• The Independent

    Fabio Wardley vs Frazer Clarke: An old-school clash built on setbacks and suspicion

    The unbeaten heavyweights spoke to The Independent ahead of their British and Commonwealth title fight, which has been a year in the making

  • Reuters

    Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa's cocoa crisis deepens

    Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm - dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners - is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, the 27-hectare plot in western Ghana was covered with nearly 6,000 cocoa trees. Long the world's undisputed cocoa powerhouses accounting for over 60% of global supply, Ghana and its West African neighbour Ivory Coast are both facing catastrophic harvests this season.

  • The Independent

    Watch live as disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced for fraud

    The former billionaire entrepreneur who founded the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency company FTX, will appear in a Manhattan federal court to be sentenced on several fraud and conspiracy charges. Just four months ago, a jury determined that Bankman-Fried, 32, had lied to FTX investors, lenders and customers and used their money to build himself up as the “King of Crypto”. Federal prosecutors have asked Judge Kaplan to sentence him to between 40 and 50 years. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers meanwhile have pushed back on that, saying no more than 6.5 years is appropriate given he is a non-violent first offender.