During Uefa competitions this season, the signal used to indicate the use of ‘only the captain’ guidelines is one arm extended, showing the flat of the hand. “This signal may be adopted by other competitions, but currently there is no mandatory signal at the highest levels of the game, as different countries may have varying...
The Indian Premier League has revised its rules to allow temporary replacement players for the remainder of the tournament. The rule change follows the suspension of the league for a week during tensions between India and Pakistan, with a number of players unlikely to return to the competition when it restarts on 17 May. England’s...
Chris Vallance Senior Technology Reporter Getty Images Wikipedia is taking legal action against new Online Safety Act regulations it says could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors and their ability to keep harmful content off the site. The Wikimedia Foundation – the non-profit which supports the online encyclopaedia – is seeking a judicial review...
BBC Ten Tors will see 400 teams of six travelling across Dartmoor Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West Thousands of people will descend upon Dartmoor at the weekend to take part in the 63rd Ten Tors challenge. The annual event, between 9 and 11 May, is usually attempted by 2,400 teenagers in 400 teams of...
Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has diluted his control of the club in preparation for Champions League qualification. Uefa, European football’s governing body, has strict rules regarding multi-club ownership models such as the one Marinakis heads up. In addition to owning Forest, the Greek businessman also controls Greek team Olympiakos, as well as Portuguese side...
Malta’s so-called golden passport scheme that lets people become citizens through financial investment is contrary to European law, the EU’s top court has ruled. The EU commission took Malta to court in 2022 over the scheme, which grants foreigners a Maltese passport and thereby the right to live and work in any EU country in...
The Spanish grid operator has ruled out a cyber attack as the cause of a massive power cut that crippled Spain, Portugal and parts of France on Monday. Red Eléctrica’s operations director Eduardo Prieto said preliminary findings suggest “there was no kind of interference in the control systems” to imply an attack, echoing Portuguese Prime...
This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into the air. The cloud quickly engulfed the 19 refinery firefighters, managers...
Formula 1 bosses have agreed in principle to a mechanism that would allow engine manufacturers facing a performance shortfall under next year’s new rules to catch up. But there was no agreement at a meeting of the F1 Commission on Thursday on a proposal to cut the amount of electrical energy permitted in races. That...
The White House’s anti-DEI decrees are too “vague and confusing” for educators to follow, the judge said. A federal judge has placed a partial injunction on the Trump administration’s attempts to limit schools and universities from enacting policies or curricula promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), finding that an executive order from President Donald Trump...
Getty Images A US judge has said he could hold the Trump administration in contempt of court for “wilful disregard” of an order to halt the departure of deportation flights carrying more than 200 people to El Salvador last month. The administration had invoked a 227-year-old law meant to protect the US during wartime to...
No doubt there will be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth in elite circles in the United Kingdom. But the UK Supreme Court has ruled, against all expectations, that modern courts rarely get it right, that sex is binary. ???? BREAKING: Transgender women should not be legally defined as women, the Supreme Court has ruled....
Jim Reed BBC News Reporting fromSupreme Court, London Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria BBC Parents of the deceased children heard doctors involved in their care could be named Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the Supreme Court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell...
Microchip maker Nvidia said it would be hit with $5.5bn (£4.2bn) in costs after the US government tightened export rules to China. The chip manufacturing giant, which has been at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, will require licences to export its H20 AI chip to China, which has been one of its...
The resentencing hearing of Menendez brothers can move forward despite opposition from the county’s district attorney, a Los Angeles court has ruled. The brothers’ attorneys are attempting to have them resentenced to a lesser term, which could make them immediately eligible for freedom. Erik and Lyle were convicted of killing their parents in their Beverly...