Last updated on 1 hour ago1 hour ago.From the section Olympics Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. “We
Month: July 2021
Reuters Boris Johnson believes the UK will see a “steady” economic recovery post-pandemic, but he warned there would be “bumps on the road” in the next year. Speaking to LBC, the PM said job numbers were “increasing”, but a “cautious approach” was needed. It comes as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it expected UK
Getty Images The former drummer of US heavy metal band Slipknot, Joey Jordison, has died at the age of 46. In a statement, Jordison’s family said he passed away peacefully in his sleep. They did not reveal his cause of death, but said his passing had left them with “empty hearts and feelings of indescribable
Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles has withdrawn from
TOKYO — The last person to beat Simone Biles in the all-around competition at a gymnastics meet remembers almost nothing about it. “Oh, gosh,” Kyla Ross said with a laugh. “It’s been so long.” Exactly eight years ago, eight years before Biles pulled out of the team final at the Tokyo Olympics to prioritize her
Getty Images Senior cabinet ministers are to discuss allowing fully vaccinated travellers from the EU and US to avoid quarantine when they arrive in England. A review of the rules is due by 31 July – the second date in the Department for Transport’s plan for a safe return to international travel. Sources said the
Getty Images Canadian police say they have spent over a decade investigating abuse allegations at a former residential school for indigenous children. The government-funded Fort Alexander school in Manitoba was one of dozens of such institutions founded to forcibly assimilate indigenous children. For years, activists and survivors have alleged systematic abuse at the school, which
Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. American gymnast Simone Biles was praised for prioritising “mental wellness over all
A police officer who defended the US Capitol during a riot by Donald Trump supporters on 6 January has said he feared he would be crushed by the mob. “This is how I’m going to die,” a tearful Aquilino Gonell told a Congressional committee as an inquiry opened into the Washington DC attack. Another officer,
TOKYO — Simone Biles had already given up on the idea of opening the Olympic team competition with a Yurchenko double pike, the kind of eye-popping, high-scoring, highlight-reel entrance that intimidates opponents, entices sponsors and wins golds. She didn’t have it. Not tonight. She knew that much. She was in her head. Deep, she said.
A Georgia man charged with shooting dead eight people in three Atlanta-area spas in March has pleaded guilty to murdering four of the victims. Robert Aaron Long made the plea as part of an agreement with state prosecutors. They have recommended a sentence of four life terms without parole. However, they are seeking the death
Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. Simone Biles pulled out of the gymnastics women’s team final at Tokyo
Getty Images Tesco is offering lorry drivers a £1,000 joining bonus amid a chronic shortage of drivers in the industry. The supermarket giant has deployed the recruitment incentive for candidates who join before 30 September. Other companies are also understood to be offering similar incentives for HGV drivers after disruption to supply chains led to
Staff and councillors in Lambeth presided over a “culture of cover-up” that led to more than 700 children in care homes suffering cruelty and sexual abuse, an inquiry has found. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse strongly criticised the south London council for allowing decades of abuse in five homes. It said abusers were
PA Media Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to cut crime by tackling drug misuse and using electronic tagging on more burglars after release. The government is also proposing that every neighbourhood in England and Wales should have a named police officer for residents to contact. Mr Johnson said his efforts to make society safer
Felix Wong/South China Morning Post Getty Images The first person to be charged under Hong Kong’s controversial national security law has been found guilty in a landmark ruling. Tong Ying-kit was convicted of inciting secession and terrorism after riding a motorbike into police and flying a flag calling for Hong Kong’s “liberation”. More than 100
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