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UNICEFcriticises Sonny Bill Williams for tweeting pictures of dead children in Syria

Global children's fund charity UNICEF have criticised rugby star Sonny Bill Williams after he posted explicit pictures of two dead children in Syria to his 500,000 followers on Twitter.




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Exercising to fast-tempo music can increase the effort and endurance of your workouts

A new study led by the University of Verona in Italy has found that listening to high-tempo music that equates to at least 170 heartbeats per minutes inspired bursts of effort during exercise.




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Football news: Former Bolton boss Sam Allardyce criticises decision to delay Doncaster match

The Trotters pulled the plug on their fixture at just 24 hours' notice due to welfare concerns for their young squad, who have been thrust into senior action amid the off-field problems at the club.




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Bolton on the brink of liquidation as League One clubs call for decisive action

Bolton, one of the founding members of the Football League, are in a desperate fight to survive with the club hurtling towards liquidation if a deal to buy it cannot be revived.




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EFL to appeal against Bolton's suspended five-point penalty as they label decision 'too lenient'   

The League One side were given a five-point deduction, suspended for 18 months after they failed to fulfil some of their matches, as well as being handed a fine, but that has been called lenient.




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Lord Coe urged to cut Nike ties after their decision to back drugs cheat Justin Gatlin 

CHARLES SALE: Lord Coe’s unparalleled reputation as Britain’s leading sporting statesman is in danger of being tainted by his continued links with Nike.




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Darmian believes Rashford CAN win the Ballon d'Or and claims criticism of Pogba is 'unjustified'

Darmian spent four years at United before joining Parma last summer, but saw Rashford make his first-team debut in his first year at the club before France midfielder Pogba joined a year later.




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The Voice: Kelly Clarkson makes toughest decision ever and picks Damali as winner as Knockouts end

The 37-year-old American Idol winner had to make the toughest decision she's ever made on The Voice, she said on Tuesday's episode of the show.




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Strictly bosses 'left FURIOUS by AJ Pritchard's decision to quit'

A source claimed producers were blindsided by the dancer's surprise departure as they have struggled to sign any big celebrities for the new series due to the coronavirus pandemic.




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Rugby Union discipline Eddie Jones after he criticised referee's decision to send off Manu Tuilagi

England coach Eddie Jones has been disciplined by his bosses at the RFU following his scathing criticism of referee Ben O'Keeffe.




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San Francisco 49ers assistant coach is first female AND first openly gay coach in Super Bowl history

Katie Sowers, 33, of the San Francisco 49ers made history on two fronts in Super Bowl 2020, when she became the first female and LGBT coach to reach the championship game this past Sunday.




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San Francisco 49ers fan assaulted taco restaurant workers with a burrito and napkin dispenser

Video footage shows the moment a San Francisco 49ers fan attacked taco restaurant employees with a burrito, phone and napkin dispenser on Super Bowl Sunday..




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Pregnant Muslim woman attacked in Parramatta speaks out about racist tirade

The 31-year-old woman, who is 38 weeks pregnant, was with friends at Bay Vista cafe on Church Street, Parramatta, at 10.30pm on Wednesday when she was set upon.




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Sterling believes Euro 2020 win would be significant step in battle against racism

Manchester City star Raheem Sterling believes that a victorious England campaign in Euro 2020 could represent a significant step forward in the country's battle against racism.




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England star Keira Walsh opens up on criticism that ruined her first World Cup

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY CLAIRE BLOOMFIELD: Keira Walsh felt like she had to carry the world on her shoulders amid a constant stream of negativity during the World Cup.




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Alan Shearer criticises Jurgen Klopp for his touchline absence

Speaking before the match, Alan Shearer believed the kids deserved to have Klopp, who is on holiday amid the Premier League winter break, watching on from the sidelines.




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Andre Gray hits out at the FA and police for lack of action over racist abuse

Andre Gray has accused the FA and police of doing 'nothing' after he and his team-mates were hit with a barrage of racist abuse online. He was speaking for new BBC Three film Shame In The Game.




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Newport County ban supporter for life after he was found guilty of racist abuse at Rodney Parade

The 40-year-old male has already been handed a four-year banning order by the courts for his offensive chants during Newport's FA Cup game with Grimsby at Rodney Parade in November.




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Lawes' stand against the fake allegations that criticism of Markle is racist is something I admire

JEFF POWELL: My long-range admiration for Courtney Lawes as a man has been cemented by his principled stand against the fake allegations that criticism of Meghan Markle is racist.




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Arsenal news: Mesut Ozil says racism in Germany has 'shifted to the middle of society'

The 31-year-old insists he has no regrets over the snap, which saw him become the target of racist abuse in the wake of Germany's shock World Cup exit in 2018.




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SNP chief Ian Blackford brands Boris Johnson a 'racist' at PMQs

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford delivered the extraordinary tirade at PMQs, hammering Mr Johnson for describing muslim women in veils as 'letterboxes'.




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Home Secretary Priti Patel facing a barrage of racist and sexist abuse on social media

Online trolls - some of whom told her to 'go back to India' and who mocked her Ugandan background - claimed to be members of Labour, the SNP and Green Party.




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I’m not convinced by Eddie Jones' decision to pick Ben Te'o and Manu Tuilagi against Italy

SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: England supporters will be seriously excited by Eddie Jones’ heavyweight backline - but I am not sure Ben Te’o and Manu Tuilagi will strike the same fear into the Italians.




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The Italian FA want to use LISTENING DEVICES to fight racist abuse in Serie A after monkey chants

Italian Football Federation president Gabriele Gravina has detailed 'a passive radar device that uses directional microphones to determine the source of the noise' from offending supporters.




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Fiorentina's Kevin-Prince Boateng pledges to create anti-racism task force in 2020

Fiorentina playmaker Kevin-Prince Boateng has pledged to take his own measures to finally putting an end to vile racist abuse in football, by creating his own task force.




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Footballer's union FIFPRO says Napoli's decision to fine their players was unjustified 'abuse'

Italian media have widely reported that Napoli will fine the players between one quarter and one half of last month's wages after they rebelled against an order by club owner Aurelio De Laurentiis.




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Report into 'Nick the fantasist' aka Carl Beech criticises Tom Watson

Former High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques said there was 'no doubt' that Labour deputy leader Tom Watson believed the allegations by fantasist Carl Beech, known as 'Nick'.




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Jeremy Corbyn: Meghan Markle criticism has 'racial undertones'

Jeremy Corbyn waded into the furious row over the royal couple with a spokeswoman saying he understood how coverage could have a 'negative impact on people'.




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Personal trainer Jono Castano Acero reveals Rebel Wilson's daily exercise routine

Rebel Wilson declared 2020 'the year of health', before enlisting the help of renowned personal trainer Jono Castano Acero.




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Victor Lindelof criticises HIMSELF after poor form continues as Sweden draw with Norway

Victor Lindelof pulled no punches after Sweden's 1-1 stalemate with Norway in Euro 2020 qualifying, and placed the blame firmly at his own doorstep.




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Anorexic who hid stones in her trousers to hide weight loss said exercise saved her life

Talia Bentley, 23, from Lancaster, was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa aged 16 and spent four years restricting her calorie intake to as little as 500 a day - meaning even 'the smallest' clothes didn't fit.




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Trump: Decision to revoke Manafort's bail is 'very unfair'

Donald Trump has called the decision to revoke Paul Manafort's bail 'tough' and 'very unfair' after a federal judge sent the former campaign manager to await trial behind bars.




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AOC and Megan McCain lead backlash against Trump's 'racist' tweet

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clapped back at Trump's suggestion that she and others 'go back' to their countries and fix what's broken there before telling the US how government should operate.




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Abby Lee Miller of takes aim at GMA's Lara Spencer for criticism of Prince George's ballet lessons

Abby Lee Miller of Dance Moms fame shared a video to Instagram in which she lambasted GMA's Lara Spencer for making fun of Prince George for taking ballet classes.




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Kate Middleton's venture into podcasting 'was not a vanity exercise', source tells People magazine 

A source told People magazine that the Duchess of Cambridge, 38, was 'exposing herself' as she opened up about motherhood on Giovanna Fletcher's podcast released last week.




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Woman reveals she had to move back in with 'covert narcissist' husband during lockdown

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Griffiths, 54, who is originally from the UK but lives in Australia, has revealed she has been forced into lock down with with her 'narcissist' husband, Marc, 49.




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Tracy Vo reveals the rare health condition behind her decision to quit Today

Newsreader Tracy Vo has spoken about her father's health condition that forced her to make the tough decision to quit the Today show.




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Newsreader Tracy Vo speaks about the 'hard decision' to leave the Today show

Tracy Vo confirmed she relocated to Perth to be closer to her elderly parents amid the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this week. 




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US Marines take part in war games exercise that teaches them how to survive in the Thai jungle

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES - The annual Cobra Gold military exercise got underway in Thailand on Tuesday, which saw US troops undergo a series of grueling and garish tasks.




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Max Verstappen responds to Lewis Hamilton criticism over driving style after Mexico Grand Prix

Max Verstappen claimed Lewis Hamilton criticised his aggressive driving style only because he had got into the world champion's head. Hamilton said he feared being 'torpedoed' by the Dutchman.




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Pope Francis changes Lord's Prayer after saying it implied that God can lead us astray 

Pope Francis has approved altering 'lead us not into temptation' to 'do not let us fall into temptation' because he believes it shifts the responsibility onto Satan.




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Pope Francis bans ambassadors from blogging or criticizing his policies

In a document handed to more than 100 ambassadors in Rome for meetings with top Vatican officials, Francis told the envoys they had to 'live for the things of God and not for those of the world'.




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Madonna says she'd like a meeting with Pope Francis to discuss a woman's right to choose

Madonna revealed she would like a meeting with Pope Francis in a wide-ranging interview with Andrew Denton which aired on Tuesday night. 




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Pope Francis shares cryptic tweet as he breaks his silence on George Pell's failed bid for freedom

The most powerful figure in the Catholic Church took to social media to share a cryptic tweet in the hours after the Victorian Supreme Court turned down Pell's appeal against sex abuse convictions.




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First shots of Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as Benedict and Francis in new film The Two Popes

The new film, due to be released in the UK December, follows is being billed as an intimate tale about one of the most dramatic transitions of power in the Catholic Church's history.




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Pope Francis celebrates open-air mass for one MILLION people in Madagascar

Crowds of worshippers waved yellow-and-white Vatican flags and cheered as the Popemobile made its way into the stadium in the capital Antananarivo (pictured).




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Pope Francis arrives in Mauritius and is greeted by 100,000 people waving palm leaves

Pope Francis is in Mauritius to honour a 19th century French missionary who ministered to free slaves. Roughly 100,000 people attended the service during country's first papal visit since 1989.




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Pope Francis swaps Popemobile for the back seat of a Fiat Tipo as he arrives to celebrate Mass

Attendants to a Mass with the Pope at a cathedral in Albano on the outskirts of Rome were surprised when His Holiness appeared from the back of a Fiat Tipo, rather than the usual Popemobile.




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Pope Francis warns Silicon Valley to be careful AI does not lead to a new 'form of barbarism' 

Speaking at a three-day event, Pope Francis warned Silicon Valley and tech giants in the audience to be ware AI doesn't lead to a new 'form of barbarism', resulting in the manipulation of millions.




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Pope Francis on Monday hit out at 'offensive words' spoken against the Amazon's indigenous people

The Pope made the comments during a three-week meeting to discuss the priest shortage in the Amazon. The Vatican are considering ordaining married men and giving women ministries.