Women's billion-dollar boom leaves players behind, says Fifpro pred 17 urami in 12 minutami Women's football is on course to become a billion-dollar industry, but many professional players are still earning low wages, working on insecure contracts and experiencing rising psychological stress, a Fifpro survey indicates.(BBC News)
Row over Paris opera house ceiling reignites with lawsuit threat pred 17 urami in 12 minutami Descendant of 19-century artist demands removal of Marc Chagall’s 1960s canvases that cover original frescoIn 1962, the then French culture minister, André Malraux, reportedly bored by the ballet he was watching at Paris’s opera house, raised his eyes to the classical ceiling and determined it needed a makeover.In his ennui, Malraux decided his friend and artist Marc Chagall, sitting next to him at the Palais Garnier at the time, was the man for the job and commissioned him to make a new ceiling. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Republican US senator facing re-election settles six-year bakery debt pred 17 urami in 16 minutami Roger Marshall says he has ‘no idea how this happened’ and repaid bill double for 2020 election watch party treatsThe Republican US senator Roger Marshall says he has finally paid off a bakery debt – after six years and repeated collection attempts reported by a Kansas business that had supplied a large order of treats for a 2020 election watch party.“We have absolutely no idea how this happened”, the Kansas senator wrote in a social media post containing a screenshot of the payment on a $678.75 invoice from Holly’s Sweet Treats as well as his $1,300 payment. “And we have repaid the bill … double.” Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Labour's new '£9bn' stealth tax raid? Hated freeze on thresholds set to hammer Brits even harder as inflation surges - in Budget windfall for Chancellor
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