Robin Levinson King BBC News Reuters The jockey who won the Kentucky Derby has been fined and suspended for using the riding crop too much during the race. Jockey Junior Alvarado struck Sovereignty, the three-year-old colt that won the crown, eight times during the race, officials say. Regulations say a rider may strike a horse […]
Enzo Maresca said Nicolas Jackson must “learn for the future” after the Chelsea forward’s red card in the 2-0 defeat at Newcastle left the team without a striker for their crucial final two games of the season in their pursuit of Champions League qualification. Jackson, 23, was sent off by referee John Brooks on 35 […]
Anthony Lee is president of NTEU Chapter 282, the union representing close to 9,000 employees at the Food and Drug Administration. Andrea Hsu/Newsportu hide caption toggle caption Andrea Hsu/Newsportu By late March, Anthony Lee should have gotten a heads up that mass layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration were about to begin. Instead the […]
May 11, 2025, 08:17 AM ET Harry Kane got his long-awaited moment in the sun on Saturday as he lifted the Bundesliga trophy with Bayern Munich — the first trophy of his career — although he told ESPN that he never felt cursed. Kane, 31, joined Bayern from Tottenham in August 2023 after infamously failing […]
May 10, 2025, 04:14 PM ET Atlético Madrid striker Alexander Sørloth scored the earliest hat trick in LaLiga history as part of four goals in the first half hour to fuel a 4-0 rout of Real Sociedad on Saturday. The Norway international had a hat trick after scoring in the seventh, 10th and 11th minutes […]
One day in the year 79, Pompeii came under fire. The explosion of nearby Mount Vesuvius sent a mushroom cloud of ash and rock into the atmosphere, pummeling the ancient Roman trading hub and resort in a ceaseless hail of tiny volcanic rocks. Many residents ran for their lives, trying to find safety with their […]
Carrara’s connection to anarchism began nearly 150 years ago, when anarchist ideals found fertile ground among the downtrodden workers in the marble quarries. Led by Alberto Meschi, Carrara’s quarrymen became the first in Italy to win a six-and-a-half-hour workday in the early 20th century. Anarchist circles and collectives emerged in nearly every town and neighbourhood […]
Mikel Arteta has said Arsenal started this season aware they were “super short” in squad depth and possessed several players at risk of injury but “couldn’t do anything about it.” The Gunners travel to Liverpool on Sunday ready to perform a guard of honour for their opponents rather than compete for the Premier League title […]
Hendrik Dierendonck, a second-generation butcher who has become, as he describes it, “world famous in Belgium” for his curated local beef, thinks Europe’s way of raising cattle results in varied and delicious cuts that European consumers prize. “They want hormone-free, grass-fed,” Mr. Dierendonck explained recently as he cut steaks at a bloody chopping block in […]
Despite nearing the start of the hurricane season, there does not appear to be any activity to track in the basins across the Northern Hemisphere. As the official start of the hurricane season approaches in both the eastern Pacific and Atlantic basins, meteorologists are closely monitoring typical tropical hot spots, but, so far, there are […]