https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnxSlTZxrA
Norway to approve controversial deep-sea mining
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67893808
Calum Best is being tried today in Spain over an alleged s ex assault with the threat of a three-year prison sentence hanging over his head.
The reality TV icon and only son of football legend George Best has been summoned to court following an arrest at a famous Ibiza beach club.
There, in April 2022, he allegedly grabbed a British tourist's hand and 'put it on his privates under his trousers' and told her 'to feel this', leaving her 'in shock'.
Spanish state prosecutors have demanded the maximum sentence - three years jail - if the three trial judges convict him as charged.
The 42-year-old, now the chairman of Dorking Wanderers FC's women's team, is denying any wrongdoing and is expected to protest his innocence on the stand.
Calum, who won Celebrity Love Island in 2006 with Bianca Gascoigne and has starred in two series of Celebrity Big Brother, was held in April 2022 over an incident at the O Beach Club which was never made public at the time.
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West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta could be sidelined for "at least two months" with a calf injury.
The Brazilian suffered a recurrence of the issue in Sunday's FA Cup draw with Bristol City, having initially been injured against Arsenal at the end of December.
He missed the goalless draw with Brighton on 2 January and lasted just 14 minutes of the Bristol City tie.
Paqueta is set to see a specialist to determine the extent of the problem.
His absence would be a major blow for manager David Moyes as Paqueta emerged as a key figure in West Ham's resurgence during 2023.
It was his pass that created Jarrod Bowen's matchwinner in the Europa Conference League final victory against Fiorentina in June, sealing West Ham's first trophy in 43 years.
Meanwhile, Bowen is also set to miss a couple of games after being helped off the pitch with an ankle problem on Sunday.
While the damage is not as extensive as initially feared, Bowen is expected to miss the replay with Bristol City at Ashton Gate on 16 January and is unlikely to be fit for the Premier League trip to Sheffield United the following weekend.
The injuries come at a point where West Ham are also without another attacking option in Mohammed Kudus, who is at the African Cup of Nations with Ghana, while veteran Michail Antonio has suffered a setback in his recovery from a knee injury sustained on international duty in November.
Although Uwe Seeler (1936 - 2022) never won a World Cup (his involvement as a player in the tournament started four years after West Germany won their first World Cup (1954) and ended four years before they won their second (1974)), he had a prolific career in the tournament; he was the first player ever to appear in 20 World Cup matches (he retired with 21 matches played, tied for third all-time); the first ever to score in four World Cups (beating Pelé by only a few minutes), and the first player to score at least two goals in each of four World Cups (matched in 2014 by his compatriot Miroslav Klose). He also ranks third in all-time minutes played in World Cups, with 1,980, behind Paolo Maldini and Lothar Matthäus. In total, he scored nine goals across the four World Cups in which he played, as well as three goals in World Cup Qualifying matches; he scored 43 times in 72 international appearances between 1954 and 1970. A photo of a dejected Seeler leaving the field having just been defeated in the 1966 World Cup Final was voted as Photo of the Century by kicker magazine.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has dropped out of the presidential race with a parting shot at frontrunner Donald Trump.
"I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again," he said.
The Republican had faced pressure to step aside and allow the party to unify around a viable challenger to Mr Trump.
This was Mr Christie's second unsuccessful White House campaign.
Mr Christie's departure comes days before the Iowa caucus, the first of the state-by-state contests in which Republican voters will pick their preferred candidate for president.
The eventual winner will be anointed the Republican Oval Office nominee in July, before going on to challenge the Democratic nominee - likely Joe Biden - this November.
Mr Christie, 61, announced that he was suspending his campaign at a town hall event in the US state of New Hampshire on Wednesday afternoon.
He devoted much of his remarks to a plea to Republican voters to reject Mr Trump.
Mr Christie accused the former president of "putting himself before the people of this country".
"Donald Trump wants you to be angry every day because he is angry," he added.
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Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson says he has "best case a year" to live after being diagnosed with cancer.
The 75-year-old Swede was the first foreign coach to manage England and led the side to the quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cup and 2004 Euros.
"I'm going to resist for as long as I can," Eriksson told Swedish Radio P1.
"I have an illness that's serious. Best case a year, I have worst case a lot less. It's impossible to say exactly, so it's better to not think about it."
Eriksson, who had a 42-year career in management, learned of his cancer diagnosis "almost one year ago" and stood down from his most recent role as sporting director at Swedish club Karlstad 11 months ago because of health issues.
"I live a totally normal life," Eriksson told BBC World Service's Sporting Witness.
"I'm not in hospital, I go now and then for a visit but I live at home and I have friends here. Christmas and New Year, the whole family were here - a lot of people.
"I'm going out to try and exercise as much as possible, which is less than it was one year ago, but I have a normal life.
"When you get a message like that, you appreciate every day and you are happy when you wake up in the morning and you feel OK, so that's what I'm doing.
"I thought I was fully healthy but suddenly I had a small stroke so I fell and my children took me to the hospital.
"After one day of examination they told me I had five small strokes, but said 'no problem, you will recover 100% from that', but worse is they said I have cancer which they can't operate on.
"They said they will give me treatment and medicine to try and live as long as possible. I have that diagnosis and they can't operate, unfortunately."
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England posted on X: "Sending our love, Sven," while former England captain Wayne Rooney said: "Sad news this morning. Thoughts are with Sven Goran-Eriksson and his family. A brilliant coach and a special person. Loved and respected by everyone. We're all with you Sven, keep fighting."
Maidstone United's trip to Ipswich in the fourth round of the FA Cup will be shown live across the BBC.
The National League South side, the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, travel to Portman Road on Saturday, 27 January.
The BBC will also show Manchester United's visit to either Newport County or Eastleigh - the next lowest-ranked side remaining - on Sunday, 28 January.
Both games will be on BBC One, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.
Sixth-tier Maidstone beat League One Stevenage to secure a place in the fourth round for the first time.
A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation.
The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon.
The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were connected by an astounding network of roads and canals.
The area lies in the shadow of a volcano that created rich local soils but also may have led to the destruction of the society.
While we knew about cities in the highlands of South America, like Machu Picchu in Peru, it was believed that people only lived nomadically or in tiny settlements in the Amazon.
"This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation," says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.
"It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land - this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies," says co-author Antoine Dorison.
The city was built around 2,500 years ago, and people lived there for up to 1,000 years, according to archaeologists.
It is difficult to accurately estimate how many people lived there at any one time, but scientists say it is certainly in the 10,000s if not 100,000s.
The archaeologists combined ground excavations with a survey of a 300 sq km (116 sq mile) area using laser sensors flown on a plane that could identify remains of the city beneath the dense plants and trees.
BATE is the only Belarusian team to have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15 and 2015–16) and one of two to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League (2009–10, 2010–11, 2017–18 and 2018–19), along with Dinamo Minsk.
Ex England boss Sven Goran Eriksson's former lover Nancy Dell Olio has described his terminal cancer diagnosis as 'devastating'.
Lawyer Nancy, who had a ten year relationship with Sven, 75, said she 'knew he was ill' but had no idea of his devastating condition.
The glamorous Italian - who left her husband Giancarlo Massa for the coach - was a constant by his side and pictured with him at several tournaments.
Nancy, 62, who is in Italy following the recent death of her mother, said: 'I didn't think 2024 would open with more bad news. I knew that Sven was ill, but it hurts so much to hear this.
'It's a really negative moment. In September my mother died and I can't get over this loss. It's like having an open wound that instead of healing keeps getting worse. Sven's announcement was devastating.
'I knew he wasn't well, but hearing his words really. Life can be cruel.'
EastEnders fans could be in with a chance of appearing on the soap as BBC bosses prepare to feature one of London's iconic annual events for the first time in an upcoming special episode.
It emerged on Christmas Day that Jay Brown's (Jamie Borthwick) late wife Lola (Danielle Harold) had enrolled him and Honey Mitchell (Emma Barton) to run the London Marathon before she died from cancer.
Actor Jamie, 29, and his co-star Emma, 46, will actually run in the race when it takes place on Sunday 21 April.
However, they will be in character as they act out scenes for the programme, with the footage expected to air the following week.
This will be the first time the London Marathon has ever featured in EastEnders and it will give fans a chance to appear.
A West Virginia man discovered a pre-Revolutionary log fort hidden beneath the plaster walls of his home. The home had been continuously occupied since 1770 until 2019 when the last descendant died. While renovating the home, John Bryan, 43, unearthed a trove of historical artifacts that were left behind by the previous owners which included: 18th-century Spanish silver coins, brass buttons from colonial coats, inscribed books from a Revolutionary War soldier garrisoned at the fort, World War I mementos, and hundreds of family photos and daguerreotypes.
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The rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by nearly 50% in 2023 compared to the previous year, space agency data suggests.
Brazil's environment ministry said it was the lowest recorded deforestation rate in the last five years.
Though smaller than in previous years, the deforested area is still more than six times the size of New York City.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to end deforestation by 2030 when he took office a year ago.
Preliminary data from national space agency Inpe showed 5,153 sq km (1,989.6 sq miles) of the Amazon were cleared in 2023, down from 10,278 sq km in 2022.
President Lula promised to restore the Amazon rainforest and chase down climate criminals during his speech at climate summit COP27 in 2022.
Rainforest destruction had surged to a 12-year high under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOV7bp-gys
Two-goal Callum O'Hare inspired Coventry City to come from behind and stun Championship leaders Leicester City.
In a sensational late turnaround against Leicester's 10 men, O'Hare cancelled out Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's controversial first-half penalty with a 79th-minute equaliser.
Milan Van Ewijk then fired the Sky Blues in front after 87 minutes before O'Hare wrapped up all three points with his second in injury time.
The Foxes were a man down from the 45th minute following Abdul Fatawu's challenge on Jake Bidwell.
Coventry extended their unbeaten league and cup run to nine games after handing Leicester only their fourth defeat of the season - to end the Foxes' 10-game unbeaten run.
Kanga who left JA606 in 2015 will be happy with that result.
There was a brief 2019 comeback where he confirmed that he enjoyed s ex.
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posted on 9/1/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnxSlTZxrA
posted on 9/1/24
Norway to approve controversial deep-sea mining
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67893808
posted on 9/1/24
Calum Best is being tried today in Spain over an alleged s ex assault with the threat of a three-year prison sentence hanging over his head.
The reality TV icon and only son of football legend George Best has been summoned to court following an arrest at a famous Ibiza beach club.
There, in April 2022, he allegedly grabbed a British tourist's hand and 'put it on his privates under his trousers' and told her 'to feel this', leaving her 'in shock'.
Spanish state prosecutors have demanded the maximum sentence - three years jail - if the three trial judges convict him as charged.
The 42-year-old, now the chairman of Dorking Wanderers FC's women's team, is denying any wrongdoing and is expected to protest his innocence on the stand.
Calum, who won Celebrity Love Island in 2006 with Bianca Gascoigne and has starred in two series of Celebrity Big Brother, was held in April 2022 over an incident at the O Beach Club which was never made public at the time.
posted on 10/1/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUa2TGDStuI
posted on 10/1/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo
posted on 10/1/24
West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta could be sidelined for "at least two months" with a calf injury.
The Brazilian suffered a recurrence of the issue in Sunday's FA Cup draw with Bristol City, having initially been injured against Arsenal at the end of December.
He missed the goalless draw with Brighton on 2 January and lasted just 14 minutes of the Bristol City tie.
Paqueta is set to see a specialist to determine the extent of the problem.
His absence would be a major blow for manager David Moyes as Paqueta emerged as a key figure in West Ham's resurgence during 2023.
It was his pass that created Jarrod Bowen's matchwinner in the Europa Conference League final victory against Fiorentina in June, sealing West Ham's first trophy in 43 years.
Meanwhile, Bowen is also set to miss a couple of games after being helped off the pitch with an ankle problem on Sunday.
While the damage is not as extensive as initially feared, Bowen is expected to miss the replay with Bristol City at Ashton Gate on 16 January and is unlikely to be fit for the Premier League trip to Sheffield United the following weekend.
The injuries come at a point where West Ham are also without another attacking option in Mohammed Kudus, who is at the African Cup of Nations with Ghana, while veteran Michail Antonio has suffered a setback in his recovery from a knee injury sustained on international duty in November.
posted on 11/1/24
Although Uwe Seeler (1936 - 2022) never won a World Cup (his involvement as a player in the tournament started four years after West Germany won their first World Cup (1954) and ended four years before they won their second (1974)), he had a prolific career in the tournament; he was the first player ever to appear in 20 World Cup matches (he retired with 21 matches played, tied for third all-time); the first ever to score in four World Cups (beating Pelé by only a few minutes), and the first player to score at least two goals in each of four World Cups (matched in 2014 by his compatriot Miroslav Klose). He also ranks third in all-time minutes played in World Cups, with 1,980, behind Paolo Maldini and Lothar Matthäus. In total, he scored nine goals across the four World Cups in which he played, as well as three goals in World Cup Qualifying matches; he scored 43 times in 72 international appearances between 1954 and 1970. A photo of a dejected Seeler leaving the field having just been defeated in the 1966 World Cup Final was voted as Photo of the Century by kicker magazine.
posted on 11/1/24
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has dropped out of the presidential race with a parting shot at frontrunner Donald Trump.
"I am going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again," he said.
The Republican had faced pressure to step aside and allow the party to unify around a viable challenger to Mr Trump.
This was Mr Christie's second unsuccessful White House campaign.
Mr Christie's departure comes days before the Iowa caucus, the first of the state-by-state contests in which Republican voters will pick their preferred candidate for president.
The eventual winner will be anointed the Republican Oval Office nominee in July, before going on to challenge the Democratic nominee - likely Joe Biden - this November.
Mr Christie, 61, announced that he was suspending his campaign at a town hall event in the US state of New Hampshire on Wednesday afternoon.
He devoted much of his remarks to a plea to Republican voters to reject Mr Trump.
Mr Christie accused the former president of "putting himself before the people of this country".
"Donald Trump wants you to be angry every day because he is angry," he added.
posted on 11/1/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MdABLcI7RI
posted on 11/1/24
Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson says he has "best case a year" to live after being diagnosed with cancer.
The 75-year-old Swede was the first foreign coach to manage England and led the side to the quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cup and 2004 Euros.
"I'm going to resist for as long as I can," Eriksson told Swedish Radio P1.
"I have an illness that's serious. Best case a year, I have worst case a lot less. It's impossible to say exactly, so it's better to not think about it."
Eriksson, who had a 42-year career in management, learned of his cancer diagnosis "almost one year ago" and stood down from his most recent role as sporting director at Swedish club Karlstad 11 months ago because of health issues.
"I live a totally normal life," Eriksson told BBC World Service's Sporting Witness.
"I'm not in hospital, I go now and then for a visit but I live at home and I have friends here. Christmas and New Year, the whole family were here - a lot of people.
"I'm going out to try and exercise as much as possible, which is less than it was one year ago, but I have a normal life.
"When you get a message like that, you appreciate every day and you are happy when you wake up in the morning and you feel OK, so that's what I'm doing.
"I thought I was fully healthy but suddenly I had a small stroke so I fell and my children took me to the hospital.
"After one day of examination they told me I had five small strokes, but said 'no problem, you will recover 100% from that', but worse is they said I have cancer which they can't operate on.
"They said they will give me treatment and medicine to try and live as long as possible. I have that diagnosis and they can't operate, unfortunately."
posted on 11/1/24
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posted on 11/1/24
England posted on X: "Sending our love, Sven," while former England captain Wayne Rooney said: "Sad news this morning. Thoughts are with Sven Goran-Eriksson and his family. A brilliant coach and a special person. Loved and respected by everyone. We're all with you Sven, keep fighting."
posted on 11/1/24
All the best Sven!
posted on 11/1/24
Maidstone United's trip to Ipswich in the fourth round of the FA Cup will be shown live across the BBC.
The National League South side, the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, travel to Portman Road on Saturday, 27 January.
The BBC will also show Manchester United's visit to either Newport County or Eastleigh - the next lowest-ranked side remaining - on Sunday, 28 January.
Both games will be on BBC One, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.
Sixth-tier Maidstone beat League One Stevenage to secure a place in the fourth round for the first time.
posted on 11/1/24
A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation.
The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon.
The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were connected by an astounding network of roads and canals.
The area lies in the shadow of a volcano that created rich local soils but also may have led to the destruction of the society.
While we knew about cities in the highlands of South America, like Machu Picchu in Peru, it was believed that people only lived nomadically or in tiny settlements in the Amazon.
"This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation," says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.
"It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land - this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies," says co-author Antoine Dorison.
posted on 11/1/24
The city was built around 2,500 years ago, and people lived there for up to 1,000 years, according to archaeologists.
It is difficult to accurately estimate how many people lived there at any one time, but scientists say it is certainly in the 10,000s if not 100,000s.
The archaeologists combined ground excavations with a survey of a 300 sq km (116 sq mile) area using laser sensors flown on a plane that could identify remains of the city beneath the dense plants and trees.
posted on 12/1/24
BATE is the only Belarusian team to have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15 and 2015–16) and one of two to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League (2009–10, 2010–11, 2017–18 and 2018–19), along with Dinamo Minsk.
posted on 12/1/24
Ex England boss Sven Goran Eriksson's former lover Nancy Dell Olio has described his terminal cancer diagnosis as 'devastating'.
Lawyer Nancy, who had a ten year relationship with Sven, 75, said she 'knew he was ill' but had no idea of his devastating condition.
The glamorous Italian - who left her husband Giancarlo Massa for the coach - was a constant by his side and pictured with him at several tournaments.
Nancy, 62, who is in Italy following the recent death of her mother, said: 'I didn't think 2024 would open with more bad news. I knew that Sven was ill, but it hurts so much to hear this.
'It's a really negative moment. In September my mother died and I can't get over this loss. It's like having an open wound that instead of healing keeps getting worse. Sven's announcement was devastating.
'I knew he wasn't well, but hearing his words really. Life can be cruel.'
posted on 12/1/24
EastEnders fans could be in with a chance of appearing on the soap as BBC bosses prepare to feature one of London's iconic annual events for the first time in an upcoming special episode.
It emerged on Christmas Day that Jay Brown's (Jamie Borthwick) late wife Lola (Danielle Harold) had enrolled him and Honey Mitchell (Emma Barton) to run the London Marathon before she died from cancer.
Actor Jamie, 29, and his co-star Emma, 46, will actually run in the race when it takes place on Sunday 21 April.
However, they will be in character as they act out scenes for the programme, with the footage expected to air the following week.
This will be the first time the London Marathon has ever featured in EastEnders and it will give fans a chance to appear.
posted on 12/1/24
A West Virginia man discovered a pre-Revolutionary log fort hidden beneath the plaster walls of his home. The home had been continuously occupied since 1770 until 2019 when the last descendant died. While renovating the home, John Bryan, 43, unearthed a trove of historical artifacts that were left behind by the previous owners which included: 18th-century Spanish silver coins, brass buttons from colonial coats, inscribed books from a Revolutionary War soldier garrisoned at the fort, World War I mementos, and hundreds of family photos and daguerreotypes.
posted on 13/1/24
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posted on 13/1/24
The rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by nearly 50% in 2023 compared to the previous year, space agency data suggests.
Brazil's environment ministry said it was the lowest recorded deforestation rate in the last five years.
Though smaller than in previous years, the deforested area is still more than six times the size of New York City.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to end deforestation by 2030 when he took office a year ago.
Preliminary data from national space agency Inpe showed 5,153 sq km (1,989.6 sq miles) of the Amazon were cleared in 2023, down from 10,278 sq km in 2022.
President Lula promised to restore the Amazon rainforest and chase down climate criminals during his speech at climate summit COP27 in 2022.
Rainforest destruction had surged to a 12-year high under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
posted on 13/1/24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOV7bp-gys
posted on 13/1/24
Two-goal Callum O'Hare inspired Coventry City to come from behind and stun Championship leaders Leicester City.
In a sensational late turnaround against Leicester's 10 men, O'Hare cancelled out Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall's controversial first-half penalty with a 79th-minute equaliser.
Milan Van Ewijk then fired the Sky Blues in front after 87 minutes before O'Hare wrapped up all three points with his second in injury time.
The Foxes were a man down from the 45th minute following Abdul Fatawu's challenge on Jake Bidwell.
Coventry extended their unbeaten league and cup run to nine games after handing Leicester only their fourth defeat of the season - to end the Foxes' 10-game unbeaten run.
posted on 13/1/24
Kanga who left JA606 in 2015 will be happy with that result.
There was a brief 2019 comeback where he confirmed that he enjoyed s ex.
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