'Some rugby nations are going to disappear': How the Nations Championship is fuelling an existential crisis - Tier Two players paid 50 times less, a mass exodus to league and why 'have nots' scoff at proposed promotion to 'closed shop'

As the Nations Championship is beamed across the world, the countries outside of rugby's 12-team elite are arriving in Europe short of money and exposure and fearing for their futures.

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Met Police to be quizzed over 'suicide poison' prevention after getting warning from grieving mother just weeks before British student's death

An inquest on Tuesday heard how Kenneth Law sent the lethal substance to Thomas Parfett, who was found dead in a Premier Inn in Sunbury-on-Thames in October 2021.

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Alexander Graham Bell's family fury as Canada rewrites telephone inventor's legacy over eugenics claims

Alexander Graham Bell's descendants are up in arms after the Canadian government rewrote his legacy amid claims over his views on deaf people and selective breeding.

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Useless Toronto cops defend decision to let mansion invasion suspect walk out of hospital with gunshot wound even though they realized he was likely involved

Chief Myron Demkiw insists there was 'no failure' in the investigation, despite officers encountering a 23-year-old suspect with a gunshot wound just hours after a violent home invasion.

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Vancouver man filmed thrashing wildly on park bench after Canadian province decriminalized drugs... triggering so much narcotic use that even crows were getting high

Shocking images emerge as Canada's controversial experiment with drug decriminalization has become a lightning rod for criticism.

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Burnham accused of using Government jet 'like an Uber' after flight from London to Caribbean diverts to pick him up in Manchester

The Government plane took off from London Stansted at around 6am, bound for Antigua where Andy Burnham is due to attend a Commonwealth summit.

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Police defend release of suspect in $2.1M CEO mansion home invasion

Toronto police have been forced to explain why a suspected home invader was allowed to leave hospital despite being linked to a brutal attack on a CEO and his family.

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