When the Chicago Bears lost on Oct. 1, the talk wasn’t about Matt Eberflus being head coach in 2024. It was if he’d last until Halloween. The Bears are proud of the fact that they’ve never fired a coach during the season. That likely changed the entire landscape of the franchise going forward. Eberflus is
Month: December 2023
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II announced her surprise abdication in a new year TV address on Sunday evening. The 83-year-old is the longest-serving living monarch in Europe, having taken the throne after the death of her father King Frederik IX in 1972. Here’s a look at her half-century reign in pictures. Getty Images Getty Images Getty
Keld Navntoft By Jacqueline Howard & Oliver Slow BBC News Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II has announced her surprise abdication in a new year TV address. She will abdicate on 14 January, which will be 52 years to the day since she became queen. “I will leave the throne to my son, Crown Prince Frederik,” she
Family handout By Harrison Jones BBC News A British skier and her 22-year-old son killed in an avalanche in France have been named. The family of Kate Vokes, 54, and Archie Vokes say they are “beyond heartbroken” by the “tragic accident”. The pair, from Manchester, died when an avalanche swept through an off-piste area near
Riverside Police Department By Adam Durbin BBC News Police in the US searching for a missing Chinese exchange student, initially feared kidnapped, have said he could in fact be camping. Kai Zhuang, 17, was last seen on Wednesday at his host family’s home in the town of Riverdale in Utah. Police originally said it is
Reuters By Adam Durbin BBC News The US Navy has destroyed Houthi “small boats” attempting to board a container ship in the Red Sea. Four vessels from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen fired upon the Maersk Hangzhou and got to within metres of the ship, the US military said. Helicopters from nearby US warships responded to
EPA By George Wright BBC News Ukraine is again under attack by Russian drones, officials say, after two days of major aerial assaults by both sides. There are reports of explosions in Kyiv and Kharkiv, where the mayor said residential buildings were on fire. Moscow has been retaliating against Ukrainian strikes on the Russian border
Getty Images By Dharshini David Chief economics correspondent BBC News Rising prices, stagnant incomes, and flatlining growth raising fears of recession: 2023 was tough. But with a pre-Christmas surprise drop in inflation, will the dawning of 2024 – likely to be an all-important election year – ring in a brighter, less pressured phase? And how
Reuters American bully XL dogs in England and Wales must be kept on a lead and muzzled in public now that a new law has come into effect. Breeding, selling or abandoning them is also illegal as of New Year’s Eve. Owners who want to keep their bully XL after an outright ban comes into
Adama Jalloh/British Vogue When Ellie Goldstein was born in December 2001, doctors said she would never be able to walk or talk due to having Down’s syndrome. She soon proved them wrong. Ellie went on to make history as the first model with the condition to feature on the front cover of Vogue. Now aged
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock By Chris Mason, political editor BBC News In the blizzard of guesswork about politics in the coming year, there’s a fact as solid as a lump of coal at the bottom of your Christmas stocking. The election campaign has to begin in 2024, and it looks likely it will end, with the election itself,
As the world enters a new year, the war in Ukraine also grinds into another year. Many Russians are still willing to believe the Kremlin’s narrative that the West is to blame for the war – but what are their thoughts on the future? The BBC’s Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, one of the few remaining
Reuters By Harrison Jones BBC News Eurostar has said it will run all services to London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam on Sunday following a day of major disruption. New Year plans for thousands were in ruins after flooding in a tunnel under the River Thames led to the cancellation of all Eurostar services between London
Getty Images By Jacqueline Howard BBC News American singer and dancer Paula Abdul is suing British television executive heavyweight Nigel Lythgoe over alleged sexual assault. Ms Abdul’s lawsuit claims multiple instances of assault while the pair worked together on American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance. Mr Lythgoe was an executive producer of
Getty Images British actor Tom Wilkinson, known for films like The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, has died suddenly aged 75. Wilkinson won a Bafta for 1997’s The Full Monty, and reprised the role of Gerald when a Disney+ streaming series revisited the characters 26 years on. He received
Reuters Ukraine has carried out a series of deadly air strikes on targets in south-west Russia over the past 24 hours, according to Russian officials. Latest reports say four people have been killed in Belgorod and Bryansk – with children among the victims. The Russian defence ministry also said it had destroyed dozens of missiles
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