Year: 2021

Dame Cressida Dick has said: “no one is above the law” when asked about the allegations against Prince Andrew and says her team are having another look at the material.

The Guardian says Ted Lasso has changed my life. It’s about a coach of an American football college team who, improbably, is taken on as manager of an English Premier League football team.

The New Yorker says naturally, “Ted Lasso,” the picture of a Midwestern gentleman, introduces the lady first. In the opening scene of the series, Rebecca Welton gazes at a Hockney on the wall.

THR says Ted Lasso’s season one launch on Apple TV+ might have been the result of divine timing. Five months into the pandemic and an anxiety-inducing presidential election around the corner.

SALON says if magazine profiles, TV best-of lists andTwitter are to be believed, Apple’s uber-optimistic “Ted Lasso” was the beacon of light that helped just about every human being.

The Independent says Italy has been hit by a heatwave this week as the south of the country battles wildfires.

New Zealand’s much-awaited, albeit cautious, roadmap for reopening its borders has given businesses and families a taste of hope for the future

The i says an Italian tourist holidaying in Greece has described how wildfires erupted “like a bomb”, with ash raining from the sky and leaving a taste of smoke in his mouth.

The i says Afghanistan faces a spiralling humanitarian crisis as western troops withdraw and the Taliban takes control of more of the country, leading political figures have warned.

A tourist helicopter with 16 people on board has crashed into a lake in Russia’s Far East, officials say.