Category: Politics

Raphinha struck a second-half winner to give Barcelona a lion-hearted 1-0 victory at Benfica on Wednesday as they overcame a red card for Pau Cubarsí early in the game to steal an advantage in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. Barcelona’s teenage defender Cubarsí was given a straight red card for a […]

Mehdi Yarrahi, a well-known Iranian protest singer who spoke out against the country’s strict dress code for women, has been given 74 lashes as part of an agreement to end a criminal case against him. Yarrahi was initially convicted in January 2024 of acting unlawfully by releasing a protest song in September 2023 entitled Your […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 42 min: … van Dijk powers a header clear. Nil-nil at half-time will be quite the achievement if Liverpool can hold on for the next few minutes. Share 41 min: Diaz nearly gets on the end of a long Alexander-Arnold rake, […]

US officials have held “ongoing talks and discussions” with Hamas officials, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on Wednesday. The talks come as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire remains in the balance. Leavitt declined to provide detail on the the substance of talks. “Look dialogue and talking to people around the world to do what’s […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Action from Paris here. Share Good evening, you join us with the score in the earlier game Feyenoord 0-1 Inter, with Marcus Thuram grabbing the goal. It was fairly even stuff in Robin van Persie’s first UCL game in charge of […]

You know we’re in trouble when Fox News emerges as the great defender of freedom of the press. But such was the case when Jacqui Heinrich, a senior political correspondent at Fox, responded to the news that Trump’s White House would now handpick the reporters who get to cover the president in small settings, with […]

Malta’s contestant at this year’s Eurovision contest will have to change the title and lyrics of her song owing to the phonetic resemblance between the Maltese word for “singing” and the c-word, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has ruled. Miriana Conte, 23, will represent Malta at the five-day music event in Basel, Switzerland, on 13 […]

A PhD student who charmed women so he could drug, video and attack them has been convicted of raping 10 women in London and China, with police fearing he may have 50 more victims. Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted by a jury at Inner London crown court on Wednesday, after more than 18 hours of […]

Supreme court upholds order requiring USAid to pay foreign aid groups The supreme court has upheld a federal judge’s order that USAid pay $1.5bn to foreign assistance groups, despite Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle the organization. The decision saw the three liberal justices join with conservatives John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett in the majority. […]

The chief executive of Foxtons has admitted that the company has “more to do” on workplace culture, after a report alleging that junior employees at the real estate agent had faced unwanted touching and other forms of harassment. Guy Gittins, who started his career at Foxtons in 2002 and returned as chief executive three years […]