Darren Fletcher’s appointment comes with Man United in the midst of a Premier League title challenge.© Instagram Former Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher has been promoted to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s first-team coaching staff. Fletcher returned to Old Trafford last October to take up a coaching role with United’s under-16 squad.Continue Reading
It may come as a surprise that many who fought to save Europe from nazism and fascism in the Spanish civil war and second world war were regarded in their own time as enemy aliens, undesirables, criminals and terrorists – in the words of one of them, Arthur Koestler, “theContinue Reading
Image Point Fr/Shutterstock Lots of people are greeting the new year with plans to quit smoking. The good news is, there is more evidence than ever on the best ways to boost your chances of success. Below we cover the different methods that science suggests are worth a shot. 1.Continue Reading
fizkes/Shutterstock For most people, infection with SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – leads to mild, short-term symptoms, acute respiratory illness, or possibly no symptoms at all. But some people have long-lasting symptoms after their infection – this has been dubbed “long COVID”. Scientists are still researching long COVID.Continue Reading
oliveromg/Shutterstock Before the pandemic, we were cooking less and less. Research suggests that a decline was underway in home cooking, cooking skills and confidence in a number of countries including the UK to the USA, Canada and Australia. Public health agencies were increasingly promoting cooking from scratch because of itsContinue Reading
Parkes radio telescope. CSIRO/wikipedia, CC BY-SA The US$100m (£70m) Breakthrough Listen Initiative, funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seems to come from the nearest star to the Sun – Proxima Centauri. This has generated a flood of excitement in the press and amongContinue Reading
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Tyson Fury said on Monday he can knock out fellow British world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua inside two rounds due to his recent form. WBC belt holder Fury said following Joshua’s past two bouts — a unanimous points decision over Andy Ruiz Junior in December 2019 and a ninth-round stoppageContinue Reading
Try choosing exercise you enjoy. Andrey_Popov/ Shutterstock Exercising more is one of the most common new year resolutions people make. But more than a quarter of people fail to keep their resolutions, and only half maintain some of them. But if that still sounds daunting, here are five tips thatContinue Reading
China’s first ever civil code came into effect on January 1 2021. Replacing a raft of other laws covering issues from marriage, to inheritance, adoption and property, it has binding authority over all civil disputes. A unified civil code has been on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) political agenda sinceContinue Reading
