Sacked Chelsea manager Tuchel’s last act may prove to be Blues’ turning point to greatness again
Thomas Tuchel’s final act as Chelsea manager could turn out to be an absolute masterstroke. The axed Chelsea boss signed his former player from Borussia Dortmund, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, just days before owner Todd Boehly gave him the boot. Eyebrows were raised when the Blues signed the 33-year-old, and even more...
Legal fight and environmentalists campaign in US to protect tiny snail darter helps define fish
The snail darter, a tiny South-eastern fish that derailed a federal dam during an epic battle over Endangered Species Act protection in the 1970s, is no longer considered imperilled, officials have announced. The fish held up construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee for more than two years as biologists...
Give me my pint! Only sociopaths prefer virtual meetings that are skimmed of nuances of human interactions
Globalisation in today’s business world is rapid and inescapable. As a result, many projects these days involve geographically dispersed teams comprised of members from a wide variety of countries and cultures. While language barriers, decision-making style and time zones are well-recognised challenges, the positive benefits of global teams continue to...
High cost of living online: Social media use is associated with high risk of anxiety and depression
To be online is to be constantly exposed. While it may seem normal, it’s a level of exposure we’ve never dealt with before as human beings. We’re posting on Twitter, and people we’ve never met are responding with their thoughts and criticisms. People are looking at your latest Instagram selfie....
Africa pushes for tenfold increase in climate funding to the continent from industrialised nations
Amid failed promises of climate funds to a continent that contributes the least to climate change yet suffers the greatest devastation, climate activists are pushing for more: a tenfold increase in climate funding commitments to Africa from the West’s 2009 $100 billion figure to $1.3 trillion. These calls were made...
N’Golo Kante to leave Chelsea for free as club owners stall contract extension talks
Chelsea risk losing one of the world’s best defensive midfielders for nothing in the summer after talks with N’Golo Kante over a contract extension stalled. Manager Graham Potter is not getting involved in the negotiations, although he has said that any team would ‘suffer’ if they lost Kante, whose deal...
United Kingdom doctors discover new blood group after baby dies of brain haemorrhage
The unborn baby was in trouble. Its mother’s doctors, at a UK hospital, knew there was something wrong with the foetus’s blood, so they decided to perform an emergency C-section many weeks before the baby was due. But despite this, and subsequent blood transfusions, the baby suffered a brain haemorrhage...
Russian troops battered as Ukraine’s counter-offensive destroys 31 Russian tanks
Ukraine’s counter-offensive was gaining fresh momentum on Tuesday after its forces recaptured territory and destroyed dozens of Russian tanks to achieve an important new breakthrough in the south of the country. Several settlements were recaptured as Ukrainian troops advanced towards the southern city of Kherson in a success that also...
‘Lonely, married men with low education are more prone to type 2 diabetes than women’
Researchers from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences have found that feelings of loneliness are linked to a significantly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The 20-year follow-up study, published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes , used data from the Trøndelag...
Somalia says it’s killed a senior al Shaabab leader in joint operation to flush out militias
Somalia’s government says it has killed Abdullahi Nadir, one of the co-founders of the armed group al-Shabab, in an operation with international partners. The country’s information ministry said in a statement late on Sunday that the operation that killed Nadir happened on Saturday. It said he was al-Shabab’s chief prosecutor...
