A Spanish soccer player’s death is now under investigation as possible involuntary manslaughter, after he suffered a fatal injury in an on-field collision during a match. The country’s National Police said Tuesday that proceedings were opened and prosecutors will also be involved. Tenerife forward Jesús de Miguel died after he suffered cardiac arrest from the…
Two Iranian men have been charged with plotting a terror attack on the Jewish community in Manchester, British police said Friday. The arrests come nearly a year after a deadly knife and gun attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in northern Manchester, where worshipers had gathered for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in…
London — British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called the ban on alcohol in the stands at high-level men’s soccer matches in the U.K. “discrimination,” teasing fellow fans with a possible reversal of a more than 40-year-old ban. “I don’t think it’s fair for football fans to be singled out,” Burnham told reporters in New…
Paleontologists have discovered the first known trackway made by a full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex: four connected footprints found in the badlands of southwestern North Dakota, not far from the Montana border. The find is described in a new paper published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Before it, only two isolated adult T. rex footprints…
South African police said Monday they arrested four people in connection with the murder of two-time boxing world champion Zolani Tete, who was gunned down last week. Tete, 38, was attacked on Friday evening as he returned to his home in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape province. A 27-year-old woman who was with him in…
Jason Arday, the sociologist who made history as Cambridge University’s youngest Black professor, has resigned from the university after weeks of mounting accusations of plagiarism and fabrications in his biography. Arday, who joined Cambridge in 2023 at the age of 37, became one of Britain’s most high-profile academics after sharing an extraordinary life story. He…
London — Jason Arday’s school teachers were clear with him as he grew up. Life was going to be tough. Arday was diagnosed with autism and a condition called global development delay at the age of just three. It meant he was unable to speak until he was 11, and he couldn’t read or write until…
