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By Kath Hudson    01 Jul 2026 Steve Nelson takes up the role of managing director of Serco Leisure today (1 July 2026), following 18 years with the company where he has progressed through many roles, most recently director of leisure. Serco Leisure operates more than 55 facilities in the UK, including the national sports centres at Lilleshall, Bisham Abbey, Stoke Mandeville Stadium – the birthplace of the Paralympic movement – and Alexander Stadium, a venue which will stage the European Athletics Championships in August this year. Speaking on his appointment, Nelson says: “It is a privilege to lead an…

Don’t get all cocky, you 13 original colonies.Yes, yes, 250 years, congratulations, enjoy the cake. But here on the West Coast, a whole continent away from your powdered periwigs and your Philly bell-ringing, 1776 was a banner year, too.Unbeknownst to you — and truth be told, unbeknownst to the people here — the future of these United States, the modern nation, was being shaped in California, too.Granted, it was only a seed, hardly even a seedling. In Spanish California, mission-building was on the 1776 checklist. A new San Gabriel mission was being built, five years after Franciscan missionaries had founded…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAABeijing: The pilot who crashed a small plane into Beijing’s tallest building had repeatedly written about suicide in his diary and acted deliberately, Chinese authorities said.The pilot, identified only by his surname Liu, was described as a 66-year-old man and Beijing resident who was divorced, lived alone, and suffered from chronic insomnia and anxiety, a statement released by a district-level city authority said on Thursday.The short statement marks the first official explanation of the incident, six days after it occurred on June 26. Shortly…

Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involving the Trump administration’s tariff policy, sanctioned Russian oil and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo.  At the center of the story was the CEO of the refinery company, Texas businessman John Calce. We’d spent weeks examining Calce — pulling old lawsuits, property records, corporate registry filings — and had pieced together a portrait of what appeared to be an obscure serial entrepreneur who’d for years tried and failed…

Half of 2026 is now over. Many records from the year so far have been praised. But some records have not been praised enough. Here are 10 worthy releases from the first six months of 2026 that are worth checking out if you missed them upon release. Jim E. Brown – Dirt The year’s funniest indie album, bar none. A self-described “19-year-old boy who suffers from various degenerative conditions and alcoholism,” Jim E. Brown may or may not be the stage name of Philadelphia musician and filmmaker Max Margulies, who makes hilariously deadpan talk-singing post-punk songs with titles like “Ryan…

SANTA CLARA — The U.S. cannot appeal Folarin Balogun’s red card and ensuing suspension for the Americans’ round of 16 match against Belgium, U.S. soccer officials confirmed.FIFA rules governing the 2026 World Cup, first cited by the Athletic, state that “a sending-off automatically incurs suspension from the subsequent match. The FIFA judicial bodies may impose additional match suspensions and other disciplinary measures.”The only instance in which the U.S. could appeal is if FIFA’s disciplinary committee decides to suspend Balogun for more than one game after reviewing the incident.Broadcast commentators and fans immediately questioned the decision after Balogun was shown a red card…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the gang ⁠had also been classified as a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’.Published On 2 Jul 20262 Jul 2026The US⁠ State Department has designated the Ecuadorean gang Chone Killers as a foreign “terrorist organisation”, imposing sanctions on a crime ⁠group that Washington has accused of carrying out attacks on civilians and public officials.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the gang ⁠has also been classified as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“Chone Killers has committed numerous attacks targeting civilians, law enforcement officers and government officials, including high-profile assassinations…

Colorado voters continue the left rebellion in Democratic primaries. Ad Policy Democratic House candidate Melat Kiros at the Denver rally for her upset primary victory (Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images) Michael Bennet, who’d been appointed to the US Senate in 2009, then easily won two reelection races as well as a reputation for working across the aisle, had declared early last year that he could do a lot more in Colorado than in Washington, DC, and so entered the Democratic race for governor. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the former dean of the University of Colorado Law School who was…

Washington — On the same morning Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized last month, emergency medical personnel went to his home to respond to an unconscious person who appeared to experience «cardiac arrest,» according to a public EMS dispatch call reviewed by CBS News.During the recording, a dispatcher called in a «cardiac arrest» and a medic said there was «CPR in progress» at McConnell’s address. The dispatcher also said somebody was «unconscious.» The call came in before 9 a.m. on June 14. The senator’s name is not mentioned during the call, and CBS News has not confirmed the identity of…

DAKAR, Senegal — Recent floods in Ivory Coast have killed at least 59 people, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.Speaking after a Cabinet meeting, Amadou Coulibaly told reporters that “the council deplores the particularly high death toll of 59 this year.”On Monday, floods and landslides triggered by days of torrential rain in the capital cities of Ghana and Ivory Coast left at least 24 people dead and more missing.Coulibaly did not specify how many people had died as a result of the most recent flooding in Ivory Coast.Entire buildings and roads were submerged in Accra, Ghana on Monday, cutting off…