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Nottingham Forest have failed with an appeal against their four-point punishment for breaching Premier League profit and sustainability rules (PSR).

The club's case was held on 24 April and an appeal board has upheld the original decision of an independent commission to impose the sanction.

The commission found Forest's losses to 2022-23 breached the threshold of £61m by £34.5m.

It means Forest remain 17th and three points clear of the relegation zone with two games left to play.

The three-person appeal board arrived at a "unanimous" decision to uphold the original ruling by the commission, describing it as "commendably clear and comprehensive".

"Some of the criticisms of the [original] decision have involved a minute examination of the words used by the commission," the board said of Forest's appeal.

"Decisions such as these should not be subjected to microscopic forensic examination and interpreted as if they were statutes which have been drafted by parliamentary counsel.

"Allegations of infelicities of language or errors which are not material to the ultimate decision add to the complexity and costs of proceedings and are rarely likely to lead to a successful challenge of a decision."

Hull City head coach Liam Rosenior has been sacked after failing to guide his side into the Championship play-offs, BBC Radio Humberside understands.

Rosenior, who had agreed a three-year deal in December, steered the Tigers to seventh place in the Championship this season – their first top-half finish since 2016.

Hull’s 1-0 defeat by Plymouth on Saturday meant they missed out on the play-offs by just three points.

But Rosenior’s efforts were enough to make him one of three nominees for the Championship manager of the season award, won by Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna.

Rosenior, 39, who was in charge for 18 months, spent five years as a Hull player and helped them to gain promotion to the Premier League in 2013.

He returned to the MKM Stadium to succeed Shota Arveladze in December 2022, having previously worked as assistant under both Phillip Cocu and Wayne Rooney at Derby.

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Microsoft is shutting four studios, including Tango Gameworks, the developers of Bafta award-winning Hi-Fi Rush.

The Tokyo studio is being closed alongside Texas-based Arkane Austin and Canadian developer Alpha Dog Studios.

Wisconsin-based Roundhouse Games will be absorbed into Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios.

Microsoft has not said how many jobs will be cut as a result of the closures, which are all being made at subsidiary Bethesda - which the tech giant bought for $7.5bn (then £5.85bn) in 2020.

"I just want to say that I love all the people at Arkane Austin so much," said studio head Harvey Smith in a post on X, external.

"Great times, hard times, we went through so much, together."

Head of Xbox Games Studios Matt Booty announced the news in an email to staff, seen by the BBC.

He said the move meant it was ending development on Arkane Austin game Redfall, with "some members of the team" joining other studios.

The company plans to “provide make-good offers” to players who had pre-ordered downloadable content for the game that will now never see the light of day.

“These changes are grounded in prioritising high-impact titles and further investing in Bethesda’s portfolio of blockbuster games and beloved worlds which you have nurtured over many decades,” he wrote.

He said there would also be "a small number of roles" cut across Bethesda's publishing and corporate teams.

Disney is banking on a password crackdown and spate of sequels as it pushes to make its streaming business profitable.

The company, which is under pressure as audiences move away from traditional pay-TV and cinema, said it was on track to meet its goals after new subscribers and price rises helped to narrow losses in its streaming business.

Disney+ gained more than six million subscribers globally between January and March, excluding India. The streaming service now has more than 117 million subscribers.

The increase is important for a service that has seen growth flag in recent months but is viewed as critical to Disney's future.

However, Disney's share price tumbled by more than 8% with investors remaining wary of its prospects.

Disney told investors that a planned password crackdown, which will start in some countries this summer and roll out globally in September, should help drive subscriber sign-ups in the months ahead.

It is also hoping a number of sequels bring fans to the box office.

Disney has follow-ups to its Moana and Inside Out movies as well as sequels for Planet of the Apes and Deadpool.

Chief executive Bob Iger, whom Disney brought out of retirement in 2022 to boost profits and investor confidence, admitted that the company was "swinging back a bit to lean on sequels" after a period in which some of its new films flopped.

"Given the competition in the overall movie market, there's a lot of value in sequels obviously because they're known and cost less in terms of marketing," he said.

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Bolton Wanderers secured their place in the League One play-off final, despite losing 3-2 to Barnsley in their semi-final second leg.

Bolton had looked almost certain to book their spot at Wembley when, having won the first leg 3-1 at Oakwell, they recovered from going behind at home to lead 5-2 on aggregate at half-time.

Wanderers striker Aaron Collins had found the net from 25 yards to cancel out Sam Cosgrove's close-range header, before Eoin Toal nodded in from a corner to establish a three-goal cushion.

However, a deflected strike from Adam Phillips and another Cosgrove header brought Barnsley back within one goal of forcing extra time.

The Tykes pushed for an equaliser in the tie late on, with chances falling in the box to Mael de Gevigney and Cosgrove, but they fell short of a second successive appearance in the third-tier play-off final.

Instead it will be Ian Evatt's side, who finished third in League One, that will face either Oxford United or Peterborough United for a place in the Championship on Saturday, 18 May.

Oxford will take a one-goal advantage into the second leg of their semi-final on Wednesday.

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Natalie Robyn has left her position as chief executive officer of motorsport’s governing body the FIA after just 18 months in the role.

The FIA said in a statement that Robyn had left “by mutual agreement to pursue opportunities outside of the FIA”.

Robyn, who will leave her role at the end of May, is the fourth senior executive to move on from the FIA since December last year.

Her departure follows the resignations of sporting director Steve Nielsen, single-seater technical director Tim Goss and head of the commission for women Deborah Mayer.

And it comes in the wake of a series of controversies involving FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem.

In March, the FIA’s ethics committee cleared Ben Sulayem of accusations from a whistleblower that he had interfered in races in Saudi Arabia and Las Vegas last season, saying it had found “no evidence” to support the claims.

Ben Sulayem and the FIA are also fighting a lawsuit brought by Susie Wolff, the director of the F1 Academy for aspiring female drivers and wife of Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff.

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Rescue efforts are underway in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state after floods and landslides killed at least 100 people.

More than 160,000 people have been displaced by the floods, with some municipalities completely destroyed by floodwater.

Pictures emerged on Wednesday of a horse stranded on a rooftop amidst the floodwater in the city of Canoas. The city's mayor told GloboNews that they were hoping to rescue the horse with the help of a helicopter.

The international airport in the state's capital, Porto Alegre, has had its runways completely flooded and will be out of use for at least 30 days. Football stadium Arena do Grêmio has also been affected by the floods.

A message of solidarity was projected onto the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday evening.

Venezuela may be the first nation in modern history to lose all its glaciers after climate scientists downgraded its last one to an ice field.

The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), a scientific advocacy organisation, said on X that the South American nation's only remaining glacier - the Humboldt, or La Corona, in the Andes - had become "too small to be classed as a glacier", external.

Venezuela has lost at least six other glaciers in the last century.

With global average temperatures rising due to climate change, ice loss is increasing, helping to raise sea levels around the world.

"There has not been much ice cover on the last Venezuelan glacier since the 2000s", Dr Caroline Clason, a glaciologist at Durham University, told Newsround. "Now it's not being added to, so it has been reclassified as an ice field."

In March, researchers at the University of Los Andes in Colombia told AFP the glacier had shrunk from 450 hectares to just two.

Luis Daniel Llambi, an ecologist at the university, told the Guardian that it had now shrunk to less than that.

While there is no global standard for the minimum size a body of ice must be to qualify as a glacier, the US Geological Survey says a commonly accepted guideline is around 10 hectares.

One study, external, published in 2020, suggested the glacier shrank to less than this sometime between 2015 and 2016 - though it was still considered Venezuela's last glacier by Nasa in 2018.

Dr James Kirkham and Dr Miriam Jackson, glaciologists with the ICCI and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development respectively, explained that "glaciologists recognise a glacier as an ice mass that deforms under its own weight".

They suggested that there may have been issues accessing the Humboldt glacier in recent years, which could have delayed the publication of the measurements.

Professor Mark Maslin, a professor of earth system sciences at University College London, said an ice field like the Humboldt - roughly equivalent to the area of two football pitches - "is not a glacier".

"Glaciers are ice that fills valleys – that’s the definition – and therefore I would say Venezuela has no glaciers whatsoever," he told the BBC.

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Aston Villa's Europa Conference League run ended at the semi-final stage as opponents Olympiakos set up a final with Fiorentina.

Having lost the first leg 4-2, Villa fell to a 2-0 defeat in Greece to lose their tie 6-2 on aggregate.

Ayoub El Kaabi - who scored a hat-trick in the first leg - opened the scoring in Piraeus, tapping in Marin Ruiz's low cross in the 10th minute against the run of play.

Unai Emery's side dominated possession but lacked composure in the final third.

And El Kaabi benefitted from a tight offside call to double his tally with eight minutes remaining by latching on to a long pass forward and burying a shot beyond Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez.

Villa were hoping to reach their first European final since Tony Barton's team won the European Cup in 1982.

Instead, Olympiakos will play in their first European final at the home of rivals AEK Athens on 29 May.

And there will be no English club in a European final for the first time in four seasons.

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The locations of 17 WH Smith stores which will host Toys R Us concessions have been announced.

A total of 39 Toys R Us shops will open inside the stationer’s stores by the end of August, the retailers said – nine of which are already open.

Toys R Us went bust in February 2018, closing all of its 100 shops with the loss of more than 2,000 jobs.

Plans for the relaunch were announced in October 2022, prior to an exclusive deal being struck with WH Smith to open the concessions in the UK.

Three Toys R Us outlets - in Hereford, Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, and Fosse Park in Leicester - will open on 25 May.

Sean Toal, high street managing director at WH Smith, said: "Many tell me it feels like a back to the future moment - a brand they had known and loved since the mid-80s which is back to deliver the magic to a whole new generation of families."

He added: "Not only is this an exceptionally exciting time for our colleagues and customers, but we're also proud to be bucking the trend by continuing to invest in the UK high street."

Coventry City boss Mark Robins says captain Liam Kelly leaves the Sky Blues as a "club legend".

Midfielder Kelly made a total of 180 appearances for Coventry after arriving in 2017, and helped the club earn promotion from League Two in 2018.

The 34-year-old also skippered the side when they won promotion from League One as title winners in 2020.

"He has been an impeccable professional on and off the field, and an integral part of Coventry City’s rise through the divisions in recent years," Robins told the club website., external

"Liam Kelly will be rightly lauded as a club legend."

Kelly has been released alongside 33-year-old goalkeeper Simon Moore, while 26-year-old midfielder Callum O’Hare has been offered a new deal.