21 h. ago Legendary Carpenters composer dies aged 84 as tributes pour in for the We've Only Just Begun hitmaker

We've Only Just Begun composer Roger Nichols has died aged 84. 

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3 d. ago Former Minnesota football player Charles Rogers dies during Brooklyn half marathon

It comes a day after Daily Mail reported that another former college football player suddenly died after running a half marathon in Texas.

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6 d. ago Fans sensationally blamed by PGA Championship golfer after he misses the cut

Not everybody can get to the final stages of the PGA Championship, as one particularly bitter player is coming to terms with all the way in Charlotte as he turned on the fans at Quail Hollow

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1 week ago 'Show a little respect': David Beckham hits out at MLS rivals over Inter Miami jibes

Minnesota United called their opponents the ‘Pink Phony Club’ after their 4-1 win over Lionel Messi and Co

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1 week ago David Beckham tells Minnesota to ‘show a little respect’ after Pink Phony Club jibe

Loons claim 4-1 victory and refer to Chapell Roan hitMinnesota coach Eric Ramsay linked to Southampton jobInter Miami co-owner David Beckham told Minnesota United to “show a little respect” after the Loons celebrated victory by poking fun at the team they called the “Pink Phony Club” on social media.Saturday saw Lionel Messi suffer his heaviest defeat since moving Stateside two years ago as Eric Ramsay’s Loons ran out 4-1 victors at a packed Allianz Field. Continue reading...

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1 week ago David Beckham tells gloating Minnesota United to ‘show a little respect’

Minnesota poked fun at Inter Miami on social media after a 4-1 win at Allianz Field.

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1 week ago David Beckham calls on Minnesota United to ‘show some respect’ after goading Inter Miami on Instagram

Miami were beaten for the fourth time in five games and afterwards franchise owner Beckham hit back at Minnesota’s mocking social media posts

Politics

last month Men of a Certain Age by Kate Mossman review – close encounters with charismatic male rockers

A journalist’s bracingly honest account of interviews with musicians from Brian May to Shaun RyderWhen the journalist Kate Mossman was a child, she developed an obsession with the rock band Queen. Mossman came of age in the 1990s, but the irony and snark of that decade left her cold. Instead, she lived for the “middle-aged musicians from the 80s in jacket and jeans, and for the open-hearted, non-cynical pop times that had come before”. Watching Queen’s posthumous single These Are the Days of Our Lives on Top of the Pops in 1991, she “felt something within myself ignite”. Though she was captivated by the strange longing of a monochrome Freddie Mercury, who had died weeks earlier, it was drummer Roger Taylor who became the focus of her obsession. On the mantelpiece of her childhood home sat a holy relic: a beer glass he had drunk from during a solo gig. Twenty years later, while on her way to interview Taylor and Queen guitarist Brian May for a magazine profile, Mossman confesses...

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