Новости за 17.09.2015

The School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) has accused No 10 of “inaccuracies” after it was named by David Cameron for hosting “extremist preachers”, as it emerged that only one of the named speakers had visited the college, and only to address students on Islamic finance.

Blairite Labour MPs are pinning their hopes on an obscure internal party committee to prevent left-wing activists from purging them ahead of the next general election.

Fifa Secretary General Jérôme Valcke has been accused of agreeing to help sell Brazil 2014 World Cup tickets on the black market to generate millions of dollars in personal profit, in a fresh scandal to engulf football’s governing organisation.

Fifa’s Secretary General Jérôme Valcke has been suspended after he was accused of agreeing to help sell Brazil 2014 World Cup tickets on the black market to generate millions of dollars in personal profit.

Fifa’s secretary-general, Jérôme Valcke, has been suspended after being accused of agreeing to help sell Brazil 2014 World Cup tickets on the black market for millions of dollars in personal profit.

An 18-year-old is facing a life sentence after he murdered 15-year-old boy Alan Cartwright for his bike in north London.

Alex Salmond is well known for enjoying a flutter, but he did not bet on the outcome of last year’s referendum on Scottish independence because, in his words: “I was too close to it. I don’t think you should bet on something if you’re too close to it.”

The prize for the most unintentionally ironic name of anyone taking part in the 2015 Rugby World Cup goes to French prop forward Uini Atonio. This formidable hulk of man answers to "Weeny" but stands 197cm tall, and at 155kg is the second heaviest player ever to play international rugby. As England prepare to take on Fiji this evening in the opening game of the tournament, much of the talk centres around Fiji's Nemani Nadolo, the 130kg "demolition man" who has predicted a "jaw-dropping" performance from his hefty side. Читать дальше...

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers' Europa League gamble almost paid off as the club's young guns were held to a 1-1 draw in Bordeaux.

At the end of her BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Andrew Parker, Mishal Husain asked the MI5 head if he would be seeing the new Bond film. Obviously, he didn’t answer. That would be far too much to give away for a man in his position. He did, however, say: “I love Bond films because they are so distant from reality so we can all enjoy the fiction.”

An “utterly ruthless” operation by the Conservatives to gobble up seats held by their coalition partners caused the Liberal Democrats’ meltdown at the May general election, the Lib Dems’ inquest into their disaster will find.

My message to England supporters ahead of the big kick-off this evening is a simple one: stay calm, don’t panic, it’ll be all right on the night. I confidently expect Stuart Lancaster’s side to win by 20 points minimum: not because Fiji have lost their attacking devil or are even less organised than usual – neither of those things is remotely true – but because the home side still hold the cards that count in World Cup rugby. Where are those cards played? At scrum and line-out time.

My message to England supporters ahead of the big kick-off this evening is a simple one: stay calm, don’t panic, it’ll be all right on the night. I confidently expect Stuart Lancaster’s side to win by 20 points minimum: not because Fiji have lost their attacking devil or are even less organised than usual – neither of those things is remotely true – but because the home side still hold the cards that count in World Cup rugby. Where are those cards played? At scrum and line-out time.

My message to England supporters ahead of the big kick-off this evening is a simple one: stay calm, don’t panic, it’ll be all right on the night. I confidently expect Stuart Lancaster’s side to win by 20 points minimum: not because Fiji have lost their attacking devil or are even less organised than usual – neither of those things is remotely true – but because the home side still hold the cards that count in World Cup rugby. Where are those cards played? At scrum and line-out time.

History will not quite be made if England fail to win the opening game of their own World Cup at Twickenham on Friday evening: as tournament hosts the first time round, they were beaten by New Zealand in a curtain-up contest on the same rectangle of grass back in 1991. But if finishing second to the  All Blacks was no crime, defeat by Fiji would very definitely be criminal. The whole lot of them could end up in the Tower.

History will not quite be made if England fail to win the opening game of their own World Cup at Twickenham on Friday evening: as tournament hosts the first time round, they were beaten by New Zealand in a curtain-up contest on the same rectangle of grass back in 1991. But if finishing second to the  All Blacks was no crime, defeat by Fiji would very definitely be criminal. The whole lot of them could end up in the Tower.

History will not quite be made if England fail to win the opening game of their own World Cup at Twickenham on Friday evening: as tournament hosts the first time round, they were beaten by New Zealand in a curtain-up contest on the same rectangle of grass back in 1991. But if finishing second to the  All Blacks was no crime, defeat by Fiji would very definitely be criminal. The whole lot of them could end up in the Tower.

Plans to impose court fees on anyone opposing the tax office at tribunal would deter the poorest from getting justice, leading lawyers say - amid a growing outcry against an array of Government-imposed court charges.

A woman gave birth to her baby in a bath and then abandoned it on a neighbour’s doorstep because she believed it was the result of an extramarital affair.

You just cannot take the ball off Lionel Messi, and the Barcelona ace has been unveiled as the best dribbler in the soon-to-be-released computer game FIFA 16.

A bar has been fined £100,000 after a teenager had her stomach removed after drinking a smoking liquid nitrogen cocktail handed to her for free.

Over a million people watched Jeremy Corbyn’s first Prime Minister’s Questions with David Cameron, the BBC has said.

Tonight in the Europa League, Liverpool travel to Bordeaux in their opening contest in the competition.

Liverpool have drawn with Bordeaux in their opening Europa League match.

Tonight in the Europa League, Liverpool travel to Bordeaux in their opening contest in the competition.