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Lazio and Atletico Madrid have been fined by Uefa after their supporters were found guilty of racist behaviour. The Serie A side have been fined £36,660 (45,000 euros) following incidents during their 4-1 Europa League win over Nice in Rome on 3 October. Lazio will also have to close two sections of the Stadio Olimpico for their next Europa League fixture against Porto on 7 November. European football’s governing body issued the club with an additional partial closure of the stadium for an extra game, which is suspended for a probationary period of one year. Spanish club Atletico Madrid have…

Doorbell video shows murder suspects pose as energy workers before allegedly killing jewelry store owner Doorbell footage has been released showing two suspects pretending to be energy workers calling a house in an upscale Detroit neighborhood before they allegedly murdered a 72-year-old jewelry store owner in the basement while his wife was duct-taped. The chilling footage, released by police, shows the men in high-vis vests and face masks standing outside a home in Rochester Hills, on Thursday at around 10 p.m., hours before the brutal killing took place, police say. “We’re DTE, we’re checking for gas leaks,” one of the…

‘Incomparable’ Alex Salmond made Scottish nationalism soar before he and SNP soured Late SNP leader drove party to power and country to brink of independence but left a fractured legacy. Alex Salmond, former first minister of Scotland, dies aged 69Alex Salmond – a life in. The flags on the Scottish parliament building were lowered on Saturday evening to mark the passing of Alex Salmond, who transformed the Scottish National party and led Scotland to the brink of independence as first minister. Voices cross-party and around the world rushed to praise the achievements of this consummate and divisive politician, who dominated…

Three men raped girl, 13, they found alone at tube station | UK News Three men raped a 13-year-old girl they found ‘alone and vulnerable’ at a London Underground station. Paul Maxwell, 24, Kayon Bhola, 29, and Jeremiah Jackson 24, encountered the girl at Hammersmith tube station when she was travelling from her home into London. CCTV shows them travelling towards Maxwell’s flat, where they raped her. A short video clip of the attack, which police found through in-depth phone analysis, along with forensic evidence helped convict the three men, police said. In a victim impact statement she read to…

Alex Salmond death – latest: Nicola Sturgeon pays tribute to SNP ‘mentor’ who brought Scotland close to independence Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond dies aged 69 Tributes have poured in for the longtime Scottish first minister Alex Salmond after his sudden death aged 69 shocked the world of politics in which he was a senior figure for decades. The current Alba leader passed away on Saturday afternoon at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Forum in the North Macedonia lake-resort town of Ohrid, the party’s general secretary Chris McEleny confirmed. He had made a speech at the event, and…

The new Map shows which London which London Underground stations are faster to walk than to tube Most of central London’s tube stops are less than a 10-minute walk from one another in the central zone. A new map shows which London Underground stations are faster to walk than to tube and we have broken it down for you. So when you are heading out for a day out in the capital, Londoners usually always ride the tube, hop on a bus or book an Uber. But is that actually the most efficient way of travelling around London? The tube,…

Monster pickup trucks accelerate into Europe as sales rise despite safety fears A Dodge Ram 1500 is bigger than a Panzer I tank and campaigners say heavy trucks are ‘lethal’ in collisions. The engines rev, the guitars thrum and a gruff narrator lays out why the vehicle occupying the driveway is more than just a machine. “A truck is a tool,” he says, “but a Ram – a Ram is life.” So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy. It is growing in…

‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home. Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019. She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she…

UK leader Keir Starmer is marking 100 days in office. It has been a rocky ride British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks 100 days in office Saturday with little cause for celebration. Starmer’s centre-left Labour Party was elected by a landslide on July 4, sweeping back to power after 14 years. But after weeks of stories about feuding, freebies and fiscal gloom, polls suggest Starmer’s personal approval rating has plummeted, and Labour is only slightly more popular than a Conservative Party that was rejected by voters after years of infighting and scandal. “You couldn’t really have imagined a worse start,”…

Starmer risks ministerial rift with slap down of transport secretary after £1bn investment loss Keir Starmer has risked deepening a rift in his own government after he used an interview with the BBC to criticise his transport secretary Louise Haigh. The prime minister appeared on the BBC News Newscast podcast with Adam Fleming and Chris Mason, where he was pressed on Ms Haigh’s comments to ITV earlier this week where she suggested a boycott of P&O ferries. The transport secretary had been discussing widespread anger with the ferry company over its decision to fire and rehire 800 employees to save…