Author: viraltrendingcontent
During the Ashes, Ecclestone made headlines for refusing an interview with former team-mate turned broadcaster Alex Hartley, who was working for Australia’s Channel 7.Hartley, who won the World Cup with England in 2017, had questioned England’s fitness levels after the team’s early exit from the T20 World Cup in 2024. The team’s fitness was subject of debate for some time afterwards, but when Edwards was appointed as coach, she said that the players would be “held accountable” for their fitness standards and that it was a “non-negotiable”. “[Those conversations] are quite annoying, because people outside the group don’t see what…
The latest outbreak of a rare strain of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda has prompted several governments to take action in a bid to stop the spread of the disease.The World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded 220 suspected deaths and 900 suspected cases of the lethal Bundibugyo (BVD) strain of Ebola in DRC since Kinshasa declared the outbreak on May 15. In Uganda, five cases and one death have been confirmed.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe United Nations health agency raised its risk assessment from high to very high at the…
10. Paul Lambert (Borussia Dortmund v Juventus, 1997)Zinedine Zidane is Champions League royalty, as a player and a coach. But there is one final – and one player in particular – that sticks in the Frenchman’s mind. “Oh my god, that game!” he remarked to Paul Lambert when they met years later.Lambert joined Dortmund on a free transfer in 1996. Portugal star Paulo Sousa arrived fresh from winning the Champions League with Juventus the same summer, but it was the Scottish midfielder who wrote his name into Westfalenstadion legend.Dortmund saw off Manchester United in the semi-finals to set up a…
2006After making a controversial transfer from Tottenham in 2001, Sol Campbell won two league titles and three FA Cups with Arsenal, as well as scoring in the 2006 Champions League final.Alongside him was Ivorian Kolo Toure – moulded by Wenger from a central midfielder into one of the league’s finest centre-backs.Both were key parts of Arsenal’s ‘Invincible’ season.At right-back, Ivorian Emmanuel Eboue was a cult figure at Arsenal under Wenger, making 214 appearances between 2005 – 2011.Meanwhile, Cole is widely regarded as one of the best left-backs in the history of the Premier League. He was part of the Gunners’…
The repatriation came following a wave of anti-immigration protests in recent weeks, with campaigners demanding tighter controls on what they described as undocumented migrants.Published On 27 May 202627 May 2026A plane carrying 300 Ghanaian nationals evacuated from South Africa due to anti-immigration protests has landed in Accra.The group, which included women and children, arrived at the airport in Ghana’s capital on Wednesday. Authorities described their evacuation as a voluntary repatriation process for Ghanaian citizens who no longer feel safe in South Africa amid rising xenophobia that has left migrants facing harassment, job losses and violence.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend…
Britain is “sleepwalking into a food crisis” caused by extreme weather, inflation and the impacts of the Iran war – and the government is failing to take the threat seriously, food experts have said.Farmers are facing severe strain from the current heatwave following a dry spring, with many crops likely to yield less as temperatures rise beyond their tolerance. Livestock are also suffering heat stress and there is a rising risk of wildfires. Economic losses are likely to be measured in the hundreds of millions of pounds.Food prices were already on track to be 50% higher this November than they…
The sentencing of Kenneth Iwamasa concludes the prosecution of five people in connection with the Friends star’s death.Published On 27 May 202627 May 2026The former personal assistant to actor Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 41 months in prison in connection with the television star’s death from a fatal dose of the hallucinogenic drug ketamine.On Wednesday, Judge Sherilyn Garnett issued the sentence against Kenneth Iwamasa in a Los Angeles courtroom.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIwamasa had testified, as part of a plea agreement, that he injected Perry with ketamine at the actor’s request on October 28, 2023, before…
Harare, Zimbabwe – Precious Mvundura woke up with joint pain, a high fever and a pounding headache on a chilly autumn morning in eastern Zimbabwe.The 37-year-old initially thought it was just the flu. But when the headache persisted for three days, she became worried.Her five-year-old son had also fallen ill and was sweating heavily.In early May, the pair sought help from a village health worker in Chishakwe, a rural farming community outside Zimbabwe’s third-largest city, Mutare. Both tested positive for malaria.“I felt relieved,” Mvundura told Al Jazeera.“From the moment I took that medication, I started getting better.”Her son has also recovered…
Patagonia has launched a trademark lawsuit against an environmentalist drag queen named Pattie Gonia, who has accused the outdoor clothing company of “trying to erase an activist”.Wyn Wiley, who performs as Pattie Gonia, has accumulated millions of followers online for their environmental activism, raising almost $4m for non-profits so far. Last year they raised $1m while hiking 100 miles in full drag from Point Reyes national seashore to San Francisco.Patagonia, which takes its name from an enormous geographical region spanning Argentina and Chile, filed its trademark infringement lawsuit against Wiley on 21 January. The suit was filed to the federal…
Michele Spagnuolo allegedly used insider information to profit from bets on people on Google’s most-searched list.Published On 28 May 202628 May 2026A Google software engineer has been charged with fraud by US authorities after allegedly using insider information to win more than $1.2m in bets on the prediction market platform Polymarket.Michele Spagnuolo, an Italian citizen residing in Switzerland, is accused of using confidential information to wager on the results of Google’s annual most-searched list, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Wednesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listUS prosecutors accuse Spagnuolo of using an account named “AlphaRaccoon” to make…