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American Amanda Anisimova faces Poland’s Iga Swiatek in the Wimbledon women’s final

American Amanda Anisimova faces Poland’s Iga Swiatek in the Wimbledon women’s final [deltaMinutes] mins ago Now
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Princess Kate’s Best Cape Dress Looks, So Far

Princess Kate wore a caped red evening gown to the royal banquet for the French State Visit this week.
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Dear Abby: My husband’s smoking addiction is the cause of my migraines

Dear Abby advises a woman who’s migraines are triggered by her husband’s smoking addiction.
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German tourist Carolina Wilga found alive 12 days after she was lost in the Australian Outback

The last known sighting of the 26-year-old backpacker was June 29.
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Richard Simmons’ longtime housekeeper denies ‘kidnapping’ him, says he was happy in final years

While she said their relationship wasn’t sexual, she did admit they were very close.
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The Killing Fields execution site and two former Khmer Rouge prisons added to Unesco heritage list

The three Cambodian sites’ inscription coincides with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of the brutal regime

Three locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites 50 years ago have been added by Unesco to its world heritage list.

The three locations were inscribed to the list by the UN cultural agency on Friday during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris.

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QB Jake Retzlaff breaks silence on leaving BYU after rape accusation

Jake Retzlaff broke his silence regarding his decision to leave BYU after reportedly being set to face a seven-game suspension.
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Kentucky school official resigns after allegedly calling to ‘shoot Republicans’ on social media

A local Kentucky school board chairman resigned after a social media post resurfaced of him allegedly calling to “shoot Republicans.”
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Father given £1,173 refund from nursery in England after ‘top-up’ fees investigation

Preschool establishment asked for extra compulsory fee for ‘consumables’ – but it should have been free

A nursery has refunded a father almost £1,200 after an investigation found he had been charged mandatory “top-up” fees for hours of childcare that should have been free.

Tiago Gomes’s daughter was eligible for government-funded childcare at the Lake House day nursery and preschool in Bristol but he was told that he must pay an extra compulsory fee for “consumables”.

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‘It’s blitz, blitz, blitz’: Kyiv’s shelters fill up as Russia intensifies aerial attacks

People in Ukrainian capital are exhausted and struggling for normality amid a dramatic rise in bombardment

At 1am on Thursday, Dartsia Liuba went to the basement of her Kyiv apartment building with her two children and husband, Roma. The air-raid siren had gone off. A Russian attack was coming. Liuba scooped up her seven-month-old baby daughter, Halyna, and woke her bleary-eyed nine-year-old, Orysia, and they staggered down three floors to wait in sticky darkness.

Soon explosions began. There was an ugly whine in the sky immediately above their district of Podil. It came from a Shahed kamikaze drone. The streets echoed with booms and rat-tat-tat machine-gun fire as Ukrainian air defence units tried to bring it down. The moped-like buzzing stopped – and then resumed as more drones appeared, in a swarm too big to count.

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