D.C. United forward Ted Ku-DiPietro is expected to miss his second consecutive match with an adductor injury, leaving the MLS club without three starters, in addition to long-term absences, for Saturday’s visit to New York City FC. Right back Aaron Herrera and midfielder Mateusz Klich will serve one-game suspensions for accumulating five yellow cards apiece. […]
Image source, Getty Images By Jennifer Clarke BBC News A spring Covid booster is being offered to those most at risk from the virus across the UK. Some pharmacies have also started selling the jab privately. Who can have a spring Covid booster? Fewer people are entitled to a spring booster than were offered a […]
Back in high school, Spencer Tamburello’s iPhone would automatically check a local news website every morning to see if snow had shut down his school. If school were closed or delayed, his phone would automatically shut off his alarm and send a text message to his parents asking to let him sleep in. Those precious […]
Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter has been given a lifetime ban by the NBA for breaching betting rules. An NBA investigation found the 24-year-old disclosed confidential information about his fitness to sports bettors and limited his participation in games for betting purposes. Porter also bet on NBA games using a friend’s online account. NBA commissioner […]
Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm says company believes in ‘big risks for the chance of big rewards’. Tesla has asked shareholders to reapprove a record-breaking $56bn pay package for CEO Elon Musk after a US judge rejected the deal. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm said the […]
MUNICH — Bayern Munich manager Thomas Tuchel said his team’s Champions League experience would give them an advantage over Arsenal, and he was right. Bayern advanced to the semifinals with a 1-0 win secured through Joshua Kimmich’s 63rd-minute header, the crowning moment of a well-executed game plan that nullified the Gunners to the extent that […]
Abderrazak Hamdallah was part of Morocco’s squad at the 2022 World Cup The Saudi Arabian Football Federation is to review its spectator code of conduct after a supporter appeared to whip an Al-Ittihad player. The incident took place at the end of Al-Ittihad’s defeat by Al-Hilal in the Saudi Super Cup in Abu Dhabi. Footage […]
Boeing, one of the world’s two major producers of commercial planes, has said the claims made by Sam Salehpour were “inaccurate” and that it was confident its planes were safe. “The issues raised have been subject to rigorous engineering examination under [Federal Aviation Administration] oversight,” the company said last week. Two days before the hearing […]
Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet says the Games will be protected by an “unprecedented” security operation, and that preparations are “in good shape”. But with 100 days until the start of the Olympics, he said organisers will “keep some humility, because we know in this kind of event anything can happen in the last stretch”. […]
More than four months into 2024 and companies are still cutting costs, with Tesla, Amazon and Apple being the latest big company to cut jobs. The near future could bring more. Many employers are still downsizing because of overly optimistic projections, consumers’ changing habits, technological advances such as generative artificial intelligence, and macroeconomic pressures. Whether […]