At half past six at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, on 29 August 1895, rugby split. Officials from leading northern rugby clubs, fed up with southern clubs’s elitism and their insistence on maintaining amateurism – a ruse to keep the northern teams down – voted to form a Northern Rugby Football Union, […]
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Along the Great Wall, extra security guards have been deployed to deter rowdy tourists. Hotel bookings in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, have risen 600 percent from the same period last year. In Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak began late last year, visitor demand for the city’s Yellow Crane Tower […]
Cases rose again on Tuesday – Getty Croatia remains on the cusp of UK quarantine restrictions after a recent rise in coronavirus cases. The country recorded its second highest number of new infections on Tuesday – 199 – leading to a rise up to 27 in its cumulative seven-day average, […]
If high schools in Eastern Oregon resume competitive events in 2021 the teams might seek to limit their opponents to relatively nearby schools to reduce travel and make it easier to comply with COVID-19 precautions. This regional approach would prioritize distance between schools rather than whether they’re in the same […]
It may soon be illegal to make discriminatory, racially biased 911 calls in San Francisco. The “CAREN Act” (Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies) was introduced in July at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting by Supervisor Shamann Walton. The ordinance is one step closer to becoming a law. On […]