PSG paid a world-record €222m (£200m) fee that remains unsurpassed to this day. In Paris, Neymar often operated with more freedom, shifting into a central role where he orchestrated attacks and created from deeper positions. More freedom on the pitch was coupled with more commercial obligations off it. “His love for the game was taken…
– credit Anna Dziubinska on Unsplash A group of 200 UK businesses and charities have signed a pledge that company work weeks will be shortened to 4 days without a loss in pay Including marketing and advertisement; tech, it, and software; and charity groups as well, the companies employ more than 5,000 people. Organized by…
BBC Cardiff University has £506m in unrestricted reserves, which has increased by more than 50% in a year, according to figures seen by Newyddion S4C Cardiff University should use its reserves of more than £500m to ease financial pressures amid concerns of 400 job losses, a union has said. The institution has £506m in unrestricted…
Fire Chief Brian Fennessy – supplied to GNN by the Orange County Fire Authority A California fire chief single-handedly saved his brother’s house and that of his neighbor, armed only with a carton of milk and a few beers. Brian Fennessy said that was a first despite an almost 50-year career in firefighting. As soon…
Kendyl Pool tries on new HearView caption glasses – SWNS This is the moment a deaf girl tried on a pair of high-tech, $1,500 glasses, which allow her to “see” conversations in real-time. Kendyl Pool was born profoundly deaf due to malformations in her inner ears and has used American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate…
AstraZeneca AstraZeneca has scrapped plans to invest £450m in expanding a vaccine manufacturing plant in Liverpool, blaming a reduction in government support. The pharmaceutical giant has announced its decision just two days after Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out Labour’s plan to go “further and faster” to boost economic growth. AstraZeneca said that after “protracted” talks,…
61 years ago today, the iconic black comedy film Dr. Strangelove, premiered in American cinemas. Directed by the genius Stanley Kubrick, the film was terrifying in a new way, because of its seemingly accurate depiction of America’s hair-trigger nuclear war defense plans, which were later revealed by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and others. In fact, Ellsberg recounts…