The former Chelsea player and manager Gianluca Vialli has died aged 58 after a battle with cancer. The Italian, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer five years ago, played for and managed the London club, scoring 40 goals in 88 games between 1996 and 1999 during his time on the pitch for Chelsea and becoming
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Multiple videos of a crowd in China attacking and flipping over a police car have gone viral on social media, marking another incident of civil disobedience that has broken through the country’s wall of digital censorship. A large group of people gathered in Luyi County, Henan, on 2 January, where it’s understood that frustrations against
The actress Joan Sydney, known for her roles in long-running soaps Neighbours and A Country Practice, has died at 83. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016 and died on 28 December. Her long-time friend and fellow actor Sally-Anne Upton confirmed the news on social media today. Ms Upton paid tribute to her “darling colleague”.
A senior Taliban leader has told Prince Harry that the militants he killed in Afghanistan were “not chess pieces, they were humans”. Responding to revelations in Harry’s forthcoming memoir that he killed 25 Taliban fighters, Anas Haqqani, a senior aide to the interior minister, tweeted: “Mr Harry! The ones you killed were not chess pieces,
Windfall tax payments are to hit Shell by around $2bn (£1.7bn), the oil and gas company has estimated. The cost of the UK’s energy profits levy and the EU’s recently announced solidarity contribution will reach $2bn (£1.7bn) in tax liabilities in the final three months of its financial year, the firm said in a fourth
House prices have dropped for the fourth month in a row as cost of living pressures and higher borrowing costs dampen demand. The average house price fell to £281,272 in December, according to data from Halifax. It was a 1.5% decrease from November prices, which had already fallen more than 2%, representing the fastest decrease
Tesla is finally giving up on only offering its controversial “yoke” steering wheel by starting to give the option of a round steering wheel for Model S and Model X. When Tesla unveiled the new Model S with the “yoke” butterfly steering wheel, it was controversial. Some were worried about the actual shape of the
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A federal district court judge took a broad, unprecedented swipe against President Donald Trump on Thursday, accusing his administration of launching a “great assault on our judiciary.” Judge Carlton Wayne Reeves of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi called for more diversity in the federal courts, arguing that a more diverse
9:20 PM ET CINCINNATI — The Week 17 game between the Bengals and Bills has been canceled and will not continue, the league announced Thursday night. Monday’s game was suspended with less than six minutes left in the first quarter when Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after making a tackle. His heartbeat
It’s been a tough start to 2023 for shareholders of Linde (LIN). The industrial gas giant was a relative winner in 2022 with its stock declining roughly 5% compared to the S & P 500 ‘s drop of around 19.4%. But the new year has not been so kind with three straight down sessions, including
Steve Proehl | Corbis Unreleased | Getty Images A new law that went into effect this week requires most California employers to disclose salaries on job listings. The law affects every company with more than 15 employees looking to fill a job that could be performed from the state of California. It covers hourly and
Prince Harry has said he asked a driver to replicate his mother’s final journey in Paris – travelling through the tunnel where Princess Diana’s fatal crash took place at 105kph (65mph). Writing in his memoir, entitled Spare, the Duke of Sussex said he was in the French capital for the Rugby World Cup semi-final in
The US House of Representatives has adjourned after failing to vote for a new speaker for the 11th time. Republican Party leader Kevin McCarthy has failed in every round to secure the 218 votes needed to win, and the House will now carry out a 12th round of voting at noon on Friday. The loss
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) could accept a pay rise of around 10% to end its ongoing dispute with the government, its chief has said. The union had initially demanded an increase of up to 19% to cover soaring inflation and falls in real term wages over the past decade. But union boss Pat
A woman who lived in the same house where four University of Idaho students were murdered says she saw a masked man in black clothing walking towards her, according to an investigator. The unidentified housemate said she awoke to the sound of crying and opened her second-floor door around 4am and stood in “frozen shock”
CAKE has just unveiled its latest heavy duty electric two-wheeler at CES 2023. But unlike the company’s electric motorcycles and scooters that came before it, the CAKE Åik is an electric bicycle complete with pedals. But don’t think that this e-bike isn’t ready for some hard work. This isn’t your typical electric bike. It’s part
Nations and political systems differ greatly but it is difficult not to see parallels between what is happening now in the US Republican party and the recent history of the UK Conservative party. There is a brutal tussle under way over the direction which should be taken by Anglophone conservatism, as embodied a generation past
Hauliers exporting goods to the European Union have faced fresh disruption since the turn of the year as a glitch in the UK’s digital customs system and new demands from French authorities threaten delays. Drivers heading to ports in the first few days of January found they were unable to enter details of shipments in
Tennis champion Boris Becker has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for flouting terms of his bankruptcy. The 54-year-old was found guilty earlier this month of transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds from his business account, and failing to declare a property in his home town of Leimen in Germany. The trial took place at Southwark