The first legs of this season’s UEFA Champions League round-of-16 ties are done and dusted. Arsenal already have one foot in the quarterfinals thanks to their 7-1 demolition of PSV Eindhoven, but the rest of the matchups are mostly delicately poised. How on earth did Paris Saint-Germain lose 1-0 to Liverpool? Which teams need to […]
Nine major banks and building societies operating in the UK accumulated at least 803 hours – the equivalent of 33 days – of tech outages in the past two years, figures published by a group of MPs show. The Treasury Committee – which has been investigating the impact of banking IT failures – compelled Barclays, […]
Fighting off a takeover by a Canadian rival, the Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven announced a major business shake-up that included the appointment of its first foreign-born chief executive. Seven & i Holdings said on Thursday that Stephen Dacus, 64, a member of the company’s board of directors and longtime retail executive from the United […]
A patient from Telford who needed a lifesaving treatment developed from blood plasma has thanked donors. Over the past three years, thousands of litres of blood from donors across England has been stored and now it has been turned into immunoglobulin, which helps the body’s immune response. It marks the first time in 25 years […]
An exclusive interview with the military defector who exposed the systematic torture of 11,000 Syrian civilians. An exclusive Al Jazeera interview with the Syrian military defector codenamed “Caesar”. Between 2011 and 2013, he smuggled about 53,000 photos out of the Syrian government’s secret archives, nearly half of which were of dead and tortured civilian detainees. […]
A formerly “puny” man could not find anyone tall enough to guard him. A few years into his professional career, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander needed to add post-up drills to his summer routine. His trainers, far from the typical troop that surrounds an NBA superstar, couldn’t meet the criteria. Gilgeous-Alexander spends his summers in Hamilton, Ontario, near […]
Sean Dilley Transport Correspondent Molly Stazicker Transport producer PA 1,700 railway stations in England will prominently display train cancellation and delay data from today Millions of passengers will see train cancellation and delay data published prominently at over 1,700 railway stations in England from Thursday. The data will update every 28 days showing statistics for […]
As the United States grapples with the upheaval unleashed by the Trump administration, many Chinese people are finding they can relate to what many Americans are going through. They are saying it feels something like the Cultural Revolution, the period known as “the decade of turmoil.” The young aides Elon Musk has sent to dismantle […]
MUNICH — Xabi Alonso and Bayer Leverkusen need to write another remarkable chapter in their recent history if they are to salvage the seemingly lost cause of their UEFA Champions League round-of-16 tie against Bayern Munich after a brutal 3-0 first-leg defeat at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday. The only good news for the reigning […]
Annabelle Liang Business reporter Getty Images US prosecutors have charged 12 Chinese nationals for being part of an alleged hacking scheme, which sold data of US-based dissidents to the Chinese government. The “state-sponsored” operation also targeted government agencies including the Treasury, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Hackers also allegedly targeted an American religious organisation, […]