Deutrom added that Ireland being awarded Test status is “the most significant achievement I’ll look back on with pride”. He added: “While the absolute highlights of the role are too numerous to mention, the most powerful memories I’ll take with me are of our Irish cricket family – the good people, the kind people, the...
But Berrada knows where the major external focus will be, in particular on coach Ruben Amorim, who had such a tortuous introduction to life at United following his arrival from Sporting in November. Berrada joined United after working as chief football operations officer at City Football Group. And he can see similarities between Amorim and...
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has appointed Neil Macdonald as its new chief executive. Mr Macdonald, who will begin his role on 6 October, joins from Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, where he has served as chief executive since 2018. The Plymouth NHS Trust is one of the largest employers in the region, with about 11,000...
Major League Cricket (MLC) chief executive Johnny Grave says the tournament should not be seen as a danger to The Hundred any more. The third edition of the United States’ franchise league starts on Friday at 02:00 BST when defending champions Washington Freedom face San Francisco Unicorns. MLC’s emergence caused some uneasiness in English cricket...
Republicans have claimed they’re “saving” Medicaid from “waste, fraud and abuse” with massive cuts. President Donald Trump has quietly commuted the sentence of a Florida health care executive convicted of leading a Medicare fraud scheme to pilfer $205 million from the program through false means — even as the GOP claims that their massive cuts...
As jubilant Livingston supporters engulfed the Dingwall pitch, there was no hiding the sorrow on the faces of their dejected hosts. The hurt was visible on local boy Cowie’s face as he watched the elated visitors celebrate on their turf, a pain according to Ferguson that will be felt throughout the club and wider community....
The judge said the administration has made it clear it intends to gut the agency without approval from Congress. President Donald Trump’s sweeping deregulatory agenda was dealt a blow on Thursday when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to block Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and ordered reinstatements of laid...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday asking drugmakers to voluntarily lower pharmaceutical costs for U.S. consumers — but the order lacks a clear mechanism for enacting such reductions. Trump’s order recognized that costs for prescription medicines are higher in the United States than they are in other countries. “Drug manufacturers, rather than...
“History will record British military support for Israel as complicity with genocide”, Communist Party International Secretary Kevan Nelson declared at yesterday’s Executive Committee (10 May 2025). Recent reports indicate that Britain has sent 14 shipments of bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines and F-34 fighter jet parts to Israel since October 2023, while the RAF has...
On Monday of this week, President Trump attempted to remove three members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board. On Tuesday, CPB sued the administration, claiming he didn’t have the right to do that. At a court hearing Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss ordered both sides to file arguments on CPB’s...
Getty Images Trump alleged that both organisations have engaged with “biased and partisan news coverage” US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for all federal funding to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) to be blocked. On Thursday evening, Trump alleged that both organisations have engaged with “biased...
The Football Association has defended paying chief executive Mark Bullingham £1.32m last year – including a £450,000 bonus – saying he had “met and exceeded robust targets”. Bullingham is thought to be the highest-paid chief executive of a sports governing body in the UK. The 50-year-old’s earnings for the year ending July 2024 included a...
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy.” The basic point of this is to undermine what is known as disparate-impact theory. Here’s how the executive order describes it. A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law. This principle guarantees...
“Donald Trump has just made an attempt to re-segregate America,” said legislative researcher Allison Chapman. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would further weaken civil rights protections and make it more difficult for plaintiffs to prevail in discrimination cases in areas such as education, housing, health care and public benefits. “With...
The International Cricket Council is being lobbied to make T10 an officially recognised format in the future. Sources have told BBC Sport at least two full members are pushing for the ICC to consider granting List A status to T10 franchise domestic competitions. The inclusion of the format would enable the statistics from sanctioned T10...