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T he Prince of Wales met survivors and relatives who lost loved ones in the Grenfell Tower tragedy and said he was worried that closure seems a long way off for them.Visiting Queen's Park Rangers' stadium in west London, Prince William heard how the football club was still helping the local community nearly six years on from the blaze that killed 72 people.

London's Barbican Centre has launched a digital platform to publicise its vast collection of drawings, photos and never-before-seen material that tell the story of the brutalist icon.Named Lose Yourself in the Barbican, the digital archive was developed in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture with the aim of becoming a permanent asset for the arts centre.

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse greets a group of Haitians living in South Florida who welcomed him and his wife, Martine Marie Etienne Joseph (far left), as he makes his first visit to Miami as president during a community meeting at the Little Haiti Cultural Center on Friday, June 16, 2017. Days before he was assassinated inside the second-floor bedroom of the home that served as his official residence, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was warned of threats to his life, several sources have confirmed to the Miami Herald, including one of the individuals who told him foreign mercenaries were in the country.

Navy veteran Ernie Davies has said how happy he was to see so many people ahead of the 79th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, as the number of survivors able to attend memorial services dwindles.Mr Davies, 98, was among the 11 British veterans who travelled across the Channel to France to mark the anniversary of the historic military invasion, and met some old friends and had a few drinks along the way.

Grenfell survivors and bereaved families have described the Prince of Wales as being very passionate about the community getting justice and closure following the devastating blaze.William, who attended last year's memorial marking the fifth anniversary of the blaze, visited Championship football club Queens Park Rangers (QPR) to hear how it provided support in the aftermath of the fire and since.

T he broken' family of a man gunned down outside his south west London home have called for justice as a 20k reward was offered in the hunt for his killers on the second anniversary of his death.Matthias Poleon was 27 when he was ambushed by two men wearing facemasks on the front drive of his Balham home in June 2021.

The mass shooting that wounded nine people on 24th Street last night may have been related to an earlier fight that broke out during Carnaval, according to Santiago Lerma, a legislative aide for Supervisor Hillary Ronen's office."SFPD believes it is derived from an incident that took place in Carnaval," said Lerma, adding that the incident was related to the Dying Breed clothing shop on the corner that was celebrating its sixth anniversary on Friday night.

"The TRIPS waiver was a mistake.Expanding it will make things be worse.It won't help fight COVID, but it will hurt U.S. innovation and it will contribute to other countries realizing their industrial policy goals."- Marc Busch
The House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet today held a hearing titled "IP and Strategic Competition with China: Part II - Prioritizing U.S. Innovation Over Assisting Foreign Adversaries," which focused on the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) agreement on a waiver of IP rights for COVID-19 vaccine technologies under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) last June.

(Image credit: Nintendo / Web Design Museum on Twitter)
We could say that web design has come a long way in the past 22 years, but a wave of nostalgia suggests people miss the character of the sites from the early days of the century.The Nintendo website is a case in point, with tributes flooding in online to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Game Boy Advance.

Sixteen years after Madeleine McCann vanished from the Algarve holiday apartment where she was sleeping next to her infant twin siblings, police have launched a major new search for evidence.After laying dormant for several years since David Cameron kickstarted an ultimately fruitless Metropolitan Police inquiry in 2011, the case of the missing three-year-old was revived once more in 2020 when German prosecutors revealed a new suspect.

On the second anniversary of the truck attack that killed four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., hundreds of people came to commemorate their lives while carrying on the fight against Islamophobia.A vigil hosted by the Youth Coalition Combating Islamophobia (YCCI) and the City of London was held Tuesday evening at the site of the attack on the Afzaals who are known as Our London Family.

Twenty-seven years ago, Denise Smart was at a swim meet.It was 1996,and her two youngest children, Matt and Lindsey, were competing in an annual Memorial Day weekend competition in Stockton.It was the first her oldest daughter, Kristin, wasn't there for.Kristin was away at college - Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo - finishing up her freshman year.

The Prince of Wales will meet Grenfell survivors and bereaved families ahead of the sixth anniversary of the tower blaze.William will visit Queens Park Rangers football club to hear how they provided support in the aftermath of the blaze.Grenfell is less than a mile from QPR's Loftus Road ground in Shepherd's Bush, West London, and the fire, on June 14 2017 which claimed 72 lives, shocked the nation.

Closing the employment gap between Black, Asian and minority ethnic people and the wider population could provide a 36bn boost to the UK economy, new analysis suggests.Analysis of Office for National Statistics Labour Market data found that the current employment rate of these groups was 69.4 per cent, eight percentage points below that of the white population (77.2 per cent).

On May 24, 2022, people in Uvalde, Texas, were thrown into a nightmare after 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School when a gunman walked into the school and started firing.Now, one year later, residents are honoring those who lost their lives while still seeking accountability for the mass shooting.

Hello, sorry for the late post today - our editorial team was hungover had our wires crossed.It's May 24, the anniversary of the New York Islanders ' first of four consecutive Stanley Cups that began one lovely afternoon in 1980.Cheers to those who celebrate.(You better celebrate.)Eric Hornick has lots of the key facts and film to relive that moment.

Nikila, a consultant from Ohio, and Noah, an attorney from Pennsylvania, met on Tinder.Four and a half years later, Noah popped the question on the rooftop of their newly settled condo in DC.The pair married on April 9-their six year dating anniversary-at the Gaylord National Resort.The 180-person affair featured a "modern South Indian" theme with a color palette of magenta, fuchsia, and teal.