KYLIAN MBAPPE has revealed he felt unwanted by France after their Euro 2020 exit and is considering retirement. Mbappe’s spot-kick miss sent Les Bleus out of the tournament in a 5-4 shoot-out defeat by Switzerland in the last 16. 1 Mbappe has been strongly linked with a move away fromContinue Reading
ENGLAND are back in rebuild mode after failing to end 55 years of hurt in the most heartbreaking of ways earlier this summer. Gareth Southgate’s young stars can hold their heads high after reaching the Euro 2020 final – three years after reaching the 2018 World Cup semis. ” class=”alignnoneContinue Reading
COVID-19 vaccine production has scaled up significantly. Global output is now estimated to be over 1.5 billion doses a month, rapidly propelling the world towards the 11.3 billion doses needed to vaccinate 80% of teenagers and adults and potentially bring the pandemic to an end. Total output may reach thatContinue Reading
The Taoiseach has said there has been “significant progress” in negotiations on a new global corporation tax deal. Micheál Martin also said Ireland will still see a “strong pipeline” of investment from foreign companies. The Government is expected to agree to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Continue Reading
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian are this year's winners. Jessica Gow / POOL/ EPA-EFE Think about how often we sense touch or temperature. Perhaps its the warmth we feel when we hold a coffee cup, or the comfort we feel when hugging a loved one – these sensations are integralContinue Reading
Giorgio Parisi's work has helped us tease predictable patterns from complexity. Sapienza Università di Roma/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2021 has been jointly awarded to Italy’s Giorgio Parisi, Japan’s Syukuro Manabe and Germany’s Klaus Hasselmann for their “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems”. WhenContinue Reading
It’s often suggested that UK prime minister Boris Johnson uses his distinctive hair as a political device. His trademark untameable mane disarms critics and belies his powerful position. A quick ruffle when the cameras are on enables Johnson to assume the role of a casual “man of the people”, especiallyContinue Reading
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., left, arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images SAN JOSE, CALIF. — A former lab director at Theranos testified on Tuesday he quit the company for one simple reason: TheContinue Reading
One of the more distressing things about the savage riots that engulfed the Litoral prison in Ecuador on September 28 was that, several days after the violence was brought under control, the final death toll was still unknown and many of the victims had still to be identified. The mostContinue Reading
The UK government is reportedly considering bringing back national curriculum tests (known as Sats) for 14-year-olds in England. The reasons cited were that, without formal assessment to mark the end of key stage three (KS3 – years seven, eight and nine of secondary school) children were at risk of losingContinue Reading
