Extending flight times by making planes fly slower could reduce emissions from aviation, according to a study from the University of Cambridge. It suggests that reducing flight speeds by around 15 per cent could decrease fuel burn by 5 to 7 per cent. P…
Every Premier League club’s most famous fan
The Premier League is the biggest competition in the world and attracts plenty of A-List stars. All 20 clubs have some very famous fans from across the globe. Some attend games every week while others try and get to their beloved sides whenever their b…
St Pauli outline co-operative plans to cut debt and boost investment
Plans by Bundesliga club St Pauli to become a co-operative have taken a step further with detailed proposals being outlined for the how the unusual football business model will work. The promoted Hamburg club are famous for their left-wing fans, who ha…
Germany’s Baerbock says Green Party must work to regain voter trust
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Wednesday that her Green Party needs to regain public trust after seeing eroding support among voters in several regional elections. Baerbock’s comments came hours after the co-chairs of the Greens, Omi…
Police don’t believe explosion in Cologne linked to string of blasts
Police in Cologne have a suspect in custody and are hunting for another after an explosion in the early hours of Wednesday destroyed a cafe. But police investigators don’t believe the suspects are involved in a series of other mysterious blasts that ha…
Critics round on Albania’s prime minister over ‘Muslim Vatican’ plan
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to establish a sovereign Muslim mini-state within his country based on the model of the Vatican. It would be created in Albania’s capital Tirana and run by the Muslim Bektashi order. However, it will take a long t…
X will let blocked accounts still see user posts, Elon Musk says
Elon Musk has said social media platform X plans to scale back how its blocking tool works, so that blocked accounts will still be able to view a user’s public posts, but not engage with them. Currently, when an account blocks another on the site, it p…
EU strengthens joint efforts to tackle cross-border organized crime
The European Union wants to help the judicial authorities in its 27 member states work more closely together in the fight against organized crime. European cooperation needs to be strengthened and better coordinated to deal with the complex and rapid d…
Dortmund boss Sahin demands reaction after Stuttgart humbling
Borussia Dortmund coach Nuri Sahin hopes for a “clear reaction” from his team after the 5-1 Bundesliga defeat in Stuttgart. They host third-bottom Bochum on Friday at the start of matchday five. “We are all responsible and have hopefully learned our le…
Film stars and sportspeople among those to share hoax Meta AI post
Celebrities and sports stars are among the around 600,000 people who have reposted a hoax image which claims to deny Meta the right to use their data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. Actors Julianne Moore and Ashley Tisdale, as well as Eng…