Teams with same owner cannot compete together
Head of women’s football Kessler says ‘no exceptions’
Uefa’s head of women’s football has said rules prohibiting clubs with the same owner from playing together in the Women’s Champions League will be strictly enforced, dealing a blow to investors such as Michele Kang.
Kang owns one of Saturday’s Women’s Champions League finalists, OL Lyonnes, and London City Lionesses, who have big ambitions and whose head coach, Eder Maestre, last week stated their desire to compete for the Women’s Super League title next season.
Continue reading...Ukrainians lament appalling toll of fighting on their country’s bird population
Russia sent kamikaze drones to attack the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia in February. They hit buildings and killed several people. One unreported victim of the bombardment was a male long-eared owl, blinded in one eye and found with a badly broken wing. A passerby scooped up the stunned bird, put him in a box and took him to the city of Dnipro.
The owl – nicknamed Sunny – is now recovering in a cosy room belonging to Veronica Konkova. No longer able to fly or hunt, Sunny instead hops around.
Continue reading...UK report argues people have greater control over longevity than widely understood, but others say claim is simplistic
Individuals bear at least 80% of the responsibility for their ill health in old age, according to a report aimed at challenging the belief that physical decline is either inevitable or primarily the responsibility of the state.
The report, launched at the Smart Ageing Summit in Oxford last week, argues that individuals have far greater control over their longevity than is commonly understood. The authors call on the government to take legislative action on alcohol comparable to restrictions on smoking.
Continue reading...WARSCHAU (ANP/DPA/RTR) - De nieuwe Hongaarse premier Péter Magyar is in Polen met ceremonieel vertoon ontvangen door zijn ambtgenoot Donald Tusk. Magyar versloeg vorige maand bij verkiezingen de langzittende leider Viktor Orbán en brengt nu zijn eerste bezoek aan het buitenland.
Magyar kreeg een warm welkom in Warschau. De banden met de pro-Europese Poolse regering van Tusk waren onder zijn voorganger Orbán erg slecht en daar wil hij verandering in brengen. Orbán gold als dwarsligger binnen de EU en had nauwe banden met Rusland.
Tusk heeft vergelijkbare politieke ervaringen als zijn gast. Hij kwam aan de macht na een verkiezingsoverwinning op nationalisten en haalde de banden met de EU weer aan. Hij kreeg ook weer toegang tot bevroren EU-geld, iets wat ook Magyar ambieert.
De Poolse premier onthaalde zijn gast met een militaire erewacht. Er staan ook gesprekken gepland tussen Magyar en prominenten als de rechts-nationalistische president Karol Nawrocki en Nobelprijswinnaar Lech Wałęsa.