Category: Politics

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature At the end of a long season and often run on testing ground this is not normally a meeting for backing short-priced favourites but punters are getting stuck in. Oddschecker inform me that these are the three best-backed horses so far: […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Team news: Son returns Son Heung-min has recovered from a hamstring injury and replaces Timo Werner on the left wing. Yves Bissouma is preferred to Rodrigo Bentancur in the only other change from the Brighton defeat. West Ham are unchanged. Spurs […]

Liam Payne’s former partner Cheryl Tweedy has described media coverage of his death “abhorrent”. It came as the singer’s father, Geoff Payne, travelled to Buenos Aires in Argentina to organise the repatriation of his 31-year-old son’s body. He was seen exiting the CasaSur Palermo hotel, where the singer died after falling from a third-floor balcony […]

David Lammy pressed his Chinese counterpart on human rights concerns and China’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during talks in Beijing, the Foreign Office has said. The foreign secretary had been under pressure to take a tough line on a range of human rights issues with the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, when the […]

Gaza authorities accuse Israeli forces of attacking hospital Health authorities in Gaza said Israeli forces surrounded and shelled the Indonesian hospital in the territory’s northern town of Beit Lahia at dawn on Saturday, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). “Israeli tanks have completely surrounded the hospital, cut off electricity and shelled the hospital, targeting the second and […]

Mexico’s navy has said it arrested 23 people in its largest-ever drugs bust, seizing over eight tonnes of illicit cargo in an operation off the country’s south-western Pacific coast. “Navy personnel seized 8,361 kilograms of illicit cargo, which represents the largest amount of drugs seized in a maritime operation, unprecedented in history,” a statement from […]

‘It was a terrible sensation when I heard the sentence: life.” It was 11 March 2016 and Daniela Poggiali had just been confirmed as Italy’s “angel of death”. Less than 18 months after she had first been arrested, in October 2014, the nurse was now the country’s most infamous killer, convicted of killing one elderly […]

Cleveland All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase gave up two runs in the ninth inning and the New York Yankees moved closer to another World Series, beating the Guardians 8-6 on Friday night to take a 3-1 lead in the American League Championship Series. Gleyber Torres hit an RBI single and New York scored its go-ahead run […]

Kamala Harris used a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Friday to seize on reports that Donald Trump had been canceling media interviews to question whether he has the stamina for a second presidency if voters choose him over her in November’s election. “If he can’t handle the rigors of the campaign trail, is he […]

How can I use up nigella seeds or whole dried shiitake? I bought both recently to make specific recipes (the nigella for an Indian-inspired dish and the mushrooms for a Chinese one), but I don’t know what to pair them with in my simpler everyday cooking. Audrey, Montreal, CanadaOne thing I love to do with […]