Author: James Martin
The players were in the tunnel ready to emerge for the second half at the Mapei Stadium, but José Mourinho was headed in the opposite direction, returning from the dugout to the changing room. Roma were drawing 0-0 with Sassuolo but just for a moment that was not his priority, as he went to retrieve a team shirt to give to a young supporter in a wheelchair he had noticed beside the pitch.This gesture could not surprise anyone who has followed Mourinho in his career. This is the man who gave a Manchester United supporter the jacket off his own…
(CNN) — Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s famous yellow pumpkin sculpture was reinstalled on October 4th on Naoshima island after it was swept into the sea and badly damaged during a typhoon last summer.Local residents, students and officials gathered to celebrate the art island’s trademark sculpture as it was placed back on the pier on Naoshima Island, which is in the Seto Inland Sea. It had been there since 1994.”Since (the pumpkin) was a symbol of Naoshima, it is great to see the same artwork installed again at the same spot. We are happy to share the joy with residents in…
CNN — For the first time since 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines for clinicians and patients on the use of prescription opioids to treat short-term and long-term pain. The new guidelines from the CDC, published Thursday, include 12 recommendations for clinicians who are prescribing opioids for adults with acute pain lasting less than a month, subacute pain lasting one to three months and chronic pain lasting more than three months. The update comes as drug overdose deaths have risen dramatically in recent years, although the majority of those deaths are now driven…
Elon Musk has scrapped Twitter’s working from home policy and ordered its staff back to the office, days after firing 3,700 employees.The social media platform’s new owner told staff in an email that its “road ahead is arduous and will require intense work to succeed”.The Tesla CEO added that working from home would no longer be allowed except in special circumstances, with such cases personally vetted by Musk.“Remote work is no longer allowed, unless you have a specific exception. Managers will send the exception lists to me for review and approval,” Musk wrote.He added that the new policy, first reported…
Taking on something a bit more challenging than adding a USB-C port, Aesthetics of Science and Technology (AST) claims to have built a folding iPhone. The group pillaged the folding screen from a Motorola RAZR, added some 3D-printed parts and combined it all with a jailbroken iPhone X. It’s very much a proof of concept, with little-to-no durability and a whopping gap when it’s folded. Thanks to the iOS jailbreak, it also has a split-screen mode. We’re staying skeptical – and have questions. How much internal hardware reorganizing happened? Can you fit an entire iPhone battery in one half of…
If football clubs were awarded points for connecting with their local communities and contributing to charitable causes Sunderland would quite possibly be top of the Premier League right now.In reality Tony Mowbray’s improving team are merely holding their own in the Championship but the club’s official charity, the Foundation of Light, ranks among the biggest in English football and has just launched a campaign to tackle growing poverty across the north-east.Sir Bob Murray, Sunderland’s former owner and the foundation’s founder in 2001, spends most of his time in Jersey these days but last week the 76-year-old businessman turned philanthropist was…
(CNN) — Rachel Décoste landed in West Africa’s Republic of Benin in August 2018, anticipating an important journey of self-discovery, but not predicting the extent to which the trip would change her life.On her first day exploring Benin, Rachel asked a passerby for directions. Two weeks later, Rachel and the stranger were engaged. Within six months, they were married. Rachel grew up in Ottawa, Canada, the daughter of Haitian parents who’d immigrated to Canada in the late 1960s. As an adult, Rachel relocated to Washington DC for college, later working for a bipartisan tech program associated with the United States…
‘We demand clean air and water’ – protesters slam fossil fuel ‘criminals’Nina LakhaniAs news broke of the 600+ fossil fuel lobbyists at this year’s summit, climate justice activists from Asia, Africa, and the Americas protested in the main courtyard in the blue zone demanding that the UNFCCC kick polluters out from Cop.“We are here representing millions of people who are demanding that the polluters be kicked out of the Cop space and policy making. For more than half a century they kept the truth about the harms from the people. They delayed action because of greed. You can let the…
Comment on this storyCommentMeta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made a startling admission on Wednesday during a private Zoom call for the 11,000 workers his company had just laid off: They were losing their jobs partly because he overestimated the staying power of the pandemic’s e-commerce boom.Like many social media platforms, Meta’s revenue soared during the pandemic when the spread of the coronavirus forced many retailers to turn to the internet to reach would-be customers who were staying home to avoid the virus. Zuckerberg thought that even after vaccines allowed people to return to offline activities freely, e-commerce growth would continue…
Google Search can help ensure that you don’t miss any FIFA World Cup match you want to see when the even takes place from November 20th through December 18th. If you search “World Cup” on Google, you’ll now see a dedicated section at the top with the list of upcoming matches, along with their dates and your local time. On mobile, either on a browser or on the Google app, you’ll have the option to set up notifications for specific teams by tapping the “bell” icon at the top right corner of the screen and then choosing the squad you…