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Mortimer-Barrett won the 1961 ladies’ singles title at Wimbledon after having already secured the French Championship and Australian Championship.

Each year, the Climate Change Committee – the UK’s independent advisory body tasked with monitoring the country’s movement toward its legally binding climate goals – gives a report on the government’s progress over the last year.

The UK is not on track to meet its climate targets and has no credible pathway to get there. However, a new set of more specific targets would provide some clarity for the country’s new government and would ultimately help achieve the overall goal: prevent further climate change.

More than 400 scientists write to political parties urging ambitious action or risk making Britain and the world ‘more dangerous and insecure’

The Associated Press has found that 14 of the 20 most populous U.S. cities are experimenting with removing police from some nonviolent 911 calls and sending behavioral health clinicians

The plans have been opposed by people in their thousands

Top stars including Stan Smith, Rod Laver, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe and Ken Rosewall turned their backs on the most gilded event in tennis 50 years ago

Top stars including Stan Smith, Rod Laver, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe and Ken Rosewall turned their backs on the most gilded event in tennis.

John described the resulting delay as "bizarre and a bit scary" and told how everyone on board was "surprised that there wasn't really an ambulance waiting for the plane."