A FOOTBALL player has been sentenced to death in Iran for supporting women’s rights, sparking outrage after months of protests following Mahsa Amini’s brutal killing. The world union of professional footballers FIFPRO said it was “shocked and sickened” as footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani was handed the death sentence in connection toContinue Reading
Updated at 13:05 Gardaí have arrested a man in Ballingeary, Cork after a woman was killed in a traffic collision earlier this morning. The man was arrested at the scene and is currently being detained at Bandon Garda station. A woman in her early 50s died during the collision in Dromanallig,Continue Reading
Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg spoke recently of his fear that the war in Ukraine could spin out of control into a full-blown confrontation between Russia and the west. “If things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong,” he told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. Stoltenberg’s remarks came on December 9, a fewContinue Reading
Making a TV show now is all about intertextuality. Which is a fancy way of saying, you need to throw some meat to the dogs in the chat rooms. Succession does this very well, with its Shakespearean allusions, literary quotes and cliffhangers. Twin Peaks: The Return was so challenging inContinue Reading
MICHAEL VAN GERWEN has claimed some darts players lied about the accuracy of their Covid tests during the last PDC World Championship. The Dutchman was booted out of the 2022 Worlds before the third-round stage when he tested positive for coronavirus last Christmas. Michael van Gerwen couldn’t compete in theContinue Reading
I told the judge: “Dottore, I’m on the first floor. If they want to retaliate again, they know where to find me … All the lives they’ve taken from me – they took my brother, they took my husband. I don’t think there’s anything else. Lucia has had a harshContinue Reading
The pop superstar, 32, was nominated for Carolina, which was produced with Aaron Dessner of The National for the film Where the Crawdads Sing, released in July. This is her fourth nomination after 2019’s Beautiful Ghosts from the film Cats, 2013’s Sweeter than Fiction from One Chance and 2011’s SafeContinue Reading
THE PDC Darts World Championship at Alexandra Palace is nearly among us, beginning THIS WEEK! The big tournament will take on its traditional dates from mid-December to early into the new year – though there will be some slightly different start times to accommodate the football World Cup in Qatar.Continue Reading
The red blood cells were made by extracting stem cells from a blood sample. Phonlamai Photo/ Shutterstock Human volunteers have received the first-ever transfusion of lab grown red blood cells in a groundbreaking scientific first. Volunteers received about 5ml-10ml of blood (around 1-2 teaspoons), which contained around 15 billion redContinue Reading
Milky Way over sand dunes in Cervantes, Australia. Nik Coli/Shutterstock The European Space Agency (Esa) recently announced a new mission of its science programme: a small telescope orbiting the Earth dubbed Arrakhis. But although its name is inspired by the sci-fi novel Dune, it will not be looking for sandwormsContinue Reading
