Gordon has started eight of Hearts’ 10 matches this season after missing a large chunk of the last campaign as he battled back from more than a year out with a double leg break. He became Scotland’s oldest international as a late substitute in the last warm-up match before Euro 2024, having already been told […]
H.E. Ghanim Mubarak Al Hajeri, Director General of the General Authority of Sports, opened the day with a detailed update on the UAE’s National Sports Strategy 2031.”UAE sports are moving in the right direction, thanks to the continuous support from our wise leadership and the efforts of all those involved in the sports sector. Especially […]
BBC Dominika’s one-day-old daughter Emilia is part of the screening programme The entire genetic code of up to 100,000 newborn babies in England will be analysed by the NHS, with the aim of speeding up the diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 rare diseases. At present, newborns are given a heelprick blood test that […]
Vice President Harris consoles a woman as she toured damage from Hurricane Helene in the Meadowbrook neighborhood of Augusta, Ga., on Oct. 2. Brendan Smialowski/AFP hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP AUGUSTA, Ga. — Vice President Harris took a pause from the campaign trail on Wednesday to visit a neighborhood ravaged by Hurricane Helene where […]
MRC/Nature As beautiful as it is complex, the fly’s brain has more than 130,000 wires with 50 million intricate connections They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates – all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain […]
BBC Passengers have been told the ship will leave for France on Wednesday evening The around-the-world cruise ship, which has been stranded in Belfast for months, is set to leave for France on Wednesday evening, passengers say. After more than four months of delays, Villa Vie Residences’ Odyssey set sail on Monday. However, it only […]
BBC We’re just a few weeks from the government’s crucial first Budget on 30 October and it’s clear Chancellor Rachel Reeves intends to raise money. There is a black hole in public finances, she says – based on her apparent discovery since arriving at No 11 Downing Street in July of an unbudgeted £22bn overspend […]
Getty Images Shortages of doctors mean the average GP in England has to care for 17% more patients than nine years ago, a BBC analysis shows. It means for every permanent GP there are more than 2,300 patients – a jump of nearly 350 since 2015, helping explain why access to general practice has been […]
The fact that European Union leaders and Britain’s prime minister say that relations should improve is no guarantee that they will. Overcoming structural obstacles to closer collaboration will require a consistent application of political will. Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to Brussels on Wednesday is a significant step in that direction. He held his first official […]
Police investigating a report that a shot was fired at a taxi carrying Ian Hislop have found no evidence of this. “Urgent CCTV and forensic examinations” instead suggested a mechanical fault with the vehicle, which caused the rear window to shatter, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said. The force said officers were continuing to […]