55 minutes ago Former world snooker champion set for dramatic career change that’d mean more

Luca Brecel will have more time to focus on his newfound sporting passion after another early tournament exit at the UK Championship, where he was beaten by Jak Jones

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63 minutes ago Former Liverpool star's dad tells him to 'get out' of new club as transfer turns sour

Liverpool sold Fabio Carvalho to Brentford in the summer transfer window, but the Portuguese attacker has struggled for chances in the Premier League under Bees boss Thomas Frank

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74 minutes ago Liverpool v Real Madrid team news: Latest updates on Vinicius Jr, Trent Alexander

The Reds host Real Madrid in the Champions League ahead of the weekend’s crunch match with Manchester City

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78 minutes ago Jamie Carragher ranks top five Liverpool players ever as he criticises Mohamed Salah

Jamie Carragher has ranked Mohamed Salah among the Liverpool greats, while also criticising the forward's "selfish" decision to speak out about his future at the club

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79 minutes ago ITV I'm A Celebrity viewers say Barry McGuigan has 'clocked' campmate's 'game play' with telling commentI

The former boxer has been a popular campmate during his time Down Under so far

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83 minutes ago The two Lukes headline new darts era that is both deeply trival and deathly serious | Jonathan Liew

Rising star Luke Littler and world champion Luke Humphries are the stars of an ever-expanding cultural phenomenonThere are plant burgers and arancini on sleek dark plates. There is a beer mat with the face of Brendan Dolan on it. In one corner of the room Michael van Gerwen is being interviewed by Troy Deeney live on TalkSport. In another an influencer called JaackMaate is filming a video for his YouTube channel.Dave Allen, the press chief at the Professional Darts Corporation, remembers the first time they held a media launch before the world championship. It was 2008, Phil Taylor and Raymond van Barneveld and Sid Waddell dressed as Santa Claus, holding a huge novelty dartboard. A handful of people turned up, a few photos were taken, and then everyone packed up and went home. Continue ...

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83 minutes ago Jannik Sinner’s biggest opponent is off the court after astounding rise to the top | Tumaini Carayol

Italian has enjoyed a sublime 2024 on tour but Wada’s appeal after he was cleared over two positive doping tests looms aheadAt the end of the 2023 tennis season, as Jannik Sinner had elevated his game to new heights and his Italy team to their first Davis Cup title in 46 years, there was one comparison to note. Thirteen years earlier, Novak Djokovic had found his way after a difficult period by winning the Davis Cup, a victory that provided a platform for one of the greatest tennis seasons in 2011 and the start of his decade-plus reign.Sinner’s first triumph for Italy at the Davis Cup has similarly preceded a staggering breakout season and, one year on, he ends 2024 as by far the best and most consistent tennis player in the world. Continue reading...

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83 minutes ago Rod Stewart to play Glastonbury 2025 legends slot: ‘I’m more than able to pleasure and titillate’

The 79-year-old pop veteran, fresh from UK No 1 album this year, will follow in the footsteps of Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie in much-loved Sunday teatime slotGlastonbury festival has announced its first act for 2025, with Rod Stewart booked to perform on the Pyramid stage in the Sunday teatime “legends” slot.Stewart said he was “proud and ready” to play at the festival, adding that – at the age of 79 – he was “more than able to pleasure and titillate” the crowd. Continue reading...

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83 minutes ago ‘Education is survival’: parents of Rohingya refugee children fight for their right to go to school in India

Official attitudes are hardening towards the minority group amid an anti-Muslim crackdown, say activistsFor Rohingya refugee Hussain Ahmed, the hope that his children might receive a formal education to secure a better adulthood than his own was what “kept him going”. After fleeing to India from Myanmar in 2016, he began working as a construction worker in a country where he is not allowed to seek legal employment. Then he met with a new hurdle.“For the last few years, I have been running from pillar to post, trying to get a local government-run school to enrol my 10-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter. I cannot afford the fees of privately run schools, so the government ones were my only hope. But all of them turned my children down,” says Ahmed, who lives in the Khajuri Khas area...

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89 minutes ago 'Novak Djokovic hiring Andy Murray might be greatest show of nepotism in sporting history'

"What is the most decorated male player of all-time Novak Djokovic going to learn from the bloke he bullied Down Under more times than Andy Murray will care to remember?"

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