Author: Reputation Poll Staff

Paris St-Germain say they “stand firmly” with defender Nuno Mendes, who was subjected to online racist abuse after the club’s 3-1 win over Brest in Ligue 1 on Saturday. PSG say the Portugal left-back, 22, has the their full support after he shared the comments he had received on his Instagram story. Brest took the lead after Mendes brought down Ludovic Ajorque to concede a first-half penalty, which was converted by Romain del Castillo. “Paris St-Germain doesn’t tolerate racism, antisemitism or any other form of discrimination,” the club said. “The racial insults directed at Nuno Mendes are totally unacceptable. “We stand firmly…

England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson is a surprise target for Major League Cricket. BBC Sport understands senior figures with at least one MLC team have had their interest pricked by Anderson’s comments last month about a return to white-ball cricket. The unnamed franchise are now set to explore whether the 42-year-old would be interested in participating in the third edition of the T20 tournament in the United States next year. Anderson could earn about £135,000 from a short stint in MLC, which lured some stellar names from the game for the 2024 edition. The most high profile of those was…

Germany on Monday began random checks at its borders with five Western European nations as it seeks to crack down on irregular migration, expanding a system of controls that are already in place at four other borders. The police controls began at the borders with France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Denmark on Monday morning and are due to continue for six months. Germany has already been carrying out the checks at its borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland since last year. Germany, a European Union member, announced last week that it was expanding border checks to…

Shanghai’s airports were canceling hundreds of flights Sunday as they brace for impact from Typhoon Bebinca, which is due to make landfall in the early hours of Monday morning, the authorities said. Flights past 8 p.m. local time will be canceled at Hongqiao and Pudong airports in the city, airport officials said in a statement, affecting more than 600 flights. The city also announced that it was suspending travel on some bridges while restricting movement on other highways. Typhoon Bebinca is a few hundred kilometers away from the coast. The typhoon’s winds are expected to reach 151 kph (nearly 94…

TikTok will start making its case on Monday against a law that will see it banned in the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells the social media app within nine months. The measure – signed into law by President Biden in April – has been prompted by concerns that US users’ data is vulnerable to exploitation by China’s government. TikTok and ByteDance have always denied links to the Chinese authorities and have described the law an “extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights.” The firm, which claims to have more than 170 million US users, will make its arguments before a…

Ryan Imperio has been named the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year for a photograph that captures the progression of Baily’s beads during the 2023 annular eclipse. Baily’s beads are formed when sunlight shines through the valleys and craters of the Moon’s surface, and are only briefly visible when an eclipse is beginning or ending. Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn, one of the judges and a meteorologist, said the winning image was an “impressive dissection of the fleeting few seconds” when Baily’s beads can be seen. “This image left me captivated and amazed,” she added. Mr Imperio, who won £10,000…

Over the next decade, according to certain forecasts, there’s a one in four chance of another outbreak on the scale of Covid-19. It could be influenza or coronavirus – or something completely new. Covid-19, of course, infected and killed millions of people worldwide, so it’s a frightening prospect. So could AI help to alleviate it? Researchers in California are developing an AI-based early warning system that will examine social media posts to help predict future pandemics. The researchers, from University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), are part of the US National Science Foundation’s…

A former Ticketmaster boss who illegally accessed a rival company’s computer servers to steal information has been sentenced. British national Stephen Mead stole sensitive data from CrowdSurge – a smaller business he had previously worked for – between 2013 and 2015. His actions directly contributed to the company’s collapse, the Department of Justice, in New York, said. Mead pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer intrusions against CrowdSurge, in June. He has now been ordered to pay $67,970 as a forfeiture (about £52,000), and sentenced to a year’s supervised release. Court papers filed in the US state Ticketmaster executives had…

Boeing workers have gone on strike after they overwhelmingly rejected a tentative deal between union representatives and the plane maker that included a 25% pay rise. More than 30,000 workers in Seattle and Portland downed their tools from midnight Pacific Time (07:00 GMT) on Friday. The walkout is another setback for the firm, which is facing deepening financial losses. It is also struggling to repair its reputation after a series of safety issues, including two fatal crashes. The strike will be a major blow for Boeing’s new chief executive Kelly Ortberg, who was appointed last month with a mission to turn the…

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s firm has denied fresh allegations that Swiss authorities had frozen $310m (£236m) of their funds in Swiss bank accounts. US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged that the action was part of a money laundering and securities forgery investigation into the Adani Group. In a post on X, Hindenburg cited “newly released Swiss criminal court records”, reported by a Swiss media outlet, as its information source. In the past, Hindenburg has accused the Adani Group of money laundering and stock market manipulation, which the firm has denied. Hindenburg claimed that the court records showed how an Adani frontman invested…