Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has strongly condemned a rash of attacks on politicians after a senator and former mayor of Berlin was struck over the head in a public library in the third assault on an elected official in less than a week. Franziska Giffey, a member of Scholz’s centre-left Social Democratic party (SPD) was…
There’s a growing sense Fisker is circling the drain, with the automaker’s Austrian division filing for bankruptcy protection overnight. In a statement Fisker said its Austrian arm has “voluntarily filed to open a restructuring proceeding via self-administration”. Business publications suggest this period of self-administration is similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US. Stream…
Every episode of Inside No 9 is dramatically different – and every episode is also essentially the same. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton tend to begin each instalment of their magnificent comedy-horror anthology by summoning a scene of distinctively British mundanity: it’s small, it’s boring, it’s awkward, it’s wryly funny – the workaday greyness sparkles…
Brad Scott has played a relatively straight bat to rumours linking Harley Reid to Essendon after convivial scenes between the young gun and Bombers players last weekend. Reid is under contract with West Coast until the end of 2026 and the Victorian has repeatedly said he is happy at the Eagles, desperate to help return…
Cameron Brannagan’s penalty earned Oxford United a place in the League One playoff final as they drew 1-1 at Peterborough to progress to Wembley 2-1 on aggregate. Oxford followed up their 1-0 first-leg triumph last Saturday to hold on for a draw in a pulsating second leg and set up a showdown with Bolton on…
The internal politics of the PGA Tour have been placed into sharp focus after Rory McIlroy was astonishingly prevented from returning to a position of power within the organisation. The inability of McIlroy to take places on the PGA Tour policy board and as a director of PGA Tour Enterprises is certain to cause consternation…
Just ridiculous. Just Real Madrid. The team that appears to own this competition, that has some mystical hold over it and has lifted that trophy 14 times, are in the final again because, well, because of course they are. Late, very late on another wild, magical night here, the Santiago Bernabéu launched into a familiar…
A major earthquake has shaken a close Australia neighbour overnight. Vanuatu was hit by the 6.2 magnitude earthquake about 8.17pm local time on Wednesday. It originated 95km from Luganville, the second-largest city in the archipelago, located on the island of Espiritu Santo. The earthquake had a depth of 15km, Geoscience Australia reported. There are no…
Siri, show me a hollow victory. It is easy to imagine the glee felt by Keir Starmer’s advisers when Natalie Elphicke MP let them know she was minded to defect from the Tories to Labour. After all, nobody can accuse Dover’s parliamentary representative of being a Tory wet. If she hasn’t passed over your radar…
Alabama has scheduled a second execution with nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first in the US to put a person to death with the previously untested method. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey set a September 26 execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, who was convicted of killing three men during a 1999 workplace…