BBC Brian Smyth said Belfast City Council workers are lifting hundreds of used needles each month A proposed trial to install a waste needle bin in Belfast city centre is not a “silver bullet” but one step to dealing with drugs issues in the city, a councillor has said. Brian Smyth was speaking ahead of […]
Apr 30, 2025, 07:05 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain — Marcus Thuram and Denzel Dumfries returned and so did the goals for Inter Milan. Dumfries scored two and set up the opener for Thuram as Inter drew 3-3 at Barcelona in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Wednesday. “I’m happy, it was a […]
Will Grant BBC Mexico correspondent BBC Alberto Salagan “really felt lost” when he was deported from the US to Mexico When Alberto Salagan was deported from the US in January it was the first time he’d stepped foot in Mexico since he was a baby. Born in the coastal resort of Acapulco, his parents took […]
Apr 30, 2025, 08:15 AM ET Evangelos Marinakis bought Nottingham Forest in 2017. Photo by MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images Evangelos Marinakis has taken a step back from his ownership duties at Nottingham Forest as the club gear up for Champions League qualification. Sixth-placed Forest are strong contenders to seal a top-five finish in the Premier […]
Barcelona and Inter Milan shared a compelling 3-3 draw in a high-octane Champions League semifinal first leg clash. The Italian side raced to a two-goal lead on Wednesday with superb strikes from Marcus Thuram and Denzel Dumfries, before the unstoppable Lamine Yamal pulled Barca back into it with a sublime solo effort. Ferran Torres levelled […]
Volunteers at a community shop which offers essential items to struggling families are encouraging people to attend. Clothes, school uniforms, books, shoes, toys, and kitchenware are among the items people pick up for free or a low cost at the Honesty Jar in the Grassroots Garden Centre in Henstridge, Somerset. Its founder, Sam Flounders, said […]
The sale of Royal Mail’s parent company to a Czech billionaire has been cleared by shareholders. The approval of the £3.6bn deal, first proposed a year ago, will see the 500-year institution taken over by Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group. Just over 80% of the shareholders of International Distribution Services (IDS), Royal Mail’s owner, voted in […]
The Co-op has shut down parts of its IT systems in response to hackers attempting to gain access to them. It said the “proactive measures” it had taken to fend off the attack had had a “small impact” on its call centre and back office. Meanwhile, The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it’s looking into the […]
Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that neuroscientists don’t have any explanations for it. Far from it. “In the field of consciousness, there are already so many theories that we don’t need more theories,” said Oscar Ferrante, a neuroscientist at the University of Birmingham. If you’re looking for a theory to explain […]
Apr 30, 2025, 10:00 AM ET Bodo/Glimt, European football’s biggest underdogs, are a team that meditates before training, huddles around for a chat when they concede a goal and decide amongst the squad who should be captain for each game. Their core principle is that they won’t ever talk about winning or look at a […]