A game of Table Tennis is being played
The ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals return to the capital next week, 100 years after they were first hosted in London.
From 28 April–10 May, catch 128 teams competing for the podium at the Copper Box Arena and OVO Arena Wembley. www.tabletennisengland.co.uk/london-2026/
A group of children in matching yellow T‑shirts stand in a line on a paved area holding bicycles and wearing helmets, with ornate black and gold gates behind them. At the centre of the group stands Dr Will Norman, Walking and Cycling Commissioner, alongside Marion Rousse, Flora Perkins and Cat Ferguson.
London is making cycling history in 2027! 🚴♀️
Next August, the first‑ever Tour de France Femmes team time trial will race an 18km central London circuit and finish right here at Canada Gate.
Allez, allez, allez!
In 2027, London will host a world-first showpiece team time trial for the Tour de France Femmes. It’s a major milestone for women’s sport and an incredible new chapter for cycling in the city 🚴♀️
Women's Cricket player high fiving young supporters
The countdown is on: 50 days to go until the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 🏏
A huge occasion for the women’s game and for fans across our city.
London is ready to showcase this world-class sport on a global stage.
Marvellous! Welcome back Cali! 🙌🥰
Millions in India stripped of vote before critical state election, as government seeks to ‘purify’ electoral roll www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
“What’s the best way to shut down a journalist? Legal them, threaten them with legal stuff because newspapers like mine won’t be able to afford it.” - Barnie Choudhury
The NUJ is urging the JAC to reconsider its position. #StopSLAPPS #pressfreedom
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Former cult-member and current cult-expert, Steven Hassan, on the new Netflix documentary about cults...
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"AI generated media" - public awareness ahead of the midterms...
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"The job diGenova had in the 2020 election was to regularly meet secretly at a Trump hotel restaurant with a team [incl Kash Patel] tasked with manufacturing fake pro-Biden foreign election interference.
"[this] is a 5-alarm national fire." -SA
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He's back... Joe diGenova...
Workers harvesting strawberries today on a rainy day on California's Central Coast
It's raining on CAs Central Coast and "Raul" a strawberry worker, reminds us, "Rain or shine, we farm workers are out laboring in the fields. We work hard to plant, care for and harvest the crops that feed families across America." #WeFeedYou
My pleasure Matthew! x
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ICYMI, Jimmy Anderson just took Lancashire’s 2nd wicket today… nice plum LBW 🏏
JWST Helix Sun billions Cosmic now - To know what Webb discovered today, visit https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com and Explore Universe with this beginners telescope --> https://amzn.to/3JaxN9u #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space
Snow in Hawaiʻi? That’s showbiz, baby.
On Maunakea, Submillimeter Array (SMA) antennas are rolling for the M87* MOVIE campaign- working through ice, wind, and snow.
Mahalo to our Hawaiʻi colleagues braving the elements!
Photo credit: Leslie Shirkey
#M87MOVIE
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*Space*
Signed at Washington-London-Moscow, 27 Jan 1967
"The OST [is] the 2nd..."nonarmament" treat[y]...to prevent a new form of colonial competition & the possible damage...self-seeking exploitation might cause" 2009-2017.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htm
⚡️ Swedish king Carl Gustaf visits Ukraine, meets Zelensky
Carl XVI Gustaf, king of Sweden, and Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard arrived in the Ukrainian city of Lviv on April 17. This is the Swedish king's first visit to Ukraine during Russia's full-scale invasion.
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WSJ >
"...the biggest defense budget ever..."
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Why they're going to the Moon...
"Lunar based weapons"
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FDR:
When corporate power outstrips the power of your democratic state, you've got fascism...
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WIN
📌 The @journalismfestival.com session, “Misogynistic attacks as a tool to silence women journalists and how we fight back,” examines the ways that political leaders wield misogyny globally to chill free speech and undermine press freedom.
🗓️ 4/17 from 3-3:50 p.m. CEST
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FDR :
When private power outstrips the power of the democratic state, when *it* owns *your* government, you've got fascism...
NEW: Eastman helped devise the strategy to pressure Mike Pence to halt Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory — and he memorably fought with Pence’s aides even as the Capitol was in lockdown on Jan. 6.
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JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
