Luciano Spalletti took charge of Italy in 2023. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images Luciano Spalletti has been sacked from his role as Italy‘s coach, with the manager announcing the decision himself Sunday in the wake of their heavy loss to Norway, but he will still take charge of Monday’s game against Moldova. Spalletti was speaking at…
Getty Images Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the government’s Spending Review, which outlines the day-to-day budgets for departments over the next three years. The review affects funding for public services such as the NHS, schools, housing, prisons and policing, as well as other areas, including transport and infrastructure. Here BBC correspondents analyse how key services…
If innovation has an iconography, it involves a genius, a breakthrough and a dash of serendipity. Alexander Fleming notices mould growing on a plate of bacteria and discovers penicillin. John Snow produces a map of the victims of a cholera outbreak in 19th-century London and traces the outbreak to a single water pump. A German…
Dual Thunderbolt 5 ports and OCuLink elevate this eGPU beyond typical external GPU standards Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace cards shine in this unit Compact design and bold specs make FEVM FNGT5 Pro a tempting power upgrade for PCs External GPUs have long served as a way to upgrade a laptop’s graphical capabilities, particularly for users whose…
Damselflies can’t smile – but their wide-open mandibles make them appear to be grinning broadly or even sticking out their tongue, says Benjamin Salb, who photographed one of the insects, pictured above, at a pond in his local park in Gaithersburg, Maryland, last year. It is among Salb’s winning and commended entries in the Royal…
Artist’s impression of the planet K2-18b and its host star ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Astronomers claim to have seen the strongest evidence so far for life on another planet. But other researchers have urged caution until the findings can be verified by other groups and alternative, non-biological explanations can be ruled out. “These are the first…
BBC A “Trojan horse” therapy that sneaks toxic drugs inside cancer cells is being made available on the NHS in England in a world first. It can halt the blood cancer myeloma for nearly three times longer than current therapies. The drug is an advanced form of chemotherapy that hits cancer with a bigger dose,…
Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice has insisted the party knows “exactly what it is doing” following a 48 hours in which its chairman Zia Yusuf resigned, before returning in a different role. On Thursday, Yusuf dramatically quit, saying in a social media post that trying to get the party elected was not “a good…
Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the University of O’Higgins, Chile, with key contributions from IPHES-CERCA, demonstrates for the first time — based on direct fossil evidence — that these extinct elephant…
The Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets are Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant‘s preferred trade destinations, sources told ESPN on Saturday night. People across the NBA have been made aware in recent days that those are the three teams Durant would commit to with a long-term extension. Durant is on an expiring $54.7…
