacking a vision for the future.…

Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians and should be held accountable for war crimes – and genocide, according to the UN’s leading expert on the right to food.Hunger and severe malnutrition are widespread in the Gaza Strip, where about 2.2 million Palestinians are facing severe shortages resulting from Israel destroying food supplies and severely restricting the flow of food, medicines and other humanitarian supplies. Aid trucks and Palestinians waiting for humanitarian relief have come under Israeli fire.“There is no reason to intentionally block the passage of humanitarian aid or intentionally obliterate small-scale fishing vessels, greenhouses and orchards in Gaza – other…

timeThe days when Parliament prorogued on Derby Day to allow honorable MPs to attend Epsom are long gone, but the King’s campaign makes its much-anticipated return to the Westminster spotlight on Monday.MPs gathered to debate a petition calling on the government to “abandon plans to impose affordability checks on some people who want to place a bet”. A total of 103,386 people have signed the petition, which was launched by Jockey Club chief executive Nevin Truesdale in early November.Many of the signatories learned about the petition through the Racing Post, the sport’s trade newspaper. It has been running a fierce…

I’m a 33-year-old man who has been in a relationship with a woman for the best part of two years. While we have had ups and downs during our relationship, we do still regularly have sex. At the start, the sexual intimacy was good – and we both initiated. But recently I’ve noticed less interest from my partner, while my libido levels have remained really high. It feels like my partner only engages to satisfy me.People do sometimes go through the motions of lovemaking without really wanting to – they bypass their real feelings for some reason, such as wanting…

A California bakery that claims Tesla failed to pay for orders worth thousands of dollars says the unpaid bill has been raised after billionaire Elon Musk promised to “make things better” following media reports of the incident. settle.Voahangy Rasetarinera, the owner of the bakery, said on the cafe’s Instagram account five days ago that Musk’s company Tesla had given up on an order of 4,000 mini-pies from Giving Pies, a black bakery in San Jose, central California.”Tesla just paid me the $2,000 I was owed,” Rasetarinera confirmed in an email to the Guardian on Monday. Musk previously responded to the…