Sport360 spoke with Joe Dumars, the NBA’s Executive Vice President and Head of Basketball Operations, to talk about the significance of these games, the NBA’s growing presence in the UAE, and the future of basketball in the region. Q. What excites you about the NBA’s growing presence in the UAE? Any time you go into […]
Record high inflation was caused by the Bank of England keeping interest rates too low for too long, according to its former head. Lord Mervyn King said inflation has now been tamed, but criticised all central banks for failing to act fast enough initially. Speaking to BBC Radio Four’s Broadcasting House ahead of the Budget […]
Getty Images The provision of PPE for healthcare workers is being explored in this part of the Covid inquiry (stock image) The chair of the Covid inquiry has refused an application from the UK Health Security Agency to keep the identities of two junior clinicians secret. Lawyers for UKHSA applied for an order preventing publication […]
Shiite Muslims light candles during a protest against the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday. Fareed Khan/AP hide caption toggle caption Fareed Khan/AP The killing of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli strike on Beirut has been met with mixed reactions in the region. The civilian death toll from […]
The government is to tighten transparency rules for ministerial hospitality, after a row over freebies received by Labour ministers. Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden told the BBC ministers would now have to declare hospitality linked to their government job in their MP’s register too. This information is currently published by departments, but less frequently and […]
What’s Labour’s governing philosophy? That was the question posed at a dinner I went to with some MPs and former staffers during the party’s annual conference in Liverpool last week. Is Keir Starmer more influenced by the communitarian blend of leftwing economics and socially conservative values that is “blue Labour”, or is he driven by […]
SpaceX has launched its mission to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) since June. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday. The pair’s mission at the space station had only been expected to last about […]
Michelle Sword told the BBC she was “heartbroken” that she had “done something so stupid” A mother of two who nearly died after taking a fraudulent weight loss injection is urging others to be careful about what they buy online. Michelle Sword, 46, from Carterton, Oxfordshire, ordered the slimming drug from an online beauty company […]
JOHANNA LEGUERRE/AFP Robert Bourgi has lifted the lid on decades of work with French and African presidents It was January 1998 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville. He was there to collect funds for the approaching French presidential election on […]
Having etched her name across the record book during the 2024 WNBA season, Caitlin Clark has been named the league’s Rookie of the Year, league sources told The Athletic on Friday. That Clark won the award came as little surprise considering how prolific her debut season was. Clark broke both the WNBA’s single-season and single-game […]