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Republican House speaker not running for re-election contrasts sharply with president who avoids accountability
In his first interview since the midterm elections, the US House speaker, Mike Johnson, said that the Republican party’s crushing losses during the 3 November elections prompted his decision to step away from party leadership.
“Leaders have to take responsibility when things go wrong,” Johnson said on Fox News on Saturday.
Continue reading...Home side avenge October defeat in Cardiff
Wales bottom of Group A4 with one game left
Wales suffered a 3-1 defeat to Norway in Oslo to dent their hopes of staying in the top tier of the Nations League.
Antonio Nusa and Andreas Schjelderup struck in the space of nine second-half minutes as Norway turned the screw.
Continue reading...Original No 7 design preserved to honour player
Career brought 146 goals and three major titles
Portugal have made a permanent change to the No 7 shirt to honour the legacy of Cristiano Ronaldo and ensure the number remains forever associated with their greatest footballing icon.
The former forward, whose career spanned 23 years and 246 caps in which he scored 146 goals, announced his retirement on 5 November after a falling out with coach Jorge Jesus. His last appearance for Portugal was on 24 September, in a 1-0 home win over Wales in the Nations League.
Continue reading...Filipino entry, pop and rap song Sobra-Sobra, takes 19-year-old to victory at grand final in Bangkok
Carmelle Collado has won the first Eurovision song contest Asia, taking the Philippines’ entry, Sobra-Sobra, to victory in Bangkok on Saturday night, at the first regional edition of the contest to be staged outside Europe.
Eleven countries competed at the One Bangkok Forum in central Bangkok, and the show ran for two and a half hours including advertising.
Continue reading...They number more than half a million, yet the ongoing trauma from their time in orphanages and institutions remains poorly known
When Judy Leonard entered the orphanage, she was given a bed with a number. That was how the staff would refer to her. Not by her name, or even by one of the cruel nicknames the other children gave her, but by her allocated space in the dormitory: C2.
“I would like the readers to close their eyes,” Judy says now, “and imagine that it was them at age nine.”
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Het was vanuit Spanje een flinke tocht, maar gelukkig heeft Sinterklaas vandaag onze regio weer bezocht. De goedheiligman kwam met jetski, koets en paard. Dus bekijk hier de leukste beelden: van Rotterdam tot de Nissewaard.
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A festival visitor in a patterned yukata passes through the crowd in Asakusa, Tokyo, during the Sumida River Fireworks Festival. July 2026. Black and white.
Gisteren werd bekend dat Jan Pijnenburg is overleden. Vooral bekend van Doe Maar, maar hij speelde in veel meer bands, in uiteenlopende stijlen: van alternatieve rock via meer traditionele rock en rock’n’roll tot en met de theaterband The Magnificent 7. Dit is een tv-opname uit 1989.
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