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The Duke of York’s royal patronages were also handed back to his mother Queen Elizabeth II with her “approval and agreement.” Newsweek has been told the decision to strip him of the roles was also with the prince’s agreement and a source close to him said he will fight the case against him. It represents a significant change in policy from Buckingham Palace which had previously maintained the positions were in abeyance after Andrew stepped back from public life in November 2019 following a problematic interview with the BBC....

The Prince of Wales, 73, cleared his schedule for the day after confirmation that he has contracted COVID-19. The positive test comes on the back of good news for the future king, after Queen Elizabeth II gave her blessing for his wife Camilla to receive the title of Queen Consort, rather than Princess Consort, when he takes the throne. Clarence House said in a statement: “This morning The Prince of Wales has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating....

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took the 8-year-old royal to his first Wimbledon tennis tournament where he watched Novak Djokovic win the men’s singles final. However, some commentators picked up on the fact the future king, third in line to the throne, was dressed in a full suit and tie. George himself commented on the weather as he arrived at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, telling his parents he was “too hot” on July 10....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s team at Schillings have sent letters to British media organizations warning the allegations in the article are defamatory and “should not be repeated.” The stand-off relates to what the couple told the Queen about their intention to call their daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor. The first name is Elizabeth’s lifelong family nickname dating back to childhood when she could not pronounce her own name. Harry and Meghan’s spokesperson told Newsweek the prince “shared their hope” of using Lilibet prior to the official announcement....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex flew home from their tour of New York last week on a Dassault Falcon 2000, The Sun reported. The trip saw them campaign for vaccine equity at the Global Citizen Live concert in Central Park on Saturday but also created an estimated 17 tons of carbon, the newspaper reported. And it came on the back of Prince Harry flying home from a polo tournament in Aspen, Colorado, by private jet in August....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were stripped of their taxpayer-funded police bodyguards through a decision taken by the Home Office’s Royal and VIP Executive Committee (RAVEC) in February 2020, a month after they announced they would quit royal duties. However, Harry wants the right to pay privately to continue with a Metropolitan Police security detail during visits to Britain, and his lawyers indicated they will soon file his second judicial review on the subject....

The Earthshot Prize was unveiled with a brief video voiced by veteran broadcaster Sir David Attenborough in a post on the Kensington Palace Twitter account. “Who is ready to lead as we make the 2020s a decade of action to repair our planet?” a caption alongside the clip said. “Introducing the @EarthshotPrize.” “The earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we are and irreparably damage our planet or we remember our unique power as human beings and our continual ability to lead, innovate and problem-solve,” the Duke of Cambridge said in a statement shared on Twitter....

Kristin Snively, a spokesperson for the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) told Newsweek in an email that Dr. James Whitfield was placed on immediate paid leave due to a “personal matter,” without sharing any further details. “On Monday, August 30, Dr. James Whitfield was placed on paid administrative leave. As this is an ongoing personnel matter, we will not comment further. We remain committed to providing a learning environment at Colleyville Heritage that fosters and encourages student academic and extracurricular achievement,” Snively said....

Fortunately, you’ve come to the right place. Sporting News has every type of college basketball fan covered with our 2020 NCAA Tournament bracket in printable, PDF form, complete with the full field of 68. Download it, print it, fill it out, trash talk your co-workers. This year’s tournament schedule begins with the First Four on March 17 in Dayton, Ohio. The Big Dance ramps up with the first and second rounds March 19-22 and concludes with the Final Four and national championship games April 4-6 in Atlanta....

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set a September 22 execution date for Glossip, 59, after a federal judge rejected a challenge to the state’s lethal injection protocol. But a group of 61 Oklahoma legislators—44 Republicans and 17 Democrats—have urged Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor to join their request for a new hearing, citing an independent investigation by a Texas law firm that raised concerns about Glossip’s guilt and conviction....

After a highly successful player auction held in May which saw 198 players going under the hammer from which 96 players were acquired, the teams have been preparing in all vigour and confidence in anticipation of the new season. The fourth season will be played just after a small gap from the third season of PKL, which was won by the Patna Pirates. Follow Pro Kabaddi 2016 Season 4 coverage with Sportskeeda....

During the course of its five years and seven seasons, the PKL has managed to throw up a bevvy of promising players who have managed to showcase their talents to woo the fans. Each season, the PKL has unearthed talents who have done brilliantly to make their mark in the competition. In the process these players have become mainstays for their franchises and staked their claims for a place in the national team as well....

The poll, which was conducted by Politico/Morning Consult, found that only 2 percent of Black voters said they would vote for West if the election were held today. In comparison, 72 percent of the same group said they’d vote for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and 14 percent chose President Donald Trump. “I think a lot of people of color view Kanye’s bid for the presidency as a quixotic one, and they don’t see him as being legitimate for the office....

The Panthers fell to the Lightning on Monday night, cutting their bid for a Stanley Cup short with a second-round sweep. With the result, it means that for the ninth consecutive season, the winner of the Presidents’ Trophy and winner of the Stanley Cup will not be the same club. Florida ended the regular season with a record of 58-18-6, earning 122 points in the standings and beating the Avalanche for the top spot in the league....

Day 2 of the Presidents Cup has resumed following a weather delay, and Sammy the Squirrel is back in a tree. The U.S team leads the International squad 3.5 to 2.5 after Thursday's four-balls competition. Despite losing for the first time as a pair Thursday, Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley again led off for the Americans. They faced off against Jason Day and Graham DeLaet in the 1:10 starting time....

The administration’s goal was to look tough. Haiti’s bad guys “will be feeling pressure they haven’t felt before,” warns a White House official. That means giving the new embargo 30 to 45 days to sink in. just how this will lead to a restoration of deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide remains a mystery. So far, the Haitian military isn’t impressed with U.S. resolve. In a show of nose-thumbing, they installed Emile Jonassaint, the 81-year-old head of the Supreme Court, as interim president-symbolically erasing Aristide....

It is thus also often used to refer to couples where one person is living with herpes and the other is not, or where one is living with hepatitis B and the other is not. Word Origins The term serodiscordant is made up of two roots: Sero—meaning bloodDiscordant—meaning different or non-matching A serodiscordant couple is a couple who have different blood markers or blood test results for a particular disease....

While serving as a priest at St. Joseph’s Chaldean Catholic Church in London and St. Oraha Catholic Church in Kitchener, Ontario, Father Amer Saka allegedly gambled away $936,497 that was intended to support Iraqi and Syrian refugees coming to Canada. The money came from parishioners as part of a sponsorship agreement so the church could sponsor family members of parishioners who wanted to enter the country. The fraud was committed between 2013 and 2016....

RELATED: MMOs That Have The Best World Building Prime Video houses a few other fantasy shows. Many of these have aspects similar to Vox Machina, demonstrating reverence for the genre while occasionally poking fun. By checking them out, devotees can enjoy the same fantastical escapism. 7 Carnival Row One trick to selling a fantasy setting is making it feel lived-in, and Carnival Row has that down. The grungy Victorian aesthetic paints a more aged land than the genre’s usual medieval look....

Royal family members meet some of the most famous and powerful people in the world—but they can also be targets for people with bad intent. Prince Charles and Britain’s Most Notorious Pedophile Prince Charles and Princess Diana became friends with a famous U.K. children’s entertainer, Jimmy Savile, who was exposed after his death as a prolific paedophile, rapist and necrophiliac with 450 victims. A new Netflix documentary, Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, shows Charles asked the BBC presenter for PR advice a month after the December 1988 Lockerbie Bombing....