Newcastle have made a move to sign Eintracht Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike. The 23-year-old scored 15 goals and had eight assists last season as his side finished third in the Bundesliga. Sources said Newcastle are now exploring a potential deal to sign the Frenchman, who would probably cost more than £70m. Despite the interest in…
Brentford have completed the signing of England midfielder and former Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson on a two-year contract after his recent departure from Ajax. Henderson, 35, spent 12 years with Liverpool, where he won the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, two League Cups, Community Shield, Super Cup and Club World Cup. In July 2023,…
Third Test, Kingston (day three of five) Australia 225 (Smith 48; S Joseph 4-33) & 121 (Green 42; A Joseph 5-27) West Indies 143 (Campbell 36; Boland 3-34) & 27 (Greaves 11; Starc 6-9) Australia win by 176 runs and complete 3-0 series victory Scorecard Australia bowled out West Indies for just 27 – the second lowest score in Test history,…
Starbucks has told its corporate staff they must work in the office for four days a week or take a payment and quit. Workers will be expected to be in the office between Monday and Thursday starting in October, up from a previous requirement that staff come in for three days. The directive is the…
In the Oval Office on Monday, Donald Trump was talking tough, announcing new US arms shipments to Ukraine paid for by European governments, and threatening new tariffs which, if imposed, would hit Russia’s war chest. But, back in Moscow, how did the stock exchange react? It rose 2.7%. That’s because Russia had been bracing for even tougher…
The Pentagon has signed a multi-million dollar deal to begin using Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, as part of a wider rollout of AI tools for government use, the Department of Defence confirmed. Announced on Monday by Musk’s company xAI, the $200m (£149m) contract is part of its “Grok for Government” programme, and aligns…
Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US. The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, Zuckerberg said. He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size…
Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers. The world’s biggest human imaging project says it has now hit its target of scanning the brains, hearts and other organs of 100,000 people – the culmination of an…
On the day I visit Octopus Energy’s heat pump factory in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, temperatures in London reached 29C. Some of the staff meeting me, who are usually based in the south of England, are beaming. It’s wonderful to escape the heat, they say. And who can blame them. Climate change is making the UK hotter. In…
US technology giant Nvidia says it will soon resume sales of its high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. The US government has assured the firm that it will grant the licenses needed to restart exports to the world’s second largest economy, the company said in a blog post. The move reverses a ban on sales…
