Around August of each year, when temperatures swell in the Great Lakes region, wild rice — or manoomin in the Ojibwe language — begins to flower. Rice stalks can grow as high as 10 feet in the shallow waters, and to harvest, sticks and poles are used to knock seeds...
The country’s largest magnesium supplier shut down. Now what?
Only a few years ago, if you popped open a can of soda anywhere in the United States, the container you held more likely than not contained bits of magnesium harvested from the Great Salt Lake. Now, the country’s supply of the critical mineral looks uncertain. The largest producer, US...
What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good
Every year at the Oscars, attendees leave with gift bags so elaborate they have to be reported as income to the IRS. Luxury skincare, personal training sessions, designer apples that never brown, and extravagant trips are standard issue. But in 2025, Academy Award guests also received a grimmer gift: a...
David Squires on … the Premier League enjoying a rare Christmas at home
With just one top-flight Boxing Day fixture this year, our cartoonist takes a look at how players, coaches and officials might spend their time David’s favourite cartoons of 2025 | Buy one here And his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...
‘We’ve fallen behind’: why Germany’s biggest teams have split from DFB
Ownership of Frauen-Bundesliga is being taken over by the clubs, who want to keep pace with game in England “The reason we started this whole process was a fear of losing more and more the connection to the top,” says Katharina Kiel, the head of women’s football at Eintracht Frankfurt....
English cricket meets Spinal Tap as Rob Key delivers latest Ashes autopsy | Barney Ronay
The England men’s cricket MD offered a postmortem that didn’t address the nuts and bolts of the system he manages “It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.” David St Hubbins, lead vocalist, Spinal Tap. “There’s a real difference between aggressive and dumb.” Rob Key, managing director, England cricket....
Van Gerwen shows his class but Peter Wright crashes out of PDC World Championship
Van Gerwen looked in form in win over O’Connor Two-time champion Wright averaged just 79.20 Michael van Gerwen showed his class as he powered into the third round of the world championship. The three-time champion struggled in his opening match but brought his best to brush past William O’Connor 3-1....
Sivert Guttorm Bakken, Winter Olympics hopeful, dies at training camp aged 27
Norwegian biathlete found dead in hotel room in Italy Bakken, 27, was 13th in this season’s overall standings Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken has been found dead in his hotel room in Lavaze, Italy. The Norwegian Biathlon Association said the cause of the 27-year-old’s death was unknown. The International Biathlon...
Afcon roundup: Nigeria squeeze past Tanzania as Jackson double helps Senegal win
Group C: Nigeria 2-1 Tanzania; Tunisia 3-1 Uganda Group D: Senegal 3-0 Botswana; DR Congo 1-0 Benin Ademola Lookman scored a superb second-half winner as Nigeria earned a 2-1 Group C victory against Tanzania in the pouring rain in Fes, a positive start for the silver medallists from the previous...
Brooks Koepka quits LIV Golf after three years but PGA Tour return uncertain
The 35-year-old joined Saudi-funded tour in 2022 ‘Brooks is prioritising the needs of his family’ Brooks Koepka, the five-time major champion, has become the first player to defect from LIV Golf, a significant blow to the league funded by Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund and raises questions whether the PGA...