California’s high school athletics’ playoff and championship governing body, commonly known in the Golden State as CIF, hastily took action in the wake of the threat this week by Donald Trump of pulling funding, perhaps permanently, from California if biological boys were allowed to continue competing against biological girls. Title IX of the Education Amendments...
A Syrian man has admitted carrying out a knife attack in the German town of Solingen last August in which three people were killed. “I have committed a grave crime, I am prepared to accept the verdict,” Issa al H said in a statement read out by his defence lawyers at the start of his...
Accommodation for asylum seekers will cost the taxpayer triple the amount the Home Office first claimed, according to new figures. Contracts signed by the Conservative government in 2019 were expected to see £4.5bn of public cash paid to three companies over a 10-year period. But a report by spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO)...
Swedish police have arrested six people in connection with a triple murder at a hair salon in the city of Uppsala. The suspects range in age from under 18 to 45, according to the state prosecutor’s office. One is suspected of carrying out the killings on Tuesday evening. A 16-year-old who had been arrested hours...
Kaoru Mitoma, Brighton, £6.5m – Leicester (h) Backing a forward player against Leicester pays off almost every week and Mitoma is easily Brighton’s most reliable midfielder. The most shots, shots in the box, on target, key passes, xG, goals – I could go on. Newcastle’s Murphy had a haul from the flanks against the Foxes,...