Playing down to competition was an especially frustrating feature of the Islanders during Lane Lambert’s first year at the helm. That has been replaced by a better, albeit also frustrating, characteristic this year. The Islanders play close games. Against everybody. More evidence on that front was piled on by the […]
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Apple is expected to be hit by a ban on its App Store rules that govern some music-streaming services and a potential hefty fine from European Union regulators, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. EU authorities are putting the finishing touches to a decision that would prohibit Apple’s practice of blocking music services from […]
Nigel Farage insists he’s feeling fitter than at any time since he was at school thanks to I’m A Celebrity. The former Ukip and Brexit Party leader, 59, arrived back from Australia at Heathrow Airport yesterday having finished third in the ITV series. Farage spent 23 nights in the jungle, […]
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will meet for the final time this year to vote on interest rates – which help dictate mortgage rates set by banks. The central bank had hiked interest rate in 14 consecutive meeting until they peaked at a 15-year high of 5.25%. […]
The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has defended the decision to allow Russian and Belarussian athletes to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics as neutrals. Speaking at a forum in Geneva, Switzerland, Thomas Bach said “individual atheletes cannot be punished for the acts of their governments”. There had […]
Eight in ten Brits believe the UK has a moral duty to help combat global hunger but 55 percent were unaware that 345 million people are struggling to put food on the table, a survey found. War in Ukraine, aftershocks from the pandemic, and climate change are all fuelling an […]
The business partner of a Pennsylvania woman whose body was found buried two weeks after she went missing in January was convicted of murder Wednesday, the district attorney said. A jury found Blair Watts guilty of first-degree murder and he was immediately sentenced to a mandatory term of life in […]
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate approved the appointment of Justice Minister Flávio Dino on Wednesday to take a seat on the country’s Supreme Court. Dino, a former leftist state governor who cracked down on supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro after they rampaged through government buildings last January, was […]