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Jack Wighton has sworn off alcohol for six monthsInstagram post from Friday perhaps tells another storyNRL star is keen for huge 2025 season with RabbitohsBy ANDREW PRENTICE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 21:21 EST, 29 November 2024 | Updated: 00:03 EST, 30 November 2024 Footy star Jack Wighton has raised eyebrows after appearing to skoll a beer when out on a boat with a friend.While it is certainly no crime, it comes just days after the Rabbitohs centre, 31, declared he was following the lead of teammate Latrell Mitchell by self-imposing a booze ban for six months ahead of the…
A retired FBI agent has revived interest in an alleged case of stolen Civil War-era gold hidden for over 160 years in Pennsylvania.’This is a conspiracy theory that keeps me up at night,’ confessed retired bureau Special Agent Stewart Fillmore, now a ‘true crime’ author and podcaster.A treasure hunter claimed he had found buried gold in 2018 and tipped off the FBI to help recover the treasure, but ‘nothing was found’ after a three-day investigation.The treasure, worth $41 million in today’s dollars, had been destined for the Philadelphia Mint in 1863, where it would help support the Union’s ‘enormous cost of conducting the war,’…
By ALEX BRUMMER Updated: 05:52 EST, 26 December 2024 All my Boxing Day experiences are about the outdoors. As a young adult in my native Brighton area my brother Daniel and l, together with some friends, had a routine.In the morning, it would be a visit to the dog track in Hove for a flutter at the annual holiday meeting.Then back to my parents’ home for chicken soup and cold turkey before legging it the old Goldstone Ground to watch Brighton & Hove Albion, then usually in the old Second Division.Later, in married life, when the holidays were spent with…
Former Barcelona star Dani Alves has been sensationally cleared of raping a woman at a Catalan nightclub after appealing his four-year jail term. The footballer was handed the sentence in February last year after three judges convicted him of the sex attack following a three-day trial.Public prosecutors appealed and called for him to be jailed for nine years.Private prosecutors acting on behalf of the complainant demanded he be jailed for 12 years after they also contested the original conviction and prison sentence.Today the Catalan High Court rejected the appeals – and acquitted Alves of the crime he was convicted of last year.The Catalan High…
By JEFF PRESTRIDGE Updated: 16:52 EST, 14 December 2024 Fund manager Bryn Jones describes himself as a ‘glorified money lender’ – but ‘without access to a baseball bat when people don’t pay up’.All tongue in cheek, of course, but in layman’s terms, it pretty much explains how he makes money for investors from the investment fund he runs – Rathbone Ethical Bond.’What we do as bond fund managers is lend money to large companies and governments around the world,’ he explains. ‘In return, they pay us interest each year until their bonds mature.’Hopefully, if we’ve picked good quality bonds, especially…
The first jobs report under the new Trump administration has come in weaker than expected. The US economy added 143,000 jobs in January, which was far fewer than the 169,000 forecast by economists.But there was a silver lining – the unemployment rate fell slightly to 4 percent from 4.1 percent in December. Investors had expected it to hold unchanged. Economists expected non-farm payrolls to grow by 169,000 from December to January, with the tally weighed down by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires and bitterly cold weather in many parts of the US.In fact, the Bureau of Labor statistics said these factors ‘had no discernible effect on…
Dozens of shipwrecked migrants have been left stranded on the lower decks of a gas rig adrift in the Mediterranean Sea – with an international row brewing over who should rescue them. One of the men took to social media to explain how they had set out from Libya and spent five days aboard a rubber dinghy before being shipwrecked at the rig in the Miskar oil and gas field, located off the coast of Tunisia, on Saturday. Dozens of people, including women and children, are seen shivering as they lay or sat on metal grating hovering precariously above the waves raging…
By Rob Crilly, Chief U.S. Political Correspondent For Dailymail.Com In Washington, D.C. Published: 14:51 EDT, 17 October 2024 | Updated: 15:40 EDT, 17 October 2024 Gamblers turned on Kamala Harris after her testy Fox News appearance Wednesday, sending her chance of victory tumbling by almost 10 percent on a top betting market.Her interview with Bret Baier was billed as a chance to win over Republicans disenchanted with her opponent Donald Trump.When it was broadcast at 6pm, users of Polymarket gave her a 41.3 percent chance of victory in the election, compared with 58.6 percent for TrumpBut it plunged overnight, reaching…
One of Vladimir Putin’s top army generals in charge of nuclear and biological forces has been killed in an explosion after a bomb hidden in an electric scooter was detonated outside his apartment in Moscow.Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov died in the blast moments after he emerged from his apartment block with his assistant, who was also killed.The bombing – claimed by a member of Ukraine’s SBU security service – came a day after Kyiv had accused Kirillov of overseeing the widespread use of banned chemical weapons against its troops in the conflict zone.Charging him in absentia with war crimes, the…
By PAT HAGAN Published: 19:53 EST, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 19:58 EST, 6 December 2024 Climbing stairs every day can reduce the risk of a common cause of stroke by nearly a third, a study shows.Researchers tracked hundreds of thousands of people in their fifties to see what proportion developed atrial fibrillation – an abnormal heartbeat which is a major risk factor for strokes.They found adults climbing at least 110 steps a day – roughly the equivalent of going up a typical household staircase about seven times – were 31 per cent less likely to develop the potentially life-threatening…