Kit Symons: Wales boss Robert Page adds coach to Euros staff
Wales manager Rob Page has added former national team coach Kit Symons to his European Championship backroom staff. Symons, 50, served as a coach for Wales under Chris Coleman and also won 36 caps as a defender in his playing days. Page takes charge of Wales this summer after national manager Ryan Giggs was charged […]
Sweden has long opposed nuclear weapons – but it once tried to build them
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) In the years after World War Two, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb. Sweden hasn’t fought a war since 1814. But for more than 20 years after the end of World War Two, this formerly neutral northern European country pursued a plan to equip […]
Sophie Day: Cricket’s artist who shone at the Women’s Big Bash League
Many cricket lovers see the sport as one of art’s truest forms. That is true for Melbourne Stars spin bowler Sophie Day perhaps more than it is for almost anyone else. By night, Day, 25, has starred with the ball in hand, but by trade she is used to having a paintbrush in hand as […]
The Hundred: Alex Griffiths glad to put the Welsh into Fire
One of Welsh Fire’s big-hitters in the competition was Australian batter Georgia Redmayne. As well as her classy performances on the pitch, she was also one of the top performers in Griffiths’ Welsh classes. “Georgia Redmayne was especially keen to learn Welsh,” Griffiths said. “She’s smashed out a bit of Welsh town names, which has […]
Joe Biden formally wins Democratic nomination to take on Trump
Reuters This is Joe Biden’s third attempt to win the presidency Joe Biden has formally won the Democratic Party nomination to take on Donald Trump in November’s presidential election. He said on Twitter that he had secured the 1,991 delegates needed and would fight to “win the battle for the soul of the nation”. He […]
Deadly fire traded across border
AFP Buildings in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon were hit by rockets fired from Gaza Eight people have been killed in a flare-up of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. More than 460 rockets have been fired into Israel by militants since Monday night, while Israeli aircraft have hit 160 militant targets […]
Could ‘green shoots’ of recovery really save Rishi Sunak from calamity?
BBC Click! That sound you hear is the core pieces of the election snapping into place. After this week, the questions our two big parties will separately pose are clear. I’m not sure that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has much in common with a Hollywood star turned US presidential hopeful who, in the final […]
Essex University study finds link between genes and sporting ability
PArkrun Top performers had a combination of 19 key gene variants linked to running performance, the research said Genetics play a major part in athletic performance and a person’s response to training, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Essex found fewer than 31% of people had the unique makeup to make […]
Meeting the fourth Mrs Zuma
Ironically these are the same traits that have alienated him from the aspirational middle class. South Africa has a broad constitution where civil, religious and cultural rights sit tenuously side-by-side. Although polygamy is legal, a 2010 survey found that 75% of South Africans disapprove of the practice. And most of those who frown upon it […]
How the handmaid became an international protest symbol
Getty Images Pro-choice activists in Buenos Aires dressed as handmaids on Wednesday Dozens of women march in silence through a rainy cityscape. Heads bowed, dressed in red cloaks and white bonnets, it looks like a scene from Gilead, the theocratic patriarchy Margaret Atwood created in dystopian 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale. But this is Buenos […]