Each week during the 2021 season, we’ll examine our NFL draft steal of the week — a younger player whose NFL success has surpassed where he was drafted. We’ll try to look back at the why and how of where they were selected and what we thought of that prospect prior to the draft. Cincinnati
Month: December 2021
EPA US President Joe Biden is set to hold talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin for the second time this month, in a bid to de-escalate tensions over Ukraine. The two leaders will speak by phone on Thursday. They will discuss forthcoming security talks between the countries and the situation in Europe, a White House official
Reuters NHS workers must be given priority for accessing lateral flow Covid-19 tests, professional health bodies say. The British Medical Association and Royal College of Nursing said health staff should come first for the rapid tests to ease staffing issues. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said ministers expect they will need to “constrain” supply for two
Getty Images Confederate monuments taken down in Richmond, Virginia, will likely be moved to a black history museum and cultural centre, officials have said. An imposing statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee that was removed in September is expected to be among the monuments being transferred. Memorials to leaders of the pro-slavery, Confederate states
Reuters The BBC says an interview with lawyer Alan Dershowitz after the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell did not meet its editorial standards. Maxwell was found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by late US financier Jeffrey Epstein. Mr Dershowitz used to be a lawyer for Epstein and has himself been
Getty Images Tens of thousands of people awoke on Christmas morning to a surprise from an unexpected benefactor – Santander. The bank mistakenly deposited £130m into 75,000 accounts on 25 December. Santander’s staff are now rushing to claw back the money, although the job is being made more difficult because much of it was deposited
Getty Images A woman who gave key evidence in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial hopes the verdict will bring “solace” to other survivors. “I am so relieved and grateful,” said Annie Farmer, the only witness to use her real name during her testimony. “I hope this verdict… demonstrates that no one is above the law.”
Getty Images Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. A US jury convicted her of five out of six charges, but the legal process is not over for Maxwell, 60, who is yet to be sentenced and faces a
Getty Images Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of grooming teenagers for abuse by Jeffrey Epstein. What are the implications for her former friend Prince Andrew? The guilty verdict comes as lawyers for the senior royal prepare to go to the same court in Manhattan, New York, to defend him against a damages claim brought by
A group of children in Portugal are using human rights law to force European politicians to tackle climate change. After seeing the damage caused by wildfires in their home country of Portugal, André Oliviera, his sister Sofia and their friends are determined to make sure that leaders who pledged to reduce harmful emissions are forced
Misinformation about the Covid pandemic and climate change is slowing an effective collective response to these emergencies. BBC Monitoring’s experts Shayan Sardarizadeh and Kayleen Devlin explain the misinformation trends they have seen in 2021 and the effects they have had on lives around the world. Video produced by Suniti Singh
PA Media Coronavirus “surge hubs” are to be set up at hospitals across England in preparation for a potential wave of Omicron admissions, the NHS has said. The eight temporary “Nightingale” units will each house about 100 patients, with building starting this week. There are also plans to identify sites for a further 4,000 beds
Pool/ Reuters Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein. The 60-year-old was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced – including the most serious charge, that of sex trafficking of a minor. The verdict was reached
Getty Images She was the toast of high society in London and New York. Now Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of grooming and trafficking underage girls. After learning to serve her crooked father’s whims, she then did the same for another tyrant, Jeffrey Epstein. Ghislaine Maxwell was born on Christmas Day 1961. Three days later,
Reuters The first time I saw Ghislaine Maxwell, I followed her from the door of her luxurious brownstone down the streets of Manhattan, asking her about the horrific allegations against her. Nearly a decade later, I saw her for the final time, in court and no longer able to run away from the truth about
September 23, 1979 turned out to be a pretty significant date in NFL history, especially because of a single game — New Orleans Saints at San Francisco 49ers — whose action has long been forgotten. That was the day John Madden first called an NFL game on TV. It’s on YouTube (most of it anyway),
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