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Hong Kong riot police issue a warning as they try to clear away people gathered in the Central district of Hong Kong on Wednesday. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
More than 300 arrested in Hong Kong amid renewed protests

Hong Kong riot police fired pepper-ball rounds and arrested more than 300 people on Wednesday, as thousands of protesters took to the streets to oppos(...)

Martin Lee (81) leaves a police station in Hong Kong on Saturday, after being released on bail. Photograph: AP Photo/Kin Cheung
Hong Kong police detain high-profile pro-democracy figures

Hong Kong police arrested 15 activists, including veteran politicians, a publishing tycoon and senior barristers, in raids on Saturday in the biggest(...)

Paul Scholes celebrates a goal for Manchester United against PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League, at Old Trafford on October 18th, 2000. Photograph: John Giles/PA
Manchester United’s celebrated academy set for new landmark

Scott McTominay is the latest poster boy of a remarkable Manchester United academy that has produced the Busby Babes, George Best, and the Class of ’9(...)

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters march in the city centre as the government bans people from wearing masks. Photograph: Vincent Thian/AP
Hong Kong leader bans protesters from wearing masks

Hong Kong’s leaders invoked colonial-era emergency powers on Friday to ban the wearing of face masks at protests, but the move aimed at quelling the u(...)

Andy Woodward, middle, celebrates with his Bury team-mates after a goal against Brentford in March 1997. Photograph: Matt Risby/Action Images
‘I lost my career’ – former pro Andy Woodward opens up on sexual abuse

It isn’t easy sitting opposite Andy Woodward and hearing, close-up, the unspeakable horrors of his childhood and the reasons why, at the age of 43, he(...)

Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators defied tear gas and pepper spray to occupy the city centre, as police undertook the biggest crackdown since the city returned to Chinese rule. Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg
Hong Kong police use tear gas to try and disperse protestors

Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protests today and baton-charged a crowd blocking a key road in the government di(...)

Pro-democracy protesters hold up their mobile phones during a campaign to kick off the Occupy Central civil disobedience event in front of the financial Central district in Hong Kong yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Bobby Yip
Chinese parliament crushes hopes for greater democracy in Hong Kong

China’s parliament said it will tightly control the nomination of candidates for 2017 elections in Hong Kong, dashing hopes of greater democracy and r(...)