Eleven years separate Tiger Woods and a major triumph. Fourteen have elapsed since he last prevailed at the Masters. As he prepares for a 22nd appearance at Augusta National, Woods cited a relatively trivial gap of 139 miles as the most significant. That distance separates the venue for the year’s first major and East Lake,…
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Brett Kavanaugh: backlash after US university hires justice to teach in UK
The US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh is heading to England this summer – specifically to Runnymede, the place immortalized by Magna Carta and called the “birthplace of modern democracy” – to teach a course on the US constitution for an American university. But the appointment is sparking uproar among some students and they are…
Albania airport heist: armed robbers steal €2.5m from Austrian Airlines plane
Albanian police have arrested four people and questioned 40 others after armed robbers stole millions of euros from an Austria Airlines aeroplane in a deadly heist. Armed men broke onto the runway of Tirana airport on Tuesday and stole the money due to be transported to a bank in Vienna, police said. Foreign banks operating…
‘It’s good for the Champions League’ – Ajax aim to upset Juventus
Click:Spearmint Nicotine Pouches For Ajax, any visions of Juventus spool straight to memories of the one that got away. In May 1996, Louis van Gaal’s team were on the verge of becoming the first to retain the European Cup in its modern form. They met the Serie A champions in the final at Rome’s Stadio…
Tyrion, Daenerys … Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters
Jaime Lannister There’s nothing like a good redemption story to thrill viewers – and Jaime Lannister’s is a redemption like no other. He’s the man who dreamed of knightly glory, only to find that the gold all too quickly wore off, leaving him sustained only by the illicit love he feels for his sociopathic twin…
From the joke shop to the high street: why poo is no longer taboo
‘I was a little hesitant about setting up the National Poo Museum,” begins Daniel Roberts, co-creator of the Isle of Wight’s most intriguing new tourist destination. “I thought, am I going to be socially contaminated? Are people going to point at me? Am I going to become Mr Poo?” He needn’t have worried. The museum’s…
Patrick Reed savours the tranquillity offered on Augusta’s fairways
Midway through Patrick Reed’s champion’s press conference last year, after all the pleasantries and platitudes were out of the way, someone ventured a polite but pointed question about whether he thought he was popular with the fans. Reed flashed an unconvincing grin and said: “I feel like I have a lot of fans around here.”…
Taylor Swift donates $113,000 to fight anti-LGBT bills in Tennessee
Taylor Swift has made another political statement, this time in support of LGBT advocacy. The pop star made a surprise $113,000 donation – a figure unsurprising to fans familiar with her love for the number 13 – to the Tennessee Equality Project, a Nashville-based group which recently convened more than 100 religious leaders to denounce…
Indivior shares plunge after US indictment over opioid drug scheme
The British pharmaceutical firm Indivior had more than £560m wiped from its market value on Wednesday after it was indicted over an alleged fraudulent marketing scheme to push its treatment for people addicted to opioids. The US indictment demanded the forfeiture of $3bn in cash, as well as all of Invidior’s main business units, bank…
‘It’s not about nostalgia’: re-examining gender roles in film posters
“Classic Hollywood film posters are often looked at nostalgically as a form of escapism, but we want to give people a different way of looking at it,” said Ron Magliozzi, the co-curator of a unique new exhibition. At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, What Price Hollywood features 140 old film posters, assembled…