Rory McIlroy says he is “excited” to take a break before July’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush. The 36-year-old finished in a tie for sixth at the Travelers Championship at the weekend and will not be in action until the Scottish Open on 10-13 July, one week before the season’s final major returns to Portrush....
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The home secretary will move to proscribe the Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, effectively branding them as a terrorist organisation, the BBC understands. Yvette Cooper is preparing a written statement before Parliament on Monday – which if passed will make becoming a member of the group illegal. The decision comes as a security...
Pro-Palestinian activists have broken into RAF Brize Norton undetected and sprayed two military planes with red paint. Footage posted online by Palestine Action on Friday morning shows two people inside the Oxfordshire airbase, with one riding on a scooter up to the Airbus Voyager air-to-air refuelling tankers and appearing to spray paint into its jet...
Holy SMOKES Every time I turn around, it seems like another one of Trump’s cabinet picks is doing or saying something that just blows the doors off of any predecessor. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who has been literally under a trial by fire since practically the day he was sworn in (unlike the missing-in-action...
Robin Levinson King BBC News Getty Images The Edmonton Oilers are heading south to Miami to fight to bring the Stanley Cup back to Canada for the first time since 1993. They will be hoping to avoid a repeat of last year when they made the same trip and lost. For over 30 years, the...
An Italian museum has called on patrons to “respect art” after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of glittering crystals. Footage released by the Palazzo Maffei, in Verona, shows a man and woman taking pictures of each other while pretending to sit on the so-called “Van Gogh” chair. The man then...
Two visitors were filmed sitting on, and breaking, a piece of artwork at Palazzo Maffei museum in Verona, Italy. CCTV footage of Palazzo Maffei captures the moment the ornate chair collapses, and the man and woman quickly leave. The “Van Gogh” chair by Nicola Bolla (Saluzzo 1963) is a piece of art made out of...
A woman obsessed with K-pop group BTS has been caught trying to break into band member Jungkook’s home just hours after he completed military service. The Chinese woman in her 30s was seen punching random numbers on a combination lock outside Jungkook’s apartment in Seoul at about 23:20 local time (14:00 GMT) on Wednesday, police...
England spinner Sophie Ecclestone will take a break from domestic cricket as she manages a quad injury and to “prioritise her wellbeing”. Ecclestone, 26, was left out of England’s first squad under new coach Charlotte Edwards because she was recovering from a knee injury. She played for the UP Warriorz in India’s Women’s Premier League...
Fallon Sherrock says she will not be back to her best for “a couple of years” and has indicated she plans to take a break from darts in 2026 for health reasons. The 30-year-old became ill after the birth of her son Rory in 2014 and has suffered from kidney problems since then. Sherrock has...
Note: Edwin Rubis wrote this piece from solitary confinement on April 17, 2025, his thirteenth day in “the hole.” My 13th day in “the hole” has been an eye opener. This is the first time I’ve experienced it after 28 years in federal prison. I was sent here for breaking a prison rule — sending...
Three wickets apiece for seamers Logan van Beek and Ben Green set up Leicestershire’s first red-ball victory at Lord’s in 45 years, flattening Middlesex to strengthen their position as County Championship Division Two front-runners. Van Beek took 3-28 – including two wickets in as many balls – while Green’s 3-32 also played a pivotal role...
CCTV shows inmates escaping New Orleans jail Ten prisoners, several of them facing murder charges, have escaped from a New Orleans jail and may have had help from staff inside the facility, authorities say. The inmates are thought to have fled around midnight, and were discovered missing during a headcount at 08:30 local time (13:30...
Pep Guardiola says he will take a break from management after he leaves Manchester City, though he does not know when he will retire. Guardiola signed a two-year contract extension in November, extending his stay at the club until June 2027. By that time the 54-year-old will have been at City for 11 years –...