2:08 PM ET Associated Press Roush Fenway Racing on Wednesday announced a contract extension with both driver Chris Buescher and longtime sponsor Fastenal. The deal with Fastenal was extended through the 2024 season. The distributor has been a Roush anchor partner since 2010 when Fastenal joined the team as primary sponsor for Carl Edwards in
Pose star Billy Porter has spoken for the first time about being HIV-positive, after being diagnosed 14 years ago. The 51-year-old, who plays sharp-tongued emcee Pray Tell in the series – who is also HIV-positive – told the Hollywood Reporter the year he was diagnosed was the worst of his life. But he said the
The health secretary has defended the government’s messaging on international travel, insisting the advice on holidays has been “crystal clear”. Since the ban on foreign holidays was lifted on Monday as part of the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, people have been able to enjoy quarantine-free travel to a dozen destinations on the green list. Live
The official trailer for Friends: The Reunion has been released, ahead of the programme being broadcast in the US next week. It was announced earlier this month that the much-anticipated new episode of the popular TV comedy will be aired on Thursday 27 May, featuring all six members of the original cast. And on Wednesday,
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12:42 PM BST Murrayfield will allow in 16,500 spectators when the British & Irish Lions face Japan on June 26 ahead of their tour to South Africa this year, the Lions said on Wednesday. The move to let fans attend amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was made after consultations with the Scottish government. 1 Related
The rail network will be rebranded Great British Railways as part of a restructuring intended to simplify the organisational chaos of the franchise system and rebuild passenger numbers following COVID-19. A quarter of a century after British Rail was broken up and the network privatised, the new public body will subsume Network Rail’s responsibility for
Donald Trump has said he is being “unfairly attacked”, as the former US president’s family business becomes the subject of a criminal investigation. The Trump Organization has been the focus of a civil probe by the New York attorney general over whether it falsely reported property values to secure loans and obtain economic and tax
Elon Musk Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk doesn’t appear to be shying away from bitcoin, despite the crypto-wide selloff, which cut the value of bitcoin in half at one point over the last 24 hours. In a tweet Wednesday morning, through a combination of text and emojis, Musk said
Thousands of volunteers will get a booster coronavirus vaccine as part of a world-first clinical trial in the UK, the health secretary has announced. The Cov-Boost study will trial seven COVID-19 vaccines and will be the first to provide data on the impact of a third vaccine dose. Live COVID updates from the UK and
The Intertubes are absolutely humming with news that the leading global mining and shipping giant Vale is getting into the wind-powered shipping business. The company is staking its claim to five tall, tilt-able, cylindrical devices that look like smokestacks but are actually sails. That’s not such a big deal, but if all goes according to
There are now almost 3,000 cases of the Indian variant in the UK, the health secretary has told MPs. Matt Hancock said 2,967 cases of the COVID-19 variant have now been recorded, having stood at more than 2,300 on Monday. Live COVID updates from the UK and around the world As a result, surge testing
Ultranationalist Israelis are are trying to hide their activities by creating private online groups where members must prove who they are in order to gain access. One such group told its prospective members they were trying to block “police, Arabs and journalists” from tracking them. Sky News has been examining active Israeli ultranationalist social media
US President Joe Biden has told Israel’s prime minister he expects to see a significant de-escalation in its conflict with Hamas today. In what will be seen as Biden’s toughest public pressure on the US ally so far, the White House said the president asked Mr Netanyahu in a telephone call to move toward “the
7:43 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor have worked for decades to reach this moment. On Saturday in Las Vegas, one of the two undefeated and
6:48 AM ET The contenders who hope to win this week’s 103rd PGA Championship at Kiawah Island had better hope their big sticks are ready. The Ocean Course will measure a whopping 7,876 yards, making it the longest course to ever host one of professional golf’s four majors. Rory McIlroy won the previous PGA Championship