May 2020
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Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez had three luxury watches stolen in a £500,000 raid. Thieves took cash, rare football shirts and bracelets from his penthouse. Burglars carefully tracked Riyad Mahrez before sneaking into his penthouse and stealing three watches to order. The £500,000 haul included a prized Richard Mille timepiece similar to one that knife thugs…
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The Premier League has become one of the most popular sporting competitions in the world and that is in large part due to the spectacle that it provides for the television audience. A report from The Times says broadcasters are planning to give viewers the option to add artificial crowd noise to their coverage of…
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Athletes do it. CEOs do it. People in the office and home do it. Trash-talking is as natural as breathing to some people. But how does it affect those who are the targets of such biting insults? That’s the question Wharton visiting scholar and Georgetown professor Jeremy Yip and Maurice Schweitzer, Wharton operations, information and…
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President Obama has weighed in on the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “This shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America,” he wrote in a statement posted online. “It can’t be ‘normal.’ If we want our children to grow up in a nation that lives up to its highest ideals, we can and must be better.” My statement…
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America is once again mourning the death of a black man at the hands of the police force. After a Minneapolis officer was filmed kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, the United States is grappling with the treatment of black men in police custody. In the video the man on the ground is heard saying…
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Spain’s National Sports Council confirmed on Friday, that LaLiga games will start again after the season was suspended to control spread of COVID-19. First Lal Liga match for the 2019/20 season will be between Betis and Sevilla on 11 June. After Betis vs Sevilla game, non-stop La Liga matches should be expected. Football matches will…
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President Trump earlier threatened to put regulations or even shut down social media sites, including Twitter, after the latter labeled the president’s tweets with fact-checks. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order “pertaining to social media” shortly, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Wednesday. McEnany first said it was not clear…
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An African-American resident of Minneapolis, 46-year-old George Floyd, died on 25 May after being tackled and pinned to the ground by police responding to a call by a local grocery store, after Floyd allegedly tried to make a purchase with a counterfeit bill. But protests over police killing of Floyd have continued in Minneapolis for…
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Last month, President Trump halted US payments to the World Health Organization and accused the world body of botching the initial response to the outbreak of COVID-19. On Friday, he went further, announcing that the US was ending its relationship with the WHO altogether, reports CNN. Trump again accused the organization of being under the sway of Beijing,…
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Joe Biden has assured George Floyd’s family that he’ll do everything he can to bring justice in the Minneapolis man’s death. The former vice president made the disclosure in a five-minute video live-streamed Friday, in which he addressed Floyd’s death and racism in the nation generally. The black man died in police custody this week;…
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A spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense on Friday criticized a report recently released by the White House on its strategic approach to China. “We are strongly dissatisfied with the report and firmly oppose it,” said Ren Guoqiang, the spokesperson for the ministry, at a press conference in response to a media question, noting…
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Oprah shared a moving tribute to George Floyd on Friday shortly after third-degree murder charges were brought against the police officer charged with his murder in Minneapolis Monday. “I’ve been trying to process what can be said or heard in this moment,” she wrote in statement posted to Twitter. “I haven’t been able to get the…
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A high school wrestling coach who aimed to defend police in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis is now defending himself from charges of racism. Dave Hollenbeck, a wrestling instructor at Bethel High School in Washington state, posted images of himself in which he is on the ground with someone’s knee…
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The day before, China’s parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution to draft a law on national security in Hong Kong that would outlaw secessionism in the territory and hefty fines or jail terms for those ridiculing China’s anthem among other things. The Chinese Foreign Ministry called on foreign nations on Friday to cease attempts at meddling…
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It’s been two months since pubs, bars and restaurants were forced to shut their doors in Australia due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and a lockdown, which the government had to introduce in order to stop the spread of the disease. Australia’s Carlton & United Breweries have decided to roll out 2,000 barrels of free…
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French car maker Renault has announced nearly 15,000 job losses globally, including 4,600 in France in a two-billion-euro, three-year cost-cutting plan. Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron said that authorities intend to send 8 billion euros to support the automotive industry. “This plan is essential,” CEO Clotilde Delbos said in a statement. Renault doesn’t plan to…
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