Exeter City have signed left-sided defender Ryan Rydel on loan from Stockport County. The 24-year-old has agreed a season-long stay at St James Park having helped County win promotion from the National League and again from League Two. There is no recall clause in the deal meaning Rydel will stay at Exeter for the entire...
Joel Gunter Reporting from Bucha, Ukraine BBC Tatyana Popvytch’s son was taken to Russian. “He is so vulnerable,” she said. “I worry that he will lose his sanity there.” Tatyana Popovytch had contacted every agency she could think of. She had walked every step her son Vladislav could have taken after the Russians opened fire...
The article below is an adapted excerpt from the introduction of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic, an anthology recently published by NYU Press that chronicles experiences of ableism and diverse disability activism in New York City (and beyond) during the first four years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The anthology’s authors are a collective...
Martin was 32 when he made the switch to Ibrox and did not add to his 29 Scotland caps, the first of which came as a late substitute in a 3-1 win over Wales in 2011. That international debut came under Craig Levein, while Martin was a regular pick for Gordon Strachan, playing in the...
Somalia’s footballers have always struggled to make an impact on the continental stage, and its men are currently ranked 201st out of 210 national teams in the world – with only Seychelles and unranked Eritrea beneath them in Africa. They have never made it past the preliminary round in qualifying for the Africa Cup of...
A record number of fans packed Wembley to watch the three play-off finals, the English Football League has announced. The matches attracted an aggregate attendance of 211,858 – well above the previous record total of 197,550 that watched the play-offs at the end of the 2007-08 season. Sunderland’s 2-1 victory over Sheffield United in Saturday’s...
Bristol Rovers have re-appointed Darrell Clarke as their manager following their relegation to League Two. Rovers sacked head coach Inigo Calderon on Sunday, less than 24 hours after the end of a disappointing season that ended in a 4-1 thumping at Blackpool. Clarke, 47, had four years in charge of Rovers between 2014-2018, a stint...
Catherine Ellis Business reporter Reporting fromLa Guajira, Colombia Catherine Ellis José Luis Iguarán says that the sound of the turbines disturbs his dreams When José Luis Iguarán steps outside his home in La Guajira, northern Colombia, he is met with a line of 10 towering wind turbines stretching across the cactus-strewn terrain toward the Caribbean...
“We argued that the role of white people – just like our role vis a vis the Vietnam War was to find ourselves in alliance with the Vietnamese, in alliance with the black struggle, for self-determination. Not just for an end to the war, but the right to determine their own future.”– Bill Ayers, Ex-Leader...
Some changes will start to take place by the end of this week as cooler air begins to move down from the north. A few showers are expected, perhaps even with isolated thundery downpours in southern areas, as the warm weather breaks down. However, high pressure should still be fairly close by for the bank...
Everton are moving to poach further members of the Leeds United backroom staff as new owners The Friedkin Group establish their leadership team. The US-based investment firm’s takeover of the Merseyside club is set to coincide with a number of top-level recruitments, following confirmation Angus Kinnear – currently at Leeds – will take over the...
James Landale, Natasha Booty & Mayeni Jones BBC News BBC Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee a camp in Darfur in the wake of the most recent attacks A high-level international conference is under way in London to find “a pathway to peace” in Sudan, in the words of one of...
Desire Doue’s fantastic curling effort brings PSG level in their Champions League quarter-final first leg against Aston Villa at the Parc Des Princes. Read full article at source...
Having lost many of their established international stars in the summer of 2023, a new-look youthful Exeter side finished seventh last season with 10 wins from 16 games. But this season things have not gone to plan, with defeat in the Premiership Rugby Cup final last week extinguishing any hopes of ending the campaign with...
It seems astounding that a single fire at an electricity source shut down one of the world’s busiest airports. The disruption to the journeys of thousands of passengers and millions of tonnes of trade goods on Friday has prompted a series of questions over the resilience of the UK’s major infrastructure. Disaster recovery plans keep...