Age just a number: Better remuneration, diet and lifestyle change makes playing past 30 years a new normal
One of the big anomalies of this summer’s transfer window has been the amount of money spent on what are perceived to be ‘older’ players. Whether it’s the reportedly boracic Barcelona dropping £40 million on the 33-year old Robert Lewandowski, Lionel Messi still plodding along for PSG at the ripe...
Doctors in US say President Biden may have contracted highly contagious variant of Covid
President Joe Biden may have contracted a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly through the United States, and now has body aches and a sore throat since his positive test, according to an update from his doctor on Saturday. The variant, known as BA.5, is an offshoot of...
Black market arms traffickers said to be plotting divert Western weapon shipments to Ukraine
Criminal gangs are plotting to intercept Western weapons supplies sent to Ukraine to sell on the black market, a security source has claimed. Approximately £7 billion ($8.4 billion) of military aid has been sent to the country to help fight off the Russian invasion, including hi-tech British anti-tank rockets. Higher-grade...
We are fighting against two armies: Rwanda and Uganda – army commander says of situation in Congo
Aid officials in eastern the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they have limited funding to support recently displaced people and that insecurity has disrupted their operations. “For 2022, we appealed for 1.8 billion dollars, we received barely 20 per cent of this amount,” says Joseph Inganji, head of...
Aid agencies in eastern DR Congo overstretched as M23 and other rebel groups spring back to life
The return of a long dormant rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is overstretching an underfunded humanitarian relief operation and piling hardship onto communities that are already contending with dozens of other armed insurgencies. For several months, the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group has fought Congolese...
