Editor’s Note: This piece originally ran on Jan. 22, 2025 ahead of Manchester City’s pivotal game with Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League’s new-look league phase. They lost that game, but did advance to the play-off round, where they were drawn against Real Madrid. However, in light of their elimination from the competition on Wednesday, […]
NEW ORLEANS — They gathered here, leaders of the two most powerful conferences in college sports, and talked about the future. There was a newfound optimism that they were starting to wrangle all the changes in college athletics to figure things out. “We’ve got a chance to hopefully build a new model here and get […]
Faarea Masud BBC Business reporter Getty Images Cryptocurrency firm Bybit said hackers stole $1.5bn (£1.1bn) worth of digital currency in what could be the biggest crypto theft in history. The Dubai-based company’s founder told users that their funds were “safe” and that if would refund any of those affected. It said hackers stole from its […]
As the reality sets in that the United States is drastically diminishing its foreign assistance to developing countries, an urgent conversation is starting among governments, philanthropists, and global health and development organizations. It is centered on one crucial question: Who will fill this gap? Last year, the United States contributed about $12 billion to global […]
George King BBC News, Suffolk Reporting fromLeiston, Suffolk Zoie O’Brien/BBC Linda Druce from Druce Estate & Letting Agents said Sizewell C was a reason for rent increasing in Leiston Residents fear being priced out of a Suffolk town due to the construction of a nuclear power plant, with the rent on some family homes doubling […]
A veterinarian and 13 trainers, seeking an edge at a Pennsylvania racetrack, injected pain medications into the joints of more than 100 horses in violation of federal rules, the federal agency that now regulates the sport said on Friday. Afterward, 30 percent of the horses never raced again and 10 percent were declared lame post-race […]
Stocks slumped on Friday, with the S&P 500 wiping out almost all of its gains since President Trump took office last month, after a widely watched measure of how consumers feel about the economy showed mounting fears over stubborn inflation. The S&P 500 fell 1.7 percent, adding to a modest dip on Thursday and notching […]
The banks of the Thames River have hosted human settlements for thousands of years, from Neolithic huts to the soaring skyscrapers of London. Evidence of bygone civilizations has been steadily deposited on the river’s muddy bottom for modern archaeologists to mine. Now, researchers in London have dated dozens of bones dredged from the river, creating […]
Pacio survives an onslaught to unify the strawweight MMA class The endearing image the last time Joshua Pacio fought in Qatar was him being helped from the cage after being spiked by Jarred Brooks in the ONE Strawweight MMA World Title clash. He may have been the new champ, but looked far from a winner. […]
The UK’s longest-serving female minister is leaving the Welsh Parliament next year. Social Justice Secretary Jane Hutt, 75, has enjoyed an almost unbroken cabinet run in various roles, since powers were devolved from Westminster to Wales in 1999. The Labour Vale of Glamorgan Senedd member has announced she will stand down from Cardiff Bay at […]