Three top-20 sides faced by Thomas Tuchel’s England – and still no wins. The Three Lions breezed through qualification for the World Cup winning all of their eight games without conceding a goal. But after losing 1-0 to Japan, the world’s 18th-ranked side, at Wembley in England’s last match before Tuchel names his World Cup…
The booing, though. Silly, but also deeply annoying for the players, you’d imagine. They tried to play progressive football against Ivory Coast, but they were undone too often by their own wastefulness, lack of accuracy, and a shortage of the kind of explosiveness and cleverness that Ben Gannon-Doak gives them on his best days. The…
“Trump’s taunt exposes a PM without a plan” says the Daily Mail. The paper says MPs have accused Sir Keir Starmer of not having a clear plan after it emerged that the UK’s last known shipment of jet fuel from the Middle East is due to arrive within two days. Elsewhere, the paper continues its…
The crews of two military helicopters were suspended by the army, then told there would be “no investigation” by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. Source link
In her small shop on Merritt Island, racks of orange, blue and black T-shirts depict hand drawn rockets, mission patches and moonscapes, ready for the crowds who arrive on regular launch days. But this launch is different, she tells us. “We’ve wanted to go back to the Moon since the ’70s. People are excited. People…
The exercise will span 36 states and federally-administered territories, more than 7,000 sub-districts, over 9,700 towns and nearly 640,000 villages, with fieldwork carried out by enumerators and supervisors – typically schoolteachers, government staff and local officials. Source link
A day later, Air Canada shared a four-minute video message from Rousseau on its social media. In it, Rousseau acknowledged that it was a “somber day” for his organisation. He also offered his condolences to the airline’s staff and family of the victims in English, with subtitles in both official languages. Source link
Senior administration officials said at the start of the war that the US might consider diluting Iran’s highly enriched uranium on site, rather than removing it from the country. But that would be a large, complex and time-consuming operation, said Jonathan Ruhe, an expert on Iran’s nuclear programme at the Jewish Institute for National Security…
A string of bill increases have taken effect but minimum wage and benefit rises will help some to pay them. Source link
People in Iran describe angry scenes and tense relationships as rifts open up over the war. Source link