Chelsea are in talks with AC Milan over signing France goalkeeper Mike Maignan. The Italian club value Maignan at about £25m but the Blues do not want to meet that price and are in talks about a lower fee. The 29-year-old has been a regular for Milan since joining on a five-year contract from Lille...
The 31-year-old arrived at the club during Oldham’s ill-fated 2022 season but injuries restricted him to just two appearances. Despite the club losing its EFL status, Fondop stuck with the club and has scored 37 goals in 113 National League appearances since. But what encouraged him to stay at Boundary Park? “The manager at the...
PA Media Thousands of people descended on the Denbighshire village of Dyserth for Mike Peters’ funeral Thousands of fans gathered for the funeral of The Alarm’s Mike Peters on Thursday. The musician and charity fundraiser died last month aged 66 after living with cancer for 30 years, following his diagnosis of lymphoma in 1995 and...
Joe Inwood & Tom Gerken BBC World correspondent & technology reporter Ian Aikman & Eve Webster BBC News EPA The Bayesian, pictured sailing near Palermo, in a photo released by manufactures Perini Navi A luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, killing the tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch along with six others, was knocked...
Mike Hesson has been appointed Pakistan’s white-ball head coach. Hesson, who coached his home country New Zealand for six years, replaces interim coach Aaqib Javed. His appointment follows a turbulent period where ex-South Africa batter Gary Kirsten stood down from the role after just six months and former Australia bowler Jason Gillespie stood in temporarily....
Donald Trump’s former vice-president, Mike Pence, has received a John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for refusing to endorse false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Pence defied Trump by declining to throw out electoral votes cast for Joe Biden during a congressional session on 6 January 2021 that was targeted by rioters....
US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is leaving his post with the Trump adminstration, according to media reports. Waltz, who was the president’s principal adviser on national security issues, has had a difficult tenure amid accusations that senior officials used insecure methods of communication to conduct government business. Last month, he took responsibility for a...
PA Media Mike Peters and his wife Jules were married for 39 years The wife of Welsh rock star Mike Peters has said her heart is “forever broken” after the loss of her “true love”. In a tribute, Jules Peters thanked everyone for “loving him so much” after the musician’s death aged 66, and said...
Milan players showed immediate concern after the collision, but defender Matteo Gabbia said after the game: “Fortunately, Mike is fine. We all asked the doctor how he was, and he reassured us by telling us that he’s in the hospital for tests, but he’s doing OK. He’s a great captain.” Milan manager Sergio Conceicao praised...
Evangelical Christian and former talk show host Mike Huckabee has been confirmed as the new US ambassador to Israel. The former Arkansas governor has long been a fervent supporter of Israel. He strongly backs Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories, which are considered illegal under international law – though Israel rejects this. “This is a...
Reuters Mike Waltz says he doesn’t know the journalist who was added to group chat US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has taken responsibility for a group chat in which high-ranking officials planned military strikes in Yemen in the company of a journalist who was inadvertently added. “I take full responsibility. I built the group,”...