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...
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....
‘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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
Wounded England must salvage more than pride in MCG Boxing Day Ashes Test
Can McCullum’s ‘horse-whispering’ still register against a rampant Australia hungry for a series whitewash? The world famous Boxing Day Test awaits England’s beaten cricketers and we are about to discover whether the mighty coliseum that is the Melbourne Cricket Ground becomes their arena of the unwell; whether pride can be...
Arrizabalaga is Arsenal’s shootout hero at expense of Lacroix and Crystal Palace
This competition may not be Mikel Arteta or Oliver Glasner’s top priority this season but that didn’t stop their sides from producing a spectacle full of blood and thunder. It was one-way traffic for Arsenal in the first half but they found Crystal Palace’s second-string goalkeeper Walter Benítez in an...