Andy Murray is set to return from injury at the Geneva Open this month. The three-time Grand Slam champion has been a given a wildcard for the clay-court tournament in Switzerland, which begins on 18 May. The 36-year-old Briton, who is expected to retire this season, has been out since late March after rupturing his ankle ligaments at the Miami Open. Murray opted not to have surgery on the injury to reduce recovery time with hopes of playing at both the French Open and Wimbledon, as well as the Olympics in Paris this summer. The Scot, who turns 37 in May, previously…
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Kyren Wilson compared himself to Rocky Balboa and said he wanted to “build a legacy” in snooker after claiming his first world title. The Englishman, 32, defeated Welsh qualifier Jak Jones 18-14 as the World Championship final in Sheffield concluded on Monday. It was his sixth victory in a ranking event and his first in one of the sport’s Triple Crown tournaments – the Masters and UK Championship being the other two. “I can be a multiple world champion now but that first one has to be the hardest to get off your back,” said Wilson, who had been beaten…
Real Madrid will be presented with their new La Liga trophy twice in the coming week after a disagreement with the RFEF. Real Madrid will enjoy not one but two trophy presentations after winning the 2023-24 La Liga title. Los Blancos have secured top spot in the Spanish top flight with four games to spare and will be able to celebrate with their fans shortly. Yet Real Madrid will not be handed their latest piece of silverware next time out in La Liga against Granada, instead fans will have to wait until Tuesday, May 14, when Alaves visit the Santiago Bernabeu. …
Thiago Silva will join Brazilian club Fluminense following Chelsea’s final Premier League game of the season on 19 May. The Blues have agreed that Silva, 39, can join his new team-mates prior to his registration transferring on 1 July. The Brazil centre-back has signed a two-year contract with Fluminense. He joined Chelsea on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain in 2020 and has made 152 appearances for the Blues. Silva won three trophies in that time, including the 2020-21 Champions League. He said his love for the club was “indescribable” in April, when he announced he would leave Stamford Bridge this summer.…
Daniels initially denied allegations of an affair with Trump in 2006, then changed her story trial of former President Trump on Tuesday. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The charges stem from a years-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The charges are related to alleged payments made to silence Daniels about an alleged 2006 extramarital affair with Trump before the 2016 presidential election. EX-TOP BIDEN DOJ OFFICIAL NOW PROSECUTING TRUMP WAS ONCE PAID BY DNC FOR ‘POLITICAL CONSULTING’ Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen paid Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford,…
Prince Harry has arrived in the UK but will not see King Charles during his visit marking a decade of the Invictus Games. A spokesman for the Duke of Sussex said this was due to his father’s “full programme” and that he “hopes to see him soon”. Prince William will also not be at an Invictus event on Wednesday. He was last in the UK in February to visit the King soon after he was diagnosed with cancer. Prince Harry to return to UK for Invictus “The duke of course is understanding of his father’s diary of commitments and various…
DENVER, COLORADO – MAY 06: Jamal Murray #27 of the Denver Nuggets looks for a foul call while playing the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second quarter during Game Two of the Western Conference Second Round Playoffs at Ball Arena on May 06, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images) JamalEmotions got the better of Jamal Murray. The Minnesota Timberwolves put a beating on the Denver Nuggets last night.…
The boss of P&O Ferries has admitted that he couldn’t live on the £4.87 an hour some of its crew are paid, he told MPs. Peter Hebblethwaite also revealed that he earned more than £500,000 last year, including a bonus. At a hearing over workers’ rights and protection, Mr Hebblethwaite faced more questions over P&O’s decision to axe hundreds of workers without notice and replace them with agency staff. He said he was deeply sorry for the redundancies and claimed “we would not make that decision again”. Mr Hebblethwaite told MPs that the agency workers P&O now uses to crew…
Macklemore wants people to focus on what’s really important. Macklemore has been the butt of a lot of jokes and ridicule over the course of his career. Most of that is from infamously “robbing” Kendrick Lamar of multiple GRAMMY awards at the 56th show. However those criticisms are out the window after the Seattle rapper spoke up in a big way. He dropped “HIND’S HALL,” a pro-Palestinian anthem. It is a form of commentary on the lack of coverage of the tragedies occurring in the Middle East. During the passionate 2:49 track, Macklemore also takes some jabs at Drake and Kendrick Lamar. “What happened to the artist? What d’you got to…
Cardiff have signed Welsh-qualified loose-head prop Danny Southworth from Exeter Chiefs. Southworth, 25, has made 25 first-team appearances for Chiefs having come through the club’s academy. Barnstaple-born Southworth qualifies for Wales through his grandmother. “I’ve absolutely loved my time at Exeter Chiefs, so it was a really difficult decision to leave,” Southworth said. “But this is a fantastic opportunity for me to play in a different league with new experiences and playing styles. After five, six years at Exeter, I feel this is the right time for a new challenge.” Southworth, a converted number eight, has effectively replaced Saracens-bund Rhys…
Manchester City’s Erling Haaland celebratesMarek Kratochvil / Profimedia Erling Haaland (23) is Flashscore’s Premier League Player of the Week for his destructive four-goal haul in Manchester City’s 5-1 win over Wolves. It is the second week in a row where Haaland has earned the honour, recording a perfect 10 rating after last week’s top cameo at Nottingham Forest. The Norway striker got the scoring underway via the penalty spot, sending Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa the wrong way despite the decision being slightly contentious. Haaland notched his second later in the first half with a towering header, before completing his hat-trick before the break with another penalty after being…
Fifty years after Liliana Cavani’s provocative and disturbing film The Night Porter was released to widespread critical disgust, how have views of it changed? “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric,” wrote the German theorist Theodor Adorno, suggesting, in his 1949 essay Cultural Criticism and Society, that artistic expression had been rendered inadequate as a tool to understand reality after the Holocaust. In her 1974 film The Night Porter, Italian director Liliana Cavani challenged this theory, taking it to its logical extreme. She used a concentration camp as the setting to explore a crazed sexual bond between an adolescent…
Gauff struggled with her serve in MadridAFP Coco Gauff (20) said on Tuesday she was dedicating training time prior to her second-round start at the WTA Italian Open to cleaning up her serve. The American third seed was plagued by multiple double-faults in a fourth-round defeat last week to compatriot Madison Keys in Madrid. And the reigning US Open winner said she plans to fix that delivery problem in Rome before heading to Roland Garros from May 26th. “I had like 14 double-faults – that’s four or five games,” she said. “(If I) just fix that detail, it will save me. Maybe those matches…
TORONTO, ON – Drake‘s Toronto home is at the center of a police investigation after a shooting occurred near the property, injuring one person. Toronto Police revealed in a brief post on X (formerly Twitter) that the shooting took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning (May 7) in the city’s ritzy Bridle Path neighborhood, home to the rapper’s “Embassy” mansion. The victim, whose identity has yet to be made public, was taken to hospital with “serious injuries,” police said. The assailant, who has also yet to be identified, is believed to have fled the scene in a vehicle. A…
The Yuturi Warmi, an Ecuadorian patrol group, has vowed to protect their community’s land in the Amazon Rainforest from the pollution of extractive industries – and their efforts appear to be working. It is the break of dawn in the Serena community, in the middle of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Along the Jatunyacu River, which later joins the Amazon River in the Napo Province, Elsa Cerda, a 43-year-old indigenous Kichwa woman, brews guayusa leaves – a native plant from the rainforest – in a pot. It marks the start of the Guayusa Upina, a ritual performed by Amazonian indigenous peoples before beginning their…
NEW YORK, NY – Doja Cat has turned more than a few heads with yet another unique and risqué outfit at the 2024 Met Gala. Never one to be shy with her wardrobe choices, Doja attended the biggest fashion event on the calendar in what might be her most daring look yet. The Scarlet rapper arrived at the annual fashion event at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday (May 6) wearing an ankle-length t-shirt from Vetements designed to look as if it was wet-through, which left little to the imagination. Doja also gave the event the moniker “Wet Gala” in honor…
The Ukrainian security service (SBU) says it has foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials. Two Ukrainian government protection unit colonels have been arrested. The SBU said they were part of a network of agents belonging to the Russian state security service (FSB). They had reportedly been searching for willing “executors” among Mr Zelensky’s bodyguards to kidnap and kill him. Other targets included military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov and SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk, the agency added. The group had reportedly planned to kill Mr Budanov before Orthodox Easter, which this year fell on…
Veteran actor Jide Kosoko’s new photos in NDLEA outfit have stunned a lot of people online. As he took office as the new chairman of the NDLEA today, the seasoned actor declared that he had had enough of drug misuse and outlawed the usage of various medications, including paracetamol, phensic acid, karaole, and alababugun. He went on to say things like “all the painkillers,” “energy drinks,” and many other things. It seem the pictures was shared from a set of movies where the veteran actor acted as the boss of NDLEA. He Wrote: Enough… Enough of this general sickness of…
A suspected one-chance armed robber with a weapon has been taken into custody by Niger State Police Command operations in Suleja. The command’s spokeswoman, SP Wasiu Abiodun, made this announcement in a statement on Monday, May 6, 2024. She said that the suspect, Kelechi Unanka, stated he got the pistol from a person he couldn’t recall. The statement stated, “On April 5, 2024, at approximately 1330hrs, a police patrol team attached to ‘A’ Div Suleja intercepted two persons on a motorcycle at Suleja junction heading to Kaduna road. The motorcycle rider then quickly fled to avoid the patrol team while…
A now-viral video captures the moment students showed up in style for their senior prom. Students from Elite High School in Entebbe, Uganda, were captured on camera looking immaculately made up, with well styled hair, and pricey couture on display. Numerous of them showed up driving fancy vehicles like Mercedes G-wagons. One student rode in on a helicopter with her date. Take a look at the video below. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6qCWuuo0pd/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=cd831f3c-4633-4ec2-9eb6-de289e635776