Mar 28, 2025, 06:35 AM ET Brazilian player Dani Alves won his appeal of a sexual assault conviction as a Spanish court overturned the ruling Friday in a case that lasted more than three years and saw the former Barcelona defender spend 14 months in jail. Alves was found guilty in February 2024 of raping […]
The deaths came in a gun battle in the forested area of the southern Jammu region. At least four police officers and two suspected rebels have been killed during a gun battle in the India-administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian army’s Rising Star Corps said on social media on Saturday morning that “relentless […]
Justin Rowlatt BBC News Climate Editor JSO Handout The climate action group Just Stop Oil has announced it is to disband at the end of April. Its activists have been derided as attention-seeking zealots and vandals and it is loathed by many for its disruptive direct action tactics. It says it has won because its […]
The first female professor of medicine in Britain and Ireland, from County Antrim, has been recognised with an Ulster History Circle blue plaque. The pioneering Dame Louise McIlroy was the first woman to graduate in medicine from Glasgow University in 1898. After being told “battlefields are no place for a woman”, Dame Louise defied officials […]
Lewis Adams & Stuart Woodward BBC News, Essex Stuart Woodward/BBC Jackie Thacker says her heart has been broken by plans for the Lower Thames Crossing The Lower Thames Crossing will become the largest road tunnel in the UK and is described by National Highways as “the most significant road project in a generation”. But what […]
Munaza Rafiq Disability producer BBC / Emma Lynch “I was sobbing as I was put to sleep, and I was sobbing when I woke up.” This is the painful memory Dani Czernuszka-Watt replays in her mind as she remembers going for the abortion she never wanted to have. Dani was told she would have to […]
A towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed in Richmond, Va., in September 2021. It was one of many monuments and statues to Confederate leaders removed or relocated following protests after George Floyd’s murder in 2020. Steve Helber/AP hide caption toggle caption Steve Helber/AP President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday […]
Easter egg prices have risen by as much as 50% compared to last year, while some have shrunk in size, according to an investigation by Which?. The price of chocolate has risen by 16.5% in a year, outpacing an overall 4.4% increase in the cost of supermarket food and drink, the consumer group says. Meanwhile, […]
The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather […]
BERLIN, Germany — In the Estrel Hotel, a 20-minute drive to the southeast of the German capital, in a room filled with 160 numbered desks, officials from more than 300 clubs and representatives of more than 80 agencies are gathered to talk transfers. There are owners and general managers, sporting directors and scouts, agents and […]