Arsenal and After-My Story: Ex-Gunners’ midfielder’s memoir details how racism stalks Blacks in English sports
Paul Davis, an Arsenal midfielder who played almost 450 times for the club and swept the board with domestic honours, was one of English football’s black trailblasers. Having emerged from the club’s apprenticeship scheme at the start of the 1980s, Davis came of age during the height of English football’s...
Anti-Taliban revolt: Afghanistan’s shadowy new conflict sets off new displacement, new civilian abuses
Six months ago, Sadullah’s life changed forever. His family, including his eight children, had made do with life under the Taliban. That was until the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), an armed opposition movement, tried to wrest control from Taliban fighters in Panjshir, and their once-peaceful province became the...
At long last, some positives about Ronaldo: He’s the first man in history to score at five World Cups
It was always going to be about him. Even if it had been 90 minutes of unrelenting tedium, with no shots and no goals, he would have been the focus after what, by his own inimitable standards, has been an extraordinary week. But, this being Cristiano Ronaldo, there was always...
Over 48,000 academics at University of California strike for higher pay, protection against harassment
Research has ground to a halt across the University of California (UC) as tens of thousands of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and non-faculty academic staff members went on strike. Since November 14, around 48,000 academic workers across UC – which has 10 campuses and nearly 300,000 students — have stopped...
Qatar World Cup: Brazil’s stylish win against Serbia sends strong warning to dreamers of glory
The man who can’t get a start at Spurs showed exactly why it is he, not Neymar, who is the golden boy of Brazil to so many with an opening-game double. When you consider Neymar, Vinicius junior – remember him, Liverpool fans? – and Raphinha could have finished with at...
NASA announces its Orion spacecraft has reached the Moon, will now go farther from Earth and return in December
The Orion spacecraft swooped just 130 kilometres above the lunar surface on November 21, the closest a capsule designed to hold people has been to the Moon in half a century. In the lunar darkness the capsule, which launched as part of the Artemis I mission last week, flew directly...
UN, EAC forces start combing troubled eastern DR Congo to flush out rebels, restore normalcy
Hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have seen troops from two East Africa Community (EAC) countries deployed as part of a reaction force with resident UN peace mission troops conducting heightened patrols in provincial capital Goma. There is a South African military presence in the region with the...
Processed food stigma: Surveys suggest Chinese and Indians are more likely to eat lab-grown meat than Americans
To have a chance of meeting our global climate targets, ending deforestation and protecting the world’s wildlife, we need to eat much less meat. Both plant foods and meat substitutes have a much lower carbon footprint, use much less land and cause less water pollution than meat. The environmental toll...
Tech giant Apple lines up $7 billion Man United takeover that’d make Red Devils richest club
Apple are interested in a £6 billion ($7.2 billion) takeover of Manchester United in a deal that would make the Red Devils the richest club in the world. The California-based firm are the largest tech company in the world and could be set to add United to their portfolio as...
Hate or love it, processed food is here to stay if the world is going to feed 8 billion people
The stigma against processed food is growing, but there’s no way to sustainably feed eight billion people without it. Say “processed food” and most of us picture unhealthy, cheap junk. Fresh food straight from the garden or the field is good. Once we’ve put it through a processing plant or...
