College Board will no longer offer SAT's optional essay and subject tests
The SAT's optional essay and subject tests have been nixed by the College Board, the latest step away from standardized testing in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more...
Hungarian Orchestra to Protest Municipal Grant Cuts
The city of Budapest reduces funding to its musical pride, the Budapest Festival Orchestra; political motives may be at play Read more...
European Golfs Debt to Tony Jacklin
He won two majors, but he really made his mark helping Europe in the Ryder Cup. Read more...
PIERS MORGAN How can the Capitol rioters be prosecuted if the man who inspired them goes free?
In just 12 months, Donald Trump's gone from a man heading for comfortable re-election to the worst president in US history with the lowest outgoing approval rating ever recorded. Read more...
Samsung heir's prison sentence casts a shadow on South Korea's tech titan
The man who calls the shots at Samsung was just sent to prison for the second time in less than five years. Even if the South Korean tech giant can keep its day-to-day business humming in his absence, the verdict is still likely to cast a long shadow. Read more...
A Father, a Son, a Disease, and a Camera
Cheney Orr knew that Alzheimer's would take his father away. Photography helped him get to know the man. Read more...
Jessica Davies
An article on 12 January 2010 about the murder trial of Jessica Davies - in which she was found guilty of stabbing Olivier Mugnier to death in her Paris flat - said that she had joined him in smoking cannabis on the night of the murder. In fact tests for cannabis after her arrest proved negative. Read more...
Whos Got the Nuclear Football? Actually, the Question Is When Biden Gets the Biscuit
The handoff of power from President Trump to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday involves choreography that includes two nuclear footballs and two sets of launch codes. Read more...
US casino operator MGM ends its 8bn bid for Ladbrokes owner Entain
The betting giant had been fighting off an 8bn offer from MGM Resorts, saying it 'significantly undervalued' Entain. Shares in Entain, formerly known as GVC, fell 11.9 per cent. Read more...
Ellie Goulding sports glamorous bouffant hairstyle in music video teaser for New Love with Silk City
In the video teaser released on Tuesday, Ellie, 34, sported a platinum blonde bouffant hairstyle as she sung in to a microphone while also posing as a security member for the club. Read more...
Pep Guardiola insists Manchester City will NOT be making any moves in the January transfer window
With no specialist senior back-up to Aguero or Jesus, Guardiola's alternatives have been deploying Ferran Torres as a makeshift striker or have De Bruyne and Sterling as 'false nines'. Read more...
Rightmove warns 100,000 buyers on track for unexpected stamp duty bill
Average asking prices started to drop in the past month and there are now well over 600,000 homes caught up in a completion log-jam ahead of the stamp duty holiday ending on 31 March. Read more...
Harry Brant's family says he 'was just days away from re-entering rehab' prior to deadly overdose
A family friend told People Tuesday that Peter Brant had been 'trying to get him to go to rehab again' amid worry and frustration about his son's drug habit. Read more...
From Rebecca to On The Rocks and Drama Out Of A Crisis The best on demand TV this week
Daphne du Maurier published Rebecca, her enduring psychological thriller, in 1938 and within two years it had been turned into an Oscar-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock. Read more...