BBC News Despite some rain in the forecast in the coming week, it will not be enough to end drought conditions. When rain falls in the summer months, high daytime temperatures can mean that the water quickly evaporates away from the soil. Meanwhile, a series of quick downpours such as heavy summer showers or thunderstorms […]
BBC News Sainsbury’s has agreed to sell Argos for £120m as the supermarket chain aims to focus on its core food business. The buyer, Swift Partners, is a company which has been created to buy the brand and includes former Co-operative Group boss Richard Pennycook. Under the terms of the deal, Argos will still operate […]
BBC News Franco Baresi has died at the age of 66, with AC Milan saying their former captain’s “example and integrity will be forever etched into the club’s DNA”. Baresi spent his entire 20-year playing career with the club from 1977 until he retired in 1997, winning six Serie A titles and three European Cups/Champions […]
BBC News A British man has been arrested on suspicion of spying on a UK military base in Cyprus on behalf of the Iranian military. Rashad Sultanov, 44, of Islington, north London, is accused of carrying out “hostile surveillance” on RAF Akrotiri and sharing information with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Sultanov, who also holds […]
BBC News An 81-year-old whose “cruel” carer was jailed after being caught on camera abusing her cannot be left alone because she is “traumatised,” her daughter has said. Louise Harris was given a three-month sentence after CCTV filmed her drunkenly screaming “I hope you die in your sleep… you horrible cow” at Elizabeth Anne Shipton […]
Digital Trends Samsung has largely stuck with traditional designs for its Galaxy Buds lineup over the years, with the bean-shaped Galaxy Buds Live standing out as the one truly radical departure. But that appears to be changing, as Samsung experiments with designs its rivals have embraced for years. Just a day after leaked renders offered […]
Digital Trends Just a few days after it was revealed that ChatGPT hacked multiple services, Anthropic has also published an uncomfortable admission. During routine cybersecurity testing, its Claude models broke out of what were supposed to be sealed-off practice environments and ended up hacking into the real systems of three different companies. So what actually […]
BBC News Rosanna Pedrollo spent half a century working for Brescia, first joining the club’s administration department in 1968 – she met De Zerbi’s father, Alfredo, in the early 1980s through his work coordinating the supporters’ clubs. “He was always around in those days,” Pedrollo tells BBC Sport. “He organised the away trips, knew which […]
BBC News David Gray has gone from being slated to serenaded by Hibernian fans in the space of seven days. Make no mistake, the head coach was under pressure after his side’s torrid display in Kosovo last week. Supporters who had travelled to eastern Europe made it abundantly clear what they thought of their team’s […]
