Lionel Messi has said he is staying at Barcelona, saying he didn’t want to take the club where he has spent all of his career to court. The Argentinian forward, regarded by many as the best footballer of all time, had expressed a desire to leave the Spanish club in recent days. Messi, 33, has
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Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has been handed a top job advising the UK government on trade – despite a string of allegedly homophobic and sexist comments. Senior LGBT supporters including Sir Ian McKellen and Stonewall, as well as the Labour Party’s equalities spokesperson, urged Boris Johnson to block the appointment. Mr Abbott, 62,
The United States’ richest Big Tech executives lost a collective $25 billion to their net worth after Thursday’s market sell-off, according to data compiled by CNBC’s Robert Frank. The S&P 500 tech sector closed down 5.8% Thursday, dragging markets in the red. The dramatic drops shaved several billions off the net worth of some of
US President Donald Trump has congratulated himself on a “much better than expected” unemployment rate in August. Mr Trump was tweeting on Friday after the US Department of Labor announced that the US unemployment rate had fallen from 10.2% in July to 8.4%. He wrote: “Great Jobs Numbers! 1.37 Million Jobs Added In August. Unemployment
6:00 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Eric Bledsoe has heard the talk. How he was outplayed by fill-in starter Terry Rozier, who rankled Bledsoe on and off the court, causing him to average just 13.6 points per game on 44% shooting in the Milwaukee Bucks‘ seven-game loss to the Boston Celtics in 2018. How a year
The Big Four motorcycle manufacturers in Japan, including Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki, are teaming up on electric motorcycle development and testing. Specifically, the companies are working together to develop a shared swappable battery platform for electric motorcycles. The foursome announced the establishment of a consortium to develop swappable batteries for electric motorcycles last year.
Blessed with a wide variety of landscapes, the African country of Uganda produces everything from bananas and coffee to tea and cocoa. Indeed, its land plays a big role in its economy: the Uganda National Household Survey for 2016/17 found that 65% of the country’s working population were involved in the agriculture, forestry and fishing
Dr. Farzad Mostashari presenting on syndromic surveillance. Farzad Mostashari When researchers at Carnegie Mellon University had the idea to put together a survey asking the general public about their coronavirus symptoms, they knew they needed to collect millions of data points to learn anything meaningful. So they asked Facebook, which has a public team that
Rapper Silento has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking two strangers with a small axe. After walking into an unlocked home, he swung a hatchet at two people inside before one of them disarmed him, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Local reports say he was looking for his girlfriend. The
Leeds, Middlesbrough, Corby, Kettering and South Tyneside have been added to the government’s coronavirus watchlist after cases spiked. Norfolk, Rossendale in Lancashire and Northampton will also become “areas of enhanced support”, which means more residents will get access to testing, after seeing their own rises in COVID-19 infections. Some areas previously subject to local lockdown
Virgin Atlantic says its £1.2bn rescue deal has been completed but that another 1,150 jobs will be cut across all functions. The news confirms a report by Sky’s City editor Mark Kleinman on Thursday night and comes less than four months after the carrier axed 3,150 roles and ended its Gatwick Airport operations. Chief executive
Leeds is now an “area of concern” after a rise in coronavirus cases, one of the city’s MPs Rachel Reeves has said. The “areas of concern” list is published every Friday, revealing how coronavirus is spreading broken down by region. Last week, Bury was one of the places where cases notably rose – up to
Twenty-two schools have been shut down in France and the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion due to coronavirus as cases soar in the country. More than 12 million pupils returned to classrooms in France on Tuesday but some parents and teachers’ unions have expressed concern over the reopening of schools as the spread
Techniques to genetically-edit human embryos should not be used until they are proved to be reliable and safe, an international commission said Thursday, in the wake of a scandal over gene-modified babies in China two years ago. Experts from the commission of US National Academy of Medicine, US National Academy of Sciences, and Britain’s Royal Society
Airport testing is not a “silver bullet” that will end the need for quarantining, the transport secretary has told Sky News. Grant Shapps suggested the government was looking at cutting the amount of time travellers returning from higher-risk countries need to self-isolate for from 14 days to seven. Ministers are facing pressure from airports and
A prominent activist and professor of African American history at George Washington University has admitted that she has been pretending to be a black woman. Jessica Krug, 38, wrote on the blog website Medium that her various identities have been built on a “toxic soil of lies” and she is in fact a white Jewish