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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe barbers offering haircuts in defiance of lockdown rulesThirty barber shops in Kent have been ordered to cease trading after a BBC investigation found businesses offering haircuts during lockdown. Trading standards issued prohibition notices to premises suspected of breaking legislation intended to halt the spread of coronavirus.It…
By Chris Jones BBC rugby union correspondent World Rugby has commissioned research into the amount of direct contact players have with each other during matchesWorld Rugby’s executive committee will consider recommendations this week that could help significantly reduce the risk of coronavirus in the sport. Measures such as limiting face-to-face contact, reducing time in scrums…
Image copyright Getty Images Of the many details about travel plans, eye tests, and drives made at Dominic Cummings’s Rose Garden press conference on Monday, one thing stood out to me that does matter, and will matter well beyond the future of one adviser.One of the absolutely core issues in assessing the government’s early performance…
Image copyright EPA Image caption The EPFL institute in Lausanne has helped develop the Swiss contact-tracing app The team developing Switzerland’s coronavirus contact-tracing app says it has become the first to have launched a product incorporating a technology provided by Apple and Google.Members of the Swiss army, hospital workers and civil servants can now install…
26 May From the section Celtic Eboue Kouassi struggled to make an impact at Celtic following his £2.8m move from KrasnodarEboue Kouassi has left Celtic to sign a three-year contract with Racing Genk, according to the Belgian club.The 22-year-old Ivorian midfielder moved to Genk on loan in January until the end of the season, with…
Marcus Rashford injured his back in the FA Cup third round replay against Wolves in JanuaryManchester United pair Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba will be available for selection when the Premier League season resumes, says manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.Striker Rashford and midfielder Pogba were both out with long-term injuries when the campaign was suspended because…
Hong Kong’s leader defended China’s moves to impose sweeping national security laws in the territory amid renewed protests and growing international concern over what it would mean for the city’s future autonomy. Local residents support the planned legislation, Chief Executive Carrie Lam asserted in a weekly briefing Tuesday, while rejecting criticism from foreign governments. She…
Stanley Ho, a onetime kerosene trader who built a casino empire in Macau that propelled the Chinese island past Las Vegas as the world’s biggest gambling hub, has died at age 98, local media reported. Known as the King of Gambling, Ho dominated gaming in the former Portuguese colony after winning a monopoly license in…
Creators can be cagey about the sources of their ideas, but there’s nothing mysterious about the genesis of Steve Carell and Greg Daniels’ new comedy. The development team at Netflix got wind of President Trump’s plans to create an independent branch of the military called Space Force, decided it would make a good premise for…
(ATHENS, Greece) — A convicted serial rapist released early from a half-century prison term was under police guard in hospital on the Greek resort island of Corfu Monday after suffering severe injuries trying to evade arrest on new rape charges. Police said Dimitris Aspiotis, 47, would undergo surgery for severe back and leg injuries he…