Month: July 2020

1935 St. Louis, Missouri:– Jim Londos beat Ed “Strangler” Lewis – Ray Steele and Mehmet Yousoff wrestled to a draw– Bronko Nagurski defeated Sol Slagel – Orville Brown beat George Tragos  1945 Des Moines, Iowa:– World Heavyweight Champion Orville Brown beat Lord Albert Mills in 2 out of 3 falls 1955  Abilene, Texas:– Bob Geigel and Boris […]

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Australian actress Rebel Wilson’s record defamation payout has been slashed from £2.5 million to £340,000 after a court rejected a finding that she lost lucrative film roles due to articles which claimed she invented her backstory to “make it in Hollywood”. The Court of Appeal in the state of Victoria dismissed a previous finding that […]

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Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, has given birth to a girl. Her first child was born weighing 7lb 3oz at Auckland City Hospital on Thursday. The 37-year-old has become only the second elected world leader to give birth while in office. "I’m sure we’re going through all of the emotions new parents go through, but at […]

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French President Emmanuel Macron, accused at home of straining France’s secular foundations by seeking to mend ties with the Catholic Church, discussed Europe, migration and poverty in an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis on Tuesday. The two talked together for nearly an hour in the official papal library in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, about twice […]

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