4 h. ago For Lionel Messi and Inter Miami MLS Cup, not league success, rules all

The Javier Mascherano-led side has an outside chance of repeating as Supporters’ Shield winners, but MLS Cup remains the ultimate goalMuch about Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale was typical. The weather was sticky and humid. The crowd at Chase Stadium was lively. And on the field, Lionel Messi assisted Jordi Alba, and vice-versa, in a 3-1 win for Inter Miami. That the victory came against the Seattle Sounders, the side that beat Miami in a contentious Leagues Cup final two weeks ago, gave the squad a measure of revenge. But there are bigger factors at play.“It was important to regain positive feelings,” Miami head coach Javier Mascherano told reporters afterward. Continue reading...

Politics

5 h. ago Newton Faulkner hits back at old label bosses with gritty new album

Dream Catch Me no more - Newton Faulkner is fighting back with a complete sound shift after his team continuously pressured him to stay inside his singer/songwriter box

Events

5 h. ago Labor statistics chief fired by Trump sounds alarm over White House’s ‘dangerous’ interference

Erika McEntarfer says Americans should be concerned about independence of key economic institutionsThe former chief US economics data statistics who Donald Trump fired last month called her sudden removal “dangerous” and said Americans should be concerned about the independence of key economic institutions.“Markets have to trust the data are not manipulated,” said Erika McEntarfer, former head of the Bureau Labor of Statistics, on Tuesday in her first remarks since her firing. “Firing your chief statisticians for releasing data you do not like, it has serious economic consequences.” Continue reading...

Events

6 h. ago Former BLS chair breaks silence on being fired by Trump and going from unknown to ‘household name’

spoke out about her public firing in a talk for the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College

Politics

6 h. ago Christian Brueckner's exact release conditions as he's freed from prison

Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance, has been released from prison following a rape sentence and has strict conditions to follow

Events

6 h. ago Space technology plan to monitor noxious algae on Lough Neagh

A total of £800,000 has been awarded by the UK’s Space Agency to develop a remote sensor that predicts, detects and monitors blue-green algae.

Technology

7 h. ago Police review possibility of charging Madeleine McCann suspect in the UK

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said that the force is examining its investigation into Christian Brueckner over the disappearance of Madeleine and is 'taking stock of where we are'

Events

7 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner seen buying McDonald's after release

After being whisked away for prison this morning, it was fast food first for Christian Brueckner who was seen at a McDonald’s outlet near Hamburg wearing an ankle tag

Economics

8 h. ago Christian group launches legal action to stop Grade II listed former Carnegie Library becoming town's first mosque

Labour council chiefs agreed a 30-year-old lease to turn the landmark former library into a mosque after it has sat unused for ten years.

Politics

8 h. ago Busted break silence on James Bourne's absence from tour with McFly: 'He's really sick'

Matt Willis opens up on bandmate’s health struggles at first show the group have ever played without the singer

Transport

9 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner's sickening online chats with paedophile

Skype chats between Christian Brueckner - the suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - and another paedophile reveal his 'sadistic glee' over child sex abuse and his plans to 'capture something small'

Politics

9 h. ago Christian Brueckner heads straight to McDonald's while wearing an ankle tag as he is released from prison

Christian Brueckner , 48, had been serving a seven-year term at Sehnde prison for an unrelated offence before being released at 9:15am local time this morning.

Events

9 h. ago ‘He should be known as a film music revolutionary’: revitalising the legacy of Czech composer Zdeněk Liška

The electroacoustic pioneer scored dozens of pictures – and communist propaganda. Too successful to be persecuted by the politburo but largely forgotten when he died, his music is being revived by a new archival seriesZdeněk Liška became one of the eastern bloc’s pioneers of electroacoustic music by accident. After breaking through making music for ads and animations, the revolutionary film-makers of the 1960s Czechoslovak new wave asked him to soundtrack their movies, which he took as his greatest inspirations. With the help of radio engineering enthusiasts at Czechoslovakia’s film powerhouse, Barrandov Studios, he could imitate the whoosh of a spaceship or birds chirping. He composed underwater electroacoustic symphonies and music to be played on typewriters. Despite his innovations, he famously proclaimed: “I only write music under the pictures.”Liška was as productive as he was innovative: from the late 1950s to the late 1970s, he would score eight feature films a year, as well ...

Culture

9 h. ago Davina McCall breaks silence on engagement after she 'almost ruined' boyfriend's romantic proposal

Davina and her hairdresser partner Michael Dougla got engaged over the summer after seven years together

Politics

10 h. ago Where will Madeleine McCann prime suspect roam as he's released and 'may flee Germany'

Christian Brueckner, 48, was released from Sehnde prison near Hannover at 9.15am this morning after serving a seven-year sentence for raping an elderly woman in Portugal

Politics

10 h. ago Melania Trump exudes elegance as she arrives to meet the Royal family alongside Donald in historic state visit to the UK

The 55-year-old looked effortlessly chic in a Christian Dior Haute Couture skirt suit that flared out at the waist and fell just below her knees.

Politics

10 h. ago You could live inside Henry VIII’s old seaside castle with private beach for £800,000

It is a unique opportunity to live in one of the country's historic waterfront castles

Economics

10 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner 'screams the girl is dead' in chilling outburst

German paedophile Christian Brueckner has been behind bars serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany over the rape of an elderly woman at her home in Praia da Luz in 2005.

Events

10 h. ago Despite past challenges, Scouting America stabilizes with support from faith

For the Boy Scouts of America — recently renamed Scouting America — the past 12 years have been challenging

Politics

11 h. ago DAN HODGES: Now's not the time for cowardly silence. We have to call the Unite The Kingdom rally exactly what it is

Saturday's march on London was a radical far-Right rally. The event was divisive. It was deeply un-British. And it needs to be called out for what it is.

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