Sweden’s Martin Strombergsson has worked as an international referee for many years A Swedish referee suspended for making racist remarks against Guinea international goalkeeper Aly Keita says his career is ‘effectively’ over. Speaking to a Swedish newspaper, Martin Strombergsson regretted remarks made to Keita in a top-flight match last year. Ostersunds skipper Keita said last … Read more
The transportation, finance, and travel sectors have cut 31,000 jobs in four months, according to data compiled by UK-based BuyShares. Tech startup layoffs as of July 2020. Image: Statista via BuyShares Over 500 tech startups have laid off more than 69,000 employees between March and July due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data gathered … Read more
Just because you got a stimulus check the first time doesn’t mean you’ll qualify for a second payment, if there is one. Sarah Tew/CNET Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that the government approves a second stimulus check for 2020. Would you be eligible? Even if you met the requirements for the first economic stimulus … Read more
Image copyright Instagram / Vogue Image caption The cover generated a huge backlash Vogue Portugal has pulled a recent magazine cover, which mental health experts criticised as “outdated” and in “bad taste”. The Madness Issue featured a woman in a bathtub in a hospital setting with a nurse pouring water over her head. Vogue Portugal … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images The EU says it will act “decisively” if the US goes ahead with a threat to put new tariffs on its goods. It is latest twist in a long-running row with Washington over subsidies granted to the planemaker Airbus. For more than a decade, the EU and US have accused each … Read more
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was an American social reformer and abolitionist A statue of the 19th Century US black activist Frederick Douglass has been toppled in New York state. It appears to have been vandalised on 5 July – the anniversary of a famous speech the former slave gave … Read more
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Joshua Wong, centre, appeared in court with fellow activists Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow China has warned the UK not to interfere with Hong Kong following the imposition of a new national security law, as one pro-democracy campaigner begged for international support. Ambassador Liu Xiaoming said the UK’s offer of … Read more
This, in Donald Milton’s opinion, is the perfect situation for spreading coronavirus. Not only could people pass the virus directly from one to another in the little droplets that we all spray to one degree or another when we talk, laugh or sing; but those little droplets also go up into the air where, Milton … Read more
Nazi Germany had them to exterminate the Jews. The Soviet used them to persecute millions ex nihilo. By 2020, China under Xi Jinping has built a vast network of similarly repressive but hi-tech facilities modelled after Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps and Joseph Stalin’s notorious gulags. India Today’s special series offers a rare insight into the … Read more
As Indian and Chinese Army positions pulled back nominally this weekend from the Galwan Valley’s blood-soaked Patrol Point 14 to create a ‘no man’s land’ buffer zone, clarity has emerged of just how much of the narrow river valley China has officially claimed during the current standoff. In excerpts from minutes of one of the … Read more