Australian snowboarder Tess Coady has claimed a podium finish and Australia’s first medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in the women’s slopestyle event.

Vladimir Putin appeared to be asleep as Ukraine’s athletes processed into the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing today, amid fears he is about to invade their home country and spark a bloody conflict.

Officer John O’Keefe, a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, died after being left for dead outside a Canton home during Saturday’s winter storm by his girlfriend Karen Reid, 41.

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Benjamin Alexander, 38, whose father is Jamaican, will be the sole member of Jamaica’s national ski team at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing next month.

Around 100,000 Russian troops, tanks and armoured personnel carriers have been stationed on the border between the two countries for several weeks.

A band of heavy rain moved east across the UK, before turning wintry over the Pennines, Lake District and North York Moors – with snow forecast from Derbyshire and Staffordshire northwards.