Novak Djokovic says he would rather miss out on grand slams than be vaccinated against Covid. Asked if he would miss the French Open over his vaccine stance, he replied: “That is the price that I’m willing to pay.” Asked if this was also his attitude towards Wimbledon, he said: “Yes.”
In three weeks, on March 10, Prince Andrew was due to be interrogated under oath for two days by one of the world’s most ferociously skilled lawyers, David Boies – a man who’s made his name by crushing the rich and powerful into quivering wrecks with masterful cross-examinations that have become the stuff of legal legend…Piers Morgan
Bangkok, Thailand
A diner tries a dish of spicy red ants’ eggs and queen ant salad at Exofood Thailand, a progressive organic insect farm and laboratory
Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
Birmingham, England
A mural by Akse P19 of the actor Cillian Murphy as Peaky Blinders’ crime boss Tommy Shelby, in the historic Deritend area before the start of the show’s sixth and final series
Photograph: Jacob King/PA
Connecticut State Police Detective Barbara Mattson holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of the gun used in the Sandy Hook School shooting [Jessica Hill/AP Photo]
The families of nine victims of a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut have agreed to settle a lawsuit against the manufacturer of an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle used to massacre 20 six- and seven-year-old students and six educators. Remington will pay $73m to settle the claims of the families who had sued in 2015 saying the company should have never sold such a dangerous weapon to the public. Their focus, the plaintiffs said, was on preventing future mass shootings.
Artworks by French painter Paul Cezanne projected on to walls, as part of the Paul Cezanne: Lumieres de Provence (Provence's lights) by artistic director Gianfranco Iannuzzi, at the Atelier des Lumieres in Paris. Photograph: Christophe Pettit Tesson/EPA
When unvaccinated Novak Djokovic landed in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday before his return to competition at next week’s Dubai Championships, he was waved through and given a warm welcome, in stark contrast to his arrival in Australia last month.
Hollywood veteran Dick Van Dyke, 96, proved he’s still got the groove after impressively singing and dancing with his much younger wife, Arlene Silver, for a Valentine’s Day music video.
Kyiv, Ukraine
Members of the National Guard of Ukraine look out of the window as they ride on a bus through the city of Kyiv. More NATO troops headed to Eastern Europe and some nations worked to move their citizens and diplomats out of Ukraine earlier this week as Germany’s chancellor made a last-ditch attempt to head off a feared Russian invasion
Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP
A protester dressed as a clown stands before Israeli police during a demonstration in the flashpoint neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on February 18, 2022 RONALDO SCHEMIDT AFP
Patients lie on hospital beds as they wait at a temporary makeshift treatment area outside Caritas Medical Centre in Hong Kong where hospitals reached 90% capacity and Covid quarantine facilities were at their limit.
Glencoe, Scotland
Members of the Royal Oak Society attend the Glencoe Massacre commemoration on the 330th anniversary. The massacre took place in the Scottish Highlands on 13 February 1692, when government forces murdered members of the clan MacDonald for failing to pledge their allegiance to monarchs William II and Mary II
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Irish Photographer of the year. Nature and the environment: 1st - A starling murmuration over Lough Ennell, Co Westmeath. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Crombie spent several months chasing this picture for The Irish Times.
Yes indeed, poor kid and yet another suspicion of doping hangs over their heads.
The drug in question - trimetazidine - is typically used to treat angina patients by increasing blood flow to the heart. It is not recommended for use by under 18s yet somehow it found its way into her system.
Feb 19, 2022: An instructor shows a young woman how to use a grenade during a training with members of the Georgian Legion, a paramilitary unit formed mainly by ethnic Georgian volunteers to fight against Russian forces in Ukraine in 2014, in Kyiv. Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine have ordered a full military mobilization amid growing fears in the West that Russia is planning to invade the neighboring country. The announcement on Saturday came amid a spike in violence along the line of contact between Ukrainian forces and the pro-Russia rebels in recent days.
EFREM LUKATSKY, AP
A Nepalese policeman fires tear gas as protesters opposing a proposed U.S. half billion dollars grant for Nepal clash with them as the parliament debates the contentious aid in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. Opposition to the grant comes mainly from two Communist parties that are part of the coalition government who claim the conditions in the grant agreement will prevail over Nepal's laws and threaten the country's sovereignty. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shreshta) (AP Photo)
February 18, 2022: A local resident of the Ukrainian-controlled village of Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk region, gestures as she cleans up debris from her home after the shelling by Russia-Backed separatists. Eastern Ukraine was experiencing new shelling, the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian separatists accusing each other of using heavy weapons, an upsurge in violence that feeds fears of Russian invasion.
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