Day: August 12, 2024

Over the past 16 days we’ve received just shy of one million photographs from the Olympic Games. While many of those images capture moments of unforgettable sporting drama or newsworthiness, others showcase the incredibly artistry of the photographers themselves. Here are some of our favourite images from Paris and beyond, with descriptions and camera data … Read more

Tom Daley, one of the main figures of Britain’s Olympic renaissance, has confirmed the Paris Games were his last. The 30-year-old is retiring from competitive diving after five Games, five medals and a legacy that goes well beyond the unparalleled success he achieved in his sport. Daley returned on Monday to the UK after the … Read more

It has been almost 18 months since Scott Parker last took charge of a match but, on this evidence, the former England midfielder has certainly picked up a few managerial tips. A clinical display from his Burnley team against a Luton side that is also trying to bounce back from being relegated last season sealed … Read more

On 31 July, Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated in what is believed to have been an Israeli operation. Haniyeh died in a facility in north Tehran, not long after he attended the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian. How exactly Haniyeh was killed remains unclear. Israeli sources claim it was … Read more

Hot weather inflamed by carbon pollution killed nearly 50,000 people in Europe last year, with the continent warming at a much faster rate than other parts of the world, research has found. The findings come as wildfires tore through forests outside Athens, as France issued excessive heat warnings for large swathes of the country, and … Read more

I’m hardly the only one to remark on the qualitative ways in which France has felt different over the past two weeks. Perhaps the Spanish newspaper El País said it best when it remarked that the country “seems to have taken a vacation from itself”, by which it meant that grumbling had been sidelined by … Read more

The bosses of Britain’s blue-chip companies are raking it in, having seen their pay rise to the highest level on record last year, according to figures released by the High Pay Centre. The data shows that median pay for a FTSE 100 chief executive increased from £4.1m in 2022 to £4.19m in 2023. AstraZeneca’s Pascal … Read more

Iran has insisted on its right to an “appropriate and deterrent response” against Israel as the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told his US counterpart that Tehran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack. It comes as the US announced it had ordered the deployment of the USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine, to … Read more

Pre-season is always about the performance and never about the results. And even then there has to be an awareness of what managers are looking for from each individual game: clubs can be at different stages of their physical development, or managers may be working on a specific ploy. They are means to an end. … Read more