Dec 7, 2022 ESPN News Services The ATP on Wednesday fined Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) £820,000 ($1 million) for banning male players from Russia and Belarus from playing in its grass-court events this summer. The governing body of British tennis banned the players from five Wimbledon warm-up tournaments following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Wimbledon
Elon Musk has questioned the mayor of San Francisco’s “priorities” as he alleged the city is more concerned about Twitter staff sleeping in the office than about children suffering accidental overdoses. The Twitter owner’s outburst followed controversy about bedrooms appearing at the social media site’s office in the northwest California city. “Sad little conference-room sleeping
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and “the spirit of Ukraine” has been named Time magazine’s 2022 Person of the Year. The annual award by the US magazine’s editors is given to someone who is felt to have had the most global influence during the last 12 months. The magazine has previously said their Person of the Year
Vocal technology has helped a woman who had her voice box removed perform a Christmas carol for her sister alongside Love Actually actress Martine McCutcheon. Tanja Bage, a former theatre performer from Leeds, had her voice box removed after a throat cancer diagnosis in 2020. The mother-of-two now speaks through a speech valve, but through
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