Emma Hayes: ‘There is no favourite’ in Champions League, says Chelsea boss
Chelsea manager Emma Hayes says this year’s Champions League is more open than ever before and “six teams could win it easily”. The Blues take on last year’s runners-up Wolfsburg in the first leg of their quarter-final in Budapest on Wednesday. Hayes’ side hope to break Lyon’s run of five successive Champions League titles – […]
Erdogan wins re-election as president
AFP/Getty Images President Erdogan and his wife Emine greet supporters at his party’s Ankara HQ Turkey’s long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a new five-year term after securing outright victory in the first round of a presidential poll. Mr Erdogan got nearly 53% with almost all votes counted. His closest rival Muharrem Ince was […]
Can art fix a city’s problems beyond the gallery walls?
Audrey Albert Women over 50 will draw up a manifesto about the issues they face as part of the Uncertain Futures exhibition Some of society’s pressing problems – like divisions in race, class, age and gender – have not yet been fixed by politicians. Can artists do a better job? A major new art exhibition […]
Is AI any good at choosing gifts?
Getty Images Could AI supersede traditional gift giving inspiration? Like many of us at this time of year, Josie Hughes wracks her brain to think of gifts for friends and family. However, last month she decided to try a different approach. Being familiar with artificial intelligence (AI), particularly through her work at the Institute of […]
Barbie film hits $1bn mark at global box office
Mattel The Barbie film has hit the billion-dollar mark just 17 days after it was released, according to distributor Warner Bros. The movie will finish the weekend with $1.03bn (£808m) in ticket sales at the global box office, it said in a statement on Sunday. It means Greta Gerwig has become the first woman to […]
New Skegness centre for NHS tests ‘will cut waiting times’
ULTH/NHS The MRI scanner at the community diagnostic centre in Skegness NHS bosses say a newly opened testing centre will help bring down waiting times. The first patients have been welcomed to the £15m community diagnostic centre (CDC) in Skegness, Lincolnshire. The facility has brought a number of NHS services to the town for the […]
Wonder Woman stuntwoman dies at 72
Getty Images O’Neil doubled for Lynda Carter in the original Wonder Woman TV show Kitty O’Neil, a stuntwoman who was Lynda Carter’s stunt double on 1970s TV series Wonder Woman, has died in South Dakota at the age of 72. O’Neil, who lost her hearing when she was five months old, also doubled for Lindsay […]
Olympics basketball: US beat France to win gold medal
US forward Candace Parker top scored with 21 points and the US men will be aiming to replicate the women’s success when they play Spain on Sunday. Australia’s women had earlier won the bronze after beating Russia 83-74. Kristi Harrower was in possession at the final whistle for Australia and the 37-year-old was mobbed by […]
Olympics football: Women’s football an Olympic triumph
“There were some really fantastic matches and it has been a great advert for the women’s game,” said US winger Megan Rapinoe, who scored a stunning free-kick against Canada. The knock-out stages were particularly gripping. There was a thrilling final, a dramatic bronze medal match and two classic semi-finals as the Japanese held off a […]
Olympics 2012: Team GB athletes at London Games Day 12
Great Britain failed to add to their medal tally on Day 12 of the London Games. It was the first time since Day One that Team GB were unable to win a medal in what has been an otherwise successful Olympics. They finished the previous day with a total of 48 medals – the best […]