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No EFL games have been played since elite football in England was suspended on 13 MarchThe government should offer financial help to struggling English Football League clubs in exchange for a minority shareholding, a new report suggests.Former Digital, Culture, Media and Sport chair Damian Collins MP outlined his proposals on Friday with Sunderland shareholder Charlie…
The first minister has been setting out how people will be able to meet up when lockdown starts easing.Nicola Sturgeon said that travelling further afield to visit relatives outdoors would be allowed as restrictions are lifted – with Phase One set to start from the end of May.But Ms Sturgeon urged people to use their…
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events. Show more China’s ruling Communist Party has set in motion a controversial national security law for Hong Kong, a move seen as a major blow to the city’s freedoms. The law to ban “treason, secession, sedition and subversion” could bypass Hong Kong’s lawmakers. Hong Kong’s leader…
Image caption Alice, not her real name, watches the sentencing on Skype A woman who was systematically abused as a child by a world-renowned music director has gone from “despair to hope” after seeing him finally jailed.Jonathan Smith, 57, abused her in Lewes, East Sussex, in the 1980s and early 1990s.He was found guilty of…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A church service in Tanzania – with no social distancing Tanzanian President John Magufuli has said the number of coronavirus patients in hospitals is declining, although the government has not released data on infection rates for many weeks. The president has repeatedly downplayed the risk of the pandemic, causing…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Oxford study is seeking 500 NHS staff within the Aneurin Bevan Health Board Scientists developing a vaccine against Covid-19 are seeking 500 volunteers from among NHS workers in south east Wales to take part in trials.The first stage of the Oxford researchers’ trials began in April and with…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Mory Kanté was of one West Africa’s best-known musicians The singer Mory Kanté, who helped bring African music to world audiences with hits like Yéké Yéké, has died in Guinea.Kanté died in hospital on Friday in the capital, Conakry, aged 70, his son Balla Kanté told the AFP news agency.…
Chinese authorities announced on Thursday plans to bypass Hong Kong’s legislature to enact a national security law that pro-democracy campaigners say is aimed at cracking down on dissent in the city. A motion to enable the drafting of the law—which targets secession, sedition, terrorism and foreign interference in Hong Kong—was brought before the National People’s…
Visitors take a ‘selfie’ photograph on the roof garden of the Terasse Rouge winery and restaurant beside the vineyards at Chateau La Dominique in Pomerol, France, on Sept. 23, 2019 Balint Porneczi—Bloomberg/Getty Images In the hills outside of Bordeaux, where lines of vineyards create geometric patterns across the landscape, winemakers have been carefully growing and…
