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Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has been cleared of sexually assaulting four men. He had described the allegations against him as “madness”. We spoke to celebrity PR and brand expert Mark Borkowski and started by asking him how easy will it be for Spacey to rebuild his reputation.

The Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey said he was “humbled” by the outcome of his trial, after he was cleared of sexually assaulting four men. 

The 2026 Commonwealth Games have been thrown into doubt after Australia’s Victoria state pulled out of hosting them.

Former US president Donald Trump says he expects to be arrested again – after being informed that he’s a target in a Justice Department investigation – and must report to a grand jury. 

Children armed themselves with homemade weapons for protection at a young offenders institution in Kent where violence was rife – a damning report has revealed. 

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has told a jury in London how he felt ‘crushed’ and stabbed in the back by one of the men who allege the star assaulted him. 

It was Boxing Day last year when the acclaimed British writer Hanif Kureishi – author of the Buddha of Suburbia – was hospitalised after a fall in Rome that left him paralysed. Since then his family have helped him share his pain, frustration and creativity via moving – and sometimes darkly comic – outpourings on social media. 

The United Nations Human Rights office says it has ‘credible information’ that the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces or RSF – which is currently fighting the Sudanese army – is responsible for a mass grave in West Darfur. 

Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service employers and Anita Smith, a teacher at a secondary school in North Leeds.

Within minutes of the government confirming that they’d accepted the recommendations of the pay review bodies, the teaching unions in England had called off their strikes. 

President Zelenskyy said it was “absurd” Ukraine had no clear path to membership.

Councils have warned that up to eight thousand Afghans who came to the UK seeking asylum after the Taliban seized power are at risk of becoming homeless.

The long-awaited report from the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket makes clear that racism is rife across the game, along with elitist and misogynistic attitudes. 

Cricket – a game that is currently delighting fans with both the male and female Ashes – is also a sport riddled with antique levels of racism, snobbery and sexism. 

The former health secretary Matt Hancock has said he is ‘profoundly sorry’ for mistakes that meant the United Kingdom was not properly prepared for Covid-19.