Ruth Bradley Politics reporter, BBC Somerset BBC Bridgette Baker, 24, is the fifth generation of her family to farm at Windmill Farm near Yeovil “I reckon my schoolfriends think I’m mad. They probably thought I would give up – but I haven’t.” Bridgette Baker is a 24-year-old, fifth-generation farmer who farms alongside her dad and […]
Mar 28, 2025, 08:00 AM ET LONDON — Near the half-hour mark of Thursday’s Women’s Champions League quarterfinal second leg, Manchester City goalkeeper Khiara Keating went down injured. As she received treatment by the goal, both her teammates and Chelsea’s players gathered around their respective dugouts. They were grateful for this brief interlude in the […]
The canary in the coal mine CoreWeave just pulled off the first big initial public offering this year — and the results were far from heartening. The company, which rents computing power to the artificial intelligence industry, shrank its I.P.O. far below initial expectations before Friday’s anticipated trading debut. That’s even after Nvidia, which owns […]
Mar 27, 2025, 12:14 PM ET Four Real Madrid players, including Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior, are being investigated for alleged “indecent conduct” during the Champions League game at Atlético Madrid on March 12, UEFA said on Thursday. Madrid reached the quarterfinals by beating Atlético 4-2 on penalties at the Metropolitano stadium in the round-of-16 […]
MARS, Pa. — It’s just after lunch on a snowy January day, and the math teacher in Room 222 is sketching Pascal’s triangle on the whiteboard. Andy Bednar did not go to Cornell to teach advanced algebra. He went there to pitch for the baseball team, kick for the football team and study civil environmental […]
Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, met with executives of Saudi Aramco, BMW, Toyota Motor, FedEx and dozens of other foreign companies at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday as China seeks to boost foreign investment amid worsening trade relations between China and the United States. It was the third time that […]
Dolphins whistle. Whales sing. Fish croak, chirp, grunt, hum and growl. But in the chatter of the sea, one voice has been missing — until now. Sharks have long been seen as the silent killers of the water. But scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand recently recorded a rig shark, or Mustelus […]
Chinese technology giant Tencent has made a €1.2bn ($1.25bn) investment in a spin-off from Ubisoft, the maker of the Assassin’s Creed video games. Shenzhen-based Tencent will own about a quarter of the new business, with Ubisoft holding the rest of the new subsidiary, which is valued at around €4bn. The unit will run some of […]
Mar 27, 2025, 10:22 PM ET Brazil’s two-time World Cup winner Ronaldo Nazario will lead a special task force created to try to eradicate racism, discrimination, and violence in South American soccer, the sport’s continental governing body said Thursday. “Its mission will be to design policies and establish prevention and sanction mechanisms that contribute to […]
In December 1967, when he arrived at a snowy farm on China’s northeastern border with the Soviet Union, Xu Chenggang carried with him an electron tube to help him assemble a radio. Mr. Xu, a 17-year-old Beijing native, would spend the next 10 years there, living in a horse stable and subjected to re-education and […]