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The SNP would demand the power for another independence vote as the price for supporting Labour in a hung parliament. Senior figures in the SNP think they could hold the balance of power in the next parliament. They have told the BBC the cost of their support would be devolving the power to hold another referendum to Holyrood. This is the most explicit statement yet of their strategy. Senior SNP figures told the BBC they will make the demand for a referendum a central part of their general election campaign. Labour and Lib Dems take seats from Tories Scottish government loses indyref2 court case Labour have repeatedly said they would not do a deal with the SNP on another referendum. The party has said it believes it can win a majority on its own - based on Thursday's local election results. But the SNP leadership is planning to increase its calls for another referendum as the cost of support if Labour need it. Shift in strategy It's not clear what this would mean in practice however - it's unlikely the SNP would be prepared to bring down Labour and allow the Conservatives into power. A Labour source dismissed the prospect saying: "There is going to be a majority Labour Government". The SNP are also facing difficulties of their own. The party has the cloud of a police investigation into its finances hanging over it. It is racing to meet a deadline to provide audited accounts. If it misses that deadline, it could lose out on around £1.2m of public money. As Chris Mason and I wrote last week, the party appears to be shifting to a longer term strategy on independence. But senior figures have told the BBC the one "shortcut" would be in a hung parliament. They would go further than asking for a Section 30 order - giving Holyrood temporary power as happened in 2014. Instead, they would call for the power to be devolved permanently - giving Holyrood control over when another referendum happens. That means a referendum would not necessarily be immediate. The SNP leadership also wants to call for other powers of employment and energy policy. Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said: "The SNP would ensure the power to determine Scotland's future is transferred to Edinburgh, that the cost of living crisis becomes the main priority of Westminster, and that relations with Europe are rebuilt and renewed." A Labour spokesman said: "Keir Starmer has repeatedly said no deals with the SNP going into an election, or coming out of the election. We're campaigning for a majority Labour government." A Conservative source said: "Keir Starmer has already broken every pledge he's ever made so any claims he makes ruling this out can safely be dismissed." link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65503990

26-year-old Andrea Papi was jogging on a woodland path when a bear with three cubs attacked and killed him. Italian authorities are deciding what to do with a brown bear that mauled a jogger to death in the northeastern province of Trento. The case has shone a light on the country's successful — but problematic — rewilding program. On the evening of April 5, 26-year-old Andrea Papi was jogging on a woodland path near the village of Caldes. When he failed to return home, his family reported him missing. His mauled body was found at 3 a.m. the following morning. On April 8, provincial president Maurizio Fugatti, issued an order to kill the Alpine bear, but a court suspended that order following an appeal from animal rights group the Anti-Vivisection League (LAV), ANSA news agency(opens in new tab) reported. The bear, a female known as “JJ4,” was captured on April 17 accompanied by three cubs. This is the second time JJ4 has had a kill order overturned, having previously attacked a father and son(opens in new tab) in 2020, Reuters reported. The victims of the 2020 encounter survived. Claudio Groff coordinates the large carnivores sector within the provincial government's wildlife department. He told Live Science that Papi's death is even harder to accept because of what happened in 2020. "We tried to remove this dangerous bear," Groff said. "We didn't manage it, unfortunately, because of the decision of the court." Papi's death marks the first fatal bear attack in Italy, according to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera(opens in new tab). However, bear-related incidents like this fuel a long-running debate about the presence of bears in the region. How many bears are there in the Trentino-Alto Adige? Brown bears (Ursus arctos) were on the brink of extinction in the Alps in 1999, with only a handful surviving in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy. The European Union-funded Life Ursus project(opens in new tab) brought bears from Slovenia to the region as part of conservation efforts to establish a minimum viable po[CENSORED]tion of around 40 to 60 individuals. Today, there are around 100 bears in Trentino-Alto Adige. Related: 'Prehistoric' mummified bear discovered in Siberian permafrost isn't what we thought "Italy is a great success story," said Lana Ciarniello(opens in new tab), an independent researcher in Canada and co-chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Human-Bear Conflicts Expert Team(opens in new tab), of which Groff is also a member. "The bears were reintroduced, and they've done very well." The bear program has worked so well that the animals have made a remarkable recovery — but now the region is adapting to once again becoming, as Ciarniello puts it, "bear country." link: https://www.livescience.com/animals/bears/bear-kills-jogger-in-italian-alps-what-does-this-mean-for-the-effort-to-bring-bears-back-to-the-region

His acerbic view of cars and the world entertained readers of The New Yorker, Car and Driver, and other magazines. Bruce McCall, the legendary humorist and longtime contributor to Car and Driver, has died. McCall was equally prolific as an illustrator and as a writer. His work was particularly adept at skewering the over-the-top style of mid-century American advertising. Bruce McCall, one of the funniest men to ever write about cars—and also sketch, draw, and paint them with inimitable style—died yesterday at 87, owing to complications arising from Parkinson's disease. Though known to the non-enthusiast reading po[CENSORED]tion for the more than 80 covers he created for The New Yorker and the many illustrations and humorous essays he contributed to that tony East Coast periodical, as well as to the madcap 1970s comedic juggernaut The National Lampoon, McCall distinguished himself to the car-loving world with his acerbic and always hilarious work for Car and Driver and Automobile Magazine. His illustrations, which showcased the automotive and aeronautical themes that first captured his interest during what he would describe as a resolutely grim Canadian boyhood, defined a genre he'd come to call "retro-futurism," a self-created style that at once mocked and celebrated the over-the-top enthusiasm and huckster's bluster that characterized mid-20th-century American marketing, nowhere more shamelessly than in the sale of new automobiles. Overlaid with an Anglo-Canadian's love and loathing of all things British, the genre he helped carve out would become an enduring pillar of American satire, leading even to a short-lived stint in the 1970s as a writer for Saturday Night Live. A 2020 piece in The New Yorker, "My Life in Cars" detailed McCall’s lifelong fascination with vehicular transport, a topic he'd chronicle still more thoroughly in his addictively readable 2011 first autobiographical volume, "Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada." (A second volume, "How Did I Get Here? A Memoir," was released in 2020.) Glorious showcases for McCall's unique blend of melancholy and coruscating wit, the volumes together told the story of how a slight, shy youngster born to dour Scots-Canadian parents (his civil servant father once a PR director for Chrysler of Canada, his mother an alcoholic) spent hours in the bedroom he shared with his brother (one of five siblings), refining an innate artistic ability to the point where he would go on to find gainful employment in Windsor, Ontario, illustrating car brochures. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, cars were not often photographed for ads and brochures but were drawn and painted, and the artists who illustrated them were encouraged to make new model cars look even larger, lower, longer, and wider than they were in real life. This skill would redound to McCall's benefit in later years, with much of his magazine work lampooning the exaggerated style and Space Age promise of the ads that once paid his rent. As McCall often related, a meeting of minds with the yet-to-become Car and Driver editor (and later Automobile Magazine) founder, David E. Davis, Jr., led to his employment at the venerable Detroit ad agency, Campbell-Ewald, where Davis worked on the Chevrolet account. Davis encouraged the reticent McCall to think bigger. A relocation catapulted the young illustrator from what McCall related as a dreary and largely introverted life into one of color and accomplishment, a success story that would not be complete until Davis encouraged him in the later 1960s to follow him to New York, where Car and Driver was based at the time, and where McCall's magazine career flowered. First, stints writing copy for Ford and Mercedes-Benz at J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather raised his standard of living—the Mercedes job would take him for a time to Stuttgart where he was put in charge of the stuffy company's advertising. A chance collaboration for Playboy with C/D's Brock Yates saw him make the most of his boyhood skill for drawing World War II fighting aircraft, along with his fertile imagination and lifelong penchant for absurdist histories, in an illustrated piece called "Major Howdy Bixby’s Album of Forgotten Warbirds," which won the magazine's annual humor award and featured such imaginary planes as the Kakaka "Shirley" Amphibious Pedal-Bomber. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW "The originality of Japanese aircraft design was never in question after the Shirley wobbled onto the scene, albeit briefly, in the closing months of the Pacific war. This light (75 lbs.), cheap ($1.49), last-ditch gesture of a desperate Japanese High Command was in fact little more than a bicycle of the air, its propeller turned by pedal power from the pilot. Towed behind a torpedo boat, the Shirley would sooner or later rise and fumble skyward, staying aloft exactly as long as its pilot's stamina held out and his sprocket chain stayed intact." By turns, self-deprecating, humble, and keenly aware of his own talent, McCall would take his young Canadian obsession with po[CENSORED]r marketing and American-style excess to a whole new audience with an early '70s spread in The National Lampoon that purported to be a sales pitch for the Bulgemobile. It hawked a mythical American land yacht circa 1958, a chrome-festooned behemoth that seemed to possess every excess and styling dead-end that tailfin-obsessed Detroit ever hatched, with models named Fireblast! Flashbolt! Blastfire! Firewood! As Hemming Motor News writer Daniel Strohl observed in a piece celebrating Bruce's contribution to automotive satire, an antecedent for McCall's work lay in some whimsical drawings from the pen of Milwaukee-based designer Brooks Stevens, whose 1955 illustration, "The Detroit Dilemma or the Battle of the Bulge" "managed to skewer just about every one of the Detroit Big Three by tacking together all the excess of the mid-Fifties into one design. There's chrome gravel shields, chrome trim, chrome spears, chrome hood ornaments, chrome wheel covers, big chrome bumpers, chrome fins, septuple-tone (or maybe octa-tone) paint, wraparound glass, and more." But it was McCall who took the theme and ran with it. Reprising the "Major Bixby" formula, McCall's 2001 collection The Last Dream-O-Rama—The Cars Detroit Forgot to Build, 1950-1960, summed up his all too accurate take on the postwar American automotive scene in its characteristically deft, biting, and eloquent introduction. "When the postwar economic boom fostered such prosperity that easy credit allowed even hourly workers to plunge themselves hopelessly into debt, a brand-new car became an attainable dream for millions in the 1950s. And soon came dream cars to further stimulate their automotive saliva glands. By mid-decade, every American carmaker was parading its glittering glimpses of four-wheeled futurism before a dazzled public—flights of styling fancy and functional wonderment blaring 'Headed for your driveway soon!' while mumbling, sotto voce, 'Don't hold us to it.' " McCall, who lived in New York City across from Central Park, is survived by his wife, Polly, daughter, Amanda, and, we imagine, a thousand score or more heartbroken Car and Driver readers. Ourselves, we can't imagine the po[CENSORED]r episode of The Simpsons, with its satirical ad for a gigantic mythical SUV, the Canyonero ("Smells like a steak and seats 35"), without thinking of Bruce. He made us laugh at what we were and what we've become. link: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43809148/bruce-mccall-obituary/

One phone call changed everything for Kyogo Furuhashi. Racked with self-doubt and frustration, he was contemplating giving up on his dreams of making it as a professional footballer. Those hopes had been tarnished by a series of trials with J-League clubs which failed to yield a single offer for the young striker in his final year at Chuo University in Japan. The notion he would be freewheeling alongside Andres Iniesta in a mere couple of years seemed absurd. Disillusioned, Kyogo phoned home and said to his mother, "maybe I should call it a day". The blunt response of "suit yourself" was enough to jolt him back from the brink. "'I must be nuts', I thought," Kyogo told Fifa earlier this year as he recalled being at a career crossroads. "My parents had paid for me to get this far, attend university and play all the football I wanted," he added. "It was the slap in the face I needed to redouble my efforts." The rest, as they say, is history for the 28-year-old. Kyogo is now celebrating a second successive league title with Celtic, where he is idolised and has reached 50 goals in just 77 appearances. Here, BBC Scotland charts the making of a modern Celtic icon. The boy from Greece who became Celtic's main man Celtic set 'ridiculous standard' - Postecoglou 'Precious' partnership with Iniesta When his perseverance was rewarded with a leap into the professional ranks in early 2017 at the age of 22, it was to the second-tier J2 League with FC Gifu. The circuitous route to the top proved beneficial for a striker regarded as a late developer, giving him significantly more game time than he would have been afforded as a J-League rookie straight out of university. He made 44 appearances in his debut campaign, scoring six times, before a shift from the flank to centre-forward the following season fast-tracked his progress. A burst of eight goals in eight games signified Kyogo as one of Japan's brightest prospects. Vissel Kobe promptly took him to the J-League in summer 2018 and dropped him into a soap opera scenario. Having bought the club in 2014, billionaire business magnate Hiroshi Mikitani wasn't shy in spending, with ageing European stars Iniesta, David Villa, Lukas Podolski and Thomas Vermaelen all brought in. A first major trophy was delivered with Emperor's Cup success in 2019, but the hefty outlay geared towards league glory didn't pay off. "Mikitani was trying to buy a couple of stars and make an instant champion - it didn't work at all," says Dan Orlowitz, football writer with the Japan Times. "You have to understand Vissel are the biggest punchline for J-League watchers. Mikitani has no patience - they went through something like 10 managers in four seasons from mid-2017." Despite that managerial churn, Kyogo flourished as the attacking fulcrum in tandem with Barcelona and Spain icon Iniesta. Kyogo's intelligent movement was the perfect foil for Iniesta, still a master passer in his 30s. Those years sharpened Kyogo's game and left a big impression. "Even if Vissel were a joke as a club sometimes, for Furuhashi to play with Iniesta and Villa and Podolski, and to train with them every day, that's a masterclass," adds Orlowitz. "Iniesta was a mentor. He really helped Kyogo develop. They had such a rhythm that when Kyogo left there was a disconnect between Iniesta and the rest of the formation." Kyogo remembers it as a "blessed time" and made sure to listen and act upon every morsel of advice as he learned from a legend. "It was precious, I'll never forget it," Kyogo told Fifa. "Every day it was just so much fun to go to training. It was so full of surprises and I could feel how much I was growing. I absorbed a lot. "Before our season kicked off, Iniesta said to me, 'just be yourself and all will be well - play with confidence', and it really inspired me to let my confident side show on the pitch." Taking Scottish football by storm Ange Postecoglou, then at the helm of Yokohama Marinos, was among the admirers as Kyogo's talent rocketed, accumulating 49 goals and 18 assists in 111 appearances for Vissel. When Postecoglou swapped Japan for Glasgow in June 2021, he was faced with a gargantuan Celtic rebuild. The first piece of the jigsaw - and arguably still the most important - was the £4.6m signing of Kyogo. Celtic were still reeling from the chaos and calamity of the failed 10-in-a-row season. With Odsonne Edouard soon to depart, the club needed a striker to hang their hopes upon. Enter Kyogo, who has come to embody the Postecoglou project with his exhaustive work-rate, dynamism, and quality. The striker ended his debut campaign in Scotland with 20 goals in 33 games, despite missing three-and-a-half months with a hamstring injury. This term he has kicked on again. In big games, Kyogo comes up with big goals. He has a knack of scoring against Rangers - there was the last-gasp equaliser at Ibrox in January, the match-winning double in the League Cup final and another two in the 3-2 league win last month. And it was apt that when Celtic were toiling against Hearts at Tynecastle on Sunday, it was their Japan star who again stepped up, netting his 30th of the season - and reaching a half-century of goals for the club - to secure their second title under Postecoglou. Kyogo's stats set him apart. He is the Premiership's leading scorer this season on 24 and has the highest shot conversion rate (29.6%) while averaging a goal every 90 minutes, also a league best. His expected goals (xG) is just 18.72, amplifying his ability to convert difficult chances. The Japanese is the first Celtic player since Moussa Dembele in the treble-winning season of 2016-17 to reach 30 goals, and has even invited debate over whether he is the club's best striker since Swede Henrik Larsson. "He's such a huge figure for Celtic," says former Scotland midfielder Michael Stewart. "He's done it since the day he arrived with the energy he brings. He's been a massive signing for Celtic and will continue to be." International travails for a humble hero Yet while he is the darling of Celtic, Kyogo's recent international omission causes befuddlement on these shores. There was a revealing moment in a documentary on Kyogo in his homeland. He sits cross-legged on the couch at his flat in Scotland watching Japan manager Hajime Moriyasu announce his squad on television for last winter's World Cup in Qatar. A rueful look and slight shake of the head accompany the realisation he has been left out. At 28, his chance of a World Cup may never come again. The camera lingers on his expression. For fans accustomed to his beaming grin, it's a jarring sight. Kyogo's reaction since has highlighted the strength of character behind the trademark smile as he powers Celtic to the brink of a treble. His manager and team-mates need no convincing of his talent, which comes with no airs and graces. Midfielder Matt O'Riley describes the humble forward as "genuinely the nicest man I've ever met", while Postecoglou adds: "From the moment this guy arrived he's been outstanding. "There's not much of him out there and he's up against big strong defenders who get very physical with him at times. But make no mistake, he's a winner." link: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65521453

The other day a man waved at Stanley Chow, and went over to him. “I said: ‘Have we met before?’ Which is kind of the last thing you want to say.” It happens a lot – he finds it hard to remember new people’s faces. “Anyone I’ve spoken to once or twice I do forget quite instantly,” he says. “If I meet someone new, I’ll make a point of following them on Instagram or Facebook so their face becomes ingrained in my memory somehow.” Around six months ago, a friend phoned Chow to complain he had “blanked” a mutual friend, but the 48-year-old illustrator just hadn’t recognised him. “That unsettled me for a few weeks.” Now, he says, “I always make an excuse, like: ‘Since Covid I can’t remember faces as well as I could.’” He’s not plucking that idea out of thin air. He says he has always had a small degree of face blindness – where people have difficulty recognising or remembering faces – but he believes the Covid infection he got in early 2021 made it worse. Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, has been raised as a possible symptom of long Covid. Last month, researchers at Dartmouth College in the US published a case study on Annie (a pseudonym), who had developed prosopagnosia since having Covid, to the extent she couldn’t recognise members of her own family. The study is extremely limited – Annie is just one person, and she wasn’t given an MRI scan to rule out other causes of prosopagnosia, such as stroke (Covid itself raises the risk of stroke). The researchers are still at an early stage. However, there is another person who has claimed they have post-Covid prosopagnosia they want to work with, says Marie-Luise Kieseler, a doctoral student and lead author of the study, and two others who have been in touch. “We heard from another man who is not experiencing face blindness, but face distortions,” she says. Based on responses to a survey she did, “we do think there are lots of people who have some sort of visual problems after contracting Covid-19. Some people have reported colour vision changes. We’ve heard from people who have trouble with navigation, recognising streets that are supposed to be familiar to them and losing their way when travelling.” One woman told Kieseler she has had a lot of visual distortions, including seeing shadows as trenches. More people with long Covid reported problems keeping track of characters in TV shows than people who had recovered from the virus, she says. We do think there are lots of people who have some sort of visual problems after contracting Covid-19 Prosopagnosia is a rare condition, and most of the cases are acquired through some sort of brain injury or diseases such as encephalitis or Alzheimer’s, but some people are born with it. Haaris Qureshi, an IT and data technician, has had it – alongside dyspraxia, which affects motor skills and coordination – for as long as he can remember. “I’ve always struggled in social situations to be sure if I know someone.” It’s annoying, rather than debilitating, he says, but he does sometimes go out of his way to avoid people, rather than risk blanking them. If he has known or worked with someone for a while, he will remember them. “But even then, with someone I know very well, if I see them in the context I’m not expecting them, I won’t recognise them.” When we speak, Qureshi, 28, is on a work training course and is meeting new people; he remembered one of his workshop partners by the colour of the tracksuit they were wearing, but they were wearing a different-coloured one the next day and he couldn’t pick them out. “These are the things I’m having to navigate,” he says. If it’s someone Qureshi expects to deal with for a short period of time, such as at a conference, he looks for things such as jewellery or hairstyle – things that probably won’t change. “I have to expend mental effort memorising aspects,” he says. “Over longer periods of time, it’s more difficult.” Now he knows what face blindness is, he will tell people he has it, and if they have arranged to meet, he will ask them to approach him. For some people with prosopagnosia, it may be a perception issue. “Because they’re seeing faces a little bit differently to everybody else, it doesn’t allow them to pick up on the visual cues that the rest of us use to distinguish between different people,” says John Towler, lecturer in psychology at Swansea University. They can have problems processing the whole face at a single glance, and will focus on a particular detail to remember people by – the eyebrows, or a mole or piercing for instance. link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/08/sometimes-i-dont-recognise-my-own-family-life-with-face-blindness

Air raid sirens have sounded across Ukraine after Russia launched a fresh wave of drone and missile strikes. Explosions were heard overnight in the capital, Kyiv, where the mayor said five people had been injured in the "biggest" kamikaze drone attack so far. One person was killed in the attack on the southern Odesa region. Ukraine's Red Cross says its warehouse was hit. It marks the fourth attack in eight days on Kyiv and comes just 24 hours before Russia celebrates Victory Day. The annual holiday commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during World War Two, a conflict the Kremlin has baselessly tried to draw parallels with since launching its invasion of Ukraine last year. After a lull in Russian attacks on civilian targets in recent months, which saw Kyiv go days without an attack, Moscow has intensified its air raids over the past week ahead of a widely expected Ukrainian counter-offensive. The Ukrainian military said the latest Russian raids - which lasted for more than four hours and were launched shortly after midnight - saw Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones swarm across the country. Kyiv's Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said nearly 60 drones had been launched by Russia, describing it as the "biggest" such attack so far. He added that all 36 drones had been destroyed over Kyiv, but five people had been injured by falling debris from downed drones. The BBC has not been able to verify these numbers. 'Mad panic' as Russia evacuates nuclear plant town How is Russia using 'kamikaze' drones in Ukraine? Emergency services responded after drone wreckage fell on a runway at Zhuliany international airport - one of the city's two commercial airports - Kyiv's military administration said. And civilians were injured after drone debris hit a residential building in the central Shevchenkivskyi district, the administration added. Elsewhere, in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, a warehouse was set ablaze after eight missiles were fired at targets by Russian bombers, Ukrainian officials said. In a statement, Ukraine's Red Cross said its warehouse with humanitarian aid was destroyed and all aid deliveries had to be suspended. Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Southern Command, later said a body of a man - a security guard - was pulled from the wreckage. In a daily update, the Ukrainian military's command said there had also been a wave of missile strikes on the Kherson, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions. At least eight people - including a child - were injured in two villages in the southern Kherson region, local officials said. In Zaporizhzhia, the head of the Russian installed administration, Vladimir Rogov, said Russian forces hit a warehouse and a Ukrainian troop position in the small city of Orikhiv. On the eastern front, the Ukrainian commander of forces in the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut said Russian troops had stepped up shelling, in a bid to take the city by Tuesday's celebrations. Russian troops and fighters from the Wagner Group, a private military company, have been trying to capture Bakhmut for months - despite its questionable strategic value. Over the weekend, Wagner's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared to U-turn on a threat to withdraw from the city after he was promised fresh ammunition supplies by the defence ministry in Moscow. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 9 May would from now be celebrated as Europe Day, in line with the European Union. The move - which needs parliamentary approval - is seen as a pointed rebuke to Russia. Mr Zelensky said he had signed a decree that the day would commemorate European unity and the defeat of "Ruscism" - a term that is shorthand for "Russian fascism". He also said that 8 May would now officially be a Day of Remembrance and Victory, as marked in many countries around the world. link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65524104

PSG is reportedly still interested in signing Ziyech, whose fans aren’t satisfied with him having little to no playing time at Chelsea. Rabat - With this season winding to a close, an increasingly out-of-place-looking Hakim Ziyech is widely expected to have no future with his current club as both parties appear to be open to a transfer in the coming summer window should the right offer emerge. Ziyech is going to be “available for transfer” in the summer transfer window, Sports journalist Paul Brown told the sport news-focused website Give Me Sport, adding: “I think a lot of players at Chelsea were already considering their future. There have been a couple that have been on the transfer list for some time and know it.” Fans of Ziyech have been left frustrated through much of this season as their star player fell low in the pecking order at Chelsea, with the Moroccan playmaker being benched or even left out of the matchday squad for the large majority of Chelsea games. Chelsea’s recent purchases of a string of attacking players suggested the West London club is open to a loan or permanent transfer deal with the right offer. In the previous January transfer window, the English Premier League club was close to signing a loan deal with Paris Saint Germain for Ziyech. However, Chelsea failed to submit the correct paperwork to conclude the PSG loan agreement for Ziyech three times ahead of the window deadline. Several reports have emphasized in recent weeks that PSG is still interested in signing Ziyech. As the playmaker continues to struggle to secure game time in the final matches of this season, many have suggested that Ziyech at Chelsea doesn't feel the same passion and excitement he feels with the Moroccan national football team. “Everytime he plays for Morocco, he’s the best player in the world and every time he plays for Chelsea, he feels sad and lost,” former Chelsea player Frank Leboeuf told ESPN in April. The former Chelsea player stressed that he wishes to see Ziych going somewhere else, where he can show the world “he’s still the Ziyech that we have seen when he played for Ajax.” Ziyech was one of Ajax’s favorites before joining Chelsea in 2020. Ajax’s Director of Football Sven Mislintat has recently acknowledged that the Dutch club is now looking for players like their former star Ziyech to overhaul their squad. link: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2023/05/355345/ziyech-fully-aware-he-does-not-have-future-with-chelsea

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Swap the velvet cloaks, jewels, implausibly well-behaved choirboys and animals for ballot boxes, soggy rosettes, clipboards and leisure centres. We are watching one transfer of power on Saturday. Election results around England this week suggest one of a different kind is well under way. The Conservatives got a kicking, Labour made good progress and Ed Davey's tractor got the Lib Dems' wheels turning again (sorry). So what's next? When the gap in the opinion polls between the Tories and Labour had been tightening in recent weeks, some Conservatives had been wondering aloud whether the prospects for them were not as disastrous as they'd feared. Real votes have put a dampener on that. It does not seem likely, though, that MPs are going to start howling in pain publicly, or suggesting a change at the top, despite a few noises from predictable quarters. One former minister says they are all "tired and fed up, but if you put your head above the parapet and moan, you just make it worse". ADVERTISEMENT The atmosphere in the party may then seem - outwardly, at least - quite calm. After the last few years, an unhappy peace is a political achievement of sorts, but don't mistake it for satisfaction with the leadership. The former minister, not a regular critic of Mr Sunak, says it's one of "resigned depression". So what might the PM do to cheer it all up? Expect relentless focus on - you guessed it - the five promises he made. Perhaps, one source suggests, there may be a reshuffle before the summer to line up the team for a future general election before the party conference in the autumn. link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-65500690

Researchers created a mathematical model showing how worms can untangle themselves from each other. Worms can entangle themselves into a single, giant knot, only to quickly unravel themselves from the tightly wound mess within milliseconds. Now, math shows how they do it. Researchers studied California blackworms (Lumbriculus variegatus) — thin worms that can grow to be 4 inches (10 centimeters) in length — in the lab, watching as the worms intertwined by the thousands. Even though it took the worms minutes to form into a ball-shaped blob akin to a snarled tangle of Christmas lights, they could untangle from the jumble in the blink of an eye when threatened, according to a study published April 28 in the journal Science(opens in new tab). "We wanted to understand the exact mechanics behind how the worms change their movement dynamics to achieve tangling and ultrafast untangling," study co-author Saad Bhamla(opens in new tab), an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said in a statement(opens in new tab). "Also, these are not just typical filaments like string, ethernet cables, or spaghetti — these are living, active tangles that are out of equilibrium, which adds a fascinating layer to the question." To provoke an escape response, researchers shined an ultraviolet light on the worm mass, which caused them to "explosively" disperse. But the team still didn't understand the mechanics of what was going on in the center of the ball. So they placed a live worm blob in nontoxic jelly and used an ultrasound machine to observe the phenomenon from the inside. After putting these ultrasonic images together into a movie, the team plotted more than 46,000 data points to understand "the math behind the movements," and created a mathematical model that could help predict each worm's exact escape path, according to the statement. "What's striking is these tangled structures are extremely complicated," lead author Vishal Patil(opens in new tab), a former graduate student at Georgia Tech who is now a postdoctoral fellow in bioengineering at Stanford University, said in the statement. "They are disordered and complex structures, but these living worm structures are able to mani[CENSORED]te these knots for crucial functions." The model predicted that each worm would weave itself with at least two others and they would then use "helical wave motions" — basically, spinning their bodies like corkscrews — when they needed to unravel. Although scientists already knew that worms moved in this manner, the new study shows why they use these swift movements, according to the statement. This study is the first known mathematical theory of active tangling and untangling, and researchers think it could be applied elsewhere. "Imagine a soft, nonwoven material made of millions of stringlike filaments that can tangle and untangle on command, forming a smart adhesive bandage that shape-morphs as a wound heals, or a smart filtration material that alters pore topology to trap particles of different sizes or chemical properties," Bhamla said in the statement. "The possibilities are endless." link: https://www.livescience.com/animals/watch-thousands-of-worms-explosively-untangle-themselves-from-a-knotted-ball-in-milliseconds

Bentley, Škoda, and Williams Racing are all joining the pomp and ceremony—and the fairy-tale coach once inspired the creation of Matchbox cars. So read on. Two coaches—one old, one new—will carry the new King and Queen Consort during the splashy coronation ceremony this weekend in London. British coronations have used the Gold State Coach for hundreds of years, but the Diamond Jubilee State Coach is actually comfortable to ride in. The Gold State Coach led, indirectly, to the creation of Matchbox cars 70 years ago. This year, Bentley, Škoda, and Williams Racing are some of the brands getting involved in the event. The last time a new British royal ascended to the throne—Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953—it ended up leading indirectly to the creation of Matchbox cars. Whether today’s coronation of King Charles III will have that kind of impact on the toy car scene or not, there are plenty of automotive angles to a royal coronation. Like the Matchbox story, which starts for our purposes when a pair of metal-toy-car makers in London found tremendous success in selling a million miniature models of the ornate Gold State Coach (pictured at top). This 260-year-old carriage has been used at every coronation since that of William IV in 1831, so the toysmiths had some warning that it would be used for Queen Elizabeth II. They released two models of it around the time of her coronation, and the smaller of the two became insanely po[CENSORED]r, selling a million copies. When the daughter or one of the modelmakers later wanted a small toy that could fit inside a matchbox, you can probably guess what he built for her. Mattel, which now owns the Matchbox brand, reminded us of this history because it is currently offering a limited-edition, dramatically updated model of the Gold State Coach. The model costs $60, and it’s at the same 1/64 scale, so it will fit right in with your Matchbox collection. The real-world Gold State Coach is a beast. Over 20 feet long and 12 feet tall, the coach can’t move faster than a walking pace, even with a full complement of eight horses, because it weighs four tons. Royals have complained about how uncomfortable it is to ride in the Gold State Coach, which partly explains why there will be other vehicles involved in the coronation ceremony. Buckingham Palace has also confirmed that the Diamond Jubilee State Coach (above) will be used in today’s ceremony. This coach uses six horses and isn’t quite as old as the Gold State Coach; the Diamond Jubilee State Coach was first used in 2014. While it still looks suitably old-fashioned, this is a modern design with an aluminum body, hydraulic stabilizers, electric windows and an HVAC system. It was built in Australia. Other Cars in the Stable There are a dozen or so vehicles in the Royal collection that could make an appearance sometime Saturday, between the ceremonies and parade, including Bentley State Limousines and three Rolls-Royces (a 1977 Silver Jubilee Rolls-Royce Phantom VI, a 1986 Phantom VI and a 1950 Phantom IV). The only vehicles confirmed for the event, though, are the two coaches. link: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43808787/king-charles-iii-coronation-14-horsepower-cars-coaches/

Rodrygo scored twice as Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey for the first time since 2014 after beating Osasuna in the final in Seville. The Brazilian was on hand to fire the winner from close range after Toni Kroos' shot deflected into his path. Osasuna, playing in only their second Copa del Rey final, had threatened an upset when Lucas Torro levelled. Rodrygo handed Real an early lead with the fastest goal in a Spanish cup final for 17 years after 106 seconds. Real Madrid v Osasuna - as it happened Osasuna, backed by nearly 25,000 fans inside the Estadio de La Cartuja, had their chances as they chased a first major trophy in their 103-year history. They were denied a stoppage-time equaliser when Dani Carvajal produced a last-ditch block to keep out Kike Barja's side-footed effort. Los Rojillos, which translates as The Little Reds, had more shots on target (5) than Real (3), but Carlo Ancelotti's side were ultimately more clinical in front of goal. Victory for Real delivers a 20th Copa del Rey title as they now turn their attention to Tuesday's Champions League semi-final first leg against Manchester City. Real spoil Osasuna's party Osasuna fans had travelled in large numbers and painted the city of Seville red in anticipation of Saturday's final, but it could not have started any worse on the field. Vinicius Jr, who returned to the Real starting XI as Ancelotti made five changes to the side that lost at Real Sociedad, proved to be a constant threat down the left. The Brazilian beat his marker and got to the byline before cutting the ball back across the face of goal for Rodrygo to convert for the opening goal. Osasuna's task nearly became even harder when Karim Benzema forced Sergio Herrera into a smart save, but Jagoba Arrasate's side began to grow into the game and they could have equalised a minute later. Bearing down on goal after shrugging off the challenge of Eder Militao, Abde Ezzalzouli beat Thibaut Courtois but could not guide his chipped effort on target. The leveller did come after the break when Torro's controlled finish from outside the area against his former club sent the red half of the stadium into delirium. Some of the enthusiasm spilled over as play was momentarily halted while stewards had to use a fire extinguisher on a loose pyrotechnic where the Osasuna fans were housed. But Madrid always carried a threat and when Vinicius Jr burst through down the left once more and dragged the ball back from the byline, Kroos' effort came off Garcia for Rodrygo to pounce and lift into the net. With the La Liga title seemingly heading to Barcelona, Ancelotti's side will enjoy their celebrations before turning their attention to the Champions League. The holders will be hoping they can welcome back Luka Modric from a hamstring issue to face City in the first leg at the Bernabeu. link: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65500297

The comedian on drinking Bloody Marys, listening to Roberta Flack – and the joy of never having to go to church When does Sunday start? Quite early. I have to present my Virgin Radio show. I’m on air at 9.30am, so I’m out the door and on my bike by 8.45am. Sunday is my turn to get coffee for the team. While I’m there, I treat myself to a muffin. If I’m feeling fragile, I’ll nip next door for vegan sausage rolls instead. After work? I finish at 12.30, which is deliberate – it means I can still meet up with friends for lunch. Sometimes my husband, Jono, will join me at a dog-friendly Borough Market restaurant. In summer we might have people over: heat means you can offer salad, about all I can face making after work. Bloody Mary Cocktail Isolated on White Background Photograph: EHStock/Getty Images/iStockphoto Is it a religious day? As a child it was. We always went to church, one might say religiously. I’ve never known boredom like it. Time in church seems to pass differently, by which I mean slowly. One of adulthood’s greatest joys is never having to go again. Do you drink? I don’t associate any other day of the week with a specific drink, but Bloody Marys, the spicier the better, are forever linked with Sundays. It would never cross my mind to order one at any other time. What are you listening to? The work playlist is dominated by jangly guitars, so at home I like to mix it up. I just watched a brilliant documentary about Roberta Flack and have become obsessed by her voice. A special Sunday? I feel honour-bound to say our wedding weekend last year… but it is also true. A bunch of our friends and family were in our garden in West Cork, the weather was freakishly good, and as the sun set and the music got louder I was finally able to relax and enjoy it all. Nothing had gone wrong, in fact everything had gone better than we dared hope. Last thing you look at on your phone? I’ve done a pretty good job of weaning myself off my phone; leaving Twitter was a gamechanger. But, if it is after midnight, I will squeeze in the next day’s Wordle before lights out. I sometimes wait up especially. Graham Norton hosts and commentates on the Eurovision Grand Final, at 8pm on 13 May on BBC One and iPlayer The free press is under attack from multiple forces. Media outlets are closing their doors, victims to a broken business model. In much of the world, journalism is morphing into propaganda, as governments dictate what can and can’t be printed. In the last year alone, hundreds of reporters have been killed or imprisoned for doing their jobs. The UN reports that 85% of the world’s po[CENSORED]tion experienced a decline in press freedom in their country in recent years. This week marks the 30th annual World Press Freedom Day, a day for everyone to reflect on the importance of free expression as fundamental for all other rights. It is also an opportunity to pledge support for independent media – because without a robust and free press, a healthy democracy is impossible. As you’re joining us today from Serbia, we hope you will consider marking this day by supporting the Guardian. Despite the financial challenges plaguing the media industry, we’ve decided to keep our journalism paywall-free, because we deeply believe everyone has the right to access high-quality, fact-checked reporting. And we maintain our independence thanks to generosity from readers all over the world, who understand that supporting the free press is an investment in an informed and empowered public. Unlike many others, we have no billionaire owner – this helps us maintain the freedom to fearlessly chase the truth and report it with integrity. Your support will allow us to continue to work with trademark determination and passion to bring you journalism that’s always free from commercial or political interference. We also encourage you to support one of the many, smaller independent news organisations around the world. Over the years, we’ve collaborated with teams who are often publishing quality reporting in the face of great adversity. We have shared our expertise with them, helping to start and grow their own reader funding models. If this interests you, find out more about our work with outlets in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, Hungary and beyond. Today we ask you to power Guardian reporting for the years to come, whether with a small sum or a larger one. link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/07/sunday-with-graham-norton-i-squeeze-in-the-next-days-wordle-before-lights-out

Russia has sparked a "mad panic" as it evacuates a town near the contested Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a Ukrainian official says. Russia has told people to leave 18 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, including Enerhodar near the plant, ahead of Kyiv's anticipated offensive. The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said there were five-hour waits as thousands of cars left. The UN's nuclear watchdog warned a "severe nuclear accident" could occur. Rafael Grossi - the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - said the situation at the Zaporizhzhia plant was "becoming increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous". The IAEA statement said that "while operating staff remain at the site" there was "deep concern about the increasingly tense, stressful, and challenging conditions for personnel and their families". It said IAEA experts at the plant had "received information that the announced evacuation of residents from the nearby town of Enerhodar - where most plant staff live - has started". On Friday, the Russian-installed regional head Yevgeny Balitsky said that "in the past few days, the enemy has stepped up shelling of settlements close to the front line". "I have therefore made a decision to evacuate first of all children and parents, elderly people, disabled people and hospital patients," he wrote on social media. . The IAEA has issued warnings previously about safety at the plant - which Russia captured in the opening days of its invasion last year - after shelling caused temporary power cuts. In March the IAEA warned the plant was running on diesel generators to keep vital cooling systems going, after damage to power lines. Since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022 the number of staff at the plant has declined, the IAEA says, "but site management has stated that it has remained sufficient for the safe operation of the plant". Russian forces occupy much of the Zaporizhzhia region but not the regional capital Zaporizhzhia, which lies just north-east of Enerhodar across the Dnipro reservoir. On Sunday, the Ukrainian general staff said civilians were being evacuated to the cities of Berdyansk and Prymorsk, further inside Russian-held territory. The exiled mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, wrote on Telegram that shops in the evacuated areas had run out of goods and medicine. He also said hospitals were discharging patients into the street amid fears that electricity and water supplies could be suspended if Ukraine attacks the region. And he claimed that two-thirds of evacuation convoys - allegedly made up of civilians - consisted of retreating Russian troops. The BBC cannot verify this claim. "The partial evacuation they announced is going too fast, and there is a possibility that they may be preparing for provocations and (for that reason) focusing on civilians," Mr Fedorov added. link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65515443

Despite their contribution, only 36% of women are employed in olive farming, and their work is not always accounted for in official statistics, Rouas noted. Rabat - Women in Morocco play a crucial role in the production of high-quality olive oil, said Siham Rouas, a professor at the Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary. Speaking on the sidelines of the 15th annual International Exhibition of Agriculture in Morocco, Rouas explained that women are responsible for the harvest and storage of olives in several regions in Morocco. The two operations account for 45% of the quality of olive oil. Despite their contribution, only 36% of women are employed in olive farming, and their work is not always accounted for in official statistics, Rouas noted. The olive sector in Morocco is an essential part of agriculture and accounts for 5% of the agriculture's gross domestic product. The sector also generates 51 million days of work, equivalent to 380,000 permanent jobs. Cultivation of olive crops is largely concentrated in the Fez-Meknes and Marrakech-Safi regions, which account for 54% of the total area of olive crops. While noting the importance of the sector in Morocco, Rouas called for stronger quality control strategies to avert health risks for consumers. Joining Rouas in calling for recognizing the agency of women in the olive oil industry was Malika Bounfour, president of a cooperative and doctor in Entomology, who stressed the need to recognize women's work in family orchards and to support them to integrate into the national economy. The case of women in agriculture is not an isolated incident. In the country’s economy at large, women are underrepresented. According to a February 2023 report by the Higher Commission for Planning (HCP) released, the majority of the country's inactive workforce in 2022 were women, with 73% of the 15 million people falling under this category. Additionally, the HCP report revealed that 80% of women in Morocco who are of working age are not part of the labor market. link: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2023/05/355330/women-play-crucial-role-in-moroccos-olive-oil-industry

Nick Movie: Hypnotic Time: May 12, 2023 Netflix / Amazon / HBO?: Netflix Duration of the movie: 1h 28min Trailer: