20 h. ago Dave Brailsford is back leading Ineos Grenadiers on the hunt for Tour de France stage wins

The old boss has returned from his stint trying to revive Manchester United but faces another huge challenge pulling Ineos Grenadiers out of the doldrums

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40 h. ago ‘Like a kid in a sweet shop’: Brailsford back calling shots at Ineos Grenadiers

Former team principal will be present at Tour de FranceJohn Allert says 61-year-old ‘a not-so-secret weapon’Dave Brailsford has returned to a leading role at Ineos Grenadiers on the eve of the 2025 Tour de France, calling the shots on team selection and performance objectives, barely a month after he stepped back from his role at Manchester United.“Dave’s definitely coming to the Tour,” John Allert, the team CEO, said. “He’s like a kid in a sweet shop, talking about climbs and getting back to the mountains. That’s the battlefield that he knows and loves.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Audio of firefighter calling for help after two colleagues killed: 'Everybody's shot'

Two firefighters were killed and another was seriously injured after they were ambushed and shot by a sniper in camouflage while responding to a wildfire near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho at Canfield Mountain early Sunday afternoon

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4 d. ago Armed cops storm Scots street after cars 'shot at by airgun' as police helicopter called

Two separate calls from members of the public reported their vehicles had been struck on Sunday night.

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1 week ago Madame Lynch: how an Irish woman joined the ranks of Paraguay's heroes

Eliza Lynch was at her warlord partner’s side in a cataclysmic war and died in obscurity in Paris but is now being honoured – although not without controversyBy the time she turned 21, Eliza Alice Lynch had fled famine-stricken County Cork for Paris, married and left a French officer, become entangled with a South American warlord-in-waiting, and returned with him to Paraguay.Ten years later, her partner – by then, president and grand marshal Francisco Solano López – led Paraguay into a cataclysmic four-year war against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Half of Paraguay’s population was wiped out. López was cornered and shot on a jungle battlefield called Cerro Corá, along with their 15-year-old son. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Family of asylum seeker shot dead in Glasgow hotel after stabbing six call for review

Badreddin Abdalla Adam Bosh attacked his victims at Park Inn in the city in 2020.

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4 w. ago CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than everCiara Mary-Anne Thompson, or CMAT as she’s professionally known, says she can clearly remember writing the song that changed her life. She was 22 and having moved from Ireland to Manchester, was working in TK Maxx and, at the weekends, as what she’s fond of calling a “sexy shots girl”: “Cash in hand, £8 an hour, 11pm to 3am, teetering up and down the stairs of a nightclub in the building where Joy Division shot the video for Love Will Tear Us Apart with a tray of Jägermeister shots they’d put a bit of dry ice in – burned your skin if you got it on your hands – selling them for three pound each. Terrible job. And just getting absolutely stoned out of my bin all the time, doing whatever drugs anyone would give me for free. I had absolutely no friends.”An attempt to get her musical career off the grou...

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4 w. ago Dave Brailsford to step back from Manchester United and return to Ineos

Jim Ratcliffe planning further shake-up at Old TraffordBrailsford will take up old role as Ineos sporting directorSir Dave Brailsford is to reduce his role at Manchester United under a reshuffle being planned by minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.Brailsford has played a major part since Ratcliffe secured his stake in United in February 2024, stepping down as team principal of the Ineos Grenadiers cycling team to take charge of footballing operations at Old Trafford and investing considerable time and energy in driving change at the club. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Palestinian paramedic who survived Israeli attack that killed 15 says soldiers shot colleagues calling for help

Asaad al-Nasasra was one of two first responders who survived an attack by Israeli soldiers on a convoy of emergency vehicles

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