Month: October 2024

Former Sheffield United defender George Baldock has died at the age of 31. Greece international Baldock signed for Panathinaikos this summer after a seven-year spell at Bramall Lane. The full-back, who was not named in the Greece squad to face England on Thursday, featured in Sunday’s 0-0 draw with Olympiacos. Baldock’s death was confirmed on Wednesday night and a family statement to the PA news agency read: “We can confirm […]

The UK’s highest ranking Catholic has urged his flock to write to their MPs to oppose proposed changes in assisted dying law. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater will formally introduce a private member’s bill on the issue on October 16, with a debate and initial vote possible within weeks. In a letter to be read out in the churches of his diocese, Cardinal Vincent Nichols warned Catholics to “be careful what […]

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Plymouth boss Wayne Rooney has been charged with three counts of misconduct following his dismissal in Saturday’s home Sky Bet Championship win against Blackburn. Rooney was shown a red card by referee James Linington at Home Park for protesting at the fourth official after Blackburn defender Joe Rankin-Costello’s late equaliser. An FA statement read: “Wayne Rooney has been charged following Plymouth Argyle’s match against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, October 5, […]

A woman who was found dead in Belfast had reported to police in recent weeks that she had been the victim of a violent crime, the Police Ombudsman has said. Officers launched a murder investigation into the killing of 22-year-old Mary Ward last Tuesday. She was was found dead by at her home in Melrose Street, Belfast. The PSNI said the case has been referred to the Police Ombudsman because […]

British actor Daniel Kaluuya has said a statue memorialising his character in the film Get Out “means the world” to him and feels like a “blessing”. The Londoner, 35, who received an Oscar nod for his role playing Chris Washington in the hit thriller, written and directed by Jordan Peele, said the statue “shows how far I’ve come”. The movie, about a young black man who meets his white girlfriend’s […]

Russia is intent on causing “mayhem” on UK streets, and Iranian-backed plots posing “lethal threats” to British people are ramping up at an “unprecedented pace and scale”, the boss of MI5 warned. Director general Ken McCallum issued the stark warnings less than two years after he laid bare the “very real threat” posed by aggression from hostile states. In a wide-ranging speech, he also highlighted the “worsening threat from al […]

A British-Canadian computer scientist who warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could pose an existential threat to humanity has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Geoffrey Hinton, often touted as the “godfather of AI”, shares the honour with US academic John Hopfield for their pioneering work on machine learning, which powers AI. The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in […]

Northern Ireland’s Education Minister Paul Givan has said he wants assurances over the safety of children travelling to school using public transport in the region. Mr Givan described an incident where a double-decker bus carrying 43 pupils overturned as “every parent’s worst nightmare”. Clare Foster, principal of the school affected, Strangford Integrated College in Co Down, said it had been a “very distressing incident” for pupils. The bus was carrying […]