What could a female director mean for Star Trek?
Getty Images Could Clarkson and Hemsworth be a dream team? SJ Clarkson is about to be catapulted into the big league if she becomes director of the next Star Trek film. The TV director is hotly tipped for the job by industry insiders including trade magazine Variety. And it’s already causing excitement among fans and […]
Netball World Cup 2019: ‘160,000 women take up sport after tournament’
“The Vitality Netball World Cup was an absolute whirlwind and a huge success,” said Joanna Adams, the former chief executive of England Netball, who departed the organisation after the tournament. “It was the best-sold Netball World Cup to date and we had 9,900 people register their interest to volunteer at the tournament, plus extensive press […]
How two rival crime families turned Glasgow into a ‘war zone’
Crown Office Detectives investigating five murder plots targeting Daniel family associates in 2016/17 found a haul of weapons in a lock-up garage On the afternoon of 6 December 2006, two men in a blue Mazda pulled up outside a garage in Lambhill, in the north of Glasgow. Raymond Anderson and James McDonald put on old […]
Ciudad Juarez: Murder, drugs and football on the Mexican border
Ciudad Juarez was the murder capital of the world. Between 2008 and 2011, a wave of brutal violence broke across this Mexican city of about 1.3 million people on the border with the United States. Thousands were killed as rival drug-trafficking cartels fought their battle for supremacy among the daily lives of ordinary citizens caught […]
Trump rings bell on record stock market
Getty Images Donald Trump stood on Wall Street on Thursday, a euphoric crowd of America’s business elite assembled before him, and hammered the bell to kick off morning stock market trading. The mood was celebratory. Not only had the president-elect just been named Time person of the year, but the stock market, already up strongly, […]
Jill Scott revisits her childhood team that produced three Lionesses
Looking back, Smith says the problem was there was no provision for girls’ football. “There was no league, the Football Association didn’t really provide anything,” he says. “The boys weren’t letting them play.” Smith did – and he can now reflect on seeing young players he coached go on to achieve international success. “I was […]
‘When I started boxing I was an angry little boy’
Getty Images London 2012 Olympics bronze medallist Anthony Ogogo shares his experience of growing up in Lowestoft, Suffolk Former boxer Anthony Ogogo was born to a white English mother and a black Nigerian father. Here in his own words, he reflects on his extraordinary journey from growing up in the UK’s most easterly point to […]
The anxious wait for life-changing drug decisions
Owen Mathias/MNDA Mike’s wife Jayne became his carer as his health deteriorated and he got his MND diagnosis When Mike Thomas first started receiving life-extending medication for his motor neurone disease, he described it as “a glimmer of hope”. Mr Thomas, 60, said his experience since being diagnosed with the degenerative condition in 2022 has […]
Why Trump will keep his Hollywood star
The aftermath of the pickaxe attack on Trump’s star The West Hollywood City Council has passed a resolution to request the removal of US President Donald Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a unanimous vote. Here is why his name is unlikely to disappear. “Earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of […]
Danyal Hussein guilty of murdering sisters
Henry/Smallman family Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, were found by a search party of loved ones, two days after a gathering to celebrate the older sister’s birthday A man who stabbed two sisters at random in a supposed demonic pact – a “sacrifice” he seemingly believed would enable him to win the lottery […]