The shortened AFL season of 2020 could have been set to the tune of The Great Escape. Teams spent months Steve McQueening over fences in the nick of time as one border opened while another closed, with each state shifting restrictions about who could enter, where they could go next, […]
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By Gary Hartley Red palm weevils eat their way through palm trees agefotostock / Alamy The red palm weevil, a beetle known for its devastating effect on palm trees, can be stopped in its tracks by clove and thyme oil – offering hope of new control options for growers hit […]
Meghan acknowledged the tenacity of the tabloid media, while also accepting that her father had the chance to turn down staged photo opps and interviews, just as her mother Doria Ragland has. She stated, “Everyone has accountability. Look, they’ve hunted my mom down and you’ve never heard her say a word. She’s […]
Following the cancellation of NCIS: New Orleans earlier this year, CBS announced the NCIS would still continue to grow with the introduction of NCIS: Hawaii. The upcoming series marks a number of firsts for the NCIS universe, becoming the first spin-off filmed on the picturesque island as well as being […]
Neil writes: “It’s fair to say that the women’s game has exploded in recent years. Whilst men’s football has been at the forefront of the game for decades, that of the women’s game has only really begun to take hold over the last few. But the strides it has made […]
The family of entertainer James Brown has reached a settlement ending a 15-year battle over the late singer’s estate By MEG KINNARD Associated Press July 24, 2021, 2:10 AM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article COLUMBIA, S.C. — The family of entertainer James Brown has […]
Fireworks go off after Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron. Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images With no fans in attendance and a reduced number of athletes joining the parade, the Tokyo Olympics’ Opening Ceremony officially kicked off the Summer Games on Friday as tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the cauldron. The ceremony drew to a close around […]
Starring Jason Sudeikis as the title character, a US football coach who is improbably hired to coach soccer in England, the show won praise as a breath of fresh air with its upbeat, can-do attitude, Ted’s folksy charm and the eccentric players and personnel that fleshed out the team. Frankly, […]
Amazon has hired a law firm to investigate claims of widespread gender discrimination in part of its cloud computing division, the company said in an email to employees late last week. The investigation is a response to a petition filed by a group of employees in Amazon Web Services’ Professional […]
Shing Tat Chung and Erchen Chang, the husband-and-wife duo behind London’s beloved Bao restaurants, as well as Xu Teahouse & Restaurant, met while studying at London’s Slade School of Fine Art. And when Chang briefly returned to her home country of Taiwan after graduation, Chung and his sister, Wai Ting […]
Mischief managed. Daniel Radcliffe brought one of the most iconic fictional characters to life during his tenure as Harry Potter — and found himself sticking in the spotlight for over a decade. The first of eight Harry Potter films was released in 2001 and fans around the world quickly fell […]
Though it’s not set to launch until at least October, NASA has already picked out one spot for the $10 billion successor to the Hubble to study – and it’s only about 63 light-years from Earth. The US space agency said the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study Beta […]
England manager Gareth Southgate has urged young people to get their freedom back by supporting the coronavirus vaccination programme. In the UK, more than 46 million people have now had a first Covid-19 vaccine dose, and more than 36 million have had both doses. But one in three 18-to-29 year […]
ALEX BRUMMER: Over-cooked, insensitive pay awards in boardroom are in danger of turning international tide in favour of a wealth tax The pandemic should have led to a kinder, gentler and fairer world of finance This year began with Larry Fink, chief executive of £6.6 trillion investor Blackrock, extolling the […]
An extraordinary row has broken out at the Olympics after Japan vowed to keep flying its controversial Rising Sun flag – despite South Korea demanding it be taken down after they were forced to remove a banner referring to the 16th-century war between the two neighbours. South Korea’s Olympic committee […]
Australian clothing chain Lorna Jane fined £2.6m for ‘exploitative, predatory and potentially dangerous’ claim that its garments could prevent Covid-19 By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 23 July 2021 | Updated: 23:38 BST, 23 July 2021 Australian clothing chain Lorna Jane has been fined £2.6m for […]
Firefighters have declared the end of their search for bodies at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building, concluding a month of painstaking work removing layers of dangerous debris that were once piled several stories high. The collapse on 24 June at the oceanside Champlain Towers South killed 97 […]
TOKYO — The Latest on the Tokyo Olympics, which are taking place under heavy restrictions after a year’s delay because of the coronavirus pandemic. The very first match of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament has been canceled because a Czech player tested positive for COVID-19. Markéta Sluková tested positive earlier […]
Jade Jagger reunited with siblings Georgia May and Lucas and documented the occasion with a selfie: ‘Siblings are the best.’ Mick Jagger’s children are well aware of their “dynasty” status. The Rolling Stones musician’s children Jade, 49, Georgia May, 29, and Lucas, 22, posed for some selfies together amid their […]
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti, July 23 (Reuters) – Haiti bid a rowdy farewell to assassinated president Jovenel Moise on Friday as his funeral was roiled by nearby gunfire and protests, prompting a high-level U.S. delegation to leave abruptly and other dignitaries to duck into vehicles for safety. The state funeral in the […]