Новости за 18.09.2015

The Community Shield victory doesn't really count.

Mhairi Black will spearhead the SNP’s youth campaign in next year’s Scottish parliament elections as 16 and 17-year-olds are given the vote for the first time.

Real Madrid have welcomed the Syrian refugee tripped over by a camera operator, sparking international outrage, for a tour of the club.

England might be hosting the Rugby World Cup, but tonight they're not allowed to wear their traditional white kit. Instead, their opponents Fiji will be wearing that colour.

Andre Schurrle played in a victorious World Cup final, has played just shy of 50 matches for his national team and currently plies his trade for Wolfsburg, who came third in the Bundesliga last season.

The Rugby World Cup begins tonight when England take on Fiji in the first game of the tournament.

Housed in a box echoing the original Zippo-lighter sleeve of Catch a Fire, this career summary presents The Wailers as they should be heard, with the full, rounded warmth provided by vinyl.

What, one wonders, does David Lynch feel when he hears Lana Del Rey? Perhaps he’s flattered at the way she so skilfully personifies the precarious balance of danger and desire in his heroines? Or maybe he feels a little disturbed by her unflinching embodiment of this specific strain of his fictional characters: almost as if he’s being stalked by his own creation – which is, of course, a very Lynchian notion.

Keith Richards’ musical character is neatly summarised here in the line “Torn at the edges, but really, really loose inside”; and whatever style he uses on this first solo album in more than two decades, from country-blues to croon, rock’n’roll to reggae, he sustains that character as a unifying thread.

B’lieve I’m Goin Down sounds like the Mojave Desert brought to musical life – or at least, the sense of light-headed, out-of-body dislocation that can occur in desert climes.

On the band’s first studio album since the departure of Peter Hook, New Order don’t attempt to replace his characteristic lead basslines, but shift instead towards a more general electronic orientation.

On Have You In My Wilderness, Julia Holter corrals the wayward art-song inclinations of previous releases into something more recognisably pop, with the engagingly serpentine vocal melodies of songs like “Feel You” and “Silhouette” set to shifting matrixes of strings, organ, harpsichord, sundry ambient noises, and drums that sometimes seem determined to take the more picturesque route.

What, one wonders, does David Lynch feel when he hears Lana Del Rey? Perhaps he’s flattered at the way she so skilfully personifies the precarious balance of danger and desire in his heroines? Or maybe he feels a little disturbed by her unflinching embodiment of this specific strain of his fictional characters: almost as if he’s being stalked by his own creation – which is, of course, a very Lynchian notion.

When residents of the remote Highland village of Scoraig advertised for a teacher on Facebook, it was more out of desperation than hope.

It could be a masterstroke or it could be a gamble that will blow up in his face. On the eve of the biggest match as Britain’s Davis Cup captain, Leon Smith made his most controversial decision when he named Dan Evans to play in this weekend’s World Group semi-final against Australia here at the Emirates Arena.

John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor, has apologised for saying that IRA members should be “honoured” for their “armed struggle” and also for saying he wished he could go back in time and kill Margaret Thatcher.

Jeremy Corbyn has had a rocky first few days as Labour leader since his historic landslide victory on Saturday.

It was the most fearful moment in the history of modern Britain – when Adolf Hitler’s shock troops lined up along the coast of France and prepared to launch an invasion.

The Football Association is investigating a complaint that Jose Mourinho used abusive, sexist language towards former team doctor Eva Carneiro during Chelsea's Premier League game against Swansea City.

Biased reporting by the BBC in the lead up to Scotland’s independence referendum last year was a “significant factor” in the country deciding to remain part of the Union, Alex Salmond has claimed.

More than 9,000 staff at supermarket chain Lidl are being given a pay rise worth £1,200 a year after the discounter said it was hiking its minimum wages.

Nadolo versus Nando’s? Only one winner there. “I probably ate two whole chickens,” said Nemani Nadolo, the 20st Fijian wing, recalling a recent extra-curricular trip to fast-food land, prompted by a sudden falling out of love with hotel cuisine. You can see his point. A chap needs proper sustenance if he’s to punch his weight in the World Cup arena. Fricassée of courgette with a baton of braised celery is no use to man nor beast, still less to a man who plays like a beast.

The English nation needed a blunt, unadorned assertion that everything would be all right and those cauliflower ears – the product of 10 years in the Leicester front row – were not the only reason why Graham Rowntree was the man for the occasion.

There was a long spell in the first half when Tottenham players and fans could have been forgiven if this was really the best way of spending their Thursday evening. Spurs were 1-0 down to Qarabag – the champions of Azerbaijan, it must be said – and facing the prospect of another five group games in the competition that has spoiled their last few seasons. Crystal Palace come here on Sunday lunchtime and Spurs will have to be at their physical peak to live with them.