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Actor Alan Cumming has handed back his Order of the British Empire.

Alan Cumming returns OBE in protest at British Empire’s ‘toxicity’

The X-Men and Bond star said the Queen’s death had made him reflect on the honour he had received and the institution that bestowed it upon him.

  • Rob Harris

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Sam Bankman-Fried.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried consents to extradition to US

Bankman-Fried has agreed to extradition to the US, where prosecutors have charged him with orchestrating “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”.

  • Jared Higgs, Jack Queen and Jasper Ward
Usman Khawaja celebrates a century in Karachi in March.

Six reasons why you should care about Australia’s Test series against West Indies

It’s squeezed between the T20 World Cup and South Africa’s tour of Australia, but there are plenty of reasons why you should care about the Australia-West Indies Test series.

  • Ronny Lerner
Robert De Niro and James Packer

Back on track, Packer ‘building something beautiful’ with Robert De Niro

After painfully-public health and business battles, James Packer is back in the game, building a Carribean resort with long-time pal Robert De Niro.

  • Andrew Hornery

A sparkly dress can no longer detract from the Crown’s brutal history

As a Grenadian woman whose family was forced upon the island in shackles, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s royal tour brought our painful past into sharp focus.

  • Ayeesha Ash
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge in Great Abaco, the Bahamas on Saturday.

Prince William suggests he may not become king of the Commonwealth

At the end of his tour of the Caribbean with Catherine, a humbled Prince William says it’s for Commonwealth countries to decide if he is ever to lead it.

  • Rob Harris
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From left, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Catherine - the Duchess of Cambridge - Prince William and Governor-General of Jamaica Patrick Allen speak during a dinner at King’s House in Kingston.

Prince William says ‘slavery stains our history’ as Jamaica plans to dump Queen

In a speech at a state dinner in the former British colony, William acknowledged slavery “should never have happened”. 

  • Rob Harris
Catherine and Williamare greeted on their arrival in Belize City, Belize.

William and Kate cancel Caribbean event amid ‘anti-colonialism’ protests

An indigenous group criticised William over his links to their protest over a long-running land rights dispute.

  • Rob Harris
Rihanna, honoured as a National Hero, and Prince Charles attend the Presidential Inauguration Ceremony at Heroes Square in Bridgetown, Barbados.

A republic is born: Prince Charles, Rihanna watch as Barbados ditches the Queen

At the strike of midnight, a republic was born and the last colonial bonds severed nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived on the island.

  • Guy Faulconbridge and Brian Ellsworth
A man and a child walk by burning tires on a street on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where a group of 17 US missionaries, including children, was kidnapped by a gang.

Notorious Haitian gang blamed for kidnapping 17 missionaries from US, Canada

The US government has been urged to forcibly free the group or negotiate their release without paying a ransom.

  • Cassandra Garrison

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