The settling of Alexander Isak’s future “has to be right for Newcastle”, says manager Eddie Howe. The striker is considering his future at the club amid interest from Liverpool. Isak did not travel with the squad to Singapore on Thursday, with Newcastle saying he had a thigh injury, but the Sweden international wants to look…
133 years ago today, Dadabhai Naoroji was elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. A merchant, scholar, writer, and political leader who served as a founding member of the Indian National Congress, Naoroji is particularly known for formulating the “drain theory,” which argued that economic exploitation under British rule led to the…
In hot conditions in Washington DC, both Raducanu and Sakkari struggled to hold their serves in the opening set, with the Briton converting three of her six break points and her opponent two from four. However, at 4-4, Raducanu struck the decisive blow, breaking Sakkari’s serve for the third time before converting a second set…
Maddy Kacmarcik and Travis Becker – SWNS A woman is counting her blessings that she was on the right road at the right time, after falling in love with a guy that she and her friend picked up hitchhiking. 27-year-old Maddy met Travis Becker while driving back from a night out with her friend in…
Indelible Telly/BBC Mhairi Black stood down as an MP ahead of the general election last year Former SNP MP Mhairi Black has left the party – predominantly over its stance on trans rights and Palestine, the BBC understands. Black, who was formerly the SNP’s deputy leader at Westminster, said there had been “too many times”…
Andrew with Champ – credit, SWNS A two-legged Chihuahua named Champ detected a potentially fatal heart attack before his owner even felt symptoms, saving his life in the process. 63-year-old Andrew Kuzyk says Champ’s unusual behavior—hugging his chest and whining —prompted lifesaving medical attention. It made Kuzyk take the “chest tightening” feeling seriously, and his…
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged resident doctors not to follow their union down the “damaging road” of strike action, which is due to begin on Friday. Writing in the Times, Sir Keir said this would cause “huge loss for the NHS and the country,” as he criticised the British Medical Association (BMA) for “rushing”…
Good neighbor David Blenkle in his 2022 Mustang Mach-E In the course of being a wonderful, kind-hearted neighbor, a California man inadvertently demonstrated the incredible reliability and longevity of his electric vehicle. And being that it’s a Ford Mustang Mach-E, which many derided as an abomination of the badge, it’s a head-turning, heart-tugging piece of…
50 years ago today, Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti founded Giorgio Armani S.p.A (joint stock company) in Milan, Italy. Armani had no education in design, and instead studied medicine in advance of a two-year stint in the army. He got into fashion simply by working at department stores. By 2001, Armani was acclaimed as the…