Abde Ezzalzouli emerged as Real Betis’ hero on Thursday after he netted an extra-time winner to make them the first Spanish side to reach the Conference League final with a 4-3 aggregate victory over Fiorentina, setting up a showdown with Premier League side Chelsea. While Betis were celebrating reaching their first European final after the […]
Georgina Rannard Climate and science reporter Kate Stephens and Tony Jolliffe BBC climate and science team Tony Jolliffe/BBC News The specs of dust must be kept free from contamination on Earth The first samples of Moon rock brought back to Earth in nearly 50 years have arrived in the UK – on loan from China. […]
Steffan Messenger Environment correspondent, BBC Wales News BBC Litter is a particular problem in towns and cities, campaigners have warned Campaigners say littering has reached a “crisis point” after surveys of street cleanliness across Wales revealed the worst situation on record. Keep Wales Tidy said the rise was mainly being driven by a “huge increase” […]
President Trump said Britain had agreed to increase market access for billions of dollars of American exports, including beef, ethanol and other farm products under a new trade deal — but left many of the details to be worked out later. The agreement — promoted by Mr. Trump as the first of many that will […]
Mikel Arteta said the best team lost after Arsenal crashed out of the Champions League semifinals. Paris Saint-Germain won 2-1 on Tuesday night on goals from Fabián Ruiz and Achraf Hakimi to complete a 3-1 aggregate victory and set up a final against Inter Milan in Munich on May 31. The Gunners made a fast […]
Anti-abortion activists pray and protest in front of the Greenville Women’s Clinic in Greenville, S.C., in March. Jim Urquhart for Newsportu hide caption toggle caption Jim Urquhart for Newsportu On a chilly March morning, Jason Storms stood on a patch of lawn across from a women’s health clinic in Greenville, S.C. It’s one of three […]
Marcus Smith is in at 10 and as cover at 15, where Blair Kinghorn is likely to miss the first two or three games because of his commitments to Toulouse. Elliot Daly is another who can deputise as 15. Scotland would have been hoping to get Tom Jordan picked in that utility role but it’s […]
President Trump is expected to announce on Thursday that the United States will strike a “comprehensive” trade agreement with Britain. Hours after teasing that an agreement would soon be announced, Mr. Trump said in a social media post that a deal had been reached that would “cement the relationship between the United States and the […]
In the next 20 years, Gates believes, progress will be ‘incredible.’ “This is a miraculous time,” he told me, with the most exciting work the foundation has ever done sitting in the R.&D. pipeline now, waiting to be delivered. It was almost hard to keep up with his survey of breakthroughs: on H.I.V., on tuberculosis, […]
Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After leaping upward in the 2000s, global giving for health grew very slowly through the 2010s. The culture of philanthropy has changed somewhat, too, with the age of the Giving Pledge — in which hundreds of […]