Retail giants Tesco and Marks & Spencer both saw a bump in food sales over the vital Christmas period despite both mentioning a challenging economic backdrop. Tesco said sales in the UK were up 3.2% from last year and it had now notched up its highest market share in more than a decade. M&S said…
Michael C. WrightJan 8, 2026, 02:57 AM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2010 Previously covered Bears for ESPN.com Played college football at West Texas A&M SAN ANTONIO — Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan downplayed the severity of a postgame incident Wednesday that involved Los Angeles Lakers forward Jarred Vanderbilt poking him in the face after the…
Warner Bros Discovery’s board has unanimously turned down Paramount Skydance’s (PSKY) latest attempt to acquire the studio, saying its revised US$108.4 billion hostile bid amounted to a risky leveraged buyout that investors should reject. In a letter to shareholders on Wednesday, Warner Bros’ board said Paramount’s offer hinges on “an extraordinary amount of debt financing”…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a royal commission, the country’s most powerful form of independent inquiry, into last month’s shooting at Bondi Beach. The attack targeting a Jewish festival left 15 people dead, making it one of the deadliest in the country’s history. Albanese had previously argued that reforms on gun ownership and…
US President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from dozens of international organisations, including many that work to combat climate change. Among the 66 groups, nearly half of them are bodies of the United Nations, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – a treaty that underpins all international efforts to combat global warming….
Laura Maguire Laura Maguire said she often spends days in bed due to pain Marie-Louise ConnollyHealth correspondent, BBC News NI A woman waiting for endometriosis treatment has said the pain she experiences is like having barbed wire in her body. Laura Maguire, who is 25 and from Londonderry, has been put in an early medicated…
Sue Davies,BBC Radio Wiltshireand Kirsten Robertson,Wiltshire Cathy Read Cathy Read has survived two spontaneous coronary artery dissections (SCAD) A woman is planning to walk 115km to raise awareness of a rare condition which caused her to have two heart attacks. Cathy Read from Chippenham in Wiltshire has survived two spontaneous coronary artery dissections (SCAD). The…
BBC Deputy Rob Ward said the new childcare payments system provided “flexibility” for parents Jersey’s education minister has defended a new scheme that allows parents to claim back childcare costs for toddlers. From next month any parent regardless of income or working requirements will be able to apply to claim up to £6,270 per school…
As the new year unfolds, China finds itself grappling with strategic pressures fuelled by two US treaty allies at its doorstep – Japan and South Korea. In the second of a two-part series, Seong Hyeon Choi looks at how competing pressures in the Korean peninsula may complicate China’s security calculus. Read the first part here….
At the recent South Korea-China summit, both sides agreed to improve dialogue, rebuild trust and promote regional peace and stability, marking a first step towards a normalisation of relations. While the Beijing meeting produced no concrete agreement for peace on the Korean peninsula, it reaffirmed the peninsula’s stability and peace as a common interest –…
