With 40 matches in just 16 days, the Premier League Festive Fixtures are truly the most wonderful time of the year As winter settles and the world slows down, football only accelerates, momentum shifts, rivalries ignite and new stories emerge. Stadiums and screens from Manchester to Mumbai are alive with late goals, spectacular saves and…
MOTORISTS across the UK are facing unexpected temporary blocks on their bank accounts when filling up at selected Asda petrol stations. As of now, a total of 82 Asda petrol stations have switched to card-only payments. Sign up for The Irish Sun newsletter Thank you! This new change has come as a shock to some…
The Hong Kong Bar Association has proposed introducing targeted legislation to criminalise bid-rigging and make key construction safety guidelines legally binding, following the city’s deadliest fire in seven decades. The association formed a task force to review existing legislation after the Tai Po fire last month, with one of the preliminary goals being to criminalise…
Adam Levy, son of the legendary Judge Judy Sheindlin, is making his own mark with Adam’s Law. Drawing on his background as a two-term district attorney and stints as a judge on Amazon’s Tribunal Justice and Justice on Trial, Levy brings real-world experience to the bench. The new series will join CBS Media Ventures’ syndicated…
Dec. 18, 2025, 5:05 a.m. ET When the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition announced recently its high school winners in Paris, the grand prize went to a Chinese team from Shenzhen. Six of the nine runners-up were also from China. Only one American school ‒ Lambert High in suburban Atlanta ‒ made it into the…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When I started to listen to the much-hyped new podcast from Katie Miller, I’d hoped to learn something, anything, to justify the many irreplaceable hours of my life I had already committed to it….
Earlier this week, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez launched an attack on FC Barcelona over the Negreira case, calling it “the most serious case in football today“. Not stopping there, the Los Blancos chief also hit out at La Liga and the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for their passive stance when it came to questioning…
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has accused the head of a Hong Kong journalists’ union of abusing the legal process by suing the newspaper over her dismissal only after her “extortionate” HK$3 million (US$385,500) proposal for settlement was rejected. Lawyers for Dow Jones Publishing Co (Asia) told Eastern Court on Thursday that Selina Cheng Kar-yue’s…
Vanguard index funds that track stocks in developed and emerging markets could beat the S&P 500 in the coming years. The S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.16%) is considered the best gauge for the overall U.S. stock market. It has advanced nearly 16% year to date. But stock markets outside the U.S., in both developed and emerging…
The festive period is typically a time for careful squad management in the Premier League. Games come even thicker and even faster than during the regular domestic churn, with managers and head coaches acutely aware of their players’ fitness levels before they kick things into the second half of the season. Notwithstanding those who suffer…