BBC News Major League Soccer says it is investigating allegations of tampering by Inter Miami after the club signed Brazil midfielder Casemiro. On Wednesday, Miami announced they had signed the 34-year-old – who left Manchester United at the end of last season – on a deal that runs to the end of the 2027 MLS […]
BBC News The trial of ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is scheduled to begin on 1 June 2027, a New York judge ordered on Wednesday. US forces seized Maduro and Flores from their compound in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in a dramatic, night-time raid on 3 January, and brought them […]
BBC News A woman has been placed under formal investigation over the death last year in France of a British-South African mother-of-four. Karen Carter, 65, was found lying near her car with stab wounds by a friend in Trémolat, the Dordogne village where she had lived for over a decade and managed two holiday rental […]
BBC News Natalie Fleet says she has stepped down as safeguarding minister after finding the role “overwhelmingly triggering”, telling the BBC that it was making her ill. The Labour MP, who was groomed and raped as a teenager, added she told the team of new Prime Minister Andy Burnham that she “sadly couldn’t stay” in […]
BBC News The Louvre Museum in Paris reopened its Galerie d’Apollon (Gallery of Apollo) to visitors on Wednesday, nine months after jewellery worth millions was stolen in a brazen heist. But the gallery, which once housed France’s crown jewels, reopened without any on display. “This is an iconic space within the Louvre, but it will […]
BBC News The Hundred women’s competition, Utilita Bowl Southern Brave 127-6 (100 balls): Wolvaardt 45* (36); Graham 4-19 Welsh Fire 118-8 (100 balls): Voll 52 (39); Molineux 3-14 Southern Brave won by eight runs Scorecard. Table Southern Brave produced a remarkable fightback to begin their Hundred campaign with a hard-fought eight-run win against Welsh Fire […]
BBC News Rangers manager Derek McInnes has been given a four-game touchline ban, with one suspended, for describing as “disgusting” the decision to award Celtic a late penalty at Motherwell in May. The comments, made at the end of last season when McInnes was in charge of Hearts, related to a stoppage-time spot-kick for handball […]
BBC News To put it simply, the testing could help to combat micro-dosing. This is where tiny amounts of performance-enhancing drugs are ingested but are in and out of the rider’s system within a few hours, leaving only a short window for detection. If a rider knows they have a seven-hour window where they are […]
BBC News Lloyd’s of London’s former boss’s close relationship with another director breached compliance rules, the insurance market has said after an internal investigation. Former chief executive John Neal and former corporate affairs director Rebekah Clement’s relationship was “sufficiently close… that it could be viewed as creating a perceived conflict of interest”, the firm said. […]
BBC News New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who previously pledged to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the city, now says he does not have the “authority” to do so. In a video posted on social media, Mamdani instead called on US officials to act on the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for the […]
