MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Manchester United's Mason Greenwood headed an opportunist late winner to secure a 2-1 home win over Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League on Sunday after Marcus Rashford had cancelled out an early Danny Welbeck opener for the visitors. The result left second-placed United on 60 points...
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LONDON (Reuters) - England will launch a vaccine passport trial in a comedy club, a nightclub and FA Cup matches at Wembley in the coming weeks to determine how it can reopen the economy and host mass events safely. The government said a COVID-status certification system was being developed that would show whether a person had had a vaccine, a recent negative...
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has reached the outline of a deal with the European Commission on a state-backed refinancing package to help strengthen Air France-KLM's balance sheet, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday. Le Maire, speaking on LCI TV, declined to comment on the amount involved. The airline group, which last year received 10.4 billion euros...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top anti-graft watchdog said on Sunday a former chairman and head of the Communist Party at state defence giant China North Industries Group Co (Norinco Group) is under investigation for suspected, undisclosed disciplinary violations. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said Yin Jiaxu is suspected of "serious violation" of laws and regulations, according to a statement...
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By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -Liverpool finally turned on the style to thrash Arsenal 3-0 and move into fifth place in the Premier League on Saturday with Diogo Jota netting twice after coming on as a substitute. While their title is heading to Manchester City, the outgoing champions produced the kind of display...
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic church in London said on Saturday it would complain to the police after officers shut down a Good Friday service on the grounds it broke COVID-19 lockdown rules limiting the size of congregations. Footage on social media showed two officers entering the Christ the King Polish Catholic Church in Balham, south London, while the service was...
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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leaker says they are offering information on more than 500 million Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) users - including phone numbers and other data - virtually for free. Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, said on Saturday the database appears to be the same set of Facebook-linked telephone numbers that...
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(Reuters) - Tesla Inc has filed an appeal on a U.S. National Labor Relations Board ruling that the electric-car maker had violated U.S. labor law, and on the agency's order that Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk delete a tweet from the account. The electric-car maker filed a petition on Friday with the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals to review the NLRB's...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain reported 10 deaths from COVID-19 within 28 days of a positive test on Saturday, the lowest daily figure since early September, and 3,423 new cases. Official data also showed 31,301,267 people had received their first shot of a COVID vaccine. ...
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(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) has apologized to U.S. Representative Mark Pocan, admitting to scoring an "own goal" in its initial denial of his suggestion that its drivers were sometimes forced to urinate in bottles during their delivery rounds. "We know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this has been...
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