Spanish side Elche have decided to break with tradition by banning the sale and consumption of sunflower seeds at their home ground as cleaning up the shells spit out by fans led to increased costs and unhygienic conditions. Elche play their home games at the 31,388-capacity Estadio Martinez Valero but the highly popular Spanish snack […]
With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for the disease, including vitamins, according to an H.H.S. spokesman. The decision is the latest in a series of actions by the nation’s […]
The proposed White House budget calls for cutting Housing and Urban Development rental aid and sending that smaller pot of money to states “to design their own rental assistance programs based on their unique needs and preferences.” The plan also would impose a two-year cap on rental assistance for able-bodied adults. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide […]
The number of people choosing an assisted death could top 4,000 a year within a decade of the law coming into force if MPs vote for it, a review of the policy says. The estimate forms part of the official impact assessment, which has been carried out by civil servants to inform MPs as they […]
As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether they are talking at all. At a White House economic briefing this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demurred multiple times when pressed about President Trump’s recent […]
Harry Maguire has said Manchester United’s players feel they owe the fans a trophy to repay their faith during a miserable season in the Premier League. United are set to finish in the bottom half the table for the first time since 1990, but their league form is in stark contrast to the results in […]
The video is just under two and a half minutes long. A slim man with close-cropped hair walks into a room, pulls a long black mamba — whose venom can kill within an hour — from a crate and allows it to bite his left arm. Immediately after, he lets a taipan from Papua New […]
With Bayern Munich on the verge of regaining the Bundesliga title, head coach Vincent Kompany is keeping talk of celebrations on ice, saying “we need to prepare for the game, not for a party.” His team are preparing for Saturday’s Bundesliga clash at fifth-placed RB Leipzig where they can clinch a record-extending 34th title. Kompany’s […]
Severe storms are ongoing across Oklahoma and Northern Texas once again Friday morning. Storms will move east during the day and could reach the Tennessee Valley and Southern Appalachians bringing heavy rain in a short period of time. Severe storms pummeled Oklahoma and Northern Texas for the 10th consecutive day Friday morning, kicking off another […]
Paul Murphy Environment Correspondent Getty Images Sandeels are an important source of food for many seabirds A challenge to Britain’s ban on commercial fishing for sandeels in the North Sea has been dismissed by a European court. Sandeels are a vital source of food for seabirds that live along the UK coastline. A closure order […]