Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
Lauren Holiday: USA legend wants to change women’s sport ‘from the top down’
When asked to compare the Women’s Super League (WSL) with the elite level of the game in the USA, Holiday thinks the standard is higher…
Tottenham: Who is new manager Robert Vilahamn?
According to Vilahamn, he was doing “fine” in Sweden. However, his track record suggests he was doing better than “fine”. When he began his coaching…
Tokyo 2020: English Football Association plans to enter a British women’s team
England’s FA had put forward the idea of sending Great Britain teams to the 2016 Olympics, but Fifa said it would need the agreement of…
Women’s Premiership: Glentoran’s bid to win title at Seaview live on BBC Sport NI
Glentoran will win the Women’s Premiership title if they beat Crusaders on Wednesday night and the game is live on the BBC Sport website and…
As the 8 billionth child is born, who were 5th, 6th and 7th?
Stephanie Hegarty Population correspondent, BBC World Service BBC Seven-billionth child Sadia Sultana Oishee and six-billionth Adnan Mevic, holding photos of them with officials at their…
Popular Zambian-born author dies aged 88
Getty Images International best-selling author Wilbur Smith has died at his home in Cape Town at the age of 88, his publisher has announced. He…
Lioness Lauren Hemp welcomed home in North Walsham
Duncan Baker Lauren Hemp was honoured with the Freedom of the Town on her return to North Walsham, Norfolk Hundreds of people turned out to…
James Blunt on his ‘made-up’ memoir, Carrie Fisher and losing a child
Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Getty Images The star still draws huge crowds as he prepares to release his seventh album and a “made up”…
The Hundred: Will Jacks hits stunning century as Oval Invincibles beat Southern Brave
In the second women’s match of the day, Smriti Mandhana and Georgia Adams helped Southern Brave maintain their perfect start to The Hundred with a…
How it feels to be a pro female e-sports player in China
Danny Vincent Features correspondent What life is like for the gifted young women of China’s e-sports scene Professional female video gamer Shan Chen used to…