England World Cup hero and Leeds United legend Jack Charlton has died. The 85-year-old passed away peacefully at his Northumberland home on Friday, his family said. He was diagnosed with lymphoma in the last year and was also suffering from dementia. Charlton, the older brother of Bobby Charlton, was part of England’s World Cup-winning team
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It had become a case of when, not if, Donald Trump would save his old pal Roger Stone from prison. When Stone failed in a court bid to delay the start of his sentence next week because of a coronavirus outbreak at the jail, the president stepped in. Stone was there for Trump at the
7:26 PM ET The NHLPA and the NHL’s board of governors have approved a package that will not only allow the league to restart this summer, but also includes a four-year CBA extension. You read that correctly, the two sides have reached an extension without a work stoppage! We don’t want you to have to
Police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators who tried to storm Serbia’s parliament on Friday, the fourth night of protests against the president’s increasingly authoritarian rule. Demonstrators, who were defying a ban on mass gatherings amid a spike in coronavirus infections, threw bottles, rocks and flares at the police guarding the parliament building in
Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his former adviser Roger Stone – just days before he was due to report to prison to serve 40 months for crimes related to an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. The White House confirmed the commuting of the sentence in a statement, saying Stone
Amazon said it mistakenly sent an email to employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones. “This morning’s email to some of our employees was sent in error. There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok,” Amazon said in an emailed statement. Amazon had told
Boris. Hillary. Maggie. There’s a super league of politicians we are on first name terms with. And now Rishi – chancellor for only five months – has joined their ranks. The rise of “Brand Rishi” is raising a few eyebrows in Westminster, whether it’s Mr Sunak’s slick Insta game or his penchant for posting soft-focus
Tropical Storm Fay is set to drench New York City, as it makes landfall on the US east coast. The storm, which is expected to dump up to 10cm of rain across the region, has already forced President Donald Trump to postpone a campaign rally in New Hampshire, as it begins to batter the US.
12:36 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jimmie Johnson is just as confused as everyone else about his plight with the coronavirus. A positive test caused the seven-time NASCAR champion to miss the first race of his career, and it was followed three days later by a negative test. He never suffered any symptoms
Distressing audio in which Johnny Depp can be heard asking his ex-wife Amber Heard to “cut me” has been played in court as part of his libel trial. The three-and-a-half-minute recording, believed to be from July 2016, seems to capture Depp saying he will cut himself with a knife. “Please do not cut yourself”, Heard
The government was routinely overstating the total number of people who had been tested for COVID-19 by as many as 200,000 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, according to new Sky News analysis. It follows a Sky News investigation into irregularities in how testing data was collected and compiled in the face of the
Under a warm, blue sky, Thierry Voirin is wandering through his fields of vines. Carefully, he examines them, looks at the leaves, feels the soil. Here, in the only place in the world allowed to use the name for its sparkling wine, his grapes will be used to make champagne. It is a luxury product,
Boris Johnson has served notice that tougher rules on wearing face masks could be on the way, as he appealed to people working from home to go back to work. In a significant shift in COVID-19 policy, the prime minister said the government now needs to be stricter on insisting people wear masks in confined
8:58 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After being at home for several months because of the global coronavirus pandemic, Sofia Kenin was more than eager to return to competition. So when the opportunity arose to play World TeamTennis this summer, she jumped at the chance. It was only after she agreed to participate that she realized
The company behind Wagamama and Frankie & Benny’s has warned that one in 10 of its sites will not reopen this year. The Restaurant Group said the sites, which are mostly at airports, will open in 2021 at the earliest because “footfall is anticipated to remain considerably weak” until then. It is not clear what
Online bank Smile is trying to reassure customers after days of technical problems with its website and app. On Wednesday, Smile – which is owned by Co-op Bank – said on Twitter that it was having “intermittent issues with our app and online banking”. The bank’s 100,000 customers were given a phone number to call