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Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual identity has put them at ease.

Another memo told military academies to ignore ‘race, ethnicity or sex’ in admissions, but athleticism can be considered

Military leaders and commanders at the Pentagon were ordered on Friday to go through their libraries and review all books that are related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the US military’s latest anti-DEI move.

Leaders were ordered to “promptly identify” materials that promote “divisive concepts and gender ideology [that] are incompatible with the department’s core mission”, according to a memo sent to leaders that was seen by the Associated Press. The department gave leaders until 21 May to remove the books.

The quake on Saturday morning had a preliminary magnitude of 4.1, with an epicenter about 30 miles southwest of Knoxville, Tenn. Residents in Atlanta reported feeling it.

The Edinburgh-born businessman bult the firm into a £1bn business and also owned Hibernian FC.

As part of a Bafta TV special, the nominated actor talks carving out a niche playing people at breaking point, the ‘dreamy’ romcom she’s currently writing, and what she really thought of that Prince Andrew interview

“I’ve had so many coffees, I feel hysterical,” says Billie Piper. The 42-year-old actor has set up camp in a caff in Camden, London, while she finishes the final draft of a romcom she’s working on – a follow-up to her 2021 directorial debut, Rare Beasts. Piper shot to fame at 15 as a pop star, then transitioned into acting, becoming a household name as Rose Tyler in Doctor Who. Since then, she’s carved out a niche playing women at breaking point (like Suzie Pickles in I Hate Suzie). Now, she’s ready to do less acting and more work behind the scenes. Not that her on-screen career is slowing down – she just bagged her fifth Bafta nomination, for playing journalist Sam McAlister in Scoop, the dramatisation of the BBC Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein. She will also appear in the Netflix mega-hit and Addams family spin-off, Wednesday, later this year.

It comes after an elderly man was attacked near a children's playground in north London on Tuesday.

I volunteered at a Maine detention center for 10 years. Then the Trump administration cut its programs – because we made space for women like Ashley

Every Monday for over a decade, I left my home on Peaks Island, Maine, boarded a ferry to town then drove inland to the Maine correctional center to lead a creative writing class for incarcerated women.

After a 30-minute drive, I park my car, walk to the facility, leave my cellphone and keys with the front desk guard, walk through a metal detector and several sets of sliding doors until I reach the women’s unit. My classroom is a tiny space, bare bones, with plastic chairs, cinderblock walls and fluorescent lights.

Arsenal secure second place in the WSL with a 4-3 win against Manchester United.

Maeve and Otto’s sex life took a real dip, but revealing what they like – and writing it down – has reawakened their passion

How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously

For the first time, we openly talked about what we liked and didn’t like, which really opened up our relationship for exploration

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is set to release her White Paper called "Restoring Control Over the Immigration System".