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The BBC period comedy, which ran from 1982 to 1992, was centred around the various misadventures of an embattled French cafe-owner during WWII, whose business was both a front for the underground resistance and a favoured watering hole for occupying Nazi forces. It featured a host of colourful characters speaking …

During Friday’s show, HBO’s Bill Maher pressed his guests to explain critical race theory (CRT) – an often-discussed but typically ill-defined cultural phenomenon.  Shapiro took the lead, describing CRT as a worldview that teaches that “all disparity equals discrimination.” When Maher asked Nance to share his thoughts, the former Navy …

By allowing male convicts to declare themselves women, some US states are neglecting their responsibility to ensure that incarcerated individuals are able to safely serve out their sentences, Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America (CWA), argued.  She urged for a more level-headed approach to the issue …

For those that come to the stadium from the suburbs, the signs of Barca’s financial decay are clear for all to see as soon as arriving at the city’s central station, Barcelona Sants. The truth is that with debts rumored to exceed $1.4 billion, and perhaps far more than that …

Appearing in front of a raucous home crowd, knockout king Lewis looked fired up as he pounded his chest on the scales for the ceremonial weigh-in before marching aggressively towards Gane. UFC boss Dana White struggled to hold back ‘The Black Beast’ before the pair eventually settled into a staredown, …

Wacko religious outfits aided and abetted by maverick psychologists and therapists following the crackpot pseudo science behind so-called conversion therapy may find business a little harder to come by, thanks to a brutally honest new documentary out this week. ‘Pray Away’, by filmmaker Kristine Stolakis, is 100 minutes spent denouncing …

Trying to get her 5-1 career back on track after losing a spirited WBA bantamweight title bout against Shannon Courtenay via unanimous decision last time out, Bridges will take on Bec Connolly at the Matchroom Headquarters in the UK this weekend. Completing the customary weigh-in the day before fight night, the Aussie came …

“Flight tests [will begin] this year and should be completed in 2022. In 2022, the first batch should enter service with the strategic missile forces,” Shoigu said on Friday while visiting Krasmash, a machine-building plant in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The new RS-28 Sarmat ICBM is capable of carrying 16 warheads. The …

The man who gunned down Umarov, identified only as Sar-Ali A., was unanimously sentenced by a jury at the Korneuburg regional court on Friday. The hearings saw extreme security measures, with heavily armed police guarding the court, all video and photo recording prohibited in the courtroom, and the defendant reportedly …

The High Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) ruled on Friday against the initiative announced by the regional government earlier this week. Making health passports mandatory to visit indoor nightlife venues was deemed to be discriminatory and in violation of citizens’ privacy rights. The ill-fated plan was announced by the …