15 m. ago Daniel Dubois' coach QUITS weeks after Oleksandr Usyk KO defeat

Dubois was knocked out in the fifth round of his rematch with Usyk at Wembley last month and now has seen one of his trainers leave

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24 m. ago Strictly Come Dancing confirms rugby player Chris Robshaw as eighth star in 2025 line

Strictly Come Dancing has revealed the eighth contestant to be taking to the BBC One dancefloor has been revealed, with ex England rugby player Chris Robshaw being revealed

Sport

29 m. ago Persimmon sells more homes but warns mortgage costs still a ‘barrier’ to buyers

The York-based developer told investors that it was on track to meet its yearly sales target despite tough conditions in the housing market.

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39 m. ago Zidane, Eusebio, Adams: footballers whose names are also song titles | The Knowledge

Plus: two European ties in the same stadium on one day and the highest opening weekend goals-per-game ratioMail us with your questions and answers“I have just heard CMAT’s song Vincent Kompany because I am cool, young and relevant,” writes the cool, young and relevant Will Unwin. “I was wondering if any other player’s name is the title of a song, beyond simply being referred to?”In this age of streaming, there are many songs online whose titles are the names of footballers, but a few hundred listens here and there doesn’t make them particularly noteworthy. So we have wound back a bit to a time when songs were more commonly created in studios, not bedrooms. Continue reading...

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39 m. ago ‘Challenger level is about survival’: brutal reality of life below elite tennis

Shared motel rooms, sleeping on floors and making a net loss are among hurdles facing the globetrotters chasing ranking pointsLess than a year after exiting the 2022 Wimbledon quarter-final on the All England Club’s pristine No 1 Court, Cristian Garín found himself 10,000 miles away on a hard court on the Pacific island of Nouméa, New Caledonia.The Chilean, who had a career-high ranking of world No 17, had signed up for an ATP Challenger event, tennis’s second-tier tour, mostly attracting players outside the top 100, after a wrist injury forced him to miss two ATP Masters 1000 events. By January 2023, Garín sat at a precarious No 82. Continue reading...

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39 m. ago Women's Rugby World Cup 2025: Six players to watch as globe's best battle for glory

England have home advantage on biggest stage

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46 m. ago Dunfermline fire: Crews battling blaze at derelict building on Queensferry Road

Fire crews are expected to remain at the scene for some time

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73 m. ago Fuerteventura hotel breaks silence after Greater Manchester dad dies from 'eating half

Leslie Green ate 'half-cooked chicken' at the Occidental Jandia Playa, an inquest heard

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76 m. ago High school basketball player sues coach for assault and bullying after he pulled her hair in outburst that shocked the world

The high school basketball player whose coach aggressively pulled her hair during a New York championship game filed a lawsuit alleging assault and a pattern of abusive behavior.

Sport

99 m. ago Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love review – gracefully grownup and breezy relationships drama

Doctor Marianne wonders if her gay colleague Tor’s approach to dating would work for her, in the second film of Dag Johan Haugerud’s absorbing trilogyHere is the second of Norwegian film-maker and novelist Dag Johan Haugerud’s seductive trilogy about affairs of the heart and mind, set in Oslo. (It comes between Sex and Dreams.) It is a thoroughly grownup and absorbing drama, acted with such sympathy and warmth, a ruminative and exploratory movie of ideas, and one that pays its audience the compliment of treating them as intelligent beings. Love is about a familiar question: can straight people learn from or even absorb the open and polygamous approach to sex that appears to come easier to gay people (and perhaps younger people of all sexualities), perhaps specifically gay men? Or is that idea stereotypical and naive?Andrea Braein Hovig plays Marianne, a urology consultant whose job it is to give bad news to a succession of men about their prostate cancer. She is single (though her p...

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99 m. ago Tony Bloom outlines how Jamestown Analytics are helping Hearts

Investor insists data is not only metric in player recruitment

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1 hour ago Lily James to play billionaire Bumble founder in Disney+ dating app biopic

Lily James will play the youngest female self-made billionaire in upcoming biopic 'Swiped', she will play founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd showing her break into the tech industry

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1 hour ago Name the footballer including maverick who played at San Siro and Loftus Rd in our quiz

How good is your Premier League knowledge over the last 30 years? Time to put your footballing brains to the test in our weekly quiz, where you have to name the player from their Wikipedia page

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2 h. ago Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs | Rafael Behr

In Alaska the Russian leader will claim to want peace, but only on his terms – and play on the president’s desperation to ‘make a deal’ quicklyWars do not have to be won. Total victories loom largest in the popular imagination because those are the stories nations always tell to sustain patriotic feeling. The fuller version of history is written in stalemates.That is worth remembering when Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. Both leaders have incentives to pretend that Ukraine’s fate can be settled decisively without any Ukrainians at the negotiating table. That doesn’t make it so. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Council issues statement after dozens slam 'heartbreaking' area

Petition calls for action by the council

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2 h. ago Only three Rangers stars step up and play as Russell Martin challenges the rest of his self destruct crew

Jack Butland, John Souttar and Nasser Djiga are the trio Martin sees carrying out his instructions after information overload

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2 h. ago Airdire played into Dunfermline's hands, says McCabe after tough defeat

The Diamonds lost their first game of the new Championship season at East End Park

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2 h. ago The six former Manchester United players still waiting for a transfer phone call

Man Utd released a clutch of players over the summer and some are still without clubs on the eve of the season.

Sport

3 h. ago ‘It’s a robot war’: eastern Ukraine faces onslaught of Russian glide bombs, rockets and kamikaze drones

Putin has escalated strikes on Donetsk region and is likely to demand Ukraine hands it over in talks with TrumpNataliya Petrovna pointed to a crater on the edge of a football field. Around it lay bits of twisted metal. From nearby came loud banging as residents fixed plywood to their damaged five-storey apartment block. Many of its windows were broken. “The last few days have been terrible. We could hear the drones buzzing over us. The one that exploded near the school opposite was a Russian Shahed. Maybe some kind of new type,” she said.Petrovna lives in the eastern garrison city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk province, about 15 miles from the frontline. The distance is just beyond the range of Russian first-person view (FPV) drones, at least for now. But it is easily reachable by other kinds of enemy objects. They include air-dropped glide bombs, Grad rockets and unmanned kamikaze drones – now cruising Ukraine’s skies in overwhelming numbers. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Tesco's 'gorgeous' £18 shoppers love comes in 'beautiful' colour

Tesco F&F Clothing is selling a new shirt that fans are keen to get their hands on - and they say it looks “gorgeous”

Economics