Spurs’ top four hopes dented in draw at West Ham
Tottenham Hotspur missed the chance to move into the top four when they were held to a 1-1 draw at West Ham United after Brennan Johnson’s early strike was ...
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White House hosts muted Ramadan event as Biden’s Israel policy draws anger
The White House held a scaled-down iftar dinner on Tuesday to celebrate Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, after some invitees turned the president down over frustrations in the Muslim ...
Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years kills seven, traps 77 (Update 3)
Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed seven people on Wednesday, injuring more than 700, with 77 trapped in tunnels and collapsed buildings, authorities said, as rescuers used ladders to ...
Russia’s Baltika sues Carlsberg subsidiaries for over $900 mln in damages
Russia’s Baltika Breweries has sued four Carlsberg subsidiaries for damages amounting to 6.24 billion Danish crowns ($902 million), Russian court filings showed, as the two parties fight over the future of ...
Google to destroy browsing data to settle consumer privacy lawsuit
Google agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately.
Terms of the ...
UK house prices rise by most since Dec 2022
British house prices rose in March at their fastest annual pace since December 2022, adding to signs of a modest recovery in the market which has been squeezed by high interest ...
Ukraine lowers army draft age to 25 to generate more fighting power
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a bill on Tuesday to lower the mobilisation age for combat duty from 27 to 25, a move that should help Ukraine generate more fighting power in its ...
Wide swath of US gets buggy as two cicada broods intrude
These two broods emerge together only once every 221 years, last occurring in 1803
By Will Dunham
Cicadas, the noisy but rather tame insects that spend most of their lives underground, are ...
Netanyahu laments Israel’s ‘unintended’ killing of aid workers in Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday an Israeli airstrike that killed seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza was unintended and “tragic”, ...
UBS launches new $2 billion share buyback
UBS (UBSG.S) on Tuesday announced it was launching a new share buyback programme of up to $2 billion, with up to half being completed in 2024.
The scheme will begin on ...
Germany football kit option blocked over Nazi symbolism
The design for the number four on Germany’s national team shirts will be changed over concerns that the number ’44’ resembled the symbol used by Nazi ‘SS’ units, the German ...
UK government backs J.K. Rowling in Scottish hate crime law challenge
The British government said J.K. Rowling should not be arrested for her transgender views after the Harry Potter author challenged Scotland’s new hate crime law with social media ...
‘Hallmarks of genocide’ in Russian crimes across Ukraine
Ukraine’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday that Russian crimes across occupied Ukrainian territories, including the Bucha massacres, show a pattern of genocidal behaviour that should be tried domestically and ...
UK shop prices rise at slowest pace since December 2021
Prices in British shops rose at the slowest pace in more than two years in March, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said on Tuesday, adding to signs that the country’...
Iran vows revenge on Israel after Damascus embassy attack
Iran vowed on Tuesday to take revenge on Israel for an airstrike that killed two of its top generals and five other military advisers at the Iranian embassy compound in ...
Eight die as car carrying suspected migrants falls into Albanian ravine
Eight people died in southern Albania on Tuesday when a car carrying suspected migrants swerved off a mountain road into a ravine, police said.
The car fell on the rocky ...
City’s Grealish says he tries to take heckling as a compliment
Manchester City midfielder Jack Grealish, often the target of heckling since moving to the Premier League champions, says he endeavours to take the jeers from opposition supporters as a compliment.
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Oil gains on expectations for higher demand and as Middle East concerns rise
Oil prices rose on Tuesday, underpinned by signs that demand may improve China and the US, the world’s biggest oil consuming nations, and growing concerns of a widening conflict ...
Phillips needs support, says Moyes after poor run
West Ham United’s on-loan midfielder Kalvin Phillips needs support and the club will give him all the help he needs, manager David Moyes said on Monday as the England ...
Premier League refereeing not good enough, says Kompany
Refereeing standards in the Premier League have dropped this season, Burnley manager Vincent Kompany said on Monday, joining in widespread criticism of the officiating after a number of controversial decisions.
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One dead, two wounded in Finland school shooting, 12-year-old suspect held (Update 4)
One child was killed and two others seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of ...
US anti-Muslim incidents hit record high in 2023
Reported discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians reached a record high in the US in 2023, driven by rising Islamophobia and bias as the Israel-Gaza war raged late in the ...
Iran says Israel bombs its embassy in Syria, US denies any involvement
Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran‘s embassy in Syria on Monday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisers, including three senior commanders, marking a major ...
Israel airstrike on Gaza kills seven working for celebrity chef’s NGO
Citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland were among seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on ...