12:35 AM ET While it’s common for fighters to call for title shots after key victories, it would be hard for observers to not at least think that Aleksandar Rakic will get one at some point after his performance on Saturday night. Rakic, who is ranked eighth by the UFC, dominated Anthony Smith throughout their
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It’s been six months since COVID-19 began disrupting – and ending – lives in the UK. So: time to take stock. The graph below shows the official shape of the UK’s epidemic. According to government data, more than 330,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus and around 42,000 of them have died. Even at this
Conservative backbenchers have criticised the government for a string of “avoidable” summer U-turns, ahead of MPs returning to Westminster on Tuesday. One former Conservative minister told Sky News that some Tory MPs were now spending their time “gambling on how long before the next U-turn happens”. The senior politician also called on the Boris Johnson
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There are ‘no plans’ to move Glastonbury from its traditional weekend in June next year, organisers say. Founder Michael Eavis has previously said it was “wishful thinking” it could happen then, and that the only “certainty” for the iconic music festival was 2022, because of COVID-19 restrictions. The festival was cancelled this year because of
Taxpayer money was used to pay social media influencers and reality TV stars to promote the NHS Test and Trace system, the government has admitted. As the system failed to reach its 80% target for the ninth week in a row, a spokesman said the government had a responsibility to “use every means possible” to
10:48 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jimmie Johnson‘s final season as a full-time driver will end without another title. The seven-time NASCAR champion missed the playoffs in the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway after being involved in a multi-car crash with five laps to go. Johnson’s teammate at Hendrick
11:56 PM ET Steve Kim Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Saturday was arguably the biggest day of boxing since the sport was brought to an abrupt stop in mid-March. Two world title fights each set the
Have you ever lost something and never found it again? I just sometimes wish that everything should have some sort of a GPS device attached to it so that we know its location always. Might sound pretty impractical but then just imagine, I could have found my favorite jacket that was left behind on a
August 30th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan I used to write articles about solar power every day — for years. When you’re in the thick of it, you get more and more focused on details and get increasingly busy with industry conversations that are foreign, if not confusing, to outsiders. I tried to keep that in
At least 29 people are dead after a two-storey restaurant collapsed during a birthday party in China. A further 28 were injured, including seven of them seriously, China’s Ministry of Emergency Management said. The building in Linfen city suddenly fell apart on Sunday but it is not yet clear what caused this. Image: Dozens of
Police have issued £10,000 fines to at least nine people for their part in organising illegal gatherings this weekend. The heavy fines are the first to be handed out since new rules came into force in England on Friday ahead of the bank holiday weekend. West Yorkshire Police said officers had attended several parties on
Donald Trump will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin – the city that has seen unrest since a white police officer shot a black man in the back – on Tuesday, a White House official has said. Jacob Blake, 29, has been left paralysed from the waist down following the shooting and remains in hospital. The US president
Police have been responding to reports of illegal gatherings after rules were brought in just before the bank holiday weekend. The new rules came into force on Friday, prompted by more than 1,000 unlicensed events since the end of June. Anyone in breach of the rules could be fined £10,000. People not wearing masks and
Tesla has started pushing a new version of its software update to now visually detect speed limit signs, and more. For a while, there has been speculation about to what degree Tesla was using GPS data versus actual detection of speed limit signs in order to detect speed limits for its Autopilot features. Now this
The education secretary has warned that parents who do not send their children school risk putting a “huge dent in their future life chances”. In an open letter to parents, Gavin Williamson writes there is a “far greater risk to children’s health and wellbeing if they don’t go to school”. The comments come two days