Best Fifa Awards 2022: Sarina Wiegman and Alexia Putellas win major women’s honours
Earps, who plays for Manchester United in the Women’s Super League, started all six of England’s games at Euro 2022 as they won the competition. The 29-year-old kept four clean sheets and let in just two goals and was named in the team of the tournament. She also recently became the first goalkeeper to keep […]
Can the UK’s race to space take off?
Spaceport Cornwall This rocket will deliver satellites into orbit – the first time this has happened from British soil The first-ever orbital rocket launch from British soil is set to blast off on Monday, marking the start of the UK’s race to space. The ambition is to turn the country into a global player in […]
France’s boom city Toulouse shaken by pandemic
Getty Images Toulouse is France’s fourth largest city and is synonymous with the aerospace industry As you head up the motorway from the Mediterranean to Toulouse, there is a big sign outside the city that shows an aircraft and orbiting satellites and the words in bold letters: “Toulouse, capital of the aerospace industry.” Until Covid-19 […]
Will fingerprint data point Taliban to targets?
Getty Images A US solider collects biometric information from a villager in 2012 “We would go into villages and enrol people into this biometric data system,” US Marine Special Operations Command veteran Peter Kiernan recalls. “You had a device about 12 inches by six inches wide. It would scan their fingerprints, it would scan their […]
Iran lied about banned nuclear activity using stolen documents
EPA Iran has accused Israel of fabricating evidence Israel’s prime minister says Iran used documents stolen from the global atomic watchdog to help conceal that it was carrying out banned nuclear activity. In a video, Naftali Bennett said Iran “lied to the world and Iran is lying to the world again right now.” He showed […]
Strade Bianche: Mathieu van der Poel and Chantal van den Broek-Blaak claim Dutch double
Mathieu van der Poel completed a Netherlands double in Strade Bianche after Chantal van den Broek-Blaak had earlier won the women’s race in Siena. Van der Poel, 26, punched clear on the final climb to win by five seconds from world champion Julian Alaphilippe. Ex-Tour de France winner Egan Bernal was third with Ineos Grenadiers […]
How plastic became a victim of its own success
Getty Images Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, the world’s first first fully synthetic plastic “Unless I am very much mistaken, this invention will prove important in the future.” Leo Baekeland wrote those words in his journal on 11 July, 1907. He was in a good mood. Aged 43, he’d done well. Born in Belgium, his dad […]
Trial to test if GM fed salmon are more nutritious
BBC News The level of omega-3 in farmed salmon has halved Researchers in the Highlands of Scotland are giving farmed salmon feed made from genetically modified crops. The aim of the scientific trial is to increase the nutritional value of the fish. The feed is rich in healthy fish oils, which the team hope will […]
Top Chinese language writer dies in apparent suicide
Getty Images Chiung Yao, arguably the world’s most popular Chinese language romance novelist, has died in an apparent suicide. The 86-year-old’s body was found in her home in New Taipei City on Wednesday, local media report. Emergency services said she took her own life, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency. Chiung Yao started writing at […]
UK death toll Europe’s worst, and adviser quits
Getty Images The UK’s death toll is now higher than Italy’s, and second only to the US The news that more people with Covid-19 have died in Britain than in any other European country makes the front of several newspapers. “From bad to worst,” is the headline in the Daily Mirror, which says ministers are […]