ITV/REX/Shutterstock Nicole and Ciaran have been cwtching up on Love Island all summer They might have lost the Love Island final, but Welsh couple Nicole and Ciaran have won the hearts of many back home. Account manager Nicole Samuel, 24, from Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 21-year-old rugby player and surveyor Ciaran Davies, from Bridgend, […]
PARIS — From a small, fluorescent lit gym just north of Paris, Team USA coach Cheryl Reeve was asked about her team’s biggest advantage in the Olympics. Depth, she paused. No, size. “1A, 1B,” she decided. Reeve isn’t wrong. With three players taller than 6-4 and a bevy of guards in the 6-foot range, Team […]
PA Media The government and the BMA trade union have struck an improved pay deal for junior doctors in England worth 22% on average over two years. The BMA’s junior doctors’ committee has agreed to put the offer to its members. If accepted it would spell an end to long-running strike action which has led […]
An endangered sperm whale – nicknamed Julio by scientists – has been killed in a collision with a vessel in the busy Strait of Gibraltar. Researchers say this is the fifth sperm whale to die after being struck by a boat since they started monitoring the population in the area more than 10 years ago. […]
Sam Borden, ESPN Senior WriterJul 29, 2024, 11:12 AM ET Close Sam Borden is a senior writer for ESPN.com. MARSEILLE, France — Jack McGlynn remembers when the goal was as basic as could be: No United States men’s soccer team had even qualified for an Olympics since 2008, so for months just getting to these […]
The Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), privately told donors that running against Vice President Harris instead of President Biden made the race more challenging — an admission at odds with the Donald Trump campaign’s public projections of confidence. “All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance […]
The government has dropped its ongoing legal challenge against a court ruling which declared parts of the Troubles Legacy Act to be unlawful. It centred on the most contentious aspect of the act which offered conditional immunity to suspects in exchange for information about Troubles-era crimes. Government lawyers had argued in an appeal hearing last […]
A ban on puberty blockers introduced by the previous government using emergency legislation was lawful, the High Court has ruled. Former health secretary Victoria Atkins curbed the use of the drugs for children and young people with gender dysphoria under emergency powers at the end of May. A trans campaign group then took legal action, […]
Participants of the NBA Basketball School in Lebanon will also have the chance to be selected to represent Lebanon in the NBA Basketball School 2024 Abu Dhabi Tournament in October – a cross-regional tournament that will feature international competitions between NBA Basketball Schools, appearances by NBA and WNBA Legends, and an opportunity to experience various […]
Kamala Harris, then the San Francisco District Attorney, poses for a portrait on June 18, 2004. Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press Two days before President Biden announced he would step back from his push for a second term, his campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, appeared on television, insisting […]