Since then, hayes has apologised on social media. Fifa has initiated legal action against former president sepp blatter and former Vice President michel platini, to recover 2 million swiss francs. Fifa banned platini in 2015 over the payment he received from blatter. The organisation says it will channel the money back into football development. Manchester united midfielder laurenjames has signed herfirst professional contract with the club. James joined united when the team was formed back in 2018 and has scored 2a goals in 39 appearences. The former wales assistant coach rob howley has been suspended from all involvement with rugby for 18 months for breaching betting regulations. Howley was sent home from the Rugby World Cup injapan after the Welsh Rugby Union became aware of a possible breach. Nine months of the ban has been suspended, and its back dated, meaning howley can start working in rugby again injune. England cricketer, laura marsh has announced her International Retirement
Career. He wants to score goals, but there is no doubt that when you have a player like him with the guts and determination, this team shows every week, you have always got a bit of a chance to get results. I couldnt be happier. With the spotlight firmly focussed on the way italian footballs been dealing with racist incidents, it finds itself amid more controversey for its use of monkey images in an anti racsim campaign. Pictures of three monkeys by an italian artist will be exhibted permanently at the leagues headquarters to underline the fight against all forms of discrimination Anti Racism Group fare called it a sickjoke. It comes just three weeks after an italian newspaper led with the headline black friday next to images of roma defender Chris Smalling and inter striker romelu lu ka ku. The artist simone fugazzotto, justified the work by saying i made the western monkey with blue and white eyes, the asian monkey with almond shaped eyes and the black monkey positioned in the centre
Was down to three. Not for long, though. Soon it was the shane show lowry back to his best, and how the crowd loved it. With conditions bordering on the farcical, his only challenger, tommy fleetwood, saw his hopes slipp away and from there, it was a march to glory, lowry lapping up the moment before a tap in for triumph. Portrush could start the party, and after embracing his wife and daughter, he paid tribute to his parents. What can i say, my mum and dad. They sacrificed so much for me when i was younger and im so happy i can hand them this trophy tonight. And 150 miles south at his home club in esker hills, the celebrations were also in full swing for them and their star player, an unforgettable day. Well, the long awaited return of the open here to Northern Ireland was always going to be emotional but this was something else. Rarely has this famous event seen a more popular champion. Andy swiss, bbc news, royal portrush. New zealand have won their first netball world cup since 200
One very recent and very nice outcome of this collaboration has been the instrument is six telescopes in the uk are embedded completely in the european infrastructure. This has been tried for some time and it took work to do and now it means the whole infrastructure is much more robust and it can do new kinds of science that was much more challenging in the past. Also, and this is very recent, very interesting the infrastructure works in real time and so these 22 telescopes send data to jive and so these 22 telescopes send data tojive in the netherlands in real time by internet. The data is collected altogether and processed in real time collected altogether and processed in realtime and collected altogether and processed in real time and this gives astronomers the ability to study some of the processes happening in the universe. Thank you. From the joint institute of very long baseline infrastructure consortium. Now its time for a look at the weather with tomasz schaffernaker. Its a p
And coming up, ireland celebrates as local hero shane lowry wins the british open at portrush. Hello and welcome to world news today. Britains defence minister has branded the seizing of a british flagged oil tanker by iran as a hostile act. His comments came as a recording emerged of radio exchanges between a Royal Navy Warship and irans revolutionary guard, moments before the tanker the stena impero was seized in the strait of hormuz on friday. Both sides have called for de escalation of the situation. But Iranian State television also been showing the tanker with the iranian flag flying from its masthead. Paul adams reports. Iranian revolutionary guards boarding the stena impero on friday afternoon, carrying out a two week old threat to seize a british vessel. Iran said the tanker broke the law, the ships owners and the British Government say this simply isnt true. Earlier, tense exchanges as a british warship, hms montrose, attempted to stop the ship being taken. But the revolution