There was a point towards the end of last year when there was a genuine feeling that Daniel Ricciardo was lining up to take Sergio Pérez’s Formula One seat at Red Bull for 2025. Ricciardo made clear upon his mid-season return to the grid with AlphaTauri (now RB) that getting back in the Red Bull, […]
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17 hours ago By Jonathan Amos, @BBCAmos, Science correspondent RCGS A sonar image of the sunken vessel. It went down on 5 May 1962 Wreck hunters have found the ship on which the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage. The vessel, called “Quest”, has been located on the seafloor off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. […]
Jun 12, 2024, 01:03 PM ET Juventus have hired Thiago Motta to replace Massimiliano Allegri as their manager, the Italian giants announced Wednesday. “Juventus is delighted to announce Thiago Motta as the new First Team head coach. The Italian-Brazilian has signed an agreement with the Club until June 30, 2027,” Juventus said in a statement. […]
3 hours ago By Abdelrahman Abu Taleb, BBC News Arabic Reuters Cities such as Omdurman have been turned into ghost towns by a year of fighting Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been accused of violating a UN arms embargo by supplying drones to the warring sides in the 14-month conflict that has devastated Sudan. […]
Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden is to open up about her ordeal with breast cancer in a new BBC documentary. The film, with the working title Amy Dowden: Fight of My Life, will be broadcast on BBC One this summer. It will be shown ahead of her return to Strictly, after she missed last […]
Fire erupts in building in southern Mangaf district, an area heavily populated with foreign workers in Kuwait. At least 35 people have been killed in a building fire in Kuwait, according to state media. The blaze on Wednesday morning in the southern Mangaf district also injured at least 15 others, the KUNA news agency reported. […]
One of France’s best-loved singer-songwriters, Françoise Hardy, has died at the age of 80. “Mum is gone,” her son, Thomas Dutronc, who is also a musician, wrote on social media. Hardy burst on to the music scene in 1962 and became a cultural icon who inspired the likes of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. Known […]
6 hours ago By Michelle Roberts, Digital health editor AFP The Japanese scientist whose pioneering work led to the creation of statins, the life-saving drugs used by millions, has died at the age of 90. Akira Endo’s pivotal work has been likened to the discovery of penicillin. The biochemist is said to have been inspired by Alexander […]
24 minutes ago By Daniel Thomas, BBC News Getty Two former directors of BHS have been ordered to pay at least £18m to creditors over their role in the collapse of the retailer eight years ago. A court found Lennart Henningson and Dominic Chandler liable for wrongful trading, misfeasance trading and misfeasance over their management of the […]