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The family of Daniel Anjorin issued a statement to pay tribute to their son, with Arsenal also offering their condolences to the teenager who was stabbed while walking to school.Arsenal fan Daniel, 14, suffered fatal injuries to his neck and chest in a knife attack in Hainaut, east London.His family issued a statement through the Metropolitan Police saying: “We as a family are devastated by the loss of our beloved son Daniel. At this time, it is difficult for us to accept what has happened to him and that he will never come home. Facts. Daniel left home to go…

Spain has denounced comments by Argentina’s presidency that accused the Spanish government of bringing “poverty and death” to its own people.The office of the Argentinian president, Javier Milei, had published a statement on X, accusing the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, of damaging Spain’s economy and stability.The post appears to have been in reaction to earlier comments from the Spanish transport minister, Óscar Puente, who had suggested, during a panel discussion in Salamanca on Friday, that Milei had ingested “substances” during last year’s election campaign.Milei’s office released a statement on Saturday condemning the remarks while also attacking Sánchez.It accused Sánchez of…

Dozens of students at the University of Mississippi gathered this week to protest Israel’s war in Gaza and call on the state’s flagship university to be transparent in potential deals with Israel.In stark contrast to the dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters, there were hundreds of counter-protesters. The scene evoked memories of resistance to the civil rights struggle in the American South sixty years ago.Counter-protesters included people waving American and Trump flags. At one point they sang the U.S. national anthem, drowning out slogans from pro-Palestinian groups. The Oxford Eagle reported that one person held a “Come and Get It” flag, while…

“In the end it was the data that killed me,” says Penny* about her decision to leave the dating app Bumble. If she opened the app she might receive 100 likes, 25% of which she might be interested in. She would look at their profiles and write individualised messages; a few would respond, perhaps one would result in a date.“That’s a lot of effort to get one date,” she says. “It’s exhausting.”Bumble, billed as the feminist Tinder when it launched in 2014, this week announced it was taking action to relieve the administrative burden on its female users. It has…

phosphorusPicture the scene. Live sports are on the big screen, deck chairs are set up on the artificial turf, and the beer is flowing. It sounds like a scene during one of the continent’s major football tournaments: but it’s a gray, overcast Friday morning in Sheffield city centre.Tudor Square is the part of Sheffield where the Crucible Theater is located, and is, perhaps appropriately, referred to as the “heart of the city” in tourist information around town. Because for two weeks every year, snooker and its most iconic venues are the beating heart of Sheffield – at least for now.One…

The prosecution: Michelle She’s richer, more money-focused, and a bit obsessive over spending I have known Lily since we were 15. We have grown up together, really. But now, aged 29, we have really different attitudes to money. Lily has got a bit more bougie as we’ve grown older and I’ve gone in the opposite direction. It might have to do with the people we hang around with – Lily has a posher group of friends linked to her fiance. They all go on safari holidays together whereas I’m single and probably won’t ever do those types of trips.Recently on…

SecondBy his own admission, Northampton’s director of rugby Phil Dowson is a history buff. This week he invited the club’s Irish fitness coach Eamonn Hyland to give his players an “extremely powerful” lesson on what it means to be the first team to play at Croke Park. The cultural and historical significance of the English football team. The challenge against Leinster gets tougher on Saturday and the players are left with goosebumps.It’s been 104 years since the Croke Park Massacre, when 14 spectators were shot dead by the Royal Irish Constabulary, and as Dawson points out, Croke Park is “…

Ukraine on Wednesday presented an AI-generated spokesperson called Victoria who will make official statements on behalf of its foreign ministry.The ministry said it would “for the first time in history” use a digital spokesperson to read its statements, which will still be written by humans.Dressed in a dark suit, the spokesperson introduced herself as Victoria Shi, a “digital person”, in a presentation posted on social media. The figure gesticulates with her hands and moves her head as she speaks.The foreign ministry’s press service said that the statements given by Shi would not be generated by AI but “written and verified…

Tottenham Hotspur manager Anj Postkoglu has told his squad that more changes are coming. Spurs showed many signs of improvement in Postkoglu’s debut season until three consecutive defeats halted their progress.Thursday night’s defeat to Chelsea highlighted some of the flaws in the current Tottenham squad, which is dominated by the pragmatic Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and Antonio Conte and other head coaches, but are now required to play a more progressive style of football.Postkoglu has already made some changes, sacking Hugo Lloris and Eric Dier in January, while signing Guglielmo Vicario, Mickey van de Ven, James ·Madison and Brennan Johnson.…

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” But enough about Washington. The Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who once saw off gangsters at a fictional spaceport, came to the US capital on Friday for a meeting with Joe Biden.Quite why he was in the Oval Office, and what was talked about, remained something of a mystery. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Biden was riding high in the opinion polls but now, perhaps, he is in need of added star power.The surprise appearance by the man who played Luke Skywalker thrilled…