Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher have discussed changing the way VAR is implemented in a deep debate on Monday Night Football. Ollie Watkins thought he had earned a point for Aston Villa at West Ham in stoppage time, only for VAR to seemingly judge the striker to
Lewis Hamilton will miss this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain after testing positive for coronavirus. The seven-time Formula One world champion is in isolation after his positive result was announced on Tuesday morning. An F1 statement said: “The FIA, Formula One and Mercedes
Facebook is to pay mainstream UK news outlets millions of pounds a year to license their articles, as the social network faces the threat of a government crackdown over its dominance of online advertising. Most British newspaper groups have signed up to
Social media users in China and South Korea are embroiled in another row, this time over the provenance of kimchi, the fermented cabbage dish that most people recognise as an essential part of the Korean diet. Not, though, in China, where state media have sparked an online backlash after
The multinational consumer goods company Unilever is to experiment with a four-day workweek for all its office employees in New Zealand, slashing their hours by about 20 per cent while keeping pay the same. Starting next week, the trial is expected to last until December
Apart from the odd nod to a funerary urn, first lady Melania Trump broke with tradition this year with her White House Christmas decorations, opting for fairly normal green trees with red and gold ornaments instead of the blood-red foliage or Shining-esque ghost-white branches
President-elect Biden, set to be inaugurated in January, previously served as vice president under Obama from 2009 to 2017. The pair are famously close friends, with Biden last year tweeting a picture of a friendship bracelet captioned “Happy #BestFriendsDay to my friend, @BarackObama.”
Egyptian police have detained a photographer for disrespect after he shot images of a dancer in ancient costume at the Pyramid of Djoser outside Cairo, a security source has confirmed. Rumours had circulated on social media that the model, Salma al-Shimi, had
Princess Diana struggled to adapt to Christmas with the Royal Family. This was especially reflected in the amount of times royals are expected to change outfits on the big day. It is something Diana has been said to have found overwhelming. Former royal butler Paul Burrell,
A no-deal Brexit at the end of 2020 would deliver a “serious” short-term hit to the UK economy and produce a “strongly negative” effect on trade, productivity and jobs in the long term, the OECD has warned. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said that disruption from failure to
