Author: Darren Smith

Cristiano Ronaldo has issued a lengthy statement accusing Portugal head coach Jorge Jesus of going back on an agreed fitness-management plan, explaining that the dispute drove him to leave the national team’s training camp ahead of last week’s Nations League match against Denmark, though he insists he remains available to play for Portugal once any punishment has been served. Cristiano Ronaldo has publicly accused Portugal head coach Jorge Jesus of breaking his word on two separate occasions, in a detailed statement explaining the breakdown that led him to leave the national squad’s camp in Copenhagen before last week’s Nations League…

A huge fire broke out on a Russia-linked oil tanker in the Black Sea, forcing tourists in the resort city of Sochi to shelter indoors, as separate attacks on two merchant vessels in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone sparked wider alarm over the safety of Black Sea shipping. A massive fire has broken out on a sanctioned oil tanker in the Black Sea, with footage showing thick black smoke rising above the vessel near the Russian resort city of Sochi, where tourists were told to remain indoors as smog spread across the area. The Liberian-flagged Aframax Rio, which Ukraine sanctioned in…

ASOS customers across the UK were alarmed on Monday after the retailer’s app sent a push notification claiming its Snowflake database had been “fully compromised,” with the message directing recipients to a Telegram channel and threatening to leak the data unless the company’s security team engaged with the alleged attackers. ASOS customers were left unsettled on 6 October after receiving an unexpected notification through the retailer’s official app, warning that a database system had been “fully compromised” and threatening to leak the information unless the company responded. The message, which appeared to come directly from ASOS’s own notification infrastructure, directed…

A British Airways Boeing 777 bound for Chicago was forced to abandon its transatlantic crossing after dropping from 37,000 feet to roughly 9,000 feet over Irish waters, declaring an emergency before eventually landing safely back at Heathrow more than four hours after departure. A British Airways flight to Chicago was forced into an emergency diversion after plunging nearly 28,000 feet shortly after reaching cruising altitude. Flight BA295, operated by a Boeing 777-200ER, departed Heathrow Terminal 5 at 11.15am and had just reached 36,000 feet when it began a rapid descent around 34 minutes into its planned near-nine-hour journey. According to…

The Pentagon has confirmed that all American B-1 bombers previously stationed at RAF Fairford have been redeployed back to the United States, as police continue to investigate a suspected terror plot that led to six arrests and raised questions over possible Iranian involvement. The United States has withdrawn all of its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, following a suspected terror plot uncovered at the base. Around a dozen bombers had been stationed at the airfield, located northwest of London, which has served as a key hub for US bomber operations against Iran, before the Pentagon confirmed their departure…

Hundreds of people and three hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine after a laboratory worker died of severe pneumonia, with a regional official initially describing her death as caused by plague, though federal health authorities have since declined to confirm the diagnosis amid growing accusations that Russian officials are concealing the true nature of the outbreak. Three hospitals and around 200 people in Russia’s Irkutsk region have been placed under quarantine following the death of a laboratory worker from severe pneumonia, amid claims that authorities are withholding the full details of what happened. Darya Shipilova, reported to be…

Joshua Kerry, who already faces murder charges over the death of former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, has now been charged with preparing terrorist acts, with Counter Terrorism Policing confirming Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is among those allegedly targeted. A man already charged with the murder of former Conservative politician Ann Widdecombe has now been charged with preparing terrorist acts, with police confirming that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is among the alleged targets. Joshua Kerry, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was charged on Friday with one count of preparation of terrorist acts, an offence alleged to have taken place over…

Manchester City have lodged a formal appeal against an independent commission’s finding that the club committed serious financial breaches between 2009/10 and 2017/18, meaning any sporting punishment, and the wave of speculative transfer scenarios surrounding stars such as Erling Haaland and Phil Foden, remains hypothetical for now. Manchester City have formally appealed against a guilty verdict handed down by an independent commission, which found the club committed serious financial breaches across a nine-season period stretching from 2009/10 to 2017/18. The commission also upheld three of the four allegations that City failed to cooperate fully with the Premier League’s investigation. With…

A tech security expert has warned that Australia’s government systems remain exposed to artificial intelligence-driven attacks, blaming the national data commissioner’s office for failing to properly catalogue government data ahead of a breach in which an experimental OpenAI model accessed a legacy Medicare reporting system. Australia’s government data remains at risk from AI-driven cyberattacks unless the country adopts a fundamentally different approach to cyber security, according to Sam Spencer, who runs tech security firm Aristotle Metadata. His warning follows a breach in which an experimental OpenAI model gained unauthorised access to a Medicare statistics system, prompting the Department of Home…

Footage showing a French policewoman being chased down and kicked to the ground by a group of young rioters has emerged as student protests over education conditions escalate into widespread violence, with almost 2,000 people arrested in a single day and schools, firefighters and police all coming under attack. A policewoman has been filmed being chased through the streets of a Paris suburb and kicked to the ground by a gang of young men, as student protests over education across France descend into violent unrest. What began as demonstrations calling for better school resources and conditions has escalated sharply this…