Marcus Smith is in at 10 and as cover at 15, where Blair Kinghorn is likely to miss the first two or three games because of his commitments to Toulouse. Elliot Daly is another who can deputise as 15. Scotland would have been hoping to get Tom Jordan picked in that utility role but it’s […]
President Trump is expected to announce on Thursday that the United States will strike a “comprehensive” trade agreement with Britain. Hours after teasing that an agreement would soon be announced, Mr. Trump said in a social media post that a deal had been reached that would “cement the relationship between the United States and the […]
Paris Saint-Germain fans flood the streets after their team’s 2-1 Champions League victory over Arsenal secured a spot in the final. NAEL CHAHINE/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images. One person was in critical condition on Thursday and two others also hospitalised after being hit by a car in the French capital amid street partying by Paris […]
In the next 20 years, Gates believes, progress will be ‘incredible.’ “This is a miraculous time,” he told me, with the most exciting work the foundation has ever done sitting in the R.&D. pipeline now, waiting to be delivered. It was almost hard to keep up with his survey of breakthroughs: on H.I.V., on tuberculosis, […]
Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After leaping upward in the 2000s, global giving for health grew very slowly through the 2010s. The culture of philanthropy has changed somewhat, too, with the age of the Giving Pledge — in which hundreds of […]
Friday brings the announcement of the Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year for 2024, a prestigious honor in English soccer and the oldest individual award given out in the sport, dating back to 1948. Last year’s winner was Phil Foden of Manchester City, with Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah winning it in 2022 and 2018. This […]
New Delhi, India – As Indian military officials took the podium next to the country’s foreign secretary at a media briefing on Wednesday morning, after unprecedented missile strikes into Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a timeline of death played out on a video screen behind them. The 2001 attack on the Indian parliament in New Delhi […]
A man lay on a New York City sidewalk with a gun shot wound, clutching his side. Emily Borghard, a social worker who hands out supplies to the homeless through her nonprofit, found him and pulled out her phone, preparing to dial 911. But the man begged her not to make the call, she said. […]
A day after Yann Sommer’s brilliant goalkeeping display helped Inter Milan reach the Champions League final at the expense of Barcelona, it was Gianluigi Donnarumma’s turn to shine as Paris Saint-Germain booked their ticket for the showdown in Munich. The towering Italy keeper kept Arsenal at bay almost single-handedly in the opening stages as the […]
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from the National Institutes of Health were advised to scrub their grants of any reference to mRNA. Around the country, state legislatures are considering bills to ban or limit such vaccines, with one describing them as […]