British swimmer Dan Pepper had always dreamed of competing at the Paralympic Games but the opportunity was taken from him, he says, when a ban was imposed on intellectual impairment sports in the Paralympics. The ban came into force after a huge scandal at Sydney 2000, when the Spanish basketball […]

Shein said it did not fund or approve adverts that suggested some ethnic minorities need not apply. Source link

“Senator Kennedy was the hope of the world and I injured, and I harmed all of them and it pains me to experience that, the knowledge for such a horrible deed,” he added according to the Associated Press, the only news agency that was allowed to attend his parole hearing. […]

During two decades of war, the United States had employed thousands of Afghans to help US troops, diplomats and aid workers. While some have arrived in the US on Special Immigration Visas, their families have stayed behind. The BBC spoke to Afghans who worked for the US military during the […]

The office that oversees US spy agencies could not establish how the coronavirus pandemic began. Source link

Hurricane Ida is forecast to strike as a category 3 hurricane, the same as Katrina exactly 16 years ago. Source link

They say a tiny island off Greenland’s coast was discovered by luck during a recent expedition. Source link

Also on Thursday, seven US Capitol Police officers filed a lawsuit against the former president, his ally Roger Stone and several extremist groups. The lawsuit accuses Mr Trump and some of his supporters of spreading lies and white supremacist ideology to attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. […]