Manchester United and Liverpool fans dream of the arrival of superstar players ahead of a new campaign, but it seems the spending power of both Englsih giants could be on the wane.
Premier League stricken with debt?
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Disabled punk band fights for right to party
A disabled punk band has launched a campaign to fight for the rights of disabled people to be able to party late. “Heavy Load,” describe themselves as an “anarcho-garage-punk” band and are made up of five musicians, one of whom has Downs Syndrome and two who have unspecified learning disabilities
Pakistan Hopes for Answers on Bhutto Murder
Even 18 months after her assassination, Benazir Bhutto’s presence is ubiquitous in Pakistan. Portraits of the former Prime Minister, killed in a terror attack on an election rally in December 2007, continue to adorn government buildings, supporters’ cars, and vast billboards
Recession bites into TV chef Gordon Ramsay’s profits
Profits at celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s British restaurants plunged by nearly 90 percent in the last 12 months.
Harrington learns from Happy Gilmore
A number of filmmakers have looked to golf for inspiration for their movies — but it is not often a professional golfer does the reverse. Three-time major winner Padraig Harrington has broken the mould after experimenting with a devastating ice-hockey swing as used in the cult U.S
Is a Trade War with China Brewing?
When the U.S. Senate last February introduced a clause requiring the purchase of U.S.-made steel and iron in Washington’s $787 billion stimulus package, the Chinese government decried the “Buy American” measure as a dangerous step toward trade protectionism, stressing that Beijing would not respond in kind.
UK hostages confirmed dead after bodies identified
British authorities have identified two bodies recovered in Iraq, saying Sunday they are "highly likely" to be those of two British men kidnapped two years ago in Baghdad. Based on “strong indications,” the bodies are those of Jason Creswell, originally from Glasgow, Scotland, and Jason Swindlehurst, originally from Skelmersdale, England, the British Foreign Office said in a statement. Iraqi authorities discovered the remains of the two bodies and handed them over to British authorities, the Foreign Office said Saturday.
English flanker Croft named in Lions side
The British and Irish Lions will face world champions South Africa in Saturday’s opening rugby Test — and they enter the Durban clash full of confidence after winning all their six tour games so far. The Lions — a touring representative side featuring the best players from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales — only come together every four years and they tour New Zealand, Australia and South Africa in strict rotation
Scotland reports first ‘swine flu’ death outside Americas
A person with swine flu died in Scotland on Sunday, the government announced, marking the first known death of a swine flu patient outside of the Americas, according to the latest World Health Organization information. The patient who died in Scotland had “underlying health conditions,” the Scottish government statement said. No information was released about the patient.
Air France Flight 447: Can the Crash Be Solved Without the Black Box?
As a French nuclear submarine arrived off the coast of Brazil to join the effort to locate the black box from Air France Flight 447 on Thursday, aviation experts stressed the necessity of recovering those cockpit recorders in order to learn what exactly brought down the Airbus A330 and the 228 people on board. In past inquiries into airline disasters, investigators have been able to figure out the cause by piecing together clues from the wreckage itself, sometimes without information from the black box. But after 10 days of searching, the authorities combing what’s believed to be Flight 447’s crash site, some 700 miles out to sea, have come up with only 41 bodies and relatively little of the plane’s wreckage.