Author: Darren Smith

The football game is bringing the show’s women’s team into Career Mode and Ultimate Team to coincide with the fourth series, with Ted Lasso himself returning as a playable manager. EA Sports FC 27 is adding Ted Lasso content to mark the show’s fourth season, this time centred on the women’s team, AFC Richmond Women, known as the Lady Greyhounds. The team will be playable in regular matches, Career Mode and Ultimate Team. Jason Sudeikis’s Lasso returns as a manager in Career Mode, and Nelson Road, AFC Richmond’s home ground, will be available as a stadium. EA has said the…

Passengers are said to have helped put out the flames before the aircraft landed safely, and no injuries have been reported. An IndiGo flight from New Delhi to Chennai made an emergency landing in Hyderabad on Sunday after smoke was detected from a passenger’s electronic device. Flight 6E 6115 was diverted to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, where it landed safely. Reports say a power bank in an overhead locker caught fire, and passengers are said to have tackled the blaze before the cabin crew used onboard extinguishers. The airline arranged another aircraft to take passengers on to Chennai. What happened…

The three-year-old male, who will not be put down, was brought to the park from Norway last year as part of a European conservation breeding programme. Altai, a three-year-old Amur tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, is at the centre of a tragedy after a man died in the tiger enclosure on Saturday afternoon. Emergency services were called shortly after 1.30pm, when the man entered the enclosure and was attacked by the tiger. South Yorkshire Police said he was pronounced dead at the scene despite the efforts of medical staff, and his family have been told. The park has confirmed that…

The World Health Organization says it has found no evidence of ongoing transmission after a scientist died at a Siberian anti-plague institute, though it still has no confirmed diagnosis. The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an update on the death of laboratory worker Darya Shipilova, who died on 2 October at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia. The agency confirmed that no case of plague has been officially registered. It also said the absence of a confirmed diagnosis in Ms Shipilova remained “a key uncertainty”. Russian officials say she died of pneumonia of unknown cause. What the WHO…

The UN migration agency says 84 people are still missing after the vessel, which was heading for Yemen, sank overnight with 305 people aboard. At least 139 migrants, including 15 children, have died after a boat capsized off Djibouti, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The vessel was carrying 305 people when it went down near Guhere, north of the port town of Obock, during the night of 8-9 October. It was travelling from Djibouti to Yemen, according to survivor accounts cited by the IOM. Eighty-two people survived, all of them Ethiopian nationals, and Djiboutian authorities are continuing…

Faulty plumbing is sending wastewater from toilets, washing machines and sinks straight into the capital’s waterways, according to inspections run by the Zoological Society of London. Volunteer-led inspections of London’s small rivers, brooks and streams have found dozens of cases of household wastewater flowing into local watercourses instead of the sewer system. The Zoological Society of London (ZSL), which operates London Zoo, has run the Outfall Safari programme for the past decade. It trains volunteers to patrol riverbanks and spot drainage pipes discharging household sewage. Its latest snapshot survey found pollution from plumbing “misconnections” on the Wandle, Brent, Ravensbourne and…

Supporters gathered on the usual approach, but the visitors’ coach was escorted by police along a different route as the club’s financial verdict raised the temperature before the match. Manchester City’s team bus used a different route into Anfield and avoided most of the hostility awaiting it from Liverpool supporters. Fans had gathered where the coaches normally arrive and set off flares as the home team’s bus came through, to loud cheers. They were expecting City to follow, but the visitors were taken another way under police escort. A few shouts of “cheats” were heard as City arrived. The scene…

A Washington-based research group says vehicle traffic, excavation and new building work at the Minzadayi compound point to efforts to restore capabilities lost in the Israeli attack, though imagery alone cannot prove weapons work has restarted. Iran appears to have resumed activity at a nuclear facility that Israel struck in March, according to new satellite imagery released by the Institute for Science and International Security. The high-resolution images show “unusually heavy” vehicle traffic and excavation at the Minzadayi compound, northeast of Tehran. The Washington-based organisation said on X on Saturday that the activity pointed to efforts “to not just clean…

The park was evacuated and shots were reportedly fired after the incident on Saturday afternoon. The man’s condition has not been confirmed. A man has been mauled by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster after reportedly jumping into its enclosure. Yorkshire Ambulance Service said it was called to the park at 1.33pm on Saturday 10 October. The park was evacuated and an emergency incident was declared. It is understood that gas canisters were fired to frighten the animal away from the man. Footage of the attack has been shared online. Emergency response Yorkshire Ambulance Service said it sent…

The Cockroach Janta Party says its main leaders were held before a planned march to Jantar Mantar, as press freedom groups demand the release of reporters detained while covering the demonstration. Police in Delhi have detained leaders of India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) ahead of a major protest the group had called in the capital. Ajinkya Shinde, who was handed responsibility for leading the demonstration after the arrests, urged supporters to keep marching towards Jantar Mantar. Journalists from several Indian outlets were also detained while covering events, though they were later released. The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on…