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Germany’s parliament is set to elect conservative Friedrich Merz as its new Chancellor. The 69-year old is promising to revitalize the country’s flagging economy and boost its voice on the world stage. It brings an end to Germany’s recent political limbo after the last government collapsed. But Merz takes office at a time of huge...
Celtic winger Jota will be sidelined for between six to nine months with a cruciate ligament injury, manager Brendan Rodgers has confirmed. The 26-year-old, who returned to the Scottish champions from Rennes in January, picked up a knee injury during Saturday’s 5-0 win over Dundee United. Jota was taken off in the first-half at Tannadice...
Neil Critchley has been sacked as Hearts head coach just six months after his appointment following Saturday’s 1-0 home defeat to Dundee. The former Blackpool boss was brought to Tynecastle in October with the club rooted to the bottom of the Scottish Premiership. The 46-year-old has steered Hearts 11 points clear of the foot of...
Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff has said he did not leave the house for six months after his Top Gear crash, which left him with both physical and mental scars. The cricketer-turned-TV presenter sustained serious facial and rib injuries in a crash while filming the BBC motoring programme in 2022. Speaking about the incident on ITV’s The...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Guy De Launey Balkans correspondent Getty Images President Aleksandar Vucic rallied his supporters in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade Tens of thousands of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s supporters have held a rally in Belgrade following months of unrest across the country. A monitoring organisation said around 55,000 people had gathered in front of...
Germany’s conservatives under Friedrich Merz have reached a deal with the Social Democrats to govern Europe’s biggest economy, five months after the previous government collapsed. Merz, 69, said their deal sent “a strong and clear signal” to Germans and the EU that Germany “will get a strong government capable of action”. The two sides have...
Reuters Israeli strikes hit Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, from where the military said rockets had been fired Israel has carried out fresh air strikes on Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered retaliation for one of the heaviest barrages of rocket-fire by Hamas in months. The Israeli military said about half of the 10...
India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah is set to make his return to competitive cricket in the Indian Premier League after three months out injured. Bumrah, 31, the world’s top-ranked Test bowler, injured his back during the fifth Test against Australia in early January and has not played since, missing England’s white-ball tour to India and...
An indoor amusement park on the Devon and Cornwall border has shut its doors less than two months after opening. Dingles Fun Park in Lifton operated on the same site as the now-closed Dingles Fairground Museum. Manager Tom Ellis said the park had “incredible support from the locals” but the “vast scale” of the site...
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says Bukayo Saka is “ready to go” after missing three months with injury. Read full article at source...
Sir Keir Starmer’s communications chief has resigned after nine months in Downing Street. Labour veteran Matthew Doyle, who worked for Tony Blair, was brought in as Sir Keir’s communications director four years ago, when the party was in opposition. He is the second senior member of Sir Keir’s team to leave less than a year...
The Gaza hospital director has faced relentless torture in his three months in Israel’s camps, his legal team says. An Israeli court upheld and extended north Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya’s detention in a notorious Israeli torture camp for another six months on Tuesday, based on “secret evidence” submitted by prosecutors. The decision by the...
“Our squad is strong and will compensate for these absences. We’ll now work even closer together. We have the quality to continue pursuing our big goals.” Davies has made 226 appearances for Bayern since joining from Vancouver Whitecaps as a 17-year-old in 2018. The 24-year-old signed a new five-year contract in February to end speculation...
The egg seizures showcase the Trump administration’s failure to act on rising consumer costs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency tasked with preventing the transport of unauthorized items across the country’s borders, has been conducting more seizures of illegally imported eggs and egg-related goods than of fentanyl, the drug President Donald Trump frequently...