When Shaq Barrett retired in July, it appeared his playing days were over. That decision came not long after he had signed a one-year Dolphins deal, a pact he could have played out over the closing weeks of the campaign had he been reinstated before yesterday’s deadline. Instead, Miami elected to keep Barrett on the reserve/retired list,…

The Giants were eliminated from the postseason last night, and they suffered a number of injuries on the defensive line along the way. Dexter Lawrence exited the contest, and if he is to return in 2024 he will do so while dealing with a pain management situation. Lawrence suffered a dislocated elbow on Thanksgiving, as detailed…

Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in Africa’s embattled Sahel region. Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said it was time for his country to “assert its full sovereignty”. The announcement came just hours after Koulamallah’s French counterpart, Jean-Noel Barrot, met Chad’s President…

The Israeli military has warned Lebanese citizens not to return to 60 villages in the south of the country, three days into a ceasefire after more than a year of fighting with the Shia armed group Hezbollah. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published a map showing a swathe of territory several miles deep, which it…

A power cut plunged Zimbabwe’s parliament into darkness as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was finishing his budget speech. The lights flickered and died, leaving top officials like President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and members of parliament sitting in the dark. The outage is a symptom of Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis, with daily 12-hour blackouts driven…

France has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a “massacre” in Senegal in which dozens – perhaps hundreds – of West African troops were killed almost exactly 80 years ago, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said. Those who died were part of the Tirailleurs Senegalais unit, recruited at the start…

Getty Images Alexei Gorinov was punished for questioning whether his Moscow district should hold a children’s drawing competition while “children are dying in Ukraine” A Moscow councillor serving time in jail for speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine has been given an additional three years in prison. Alexei Gorinov, 63, was jailed for seven…

Notre-Dame: First look inside refurbished cathedral France’s Emmanuel Macron has praised workers for achieving the “impossible” task of restoring Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral after a major fire engulfed the Gothic jewel in 2019. On Friday the world had a first look inside a resplendent new Notre-Dame as Macron conducted a televised tour to mark the cathedral’s…

Researchers believe they have found possible evidence that polar bears lived in Scotland during the last ice age. Scientists previously suspected some of the remains found deep in Inchnadamph’s ancient Bone Caves belonged to the animals. Experts from National Museums Scotland and universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh re-evaluated fossils collected from the area of limestone…

A 16-year-old girl has been charged with the murder of a homeless man who was killed while sheltering in a bin shed in central London. Anthony Marks, 51, was attacked in the early hours of 10 August on Cromer Street near King’s Cross St Pancras station. The girl, from Brixton in south London, cannot be…