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Turnaround king Jim Harbaugh has playoff-bound Chargers dreaming big
Stalwarts
is not a typical football term, but Harbaugh loves stalwarts – those who are truly committed to …LeBron to Saudi and a UK NFL team: our bold sports predictions for 2025
Here are our bold predictions for 2025 in sports. Please note the
bold
(or should that bebold
?) in bold predictions: these are mostly to be taken with a pinch of salt.LeBron joins the Saudi Basketball League
to Kylian Mbappé’s rejection of …More people dining out on New Year’s Eve in UK rise of ‘experiential leisure’
Tuesday briefing: How public celebrations like New Year’s Eve became private events
South Korea plane crash investigations intensify as questions raised over airport embankment
The investigation into Sunday’s
inSouth Korea
, in which all but two of the 181 people aboard died, intensified on Tuesday as authorities came under pressure to explain how the jetliner lost control and to identify victims.Families of the dead – 175 passengers …
Female artists’ success helps arrest 20-year slide in UK sales of physical music
Women led the way in recorded music this year, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), topping the …
How a batch of tinned meat fostered fears of the millennium bug
On New Year’s Eve 25 years ago, sane people worried that the modern world was about to melt down.
The millennium bug seemed to be threatening to crash the world’s computer systems, as technology struggled to distinguish between the years 1900 and 2000. The public, faced with daily predictions of …
Can flood of cheap new EVs coming to Europe save its carmakers?
Affordable new electric family cars – particularly those that are EU-made – have been tough to come by in Europe for the past few years. There were no launches of homegrown electric models for less than €25,000 (£20,740) across the EU during 2022 and 2023, according to the campaign group …
‘There are so many crazy stories’: the hunt for every sports statue in world
“There are more statues of Lester Piggott in the UK than there are of sporting women,” said the statistician Chris Stride with dismay. “It is really bad … there are hardly any at all.”
In fact, there are a fewer than a handful of sporting women celebrated with public statues. …
Rail passengers face disruption as Avanti train managers strike
Passengers on the London to Glasgow main line face disruption to services in the coming days because of strikes by train managers at Avanti West Coast.
Members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) at the company are due to strike on New Year’s Eve and …