Author: Darren Smith

The national team has added a crossed line to the number, and players will wear Ronaldo’s No 7 and stand for a seventh-minute ovation against Denmark in Braga. Carlos Forbs will wear the redesigned shirt. Portugal have permanently changed the design of the No 7 shirt to honour Cristiano Ronaldo, who retired from international football on 5 November after a falling-out with coach Jorge Jesus. The forward’s 23-year career brought 246 caps and 146 goals. The change was revealed before Saturday’s Nations League match against Denmark in Braga, where the team will also pay tribute to him before and during…

Antonio Nusa and Andreas Schjelderup struck within nine minutes of each other, and Erling Haaland added a late penalty. Wales are guaranteed to finish bottom of Group A4 and could face a March play-off to avoid relegation. Wales lost 3-1 to Norway in Oslo on Saturday, damaging their hopes of staying in the top tier of the Nations League. Nusa and Schjelderup scored in a nine-minute spell in the second half as the home side took control. Substitute David Brooks pulled one back 11 minutes from time, but Haaland converted a penalty after Connor Roberts brought down Schjelderup. It was…

About 106,000 people took part in the “Act V” demonstrations, according to the Interior Ministry. Organisers put the figure at roughly twice that. Hundreds of arrests were reported. Around 106,000 people joined anti-government protests in cities across France on Saturday, according to the Interior Ministry, in the fifth consecutive weekend of demonstrations. Paris saw 24,000 marchers by the official count. Organisers from the youth-led coalition claimed about 200,000 nationwide and 100,000 in the capital, and the two sets of figures have not been reconciled. Police used tear gas and charged at crowds in places, and projectiles were thrown in several…

The company says it has fixed the underlying fault and restored service to all remaining customers and regions. The outage began on Thursday evening and affected millions of users, including public services across the UK. Microsoft has confirmed that all services are fully restored after a global outage that disrupted the NHS, police forces, schools and courts in the UK. A technical fault began to affect email, messaging and other Microsoft 365 services from 6pm UK time on Thursday, and the remaining problems were cleared by Saturday morning. A notice on the company’s Microsoft 365 status page said it had…

A new photograph shows the East Wing and State Ballroom complex taking shape. At 90,000 sq ft, it is far larger than the 55,000 sq ft executive residence, though the ballroom itself is smaller than that figure suggests. A new aerial photograph has shown the scale of the East Wing and State Ballroom complex that Donald Trump is building at the White House. The project covers 90,000 sq ft, compared with 55,000 sq ft for the executive residence, which has housed US presidents since 1800. It is more than six times the size of the original East Wing, built in…

Police lined up outside Singh’s Dining in Hammersmith on Friday night. Owner Harman Singh Kapoor says his family has received death threats, and he was arrested hours before the demonstration. Hundreds of people gathered outside Singh’s Dining in Hammersmith, west London, on Friday night to call for the restaurant to close because it does not sell halal food. Metropolitan Police officers formed a line to hold the crowd back. The owner, Harman Singh Kapoor, who is Sikh, says he and his family have faced harassment, intimidation and hundreds of death threats. He was arrested at his home a few hours…

The Ukrainian president said “our soldiers will come home” after talks in Dublin with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Russia describes the deal as preliminary, and details have yet to be confirmed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed an agreement with Russia to exchange prisoners of war, which he said would be “the biggest exchange of war prisoners”. He spoke to reporters on Thursday evening alongside Mr Witkoff and Mr Kushner, after almost an hour of talks at Baldonnel Aerodrome on the outskirts of Dublin. “Our soldiers will come home,” he said. He also welcomed progress towards giving…

British Transport Police want to speak to a man who got off at Orpington after the alleged assault on 15 October. They believe he may have information that could help the investigation. British Transport Police (BTP) have released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to in connection with a sexual assault on a train leaving London. Detectives say that at around 7.10pm on Thursday 15 October, a man boarded a London Bridge to Sevenoaks service, sat next to another man, spoke to him and then sexually assaulted him. The man then got off at Orpington railway…

Challenger Josh Hokit, who arrived at the press conference in an eye patch and goggles in a reference to Ciryl Gane’s past eye-poke fouls, taunted the champion. Gane stayed calm, and UFC president Dana White stepped in at the end. Dana White had to separate Ciryl Gane and Josh Hokit after a second tense face-off during fight week at Madison Square Garden. Hokit, 28, wore an eye patch, protective goggles and a towel on the back of his head to Thursday evening’s press conference, a nod to Gane’s earlier fouls. He aimed repeated verbal jabs at the 36-year-old Frenchman, much…

Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has promised “zero tolerance” after the first comprehensive study of its kind in the Bundeswehr. He called the findings “unacceptable” as the military tries to recruit more troops. More than 60% of women serving in the German armed forces say they have experienced some form of sexual harassment or abuse while on duty, a major study has found. The research, by the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam, was released this week. Mr Pistorius said the extent of the misconduct was “unacceptable”, particularly as the Bundeswehr is trying to expand to meet global…