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It had to be him. The occasion had called for it. The crowd had come to see it and they had spent most of this box office Champions League tie willing it to happen. And then it did. When Lionel Messi picked up possession and scuttled in from the right wing, he swapped passes with Kylian Mbappé and, in what felt like the blink of an eye, Manchester City were carved open. It really was the most perfectly weighted of flicks from Mbappé and the chance was on. Paris Saint-Germain were 1-0 up, despite City having had the better of the previous 73 minutes.…

Days after announcing that about 375 healthcare employees would be suspended, a North Carolina-based hospital system confirmed Monday that around 175 workers were fired in one of the largest-ever mass terminations due to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Several days ago, Novant Health announced that around 375 of its employees had been suspended and were given five days to comply with the company’s mandate. “They will have an opportunity to comply over a five-day, unpaid suspension period,” the company’s release said. “If a team member remains non-compliant after this suspension period, he or she will have their employment with Novant Health terminated.” Since…

United Airlines has agreed to temporarily pause its COVID-19 vaccine mandate until Oct. 15 for employees who submit religious or medical exemptions. The company in early August became the first U.S. carrier to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for all domestic employees. It announced that any employees not vaccinated by Sept. 27 would be terminated on Oct. 2 and those who refused the vaccine would be terminated outright. It then said that people seeking medical or religious exemption will be automatically placed on indefinite unpaid leave. Six United employees last week filed a class-action suit against the airline, saying it failed to provide accommodation for workers who opted to not get…

The UK media regulator, Ofcom, has introduced a new service to make it easier for customers to switch broadband supplier to get a better deal. Ofcom hopes that the new process, One Touch Switch, will encourage people to seek out better deals after research found that more than two-fifths of people were put off switching broadband suppliers because of the hassle. People can already switch between providers that use Openreach’s broadband network – such as BT, Sky and TalkTalk – through a process requiring a customer only to contact their new supplier. However, until now customers hoping to change networks or…

OLAF SCHOLZ shocked reporters on Monday as he spoke English at a German press conference after his electoral victory. The SPD leader tipped to replace Angela Merkel as Chancellor responded to British reporters at a German press conference on Monday. Mr Scholz, who shocked German media with the move, agreed to respond to questions on the UK’s fuel crisis and truck drivers shortages in English. The German politician was quick to blame Brexit for the issues but doing so in English showed Mr Scholz is already “rehearsing” for the top job, despite coalition talks still undergoing. Mr Scholz told reporters: “The free movement…

For the Brighton supporters who remained here long after the final whistle, this was a night they will surely never forget. Trailing as the clock ticked into the fifth minute of injury time to Wilfried Zaha’s fifth goal in his last five matches against Crystal Palace’s bitter rivals, Neal Maupay’s deft finish with the last kick of the game somehow rescued a point for Graham Potter’s side. It was not quite what they had deserved on an evening that Zaha celebrated his 400th appearance for Palace by scoring from the spot just before half- time but, despite missing the opportunity…

The U.S. Marine dismissed from command after criticizing senior military leadership on the handling of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is in the brig, according to reports. “All our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud,” Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller’s father, Stu Scheller Sr., told Task & Purpose. “He was asking for accountability. In fact, I think he even asked for an apology that we made mistakes, but they couldn’t do that, which is mind-blowing.” Scheller first published a video on his personal Facebook account on Aug. 26 criticizing the Afghanistan withdrawal,…

Gov. Ron DeSantis has directed Florida’s secretary of state to open an investigation into whether Facebook violated the state’s election laws through its program that allegedly exempts certain high-profile users from moderation. The Republican governor in his letter (pdf) to Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee on Monday cited a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, published earlier this month, that alleges the social media company’s “XCheck” program has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users preferential treatment. These users are exempt from some or all of the Big Tech company’s rules, the WSJ report found, noting that it placed on a…

MILLIONS of phones will be blocked from using Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail as part of a massive update TODAY. The search giant confirmed that some Android devices will lose access to the popular apps. Unless users update their phones or swiftly buy a new mobile, millions of people across the globe will be locked out of the software today. Google announced the deadline in a short post on its website. The tech titan said it plans to block users from signing in with their Google Account on devices using Android 2.3. The aging version of Google’s operating system launched…

Students in England have reacted with anger to reports that the government is planning to make them start paying back their loans earlier in their careers when salaries are lower, as part of an overhaul of student financing designed to save the Treasury money. According to a report in the Financial Times, ministers are considering cutting the threshold at which graduates begin to repay their tuition and maintenance loans from £27,295 – the current point at which repayments begin – to as low as £23,000. The move would ensure that more students start paying back their loans earlier in their careers,…