Can justice ever truly reach the people who are most in need in a place so remote?
Pitcairn Island was once perceived as untouched paradise far off the coast of the Pacific. But beneath the covert of caution, police discovered years of agonizing abuse involving girls and women that no one knew about.
When the truth finally emerged, it exploded into a global scandal that shattered lives and exposed a legacy of silence and betrayal. Can justice ever truly reach the people who are most in need in a place so remote?
With a 7-5, 6-4 defeat of Jasmine Paolini, Iga Swiatek won the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Open for the first time, adding to her long-awaited career tennis puzzle.
The Polish champion converted on six of her break opportunities while Paolini struggled to make the most of her break opportunities. The final, which lasted less than two hours, featured 16 break-point chances.
With her 11th career victory at the WTA 1000 level, the six-time Grand Slam champion is only a short of Serena Williams’ 13-time winning streak. Without conceding a set, Skiatek won the Cincinnati.
After her first victory in Cincinnati, Swiatek remarked to the Tennis Channel, “It’s always tough in Cincy.”
“This gives me a confidence boost,” I said. We’ve been doing a good job, and I’m pleased with it. I had to be persuaded to play in a different way by the team. After the match, everything feels even better, and I’m happy with that process. I’m pleased that my sets were straight.
The 24-year-old backed up her first Wimbledon title with the Midwest honors, and now heads to the US Open with a significant confidence boost following her 24th career title.
Beginning on Tuesday, Swiatek will compete against Norway’s Casper Ruud in the revamped mixed doubles competition.
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On Flushing Meadows’ slower courts, the Pole claimed she enjoyed the challenge. I play well. She said, “I can play on any  surface.
“They , are slowing down the courts , kind of, so I’m not sure how it is now , there. But tennis is all about “adjusting,” not “but”.
Swiatek also surpassed Aryna Sabalenka, the current WTA number one, by 500 points, with the top spot likely to be in play at Sunday’s Open.
Swiatek has only the Canadian tournament, where she hasn’t made the final at a 1000 event, after she had failed twice in the semi-finals of her previous two competitions.
We were both tight on both ends, but that happens in finals, Swiatek said. “Today was tough. In the end, I was pleased to close things out. Although not everything was perfect, I still had the best of my tennis skills. We engaged in a lot of mental exercise. I had a very composed and consistent approach to my game.
Swiatek started badly when she lost her serve and lost the game 0-3. The former number one immediately began her turnaround, though the situation was only temporary.
At the Mason, Ohio, August 18, 2025, Jasmine Paolini of Italy poses with her Rookwood Cup following her match against Iga Swiatek of Poland in the women’s final of the Cincinnati Open. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP)
With two breakups of serve, the Pole took a 5-3 lead.
In the tenth game, Paolini saved a Swiatek set point to square the final at five-all before taking a break of sorts.
Paolini dropped serve for 5-6, giving her opponent the chance to turn a love game into a 7-5 victory after just under an hour of action on the court.
The pair twice exchanged break points before Swiatek saved a pair of break points to take the lead 5-3 before handing the match winner away two games later.
Dates: August 24 through September 7 in Flushing Meadows, New York
Jodie Burrage, Dan Evans’ compatriot, successfully opened her qualifying campaign with a strong victory, but Dan Evans missed out on a spot in the US Open main draw.
In the opening round of qualifying in New York, Burrage, 26, defeated Romania’s Patricia Maria Tig 6-4, 6-0.
However, South Africa’s world number 353 Lloyd Harris defeated British number five Evans 6-4, 33-6, 7-5 in the opening round of qualifying, which leaves them without a Grand Slam main draw for the first time since 2018.
Last year, Evans won the longest match in US Open history, finishing the third round at Flushing Meadows in five hours, 35 minutes.
Arantxa Rus, the 18th seed, will face world number 149 Burrage next, who is bidding to win the US Open main draw for the second time.
Compatriots Billy Harris and Jay Clarke follow Burrage in the second round, but Harold Mayot, from France, defeated Johannus Monday 7-5, 6-3, in the final round.
James Kent Trotter from Japan defeated by Harris 6-1, 6-2, while Clarke defeated American Jack Satterfield 7-6 (7-5) 6-1.
To be eligible for the tournament’s main singles draw, which begins on Sunday, players must have won three matches in qualifying.
Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter, and Sonay Kartal join Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie, and Jacob Fearnley in the women’s singles.
Less than a year after the birth of their son, Axel, Perrie Edwards, the Little Mix star, bravely admitted to losing the child she and her fiance, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Perrie Edwards has revealed she tragically suffered a miscarriage (Image: Getty Images)
Perrie Edwards has revealed she tragically suffered a miscarriage at 22 weeks while she was rehearsing for Little Mix’s tour. The X Factor star, who is engaged to footballer, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, recalled the day she was given the heartbreaking news on Paul C. Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast.
Perrie, 32, who shares Axel, four, with Alex, also 32, explained that she fell pregnant less than a year after their son was born. However, after revealing that she “didn’t feel very good” while rehearsing with Little Mix, Perrie told the Married At First Sight star her heartwrenching news.
Revealing the results of her devastating 22-week scan, the singer shared: “We went for what was a 20-week scan, but we were actually 22 weeks, and that was just the worst day of my life. Like horrendous. And I just knew something was wrong in the scan, and he [the doctor] just kept going over the same thing, over the same thing… I’ve never experienced an out-of-body experience where everything goes in slow motion.” It comes as Perrie opened up about her mental health in a new interview.
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Perrie Edwards has spoken bravely about her personal life(Image: PR)
Perrie blatantly stated, “We basically lost the baby at like 24 weeks,” when Alex was “struggling to drive” on the way home from the hospital.
The star also sadly suffered a miscarriage before Axel was born, very early on into her first pregnancy. Explaining that her son was her “rainbow baby”, Perrie shared: “It’s weird because the first time it happened, I think because it was so early, I was like, oh, that’s hard. But I think when you’re fully, like carrying in your 24 weeks and you’ve planned out like that room and all these things, it’s really hard.
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“And nobody else knows than their immediate friends and family,” he said. And I recall that friends would message me and ask, “How’s the bump? ” shortly after. And I’ll say to myself, “There is no bump.
After bravely revealing she had agoraphobia of such a high level that she was afraid to leave the house last year, Perrie has since spoken openly about her personal life.
The singer explained that Axel was her ‘rainbow baby’(Image: Instagram/perrieedwards)
In an interview that was released this week, she admitted that she has a tendency to “catastrophize” situations and struggled to leave the house she shares with her fiance and their son in 2024.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Perrie pointed out that she’s “in her element” on stage, describing herself as “empowered”. However, when she gets home it’s a different story as she continued: “But as soon as I’m back home behind closed doors, that’s when the anxiety kicks in and I’m just me again.”
She told the outlet that she can’t help but “catastrophise” over “everyday things,” such as getting into her car and driving to London, revealing: “At the end of last year my agoraphobia got so bad I could barely leave the house.”
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According to the NHS, agoraphobia is “a fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult or where help wouldn’t be available if things go wrong”. It further states that the condition can lead to symptoms of a panic attack, and the NHS adds that it can itself develop from panic disorder.
* If you have been affected by this story, advice and support can be found at the Miscarriage Association. You can call them on 01924 200799 or email info@miscarriageassociation.org.uk
After revealing that the pair haven’t been friends since Jest unexpectedly left the band in 2020, Perrie Edwards has spoken about former bandmate Jesy Nelson.
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Little Mix stars Perrie Edwards and Jesy Nelson are no longer friends(Image: Daily Record)
Perrie Edwards has made a rare comment about her former bandmate Jesy Nelson months after revealing she was “heartbroken” as the pair now “don’t talk – and haven’t for a long time”.
The Little Mix stars were once the best of pals, along with fellow bandmates Jade Thirlwall, 32, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock, 33. But when Jesy, 34, quit the band in 2020 citing mental health reasons, sadly it also marked the end of her friendship with 32-year-old Perrie.
Jesy stated to the audience at the time, “The truth is that my mental health has really been affected by recent being in the band.” Being a girl group and living up to expectations are very difficult for me to endure.
She continued to discuss how she had always felt like the “out of this world” in the girl band and was unable to cope with being compared to her bandmates, leading to panic attacks on music video sets.
Perrie says no longer being friends with Jesy after she left he band felt ‘heartbreaking’(Image: Getty Images)
Jesy said at the time, “I didn’t look the way I wanted to, and I found it so difficult to just be happy and enjoy myself.” The other three were having the time of their lives when I saw them.
Because I want to feel that way and enjoy it because music is my passion, I become so envious. I was aware that having this dream and not enjoying it because of how I looked weren’t normal.
But in a new interview on Celebs Go Dating expert Paul C Brunson’s ‘We Need To Talk’ podcast, Perrie spoke out about Jesy and their friendship at the start of their Little Mix journey back in 2011 – and how it gave her confidence in her own singing and performing abilities.
Perrie pictured with Paul C Brunson on podcast(Image: PR)
Speaking about the power of female friendships, the mum-of-one – who shares son Axel (who turns four later this week) with footballer fiancé Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain – shared: “I remember singing in front of Jesy for the first time, and she was like, ‘Oh my God, you are like Christina Aguilera.’
“And I thought, “Whoa! ” She said, “Listen to her sing.” Listen to her ‘sing!’ And she was yelling, “Sing, babe sing,” to the people around me. And I thought, “Oh my God. And she only gave me so much happiness.
Perrie and Perrie discussed their current relationship in an interview with Cosmopolitan last year. We don’t talk and haven’t spoken in a while, she said. It’s heartbreaking and extremely depressing. However, there are times when people decide they want to split up, which is perfectly acceptable. You can’t control how things turn, so I’d prefer it to change.
And Jesy has also experienced mental health issues, Perrie explained elsewhere in the new podcast how agoraphobia caused her to “could barely leave” her house by the end of 2024.
Perrie candidly opened up about her struggles over the last few years(Image: PR)
In September, she told host Paul, “I couldn’t leave the house. It was so intense. And I remember saying, “This is not what I want in life.” I’d like to marry. More children are desirable. A successful career is what I aspire to have. All of these things are important to me.
And I feel very limited in what I can do. My capacity was not large. Really nothing. I pondered whether it even worthwhile for me to do it because of my work and other obligations. Every time I leave the house and go to work, I don’t want to feel that way.
Perrie continued, “I have therapy every Friday. Sharing things is now better. We reached a point where I kept saying, “Sometimes when I’m feeling anxious and I’m in a car and I’m in traffic or I’m in some situations, I start to feel a little trapped.”
And we kind of realized that my entire childhood and upbringing were spent in dysfunctional bodies, which must have felt almost claustrophobic. But I was unable to stop it and escape it.
More than 20 major wildfires are raging across western Spain, where officials claim a record amount of land has already been burned, thanks to the support of thousands of firefighters supported by soldiers and water-bombing aircraft.
Southern Europe has been particularly affected by forest fires brought on by heatwaves and drought, which are attributed to climate change, in Spain and Portugal.
On Sunday, two firefighters died in Portugal and four in Spain, one of them in a road accident and one in each nation.
Virginia Barcones, the country’s civil protection officer, reported to TVE that 23 blazes were “operational level two,” meaning they directly threaten nearby communities.
The western regions of Castile and Leon, Galicia, and Extremadura, where thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes, are where the fires are now in their second week.
According to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), more than 343,000 hectares (848, 000 acres) of land in Spain have been completely destroyed this year, making it the equivalent of nearly half a million football pitches.
Three years ago, the previous record for 306 000 hectares (756, 142 acres) was set.
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Portugal is receiving air support from Sweden and Morocco, while Spain is being helped by firefighting aircraft from France, Italy, Slovakia, and the Netherlands.
However, “airborne action” was difficult due to the size, severity, and intensity of the fires, according to Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles.
On Monday, about 2, 000 firefighters from across Portugal’s north and center were stationed across the country, with the majority of them residing in the town of Arganil.
Since the start of the year, about 216 000 hectares (533, 747 acres) of Portugal’s land have been completely destroyed.
Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro declared that the nation had experienced “unprecedented severity” of weather with high temperatures and strong winds for 24 days.
He continued, “We are at war, and we must win this battle.”
Both governments’ officials hoped the weather would improve to help with the firefights.
