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(AFP via Getty Images)The days of a healthy rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid are over. What used to be a cordial relationship between the LaLiga powerhouses has turned ugly following the latest scandal involving Barcelona over payments to a former refereeing official. Neither club is holding back, and there is no hiding the relationship that has been strained. “It’s damaged,” Barcelona president Joan Laporta said. “We have had an harmonious institutional relationship with all clubs, including Madrid. El Clasico is the greatest spectacle in the world and there is always an intense rivalry. But to me, the institutional…

St James’ Park in central London. (Getty Images)Tourists have been urged to take care in the extreme heat as the Cerberus heatwave continues to hit parts of southern Europe and north-west Africa. Cerberus – named by the Italian Meteorological Society after the three-headed monster that features in Dante’s inferno – has taken hold across many popular British family holiday hotspots in the Mediterranean. But could the heatwave hit the UK? According to the Met Office, it’s unlikely. Rebekah Sherwin, an expert meteorologist from the Met Office’s global forecasting team, said “unusually high” sea surface temperatures are also occurring across…

Members of Killarney Celtic FC pictured celebrating the Football for All project’s 10th birthday.A cake made to commemorate the 10th birthday of the ‘Football for All’ initiative.A wonderful initiative by Killarney Celtic FC to ensure inclusiveness and to guarantee game-time opportunities for players with intellectual, physical and sensory needs has just celebrated a landmark birthday.The ‘Football for All’ project is one that is aimed at players aged between six and 18 and a special celebration was recently held to mark 10 years of great success for the initiative; it was at the final training session of the…

Tasty and healthy, these snacks can help you meet your nutritional needs. Ingredients like Greek yogurt, raspberries, chickpeas and garlic are both gut-healthy and anti-inflammatory foods. This means these snacks can help aid in healthy digestion as well as relieve symptoms of inflammation such as joint stiffness, mental fog and high blood pressure. Recipes like our Purple Fruit Salad and Cottage Cheese with Raspberry Honey are ideal for a midday pick-me-up. Purple Fruit SaladServe this refreshing fruit salad featuring juicy plums, grapes and berries on its own or with other colorblock fruit salads (like red, green and orange) for…

A new Canadian study finds sport has a remarkable impact on mental health, particularly among girls. For an all-female hockey association in Sydney, enrollment has been steadily increasing since they dropped the puck in their inaugural year in the fall of 2018. “I’m not sure what the magic of it is, but we’ve grown from about three local girls’ hockey teams in 2014, 2015, to ’23,” said Christina Lamey, Female Blizzard Association president. The association will soon be the first in Canada to have their own arena dedicated to female hockey teams when renovations to the CBU Canada Games complex…

Weekend warriors are as healthy as daily runnersGetty ImagesThe results from a major study on ‘weekend warriors’ – those who perhaps don’t get the opportunity to workout during the week, and cram all their exercise into the weekend – suggest that, actually, squeezing workouts into one or two days is as good for your heart as daily exercise. While public health guidelines recommend adults do 150 minutes or more of moderate to vigorous physical activity every week, it’s been unclear whether the same benefits come from concentrated exercise or more regular, spread-out physical activity. But the research, which analysed…

A cluster of mysterious brain diseases has struck down at least 200 people in a small province and baffled doctors. More than 200 residents in New Brunswick, Canada, have been affected by the dementia-like disorder that causes vivid hallucinations, an inability to talk and write, memory lapses and even physical paralysis. Experts say the cases date back to 2015 and are among people aged 18 to 84, dozens of whom were healthy before being struck down by the mystery illness. One of those patients is Gabrielle Cormier who, at age 20, had to pause her love of figure skating and…

Health Canada has issued a recall for AI Kanater brand tahini after salmonella contamination was detected by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) According to the notice issued on Tuesday, the recalled product has been sold in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The health agency asks Canadians to avoid consuming, using, selling, serving or distributing the recalled product because food contaminated with salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections. Health Canada says food contaminated with salmonella may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick, especially for children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened…