Most recent trophy won: 2008 League Cup Like Newcastle, Tottenham are another underachieving team who have flirted with major honours in recent years without quite being able to get over the line. But Spurs – the club with the ninth-highest turnover in the world, external – ended their 17-year wait for a trophy when they…
Future of Humanity Experience and Andrew Corbley ยฉ GNN managing editor and lead writer Andy Corbley will be speaking at the Future of Humanity Experience in Basel, Switzerland, held between June 15th and June 22nd. Andy will present the talk entitled โTo Travel is to Live Intentionally, to Travel Intentionally is to Live Transcendentallyโ which…
Dominating Tuesday’s front pages is the “horror” in Liverpool after a car was driven into the crowd during Liverpool FC’s Premier League victory parade. The Guardian leads their coverage with an image of two paramedics carrying an injured Liverpool supporter after the incident in Water Street on Monday evening. The paper says a “53-year-old white…
โ credit The Offline Club via Instagram Not everyone pines for the days without cell phones, but what about social media? Would you erase social media from the history books if you could? If you said yes, you share the feelings of a staggering 46% of teenage respondents to a recent survey from the British…
Craig Williams BBC Scotland News Wattie Chung Michelle Mone started Ultimo with her then husband in 1996 Michelle Mone spent 25 years building her business empire and public profile through the British media. A brilliant self-publicist, she was regularly described as one of the UK’s most successful businesswomen. She was the plucky underdog who, through…
99 years ago today, jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis, was born. One of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century, Davis broke long-held musical rules and helped popularize jazz fusion with his 4-time platinum 1959 album, Kind of Blue. From 1944 to 1948, Davis played in Charlie Parkerโs revolutionary hard pop…
University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent antimicrobial properties against a pathogen responsible for a half-million hospitalizations annually in the US. Itโs a unique approach to tackling the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. With the global threat of drug-resistant infections, fungi inhabiting human skin…
James Waterhouse BBC Ukraine correspondent Jaroslav Lukiv and Jemma Crew Reuters A resident looks at an apartment building that was damaged in a Russian drone strike on Kyiv Russia has intensified strikes on Ukraine, with the highest number of drones and missiles launched in a single night yet. At least 12 people, including three children,…
39 years ago today, the Hands Across America fundraising event was held, hoping to create a human chain across the entire country. Hosted over Memorial Day weekend, the hope was to raise tens of millions to fight hunger and homelessness, with volunteers encouraged to donate for a space in the chain. This seemingly fanciful goal…