EPA US sportswear giant Nike says it stopped working with Brazilian footballer Neymar because he “refused to co-operate in a good faith investigation” into an allegation of sexual assault against an employee. The alleged incident happened in 2016 and was reported to Nike in 2018. Nike said its investigation was inconclusive. A spokeswoman for Neymar
Month: May 2021
Matt Hancock has denied lying about protecting care homes from Covid after claims made by the PM’s ex-chief aide. Dominic Cummings said No 10 was assured all patients sent from hospital to care homes would be tested first, but later found out they were not. The health secretary said he did commit to that, but
Getty Images Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for participating in an unauthorised assembly in 2019. Lai, 73, is currently already serving time for participating in other demonstrations that year. He will serve part of his new sentence consecutively, meaning Mr Lai faces a total of
Getty Images Black Lives Matter’s co-founder says she is resigning from its foundation, but not because of what she called right-wing attempts to discredit her. Patrisse Cullors said Friday would be her last day at the foundation, which she has led for nearly six years. The 37-year-old activist’s finances came under scrutiny last month after
Zara Slattery’s illness started as a sore throat, but she was eventually fighting for her life as a flesh-eating bug attacked her body. The artist, from Brighton, was placed in a medical coma for over a fortnight and her husband was told to prepare for the worst. Ms Slattery recovered but lost a leg, and
Getty Images Russia has denied entry to two European airlines because they planned to avoid flying over Belarus to get to Moscow. Air France and Austrian Airlines have both had to cancel services after their flight plans were rejected by Russia. Some airlines are avoiding Belarusian airspace in protest after the government there forced a
EPA The UN Human Rights Council has voted to investigate violence in the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas. The body approved the resolution, brought by a group of Islamic countries, by 24 votes to nine. But the United States said the decision threatened to endanger progress in bringing calm to the region. At least
Up to three quarters of new UK Covid cases could be of the Indian variant, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. Public Health England data shows cases of the variant have risen by 3,535 to 6,959 since last week. Mr Hancock told a Downing Street briefing that the government had always expected cases to rise
Getty Images Amazon temporarily halted construction of a new US warehouse again after an eighth noose was found at the site. Construction stopped at the Windsor, Connecticut, warehouse for the second time within a week on Wednesday. Amazon said the site has since re-opened and it is working with officials on the investigation. The company
AFP French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Rwandans to forgive France for its role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died. Speaking at the genocide memorial in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, he said France had not heeded warnings of impending carnage and had for too long “valued silence
Reuters China has denounced US efforts to further investigate whether Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab. US President Joe Biden has called on intelligence officials to “redouble” their work to find out how the virus was first transmitted to humans. China’s foreign ministry accused the US of “political manipulation and blame shifting”. It has rejected
Pacemaker Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster has been awarded £125,000 in damages after a defamatory tweet by TV presenter Dr Christian Jessen. Dr Jessen tweeted an unfounded allegation that Mrs Foster had been having an extra-marital affair on 23 December 2019. The post remained online until Dr Jessen deleted it on 7 January 2020.
As cinemas open up after lockdown they are looking at ways to make as much money as possible following months of closure. One solution is renting screens to gamers, allowing people to play their favourite games on screens that would normally be playing Hollywood blockbusters. BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak finds out what it is like
For Anna Dudich, nothing will ever be the same again. Her daughter, Sofia Sapega, was on board Ryanair Flight 4978 from Athens to Vilnius when the plane was forcibly diverted to the capital of Belarus. Sofia and her boyfriend, the prominent opposition activist Roman Protasevich, were arrested on arrival in Minsk. “We are in such
Matt Hancock is due to face MPs a day after his handling of the pandemic was fiercely attacked by the prime minister’s former senior aide. Dominic Cummings described the health secretary as “completely incapable of doing the job” and said he “should have been fired” for lying. He criticised Mr Hancock over PPE shortages and
Ben Simmons is an athletic 6-foot-11, 240-pound point guard for the Philadelphia 76ers who can guard all five positions. If you were to sculpt an NBA player, the league’s No. 1 pick in 2016 would be a work of art. He is a 24-year-old three-time All-Star, about to be named to his second straight All-Defensive
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