The inaugural UFC Strawweight Champion was Carla Esparza, who defeated Rose Namajunas in 2014 in the tournament finale for The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned. At UFC 185, Joanna ...

Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates have always stood out from the beginning ... Moreover, he has some amazing devil fruit powers as well. Brook is the perfect example of a formidable veteran pirate whose ...

The prime minister of Mauritius is suing authorities to recoup £3.2 million in cash seized by police who raided his safe. Navin Ramgoolam, who has been at the heart of negotiations with the UK ...

(AP Photo/Kin Cheung, file) LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government confirmed Wednesday that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until ...

Labour had agreed fresh concessions during last-minute talks, in a desperate bid to win round the government in Mauritius. Ministers had been keen to get the deal rushed through ahead of next week ...

A while back, Rep. Katie Zolnikov went to a new gastropub in Billings and ordered a glass of wine with “notes of straw and apple.” Those notes? They fell flat. Get any of our free daily email ...

Mauritius is poised to sign off a deal to take control of the Chagos Islands from the UK as early as tomorrow amid claims Labour will pay billions to cede British sovereignty. Keir Starmer has ...

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Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Britain and Mauritius are mounting a last-minute effort to finalise a deal over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands ...

Mr Straw, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair and Justice Secretary in Gordon Brown’s government, first proposed the radical change while in government. But it was torpedoed by a ...

Organisers of a festival which sees a man parade through a market town dressed as a straw animal say it has continued to grow in popularity. The Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival, held in ...

Visitors are being welcomed to a traditional event where a man dressed as a straw animal is paraded through a market town. The Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival, which dates to at least the mid-19th ...