World No 1 sees off Holger Rune 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2Italian will face either Alex de Minaur in last eightIt took the double blow of illness and the oppressive conditions of a blistering Melbourne summer for Jannik Sinner to look uncomfortable on a hard, acrylic-based tennis court for the first time in well over a year. Throughout the 2024 season, Sinner not only held his opponents in a chokehold on the biggest stages, he had often done so with his typical calm, neutral expression barely changing. As Sinner methodically compiled significant titles throughout the 2024 season, he made his immense efforts appear to be routine.Three sets into his highly anticipated intragenerational tussle with Holger Rune, though, Sinner was clearly uncomfortable. He limped gingerly between points, his hands shook as he sat down at the change of ends and, most importantly, his unforced errors piled up. Down two break points at 1-1 in set three, Sinner was in trouble. Continue reading...

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Trains are not stopping at Cardiff Queen Street station due to 'a gas leak near the railway'

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Transport giant FirstGroup said open access routes mean locations receive services that would ‘otherwise require taxpayer subsidies’.

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Teddy Williams has started every match for his club this season, but has yet to get his big break at Test level

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Allie Katch landed awkwardly at the GCW even in New York City last night, and fans have been donating to her GoFundMe in droves in order to help cover medical costs

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The Chinese-based video app has officially shut down its services for 170 million American TikTokers after the Supreme Court allowed the ban in a shock ruling on Friday.

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Injured people are being seen in viewing rooms for dead bodies. I love my job, but I don’t know how much longer I can copeSusie (not her real name) is a senior nurse in an A&E ward at a London hospitalA&E nurses thrive in a crisis. That’s why my colleagues and I came into the profession – to do the best for our patients in their moment of need, even in the most chaotic of circumstances. But the pressure is currently overwhelming. This winter, a bad but by no means unprecedented flu season has put immense strain on already struggling hospitals around the UK. Some patients are waiting days to be seen, with trusts using every inch of space to look after patients in corridors, physio rooms and even store cupboards, often without access to vital lifesaving equipment such as oxygen.In the London hospital I work in, patients brought in on trolleys are often left for hours in an indoor ambulance bay with an automatic sliding door that opens on to the elements. While they wait for a ...

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Steven Cavener and wife Melanie have had cameras because there have been repeated attempts by thieves to break into Mr Cavener's work van in, South Shields, South Tyneside.

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Council officials ordered immediate action after images showed workmen leaving open metal trap doors on the pavement while dumping building debris outside the property in North Kensington.

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Deals include Portsmouth to London for £3.50, Norwich to Colchester for £4 and Sheffield to Leicester for £3.80

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In a viral TikTok video, the woman named Cristina can be seen being strapped up in a life jacket as she held back tears while crying: 'No, no no' and shook her head.

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Web searches for “VPN” spiked in the minutes after US users lost access to TikTok

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The woman, in her 50s, can be seen shouting at fellow passengers and using racist language during an EasyJet flight from Belfast to Manchester on Friday.

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Labour's decision to levy VAT on private school fees has dealt a heavy blow to the sector, which some institutions have been unable to deal with.

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Essen is looking to compel both asylum seekers and recipients of welfare to work for the city in an effort to stoke an economy blighted by unemployment and stagnation.

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A quick and easy breakfast is essential for those who are usually in a rush and running out of the door in the morning and this "dreamy" recipe will ensure you have a healthy breakfast in no time

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Stop This Flame Celeste has been charged over £500 after boarding a train in England without a ticket - but she has argued it was a technical glitch that was to blame

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'She was just kicking off but I think the stewards handled it really well - it was quite disgusting behaviour,' alleged one of the passengers on board the flight

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Sharon Stone has spoken out about living next door to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Montecito, California, in 2020, and it's safe to say she's a fan of the couple

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Experts believe the prevalence of microplastics, such as those in plastic bags, can be linked to health conditions as they can cause superbugs to mutate

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Thousands of London commuters are facing a difficult start to the week, with a broken down train and the theft of signalling cables causing disruption to rail services into the capital.

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Updates from ninth day of tennis at Melbourne ParkChannel Nine’s Tony Jones apologises to Novak DjokovicSign up for the Recap | And you can drop Daniel a mailBack on Court, Shelton leads Monfils 4-2 in their third-set breaker and if he sees it out, might the Frenchman retire? I could see him convincing himself he’s good for one more set, but two?Lys starts well, narrowly missing a backhand down the line that would’ve given her a break, before Swiatek secures her hold through deuce. She’s never gone further than the semis here, which is in some way surprising – the balls bounce slower and lower than on other hard courts, meaning the surface is more clay-like than at Flushing Meadow, where she won in 2022. And though, in 2023, it took Elena Rybakina to beat her in Melbourme, last term it was Linda Noskova. I’d be surprised if she got past Coco Gauff or Aryna Sabalenka, likely final opponents, but she’s got a good chance of getting there given standing in her way are Kasatkina or Navar...

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Eddie McGinty, 44, had been in and out of 14 juvenile and adult prisons since the age of 15, but his life was about to change thanks to a smuggled mobile phone

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Thousands of London commuters are facing a difficult start to the week, with a broken down train and the theft of signalling cables causing disruption to rail services into the capital.

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Jamie Theakston made an emotional return to host his Heart FM Breakfast show on Monday morning - after taking a four month break from work while he battled  laryngeal cancer.

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Those who have escaped one of the world’s most repressive states give a rare glimpse into their horrific ordeal in the country’s vast gulag systemIn the darkened office of his church, the preacher recalls how he was tortured. His guards would put a wooden pole behind his bent knees, suspend him upside down from the ceiling and beat the soles of his feet with rubber pipes.In the two decades before he fled Eritrea with his family in 2020, he spent eight years in detention. Some of it was in airless, underground cells so cramped there was no room to lie down. At other times he was made to break stones and harvest crops. Then there were the torture chambers. Continue reading...

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The female passenger, who appears to be in her 50s, launches a vicious racist tirade, targeting people from Ukraine and Muslims, during a flight from Belfast to Manchester

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Here are the latest Scottish football transfer headlines as we approach the final few weeks of the January window.

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A woman in her 50s was escorted off an Easyjet flight from Belfast to Manchester after she began shouting and swearing at her fellow passengers in a vile racist tirade

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Shaun Murphy beats Kyren Wilson 10-7Murphy credits coach Peter Ebdon for triumphShaun Murphy claimed Masters success for a second time after a superb 10-7 victory over Kyren Wilson in a thrilling final at Alexandra Palace.Murphy had been irresistible all week and produced only the sixth maximum break in the tournament’s history in his semi-final win over Mark Allen. Continue reading...

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A woman in her 50s was escorted off an Easyjet flight from Belfast to Manchester after she began shouting and swearing at her fellow passengers in a vile racist tirade

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EXCLUSIVE: The 28-year-old German skater has certainly made her mark on the series since joining the line-up in 2018 and now she's gettting ready to try her hand at acting

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A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital

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Never heard of your lower trapezius? Don’t know your rotator cuff from your neck flexor? To alleviate common injuries, it’s time to get to know them Killer abs, beefy biceps and perky pecs are classic signifiers of strong, well-exercised bodies, but not many people walk into a gym with a goal of building up their teres minor. This more low-key muscle, along with several others, is often underappreciated and weak, even among fitness fans. Neglecting such muscles as the teres minor can cause overuse of other muscles to compensate, or a lack of stability around a joint, which can lead to common painful injuries. And as anyone currently in musculo-skeletal pain knows all too well, it’s preferable to build up these forgotten muscles before you end up on the physiotherapist’s waiting list with an agonising shoulder, hip or lower back. Here are those elusive muscle groups to look out for. Continue reading...

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Tina Shingler was fostered in a white family in North Yorkshire in the 1960s, where her hair was a source of anxiety and stress. Then she wrote a ‘hairmoir’ and now she empowers others to embrace their hair tooGrowing up, Tina Shingler didn’t touch her hair like other girls touched theirs. She didn’t preen, stroke or comb – though sometimes she hid pens and cigarettes in it. “I had no respect for it, because no one else had any,” she says.As a “Barnardo’s child”, Shingler’s hair presented a challenge to her white foster parents, Mary, a housewife, and Jack, a semi-skilled mechanic. She had a happy enough childhood, but every few months was required to kneel in the sitting room in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and rest her head in Mary’s lap to be “shorn”. The language was always animalistic, Shingler says. It was “to bow your head”, and know your hair was “something to be got rid of”.Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60? Continue reading...

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Celebrations break out across the territory but many are worried ceasefire will break down and war will resumeIsrael-Gaza war – latest updatesPalestinians in Gaza celebrated the ceasefire that came into effect at 9.15am GMT on Sunday, describing “the most beautiful joy in the world” after 15 months of devastating war that has killed tens of thousands there and laid waste to swaths of the territory.“I feel very beautiful. We hope that God will complete this joy and that we return to our homes and lands safely. This is the most beautiful joy in the world, thank God,” said Moaz Qirqiz, 46. Continue reading...

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Updates from day eight at Melbourne ParkSabalenka, Gauff, Badosa, Pavlyuchenkova go throughAlcaraz and Paul advance in men’s singles; Email DanielThree break point opportunities and four deuces later, Mirra Andreeva has failed in her first genuine chance to break Aryna Sabalenka. Again, despite the teenager returning with precision, she’s undone by the guile of her older rival, a drop shot sealing it.Sabalenka retains the break advantage and now leads this match 6-1, 4-2. Continue reading...

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Updates from day eight at Melbourne ParkSabalenka, Gauff, Badosa, Pavlyuchenkova go throughAlcaraz and Paul advance in men’s singles; Email DanielThree break point opportunities and four deuces later, Mirra Andreeva has failed in her first genuine chance to break Aryna Sabalenka. Again, despite the teenager returning with precision, she’s undone by the guile of her older rival, a drop shot sealing it.Sabalenka retains the break advantage and now leads this match 6-1, 4-2. Continue reading...

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A travel expert has warned passengers to avoid purchasing black suitcases as they are harder to spot on the luggage carousel and are more likely to be misplaced

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Updates from Day 8 of tennis at Melbourne ParkSabalenka, Gauff, Badosa, Pavlyuchenkova into women’s quarter-finalsAlcaraz and Paul advance in men’s singles; Zverev following fastThree break point opportunities and four deuces later, Mirra Andreeva has failed in her first genuine chance to break Aryna Sabalenka. Again, despite the teenager returning with precision, she’s undone by the guile of her older rival, a drop shot sealing it.Sabalenka retains the break advantage and now leads this match 6-1, 4-2. Continue reading...

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Updates from Day 8 of tennis at Melbourne ParkDraper v Alcaraz ; Gauff and Sabalenka into quarter-finalsThree break point opportunities and four deuces later, Mirra Andreeva has failed in her first genuine chance to break Aryna Sabalenka. Again, despite the teenager returning with precision, she’s undone by the guile of her older rival, a drop shot sealing it.Sabalenka retains the break advantage and now leads this match 6-1, 4-2. Continue reading...

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The Reds scored three first-half goals, with Saints scoring twice after the break.

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Updates from Day 8 of tennis at Melbourne Park Draper v Alcaraz under way; Gauff and Sabalenka into quarter-finalsThree break point opportunities and four deuces later, Mirra Andreeva has failed in her first genuine chance to break Aryna Sabalenka. Again, despite the teenager returning with precision, she’s undone by the guile of her older rival, a drop shot sealing it.Sabalenka retains the break advantage and now leads this match 6-1, 4-2. Continue reading...

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