Shunned and stunned: Man United faithful furious Red Devils boss Ten Hag snubbed from Premier Manager of the Year list
The candidates who made the six-man shortlist are Mikel Arteta, Pep Guardiola, Eddie Howe, Roberto De Zerbi, Unai Emery and Marco Silva. However, the Red Devils are to be on course, barring any further slip-ups, to achieve a top-four finish.
Pundits rate Man City’s first 45 minutes vs Madrid best ever by an English club in Champions League
Dressed in his turtle-neck and blazer, Guardiola turned to the crowd and whirred his arms around and asked for noise. It came at 0-0 when Rodri had just gone close with a shot across goal and the noise levels went up. City fans can be accused of being quiet, but not on evenings like this.
Champions League: How Pep Guardiola’s hounds turned Real Madrid into dinner before raucous Manchester crowd
After the match, Man City manager Pep Guardiola revealed how the Noisy Cityzens achieved the feat. He said, “We spoke just before we went to the pitch. We said, ‘Do you want to play against Inter or not? Do you want to play against Inter? Ask yourself. If you play 90 minutes thinking, I want to play against Inter, you will beat Madrid.’ They played in that spirit.”
New report accuses Big Pharma of ‘rampant corporate lawlessness’ that cost Americans $40b in 2019
The report highlights 10 illegal anticompetitive schemes that US pharmaceutical companies deploy to juice their profits and keep prices high, including horizontal collusion, patent fraud, no-generics agreements and sham citizen petitions aimed at convincing regulators to delay approval of potential competitor drugs.
‘Dogs are better suited for cancer studies than lab mice as they’re exposed to similar living environments as humans’
Dogs also respond to treatments in similar ways to humans, as several clinical studies in recent years have shown. In 2019, scientists at Colorado State University completed a trial of 28 dogs with osteosarcoma that had spread to the lungs. In addition to a commercially available cancer drug, they prescribed the dogs a common blood pressure drug, losartan, which acts on the immune system by blocking the recruitment of a type of white blood cell that stimulates tumour growth.
Artificial Intelligence is dangerous to humanity’s future and civilisation, new poll finds
When it came to religious beliefs, Evangelical Christians were more likely to “strongly agree” that AI presents risks to humanity, standing at 32 per cent compared to 24 per cent of non-Evangelical Christians.
America: A nation built on loneliness, where millions struggle in the shadows to find a shoulder to lean on
Perhaps many Americans are alone in a crowd, awash in a sea of voices both physical and virtual yet by themselves much of the time, seeking community but suspicious of it. Some of the modernising forces that stitched the United States together in the first place – commerce, communication, roads – are, in their current forms, part of what isolates people today.
Democrats and Republicans sound optimistic of sealing debt ceiling deal as US President Biden cuts Asia trip short
Democratic President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy edged closer to a deal to avoid a looming US debt default on Tuesday, as the threat of an economic nightmare prompted Biden to cut short a trip to Asia this week. After an hour of talks, McCarthy, the speaker...
Sudan’s army and paramilitary intensify fighting as capital is rocked by airstrikes, artillery fire
Fighting has surged both in Khartoum and in Geneina, capital of West Darfur, since the two warring parties began talks in Jeddah brokered by Saudi Arabia and the United States more than a week ago.
Proxy war: Identities of foreign actors in Sudan conflict surface as military factions get support
Military rivals locked in a conflict that erupted in Sudan on April 15 both courted foreign backing in the years leading up to the fighting. That support could now influence the course of the power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support...
