The Hundred 2023: Meet Welsh Fire as Tammy Beaumont & Tom Abell name players to watch
BBC Sport has worked with data analysts CricViz to look at the strengths and weaknesses of each side. Men’s team Fire added Stephen Eskinazi, Tom Abell and Glenn Phillips to their batting line-up during the draft, securing three high-quality batters who should be able to provide runs in the middle order, an area where they’ve […]
Unite Julie Morgan row suspensions disturbing, says Labour AM
BBC Unite has backed Carolyn Harris over Julie Morgan (above) in the Welsh Labour deputy leadership race The Unite union is trying to “railroad” its membership into backing Carolyn Harris for Welsh Labour deputy leader, an AM has said. Labour’s Jenny Rathbone said it was “disturbing” that the union was investigating some of its members […]
Baby Archie makes appearance on royal tour of Africa
Archie meets Archbishop The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have introduced their baby son Archie to renowned anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It is the first time the four-month-old has been seen in public on the couple’s 10-day tour of Africa. Archie was seen smiling in his mother’s arms and was held up on her […]
Indian men jailed for rape and murder of Latvian tourist
Getty Images The Latvian woman went missing from her resort in Kerala state in 2018 A court in India has sentenced two men to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a Latvian tourist in 2018. The 33-year-old woman, who was travelling with her sister, went missing from a resort in the southern state […]
the woman who brought sex to the High Street
Ann Summers Jacqueline Gold famously brought the vibrator into the front rooms of middle England, helping to spark a social revolution for the prudish British. But as the tributes that poured in after her death, at the age of 62, have highlighted, she also launched an overhaul in attitudes more broadly, inspiring a generation of […]
The dead professor and the vast pro-India disinformation campaign
Reuters The UN Human Rights Council meets at least three times a year and reviews UN member states’ rights records A dead professor and numerous defunct organisations were resurrected and used alongside at least 750 fake media outlets in a vast 15-year global disinformation campaign to serve Indian interests, a new investigation has revealed. The […]
Women’s World Cup: Minister promises funding boost for Ireland hockey heroes
Ireland, the second-lowest ranked of the 16 teams going into the London tournament, shocked the USA, India (twice) and Spain on the way to reaching Sunday’s final, where they were hammered 6-0 by the Netherlands. Prior to Monday’s announcement by the minister, Sport Ireland’s total funding to Irish hockey was set to be just over […]
Michelle O’Neill says NI parties ‘cop out’ on abortion
Pacemaker Michelle O’Neill says legislators must implement policy for all people regardless of their own personal views Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has accused other parties of “copping out” by allowing members freedom of conscience on the issue of abortion. More than 20 Sinn Féin branches have tabled a motion for this weekend’s ard fheis (conference) […]
Is the American strip club dying out?
Getty Images Faced with changing attitudes, tightening regulations and a booming online pornography industry, strip clubs are closing across the US. Sex may still sell in magazines and movies, but are American strip clubs a dying institution, asks Jonathan Berr. “Can you imagine a boss telling a secretary to make an appointment at a strip […]
New crisis for code-breaking hub
BBC/Arrow Media/Bletchley Park The Colossus, the world’s first large-scale electronic computer, was built at Bletchley Park. It went into operation in 1944 It is one of the most important sites in the history of computing and of Britain’s victory against Nazism. But now, for the second time in little more than a decade, the future […]