Three members of Liverpool’s title-winning squad have been nominated for the Premier League player of the season award. Captain Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Ryan Gravenberch lead the eight-player shortlist after helping the Reds to a 20th league title. Defender Van Dijk has played every game for Liverpool this season, helping them record 14...
Scotland international Rachel Corsie and England’s Jordan Nobbs are among four players leaving Aston Villa at the end of the season. Danielle Turner and Maz Pacheco will also depart when their contracts expire in June. Defender Corsie, 35, joined the Women’s Super League side from Kansas City Current in 2022 and has made 56 appearances...
EPA An Indian paramilitary soldier keeps watch from behind a fence in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir Mohammed Waheed was fast asleep at his home in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the early hours of Wednesday morning when a huge blast shook his home. “Before we could even process what was happening, more missiles struck,...
Inter Milan’s stunning 7-6 aggregate win against Barcelona was one of the all-time great Champions League semi-finals, but where does it rank? Read full article at source...
Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu festival, meant to be a celebration of Filipino pride, ended in a wail of sirens and screams. Eleven people died and many more were hospitalised after a man drove an SUV through the crowd. “A lot of us are still numb. A lot of us are still angry, confused, sad, devastated –...
Getty Images In 2023, India saw over 480,000 road accidents that claimed more than 172,000 lives Every morning, India’s newspapers are filled with reports of road accidents – passenger buses plunging into mountain gorges, drunk drivers mowing down pedestrians, cars crashing into stationary trucks and two-wheelers being knocked down by larger vehicles. These daily tragedies...
Their goals against Brighton meant Mbeumo and Wissa have scored in the same match for the 18th time during their Brentford careers. Only seven pairings in Premier League history have a better overall record. “That’s an incredible achievement from the two of them,” said manager Frank after the win against Brighton. “When you consistently over...
While Chelsea’s goalkeeping position has been a source of debate for fans in recent seasons, new data suggests supporters should have nothing to worry about. Since Edouard Mendy lost his place and left the Blues for Al-Ahli in 2023, the opinions of who is the right man to have in goal have differed. Enzo Maresca...
A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least 14 people and left dozens of others wounded, according to regional head Serhii Lysak. Six of the dead were children, said President Volodymyr Zelensky, who grew up in the city. Images from the scene showed at least one victim...
Press Association Guy Burgess’s passport and briefcase left behind when he fled to Moscow in 1951 A battered leather briefcase left behind by Guy Burgess when he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among 20 objects from MI5’s archives to go on display for the first time from Saturday. A joint exhibition with the National...
BBC Bruce Parry spent time along the Amazon with the Waimaha people Living with some of the world’s most remote tribal communities has changed filmmaker and indigenous right activist Bruce Parry. “I started out as an adventurer,” he says. “It was all ego – I wanted to climb the biggest mountain, go and find the...
Ireland’s Erin King believes she is playing alongside some of the best back rows in the world during the Women’s Six Nations. King, 21, started her side’s 27-15 defeat by France to kick off their campaign last weekend alongside Aoife Wafer and Brittany Hogan. Wafer scored twice in another superb display, while Hogan was instrumental...
Ever found yourself speechless in the presence of overwhelming cuteness, like your baby nephew or the cat video you saw on Instagram? There’s now a word for it: gigil. Gigil (pronounced ghee-gill) is part of a list of “untranslatable” words, or those that do not have English equivalents, that have been added to the Oxford...
Iain Watson Political correspondent EPA There has been some unease in Labour’s ranks over the planned savings in the welfare budget. The government’s newly published assessment of the impact of the changes has increased that anxiety. The contents – with its estimates of increased poverty levels – show that talk of difficult decisions is not...
Americans in Washington DC are reacting to a Signal group chat leak where a journalist was inadvertently added to a chat where US national security officials discussed a planned military strike. The revelation has raised questions about why high-ranking officials discussed such sensitive matters on a potentially vulnerable civilian app. US Director of National Intelligence...