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RTÉThe fire at St Mary’s Church in Derrybeg, County Donegal, broke out in the early hours of Monday morningA church has been destroyed in a large fire in County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland.Five units of the fire service and gardaí (Irish police) attended the blaze at St Mary’s Church in Derrybeg, Gweedore, and remain at the scene on Monday morning, Irish broadcaster RTÉ News has reported.The fire was first reported at about 04:00 local time.The church was built in the 1970s and is one of the biggest in the diocese of Raphoe.GoogleThe church, which was built in the…
Krishan Kumar and Neeraj Chopra NEW DELHI: Fresh from the high of a career-defining silver medal in the men’s 800m race at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok, Krishan Kumar, a three-time national champion, earned the ticket to the World Athletics Championships in Budapest later that year.As part of their preparation, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) sent him for a training camp in Switzerland alongside Avinash Sable, Parul Chaudhary, and Ajay Kumar Saroj, but he was in for an early shock.”The climate there was very cold,” Krishan tells TimesofIndia.com during an exclusive conversation. “While doing some repetitions, I…
Photographer Kunal Daswani and his friends used to be regulars at Chennai’s Presidency Club. Clutching cue sticks, they would chat around the snooker table, with the sharp taps of the coloured balls punctuating the conversation. When the pandemic forced pretty much every place in India to shut down for several months, since March 2020, Kunal missed two things: a sport he liked to play and a social circle. Both, during the lockdowns, were essential — for physical and mental health — yet difficult to engage in. That’s when he did something that changed his life: he rode his brother’s bike.“My…
Former Pakistan cricketer Ramiz Raja. (Screengrab) It seems former Pakistan captain and commentator Ramiz Raja had a bit of a slip-up during the post-match presentation after the Multan Sultans’ 33-run victory over the Lahore Qalandars in the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL).While presenting the award for the best catch of the match to Ireland’s Josh Little of the Multan Sultans for his dismissal of the Qalandars’ Fakhar Zaman, Raja, a well-known commentator, mistakenly referred to the tournament as the “HBL IPL” instead of the PSL.The video clip of this incident has quickly gained traction on social media.Meanwhile, the Multan Sultans…
The secretary of state aims to eliminate an office that advances American values abroad in a plan aligning the agency with President Trump’s foreign policy approach. Source link
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Guy LambertSociety reporterBBCPolice chiefs will be able to automatically sack officers who fail background checks, under new government measures to boost confidence in policing.Calls for a change to police vetting procedures began after an independent report into the murder of Sarah Everard by police officer Wayne Couzens in 2021.The new measures, that make passing background checks a legal requirement for all serving officers, will be laid in Parliament on Wednesday and come into effect next month.Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called the reforms “essential” in the government’s programme to “restore confidence in policing”.Currently, in some circumstances, those who do not…
A coroner has urged the government to act after a man drowned while taking part in an open water swim.Joel Kenneth Ineson, 55, suffered a “cardiac event” at Hetton Lyons Country Park, near Houghton-le-Spring, during an organised swim on 31 May, 2023.While his death was recorded as “accidental”, senior coroner David Place, writing in a report aimed at preventing future deaths, warned the activity’s growing popularity was not matched by sufficient oversight or regulation.The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the Health and Safety Executive have until 5 June to respond, setting out what action they propose…