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‘Take That asked for our autographs!’ How Cola Boy made 7 Ways to Love
Bob Stanley
, co-writer
St Etienne did a club tour in early 1991 and we were hearing all these dance
hits like DJ H featuring Stefy’s I Like It
and(I Wanna Give You) Devotion by Nomad
. We thought: “Let’s go home and write something that …Ecuador’s presidential election goes to runoff after ‘statistical tie’
Ecuador’s conservative president, Daniel Noboa, will face the leftist former congresswoman Luisa González in an election runoff on 13 April after a better than expected first-round performance by the latter.
With more than 92% of the ballot boxes counted, Noboa was on 44.31%, just ahead of González, with a difference …
Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page
This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with a … slurp? According to my favourite Wikipedia wormhole, that’s just one of the many possible ways our universe could bite the bullet some 100 quindecillion (give or take a few septillion) years from now.
To me, …
There’s a new outbreak of bird flu in Australia. Here’s what you need to know
A new outbreak of bird flu has been detected in Australia, with authorities confirming an outbreak of H7N8 avian influenza at an egg farm in northern Victoria at the weekend.
The detection comes only weeks after quarantine restrictions were lifted on the last property affected by Victoria’s 2024 avian influenza …
Delays, edits, and no Son Heung-min: how North Korea watches the Premier League
delivered with revolutionary gusto
and breathlessKim dynasty propaganda
.But even for a country as wary of outside …
Most victims in Swedish mass shooting had immigrant background, say police
Most of the people killed by a gunman in the Swedish city of Örebro last week had an immigrant background, police have said, after the prime minister paid tribute to the victims as “people who wanted to do something good, who wanted to contribute to a better society”.
Among those …
Watchdog recommends £2,500 pay rise for UK MPs
MPs should receive a £2,500 pay rise for the next financial year, an increase of 2.8%, the body that recommends their salaries has said.
If the pay rise proposed by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) goes through, it would raise a backbench MP’s salary from £91,346 to just under …
‘A lovely sweet kid’: tributes paid to John Cooney after Irish boxer’s death
John Cooney, the young Irish boxer who has died after a title fight in Belfast, has been described by the former world champion Barry McGuigan as a “lovely sweet kid” whose life was “snapped away”.
As a condolence book was opened at Belfast’s Ulster Hall, his manager Mark Dunlop said …
‘Engine of inequality’: fears over AI’s global impact dominate Paris summit
The impact of artificial intelligence on the environment and inequality has dominated the opening exchanges of a global summit in Paris attended by political leaders, tech executives and experts.
Emmanuel Macron’s AI envoy, Anne Bouverot, opened the two-day gathering at the Grand Palais in the heart of the French capital …
BP shares jump after feared US hedge fund Elliott takes stake
Shares in BP have jumped by 8%, its biggest rise since 2020, after it emerged that the activist investor Elliott Investment Management had taken a stake in the UK oil company.
The stock rose as investors bet that Elliott, a feared New York hedge fund known for its attempts to …