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Racket sport for two people, played indoors. Probably one of the most demanding sports in terms of fitness in the world - just a few minutes concentrat...

The democratic issues in Bill Cosby’s release On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the April 2018 conviction of actor and entertainer Bill Cosby, ordering his immediate release from prison. Cosby, who is 83, had served three years of a 10-year sentence on three aggravated felony counts of indecent assault against Andrea Constand. Constand, a former employee at Temple University, alleged Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home in 2004. Bill Cosby, center, and...

What are the key dates to know about in the development of prisons in Britain? Rosalind Crone shares 14 milestones in the evolution of imprisonment, from the Norman conquest to the Victorians…

FEW people from Powys managed to anger both sides during the English Civil War. Yet Vavasor Powell had not been like other men and had gone against both in a life which had seen him both persecuted and persecutor during a time of much unrest in the 17th century. Born in Knucklas in 1617, he worked for a while as an hostler at Bishops Castle before being sent by his uncle, the vicar of Clun, to Oxford University. Vavasor, however, dropped out to become a schoolteacher at Clun. He went ...