“Changed the Game” is a Yahoo Sports series dedicated to the women who are often overlooked, under-appreciated or simply deserve more flowers for their contributions to women’s sports history. WHM What’s it like to make history and have everyone forget about it immediately? Wyomia Tyus knows. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Tyus
Month: March 2021
An Indonesian volcano erupted on Tuesday, sending clouds of ash up to 5km (3.1 miles) into the sky. Located in North Sumatra, Mount Sinabung first erupted in 2010 after being inactive for centuries, and has seen an increase in its activity over the last year. There are no reported injuries but locals have been advised
Footage released by the US defence department shows Iranian ballistic missiles hitting Iraq’s Al Asad air base on 8 January 2020. No US military personnel stationed at the base were killed, but more than 100 were later diagnosed with what the Pentagon called “mild traumatic brain injuries”, which can include concussions. Iran targeted Al Asad
Award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus found out he was deaf when he was six, while illustrator Polly Dunbar’s hearing started to go in her twenties. Can Bear Ski? is their first picture book for children and follows a little bear as he discovers he is deaf. Raymond decided to write the story after being a poet
A Palestinian DJ is facing a court hearing in the coming weeks, after being accused of breaking rules around performing near a holy shrine in the West Bank last year. Sama’ Abdulhadi, sometimes know as the ‘Queen of Techno’, was jailed for eight days over the event. Her arrest by Palestinian police has been criticised
Warning – this article contains an image that some people may find distressing Leading Irish trainer Gordon Elliott has been temporarily banned from racing in Britain after being pictured sitting on a dead horse. Elliott, 43, has apologised after the photograph circulated on social media. The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has started an investigation
Catalan police say they have made four arrests after searching the offices of Spanish side Barcelona. The identity of those involved have not yet been confirmed by police, who said their investigation is continuing. The police operation was conducted on Monday after an investigation into financial issues at Barcelona. The club’s presidential elections take place
It has previously described its response – which staff and union organisers have said include mandatory meetings and anti-union fliers throughout the warehouse, among other measures – as providing “education, about a step it says could lead union members being charged $500 in dues without a guarantee of better pay or other benefits.
The reality TV series, which began in the UK before spin-offs launched elsewhere in the world, sees a group of men and women living in a villa isolated from the outside world. They couple up and take part in challenges to win the support of the voting public and ultimately compete for the cash prize.
Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) have expressed their concerns about US President Joe Biden’s administration. CPAC is the country’s largest meeting of conservative activists and politicians, and usually gives insight into the direction of the Republican Party. Donald Trump gave his first speech since leaving the White House at the conference on
(Illustration by Michael Wagstaffe/Yahoo Sports) In 1952, the Boston Braves purchased the Negro League contract of Henry Aaron from the Indianapolis Clowns, a transaction that set the stage for baseball history. Aaron would make his MLB debut with the Braves two seasons later, 23 years before he retired with the most revered record in American
According to Saudi prosecutors, Khashoggi was forcibly restrained after a struggle and injected with a large amount of a drug, resulting in an overdose that led to his death. His body was then dismembered and handed over to a local “collaborator” outside the consulate, prosecutors said. The remains were never found.
As an image of a young Prince Harry with his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, is shown, he continued: “Because I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like for her going through this process by herself all those years ago because it has been unbelievably tough for the two of us
In the city of Taiz, Yemen, hundreds of children arrive for lessons each day in the ruins of a school near to front-line fighting between the government and Houthi rebels. Ahmed, a nine-year-old boy who has been blind since birth, steps in to take classes when the teachers can’t make it. One in every five
But he said: “If I shrink back from something it’s because I would doubt my ability to be able to learn enough about it, to write fairly about it. But, you know, I tend to be quite arrogant about my ability to learn about things, if I put my mind to it.”