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Beverly Hogan and her daughter, Beverly Beal Jr., are each supporting their community with fellowship space, legal and business support and child care.

“Honestly kudos to her support system for making her feel this in control and autonomous. She got lucky."View Entire Post ›

One-time Olympic judo hopeful Eric Ham says he refused to give up on his sporting career after fracturing his back falling from a bridge.

The death toll of Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades has risen to 168 from 161 after the remains of more victims were identified, the city’s security chief has said. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung updated the figures for the Wang Fuk Court inferno in Tai Po, saying that all the victims had now been identified following dental examinations and DNA testing of remains. “We have notified the families of all 168 victims, and they have since confirmed the identities of the deceased,” Tang...

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel appears to have left a lifeless body hanging from a bridge in Tijuana in northwest Mexico, accompanied by a chilling message to its rivals

Police say incident not being treated as terrorism

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has raised concerns over the potential misuse of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s company, warning that using its image-generation function to create indecent or malicious content could amount to criminal offences. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) issued a statement on Thursday after various countries raised concerns about Grok’s image-editing function that allowed users to digitally “undress” real...

Investigations into Renee Nicole Good’s death are ongoing while tensions over ICE raids in Minneapolis continue

England spin bowler Shoaib Bashir leaves Somerset to join Derbyshire in Division Two of the County Championship.

BBC Sport and the World Sport Photography Awards present a selection of the world's finest sporting images from this year's competition

Michel Tama Sadiakhou's future dramatically changed course some 15 years ago thanks to a clan of spear-wielding apes: instead of the dangerous work in informal gold mines that is the fate of many in Senegal’s far southeast, he now researches…

A shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were bidding each other good morning in the dry, scraggly Sahel.