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29 Dec 202302.55 ESTGeoff LemonSo Australia win the series, they’re 2-0 up and can ready themselves for the David Warner Farewell Jubilee in Sydney in the new year. We’ll be there, freshly armed with resolutions or hangovers or both. The crowds are still milling, and most of the Australian players are out there somewhere, taking a few photos with people and saying hello. It’s a nice scene. Time for us to pack it in from the MCG.

Tennis This article is more than 2 months oldDaniil Medvedev denies making rude gesture to Paris Masters crowdThis article is more than 2 months oldIncident happened after world No 3 lost to Grigor Dimitrov‘Why would I do that to this beautiful crowd in Paris Bercy?’Daniil Medvedev denied raising his middle finger to the crowd after being booed during his defeat to Grigor Dimitrov at the Paris Masters. The Russian was beaten 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2) in the round of 32 and even stopped playing in the second set until the boos stopped inside the Accor Arena, which prompted an argument with the umpire, Renaud Lichtenstein, after he was given an official time violation.

Donald TrumpDonald Trump did not sign Illinois pledge not to overthrow governmentFormer president sidestepped signing state’s loyalty oath, which opponents Nikki Haley and Chris Christie also have not signed Joe Biden’s 2024 election campaign has lambasted former president and most likely Republican opponent Donald Trump for failing to sign a loyalty oath in the state of Illinois, in which candidates pledge against advocating an overthrow of the government. The Biden campaign was responding to an investigation by the Illinois news outlets WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, which reported that Trump sidestepped signing the McCarthy-era voluntary pledge that is part of the midwestern state’s package of ballot-access paperwork submitted by 2024 electoral candidates last week.

OpinionIslamic veil This article is more than 1 year oldI don’t have to choose between my hijab and going to school, but my sisters aren’t so luckyThis article is more than 1 year oldAnhaar KareemAs a 14-year-old Australian, I urge you to stand in solidarity with me against policymakers in France and India, where they are oppressing Muslim women This morning as I was intricately pinning my school hijab around my head, I was thinking of how privileged I am to be able to wear my hijab to school.

John Oliver recapJohn OliverThe Last Week Tonight host discussed the discrimination faced by black people because of their hair John Oliver has taken aim at the opposition from white people and institutions toward black hair and hairstyles. The Last Week Tonight host devoted his most recent episode to the harmful discrimination many black people still face. He started the episode by admitting that he wasn’t the best person to be taking this subject on.

Bird Box This article is more than 5 years oldNetflix warns viewers against Bird Box challenge meme: 'Do not end up in hospital'This article is more than 5 years oldThe streaming giant has cautioned those mimicking Sandra Bullock’s character by walking around blindfolded to try not to injure themselves Last week Netflix claimed that 45 million of its subscribers had streamed the Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box in its first week of release: a record for original movie content on the platform.

MoviesObituaryPhyllis CalvertBourgeois beauty of the British stage and screenPhyllis Calvert, who has died aged 87, made her way to the top of British cinema in the 1940s through niceness. As a well-bred, Kensington-accented cornerstone of Gainsborough costume epics, she vied with Margaret Lockwood at the box office. Regency romps, they were known as. Utter nonsense, with heart-throbs like Stewart Granger and James Mason served up with grace and charm, was quintessential to Calvert's artistic durability - but to keep it up, without growing dull, required a determined personality and an exceptional talent.

Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The story of bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang of outlaws has become the stuff of Australian legend, but nobody captured the essence of the story in a way that resonated with the public quite like modernist artist Sidney Nolan. In a series comprising more than two dozen paintings, Nolan depicted everything from the Kelly family’s domestic life to their violent run-ins with the police.

Germany This article is more than 4 years oldThis article is more than 4 years oldSystematic degradation by state police resulting in lost careers and poor mental health has been hard to prove for many seeking recompense On a summer’s day in 1962, a year after the building of the Berlin Wall, three men in grey trenchcoats interrupted a German lesson at a secondary school in Mahlow, on the southern outskirts of the East German capital.