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Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos equalled a Champions League record after being sent off again.

Police evacuated part of Ironbridge in Shropshire when barriers were overwhelmed by rising river water.

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• The Diamond Princess cruise ship went from having 10 cases of the novel coronavirus to more than 690 over the course of its two-week quarantine and the testing that followed.
• Experts and officials have criticized the decision to keep people on the ship and many poor hygiene practices on board.
• Here's how the cruise ship ended up with more than half of all the coronavirus cases outside China.
• For the latest case total, death toll, and travel information... Читать дальше...

Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape Monday. His attorney, Donna Rotunno, said the media coverage didn't let him have a fair chance.

• Harvey Weinstein's attorney told Insider she's "sickened" by the verdict against her client and denounced the public pressure she believed the jury faced.
• She said she didn't believe the jurors felt that they could "go back to their own lives and be the people that said 'not guilty on all counts.'"
• Weinstein was convicted of the 2006 sexual assault of Mimi Haleyi and the 2013 rape of Jessica Mann.
• Rotunno's team intends to appeal the conviction, and will likely... Читать дальше...

On Wednesday, a staffer for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) sparked outrage after writing the name of an African-American congresswoman on a “For Sale” sign, and mailing it to her office. NRCC regional press secretary Camille Gallo staged the stunt against Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) in reference to the fact that former New York […]

The Chang’e-4 mission, the first to land on the lunar far side, is demonstrating the promise and peril of using ground-penetrating radar in planetary science.

A cross-party group of MPs are joining forces to oppose Heathrow expansion, partly due to the impact it will have on other regions of the country.  The group is the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Heathrow Expansion and Regional Connectivity. Members include David Simmonds, the newly-elected MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner. The APPG is reformed, due to being dissolved at the election. At its meeting on 25th February, a new report produced by the New Economics Foundation was publicised. Читать дальше...

The NFL and its players have moved closer to a new collective bargaining agreement and the next decade of labor peace that would come with it.

Turkey’s Defense Ministry said early on Thursday that two of its soldiers were killed and two others wounded in an airstrike on Turkish forces in Syria’s Idlib region.It said the Turkish

With division and distrust rife among countries that possess nuclear arsenals, the UN disarmament chief is hopeful that the issue will be addressed during an upcoming conference on the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

About a third of workers in the U.S. don't have sick days, and many that do don't use them.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The insulin and voter privacy bills were the first bills slated for floor action since the session began two weeks ago. The measures were expected to pass easily Wednesday night given the Democrats' comfortable majority in the House. The two gun control bills were due ...

Juventus captain Leonardo Bonucci says he "could tell something wasn't switched on with the 11 starters" in the defeat to Lyon.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho House on Wednesday passed legislation preventing transgender women from participating in sports that align with their gender identity despite warnings that such a law is unconstitutional and uncertainties about how the NCAA might react.

Ten percent of profits from the sale of the jersey will be donated to the After-School All-Stars.

If you had told me a few years ago that we would have multiple stories at Techdirt over copyright issues surrounding video game emotes, I would have said you were a crazy person. Unfortunately, it seems that it's the world that is crazy instead.  Fortnite in particular has been a focus of many of these stories, as a popular feature in the game is the ability to perform emotes, some of which are or are accused of being based on pop culture occurrences from other media. It is all, I can assure you, very stupid. Читать дальше...

It will "examine the security and integrity" of the carrier supply chain.

1. China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side  The New York Times
2. Chinese space mission reveals what it's like on the farside of the moon  CNN
3. China's Space Agency Reveals What It Learned from Deep Radar Probe of Moon's Far Side  Gizmodo
4. Digging into the far side of the moon: Chang'E-4 probes 40 meters into lunar surface  Phys.org
5. China's Chang'e probe discovers what's lurking beneath moon's far side  CNET
6. View Full Coverage on Google... Читать дальше...

Five people have been killed in a shooting in the US city of Milwaukee, according to US President Donald Trump.

The American Conservative had an op-ed by Rod Dreher calling woke people 'politicized miserabilists.' 'To be woke is to live in perpetual fear that someone ... is enjoying life,' he wrote.

Retail sales could grow 3 to 4 percent this year provided the coronavirus doesn't reach pandemic proportions.

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Rangers assistant Gary McAllister has explained the thought process behind the Gers playing Joe Aribo at left-back.