Jan 9, 2023 Owen Farrell has been cited for a high tackle in Friday’s Premiership match between Saracens and Gloucester and if he is found guilty of foul play will face a ban that could rule him out of England’s Six Nations game against Scotland on Feb. 4. Farrell’s shoulder made contact with the jaw
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In this article 9984.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SoftBank has stopped working on a London initial public offering for chip designer Arm because of political upheaval in the British government, the Financial Times reported. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reportedly reopened negotiations with the CEOs of
The health secretary has announced the government will block-book beds in residential homes so around 2,500 people can be released from hospitals when they are medically fit to be discharged. Steve Barclay gave a statement to the Commons outlining the plans to help ease the “severe pressures” on the NHS – hours after his talks
Krisanapong Detraphiphat | Moment | Getty Images John Hultquist, vice president of intelligence analysis at Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant, likens his job to studying criminal minds through a soda straw. He monitors cyberthreat groups in real time on the dark web, watching what amounts to a free market of criminal innovation ebb and flow. Groups
Two Britons who were reported missing in Ukraine have been named. Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry, who are volunteers helping with civilian evacuation and humanitarian efforts in the war-torn Donetsk region, were reported missing by the area’s police department. ‘The whole ground is covered in corpses’ – Ukraine war latest The pair were last seen
Love Island has announced its first partially sighted contestant. Ron Hall, 25, a financial adviser from Essex, is one of the Islanders heading to a villa in South Africa for the ninth series – the first post-pandemic winter show. Hall, who lost his sight in one eye while playing football aged eight, says his injury
Piers Morgan has apologised to Ed Sheeran after hackers took control of his Twitter account and used it to send abusive Tweets. The media personality, 57, was temporarily locked out his account at the end of last month after being targeted by the hackers. His official account shared a series of posts containing false information,
Punk icon John Lydon is in the running to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest with his band, Public Image Ltd (PiL). The former Sex Pistols frontman, who formed PiL in 1978 following the groundbreaking band’s split, is among six acts competing for the Eurovision opportunity, with the winner to be chosen by a
Dame Vivienne Westwood’s family have said they are “deeply disappointed” permission has been denied for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to attend her funeral. The legendary fashion designer, who was a strong supporter of Assange, died at the age of 81 at the end of last month. Assange is being held in Belmarsh Prison in southeast
Caroline Flack’s former manager has called Prince Harry’s description of his relationship with the presenter in his memoir “disgusting” and “grotesque” and called for him to be stripped of his titles. Alex Mullen, the creative director of APM Media, who previously worked with Flack, said it was “absolutely gross” the royal had repeated “old long
Over two-thirds of women MPs have witnessed sexist behaviour in parliament over the last five years, according to a new report. The Fawcett Society said 69% had seen the conduct, and only 37% of women MPs agreed with the sentence “the culture in parliament is inclusive for people like me” – compared with 55% of
MPs have been accused of failing to provide “sufficient” transparency after a Sky News investigation struggled to uncover basic details about who is behind major donations. Among the top donors to individual politicians are companies where little detail was provided in the MPs’ declarations about who they are, who is in charge and where they
“Have I seen this somewhere before?” It’s a question teachers have had to ask themselves while marking assignments since time immemorial. But never mind students trawling through Wikipedia, or perusing SparkNotes for some Great Gatsby analysis, the backend of 2022 saw another challenge emerge for schools: ChatGPT. The online chatbot, which can generate realistic responses
Richard Branson has revealed a bizarre story about finding Elon Musk in the kitchen of his New Mexico house in the middle of the night before his first space flight. In an interview this weekend, Mr Branson said the Twitter and Tesla owner was completely barefoot, holding his fast-asleep baby X Æ A-12, and had
Two years after the death of music producer and convicted killer Phil Spector, a controversial bid to clear his name is understood to be under way. Widely lauded as a musical genius for his work with the likes of The Righteous Brothers, Tina Turner and The Beatles, Spector spent his final years in prison after
A former American defence intelligence analyst, who became a Cold War-era double agent and spied for Cuba, has been freed from jail. The Federal Bureau of Prisons website shows 65-year-old Ana Montes was released after 20 years of a quarter-of-a century sentence. During her time as an analyst, she admitted revealing the identities of four