3 h. ago Callum Smith taken to hospital after brutal win over rival Joshua Buatsi

Callum Smith had looked to be heading for retirement but stunned Joshua Buatsi with an impressive performance to secure himself a world title shot

Politics

4 h. ago Katie Price reveals 'early menopause' fears at 46 as she struggles with sleep

Katie Price revealed she is struggling to sleep and has been left covered in cold sweats, prompting her to worry she may be entering the menopause at 46.

Politics

5 h. ago Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe says his side should have beat Partick Thistle, and blasts ref

McCabe reckons Thistle hero Stuart Bannigan should have been sent off

Politics

5 h. ago Gas main blaze breaks out as Scots homes evacuated and busy area locked down

The incident took place just yards away from Firhill Stadium, where Partick Thistle took on Airdrieonians.

Society

6 h. ago West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen delivers major blow to Arsenal’s title hopes

So it turns out Arsenal should have signed a striker. Fourteen months after they last put a major dent in Arsenal’s title aspirations, a goal from Jarrod Bowen secured West Ham’s second successive Premier League away win over their north London rivals as Mikel Arteta’s side saw their hopes of maintaining the pressure on leaders Liverpool evaporate.To compound Arteta’s misery, substitute Myles Lewis-Skelly was shown a straight red card in the second half as Arsenal – who had toiled with Mikel Merino again filling in as a makeshift attacker – struggled to find an equaliser against a defence that would have done Graham Potter’s predecessor, David Moyes, proud. Yet while this was a welcome triumph for Potter, it also laid bare the deficiencies in Arsenal’s squad caused by so many injuries to forward players that has made their task of overhauling Arne Slot’s side almost impossible. A first defeat in 15 games – a run that had stretched back to the start of November – almost leaves them n...

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6 h. ago Waltz this way: rival venues in Vienna compete to celebrate Johann Strauss’s 200th birthday

As the Austrian capital honours the legacy of its dance king, the race is on to attract the most puntersThe music of Johann Strauss streams through Vienna like the stately Danube. Even the syllables of the composer’s name beat out the rhythm of a waltz, as all Austrian dance teachers know. In their lessons, the words “Jo-hann Strauss” are often swapped in to replace the conventional “one, two, three” step count.Viennese children learn to waltz just like they learn to ride a bike, so the muscle-memory never leaves them. Just as well, because the city is still famous as the home of a 19th-century dance craze that shaped its international image. In this 200th anniversary year of the birth of the “waltz king”, there are rival bids jostling to become the focus of the swirling celebrations. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Partick Thistle 1, Airdrie 1: Ben Wilson the hero as he rescues a point

Rhys McCabe's side fought hard to take a point away from Firhill

Events

7 h. ago Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk anger, Arne Slot's 115 charges joke, referee apology

Liverpool and Manchester City will renew their rivalry on Sunday, with the Reds looking to repeat their victory at Anfield earlier this season - a game that was marred by controversy

Politics

7 h. ago Nearly 30,000 season ticket holders quit Premier League club and don't come back

West Ham have suffered a huge drop-off in season ticket sales since moving to the London Stadium, with more than half of the initial 50,000 season ticket holders not renewing

Politics

8 h. ago Cardiff City player ratings as defender fantastic and striker's form continues but clumsy moment costs points

Here is how the Bluebirds players rated in the clash with Pilgrims at Home Park

Sport

8 h. ago England vs Scotland LIVE! Six Nations rugby updates before Calcutta Cup showdown

Steve Borthwick’s side out for revenge against old rivals after last-gasp win over France

Politics

9 h. ago Gasperini claims offence unintended in calling Lookman ‘one of worst penalty takers’

Atalanta manager says: ‘I didn’t want to offend anyone’Striker called manager’s comments ‘deeply disrespectful’Atalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini said he never intended to offend Ademola Lookman by saying the striker is “one of the worst penalty takers he has ever seen” after their home Champions League defeat by Club Brugge.Belgian side Club Brugge stunned Atalanta 3-1 in the second leg of their playoff tie to dump the Italian side out with a 5-2 aggregate win and reach the last 16. Lookman, Atalanta’s hero last season when they won the Europa League, pulled back one goal for the Italian side when they were 3-0 down. Continue reading...

Politics

9 h. ago Mikel Arteta makes decision on Arsenal's new striker as Raheem Sterling pays price

Arsenal take on London rivals West Ham on Saturday afternoon amid an ongoing injury crisis and the Gunners have now revealed the side that will take on the Hammers

Economics

12 h. ago Needle drop! The world’s first sewing machine orchestra takes Munich

This weekend, a symphony of Singers (not that kind) will lead an experimental performance that stitches together feminism and fashion – and offers the audience free repairsStepping into the studio of the Brazilian-born artist and performer Lisa Simpson – no relation to the cartoon character – feels like entering a crossover between the Mad Hatter’s workshop and a postindustrial steampunk landscape with a colourful girl-power twist. The ground floor space in Berlin’s southern district of Neukölln is filled with shelves laden with old sewing machines and coat racks brimming with hats, bags and fabric scraps. Even more sewing machines propped on two tables might suggest that this is a tailor’s workshop, were it not for the tangle of cables and synthesisers connected to them. Toy sewing machines in candy colours have a purple phone receiver attached; colourful cables with knitted covers sneak out of household sewing machines and seam overlockers; pins and needles are connected to microp...

Politics

13 h. ago How many bottles of wine you'd need to drink to gain a pound of fat, according to a fitness coach

Scots on a weight loss journey might worry how a glass of wine or two will affect their progress

Sport

14 h. ago West Ham striker Michail Antonio 'is back running' less than three months after car crash which broke his leg and left him fearing for his life

On December 7, Antonio, 34, was airlifted to hospital with a broken leg after being cut from the wreckage of his £260,000 grey Ferrari by fire crews in Essex.

Events

14 h. ago Beterbiev vs Bivol 2: Fight time, undercard, latest odds, prediction, ring walks tonight

Light-heavyweight rivals contest undisputed rematch in blockbuster Riyadh main event

Sport

15 h. ago Liverpool and Manchester City renew rivalry in a much more vulnerable era | Jonathan Wilson

Sunday’s clash between declining champions and their likely successors is a far cry from recent title battlesThere has been something pleasingly old-fashioned about the Premier League title race this season. It may be a modern phenomenon that the side top of the table have lost only one of 26 games, and that the side in second have lost two, but after the years of champions habitually racking up 90 points and more, the general fallibility has been refreshing.Liverpool are still on course for 89 points but they are not implacable, remorseless winners in the way Manchester City so often were. They reached a peak in their 2-0 home win over Real Madrid at the end of November and, although they were comfortable winners over City the following Sunday, there has been a sense since of a side, if not quite clinging on to the mountain top, then at the very least not striding quite so confidently along the ridge. Continue reading...

Politics

15 h. ago Manchester United drop major Everton team news hint as three players left out of squad

Manchester United hint who Ruben Amorim will select to face Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday

Sport

15 h. ago Man United have new striker transfer option amid shock Marcus Rashford swap deal

The latest Manchester United transfer rumours as questions remain around whether Aston Villa will exercise a £40million option to sign Marcus Rashford permanently

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