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The King has met the children of the men who became the first climbers to reach the summit of Everest.The occasion marked 70 years since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men to reach the 29,028ft (8,848 metres) summit on May 29 1953.First attempted in 1921, Everest had repulsed at least 10 major expeditions and two solo attempts before the 1953 British expedition finally succeeded under the military-style leadership of Lord John Hunt.

Tim Vickery, South America correspondentJun 14, 2023, 07:57 AM ET


Argentina used two matches in March to host a party.Panama and Curacao came down to help the newly crowned World Cup champions celebrate December's triumph in Qatar.But time moves ever onwards and this month's FIFA dates -- the last before World Cup qualification kicks off -- see Argentina take the first, tentative steps towards 2026.

Today, SCOTUS ruled that the government can retry someone in the proper venue if the original case is thrown out on venue grounds without violating double jeopardy.The decision matters for Vladislav Klyushin, "Putin's pen-tester," whose sole post-trial challenge to his Boston insider trading conviction was on venue grounds.

Britons have among the most positive attitudes towards refugees in the world, a new global poll has found, despite increased hostility from the UK government to asylum seekers.An international survey of almost 22,000 adults across 29 countries found British people had the third-most enthusiastic outlook towards refugees, just behind Spain and New Zealand.

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Danny Rollins of Compton became a dad just one month ago, when his son Braylen was born."I can't take my eyes off of him.I love being around him and holding him," he said."It's really a beautiful thing right now."
Rollins, 32, is taking two months off from his job as a barber to be with his new family, but he's still hard at work.

Malik Beasley was one of the three players the Lakers acquired at the trade deadline in exchange for Russell Westbrook.Coming off averaging 13.4 points on 35.9% 3-point shooting in his Utah Jazz stint (which lasted for about 55 games), the addition of Beasley was needed, considering that the Lakers had to address their perimeter shooting concerns during the regular season.

When Wyndham Clark was a kid, his mother, Lise, would tuck short written notes in his knapsack, little missives meant to lift his spirits or motivate him during the day.Clark tried to hide the notes from classmates because they became a source of teasing, especially when he was younger.During interviews in the 10 years since Lise Clark died of breast cancer at 55, Clark has often said, I'd give anything to have those notes now.

Boris Johnson was told his attempt to award a peerage to Nadine Dorries had been rejected as long ago as February, senior government sources have made clear.The former prime minister and his close political ally stunned Westminster when they announced they were quitting as MPs on Friday, triggering by-elections the Conservatives, currently struggling in the polls, could lose.

Actress Nikki Sanderson only became aware she had a potential claim against the publisher of the Mirror for alleged unlawful information gathering after chatting with Hollyoaks co-star Gary Lucy, the High Court has heard.Former Coronation Street star Ms Sanderson, 39, is suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) for damages, claiming journalists at its titles which also include the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People were linked to methods including phone hacking, so-called blagging or gaining information by deception, and use of private investigators for unlawful activities.

As a business owner, you are likely to encounter a wide variety of negotiation scenarios, whether you are in the midst of a customer dispute, trying to close a deal with a supplier, or negotiating terms of employment with a potential employee.Having the right negotiation strategies can help you achieve a win-win outcome.

UK universities and tech companies are to receive 4.3m in government funding to develop space-based solar power.The technology, which collects energy from the sun using satellite-mounted panels and beams it to Earth, had huge potential to boost the UK's energy security, the UK's energy security secretary, Grant Shapps, said.

A multipack of vitamin pills hurtled through the air of the pharmacy chain, just missing Jane*, a pharmacist from the Midlands.But because of her role, Jane felt unable to just walk away from the angry individual who threw it after being caught shoplifting.You're trying to do what you can to get them what they need, says the 26-year-old.

Rishi Sunak is facing a further test of his leadership as another ally of Boris Johnson quit parliament, triggering a third byelection.Nigel Adams, who had already confirmed his plans to retire at the next general election, on Saturday afternoon decided to stand down with immediate effect.The former minister was nominated by Johnson for a peerage, but did not make the final list alongside Nadine Dorries, Sir Alok Sharma and Alister Jack.

The sudden deaths of five meerkats at the Philadelphia Zoo this month have stunned zookeepers and officials, and a dye used to mark the animals might be to blame.The meerkats, two males named Ari and Kgala and three females named Lula, Nkosi and Nya, were siblings and arrived at the zoo in 2013, said Rachel Metz, the zoo's vice president of animal well-being.

On Tuesday, June 13, Starbucks agreed to settle a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) complaint that the company improperly blocked unionized employees from working coveted shifts at University of Washington games.The coffee leviathan agreed to pony up back pay for 10 workers who were denied those shifts and inform current and former employees in the Seattle area that it wouldn't interfere with their right to organize, according to the Seattle Times.

Pray join us, gentle reader, for a quick spot of time travel.It's the early 1700s, and you are a lady or lord attending a formal dinner at an English country estate.Dressed in voluminous skirts and petticoat or waistcoat and breeches, you sit at the dinner table to find yourself facing a mountain of melons and grapes, strawberries and oranges, all of which form an enormous throne for the most unlikely of fruits: a pineapple, a bright yellow slice of the tropics that radiates sunshine, despite the gray English chill outside.

Corrigan can call herself a well-deserved World Champion.In a way, the 2023 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Classic Powerlifting Championships have become a staging ground for terrific debuts from athletes like Natalie Richards and the extension of budding dynasties like Tiffany Chapon's.

Gaining any new clarity about surging reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, will take time, better data gathering and diagnostic tools and, perhaps most importantly, a hale and hearty dose of nit-picking scientific scrutiny.It may also require a better, sharper definition of what anomalous even means in the context of recent sightings.

I live near a group of beautiful, mature trees that spread across a corner of two residential roads; they are a community hub, providing a shady place to sit and chat.They are much loved, all covered by tree protection orders, and provided as a gift in perpetuity to the community in the 1980s as a planning condition for the creation of a business park.

Affirmative Action in College Admissions: Race or Class?The Slow Runner Image Credit...via Department of Justice To the Editor: Re U.S. Justice System Put on Trial as Trump Denounces the Rule of Law (news analysis, front page, June 11): Contrary to this analysis of the documents case against former President Donald Trump, what is being tested is not the credibility of the justice system.

Monday, June 12, 2023 by Chad Swiatecki
"Water is nonpartisan.But, oh, my God, it is totally political."Those words, from Central Texas Water Coalition President Jo Karr Tedder, summarized much of the fraught and frank discussion about the future of water resources in Central Texas during a luncheon panel last week in front of local development and real estate leaders.

Design Milk, along with Clever, were the official media partners for the WantedDesign Manhattan Launch Pad 2023 platform, sponsored by American Standard, and today we're excited to share the winners: Good Growing for Furniture/Home Accessories and Studio Waah for Lighting.The winners were selected by a jury led by Clever podcast host Amy Devers that included: Giulio Cappellini, Founder, Cappellini; Andrea Cesarman, Co-founder, Design Week Mexico; Jerry Helling, President and Creative Director, Bernhardt Design; Jean-Jacque L'hénaff, Leader, LIXIL Global Designs AMERICAS; Jennifer Olshin, Founding Director and Partner, Friedman Benda; and Kia Weatherspoon, President and Founder, Determined by Design.

"The settlement money is a fraction of the total cost to the city," said Brian Cox, an attorney in the Integrity Unit of the Public Defender's Office.The Integrity Unit attempts to keep tabs on officer misconduct in case their histories become relevant when defending a suspect at trial.He said that the time spent by lawyers in the City Attorney's office fighting these cases can be even more expensive than the settlements themselves.

Franz S. Leichter, a maverick New York State legislator for three decades whose progressive views on abortion, gay unions and the decriminalization of marijuana eventually became law in the state, helped in no small part by his persistent prodding, died on Sunday in Manhattan.He was 92.The death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his children, Kathy and Josh Leichter.

YOUNG AND RESTLESS: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions, by Mattie Kahn American girls are in crisis on that much we can all agree.In a 2021 study of young women's mental health, a vast number of respondents between ages 12 and 19 answered that they had felt persistently sad or hopeless; rates of sexual assault and violence in the same population are alarmingly high.

Editor's note: This will begin our annual season in review.Over the next week, we will be dishing out or position by position ratings as well as looking back at the job done by ' manager.So, please, keep a look on both the website as well as the podcast for what we have in store as we look back on a tumultuous 2022-23 season.

Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed along a sprawling, 600-mile front line Saturday, while Ukrainian rescue workers searched fetid floodwaters for survivors even as Russia continued to bombard evacuation points and coastal communities.The Ukrainian military, which guards battlefield information closely, offered only broad acknowledgment of the clashes playing out along the front Friday night into Saturday.

Will Aghajanian and Liz Johnson have resolved their divorce saga with a resolution this week that stipulates conditions for both of them, reports the LA Times.Aghajanian and Johnson, "are enjoined and restrained from harassing, attacking, striking, threatening, assaulting (sexually or otherwise)" each other."