Unfamiliar England beat Australia 1-0 with Watkins winner on October 19, 2023LONDON: England’s Ollie Watkins marked his international return with a second-half winner as Gareth Southgate’s experimental side laboured to a 1-0 friendly win against Australia at a wet Wembley Stadium on Friday. With a key Euro 2024 qualifier against holders Italy looming on Tuesday, the England manager used the opportunity to rest first team regulars, […]
Former gang leader charged with rapper murder on October 1, 2023A quarter of a century after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a gang feud in Las Vegas, a man was charged Friday with his murder, a killing that came to symbolize the violence of gangsta rap as it surged into the mainstream. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, had long acknowledged his involvement in the […]
Renowned Irish poet David Trimble passes away on July 27, 2022DUBLIN – David Trimble, the Nobel peace prize-winning former first minister of Northern Ireland whose statecraft helped end decades of conflict, died Tuesday aged 77. Trimble, a key architect of the landmark 1998 peace deal in the troubled UK province, won the prize along with pro-Irish leader John Hume that year after the pair sealed […]