8 h. ago Biggest boxing upsets of 2025 so far: The nights no one saw coming

A look at the biggest upsets so far this year in boxing, involving Ryan Garcia, Josh Taylor, and more

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38 h. ago ‘It takes 25 years for a footprint to disappear’ – the secret, beguiling magic of Britain’s bogs

They are the air-conditioning units of the world – filtering water, preventing flooding, preserving history and providing habitat. Our human ancestors knew the extraordinary power of peatlands, so why are they still being destroyed?I haven’t found an hour when I don’t love a bog. Recently, after a night of counting rare caterpillars in Borth in Mid Wales (they come out only after dark), walking back to the car under the glow of a flower moon, I wondered if 2am was my new favourite. I felt very safe, held by the bog’s softness, and everyone that was out at that hour seemed to have a sense of humour. I met a nightjar hopping around on the ground, pretending, I think, to be a frog.But there is also something about the humidity of a languid afternoon on a bog, when everything slows and fat bumbles hum, that is surprisingly good. I have done freezing horizontal rain and thick, cold-to-your-bones fog and wind so howling that I couldn’t think. All of those were hard, but I did come away fe...

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3 d. ago Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford to fight for unique bonus in showdown

Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford will clash in September in one of the biggest fights in boxing history - and there could be more money on offer for one man

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3 d. ago Tyson Fury branded 'biggest cheater in boxer' in scathing attack

An ex-rival of the former two-time heavyweight champion was quick to slam the Brit ahead of his return to the boxing ring next week

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4 d. ago Coco Gauff stunned in first match since winning French Open title

Gauff stunned by qualifier Wang at Berlin OpenFrench Open champ makes seven double faultsWang to face Badosa after career-best grass winNewly crowned French Open champion Coco Gauff was stunned on her return to action Thursday, losing to Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu 6-3, 6-3 at the Berlin Open.The second-ranked Gauff, who won at Roland-Garros less than two weeks ago for her second Grand Slam title, amassed 25 unforced errors and seven double faults in her loss to Wang. Gauff had a bye to the second round at the grass-court tournament, a warmup for Wimbledon. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Maisie Adam's unique hair reason, health diagnosis and wedding hours before Soccer Aid

Soccer Aid 2025 returns to our screens on Sunday night and so to does comedian Maisie Adam

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8 d. ago World Cup of Darts 2025: Full Sunday schedule as tournament of upsets comes to a crescendo in Germany

Wales new favourites for title after Littler and Humphries exit

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1 week ago Petrol bombs thrown at police during fifth night of Northern Ireland disorder

Police have come under attack for a fifth consecutive night in Northern Ireland, in what has been dubbed a ‘week of shame’ for the region.

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1 week ago Riot police out for fourth night as fire on street and rocks thrown at cops in UK town

The violent scenes comes after three nights of violence in towns across Northern Ireland saw cops pelted with petrol bombs and foreign families targetted by masked thugs

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1 week ago Police come under attack for fourth night in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland’s police chief said ‘bigots and racists’ behind earlier nights of unrest in the region would be arrested.

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1 week ago Snooker star whose wife is World Championship referee gets new job away from the table

Ben Woollaston, who caused one of the biggest upsets at the 2025 World Championship by knocking out fellow Leicester star Mark Selby, has landed a new role with snooker's governing body

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1 week ago Police come under attack during third night of disorder in Ballymena

Elsewhere, a leisure centre in Larne was set on fire.

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1 week ago How to Train Your Dragon review – faithful yet utterly soulless remake

DreamWorks tries to find success with the Disney live-action remake template but falls shortIt was only a matter of time before DreamWorks jumped on the lucrative live-action remake bandwagon with its soulless new How to Train Your Dragon. Disney has been playing this cynical game since 1994 – releasing their Jungle Book remake (the one starring Jason Scott Lee) the same year DreamWorks was founded – and striking gold with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010), which arrived in theatres just weeks before the original How To Train Your Dragon landed.It also comes as no surprise that DreamWorks moved with Night Fury speed to revisit a movie that’s only 15 years old. As the recent Lilo & Stitch proved, there’s plenty box office gold to mine from introducing new children to a young and beloved property, while banking on the nostalgia that a generation without fully formed frontal lobes would carry for the not-so-distant animated films and TV spinoffs they were weaned on. Continue ...

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1 week ago LA turns into a warzone as Marines begin journey to lawless hellscape ahead of another night of ICE riots

Their arrival comes as Downtown Los Angeles braces for a fourth night of riots as pro-migrant protesters take to the streets to rail against federal immigration agents and President Trump.

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2 w. ago Paisley rocker Davey Pattison back on stage after battling cancer and brain lesion

He is making an amazing comeback on stage after a “nightmare” year of multiple health battles.

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2 w. ago Looted from Syria, sold on Facebook: antiquities smuggling surges after fall of Assad

Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rushThey come by night. Armed with pickaxes, shovels and jackhammers, looters disturb the dead. Under the cover of darkness, men exhume graves buried more than 2,000 years ago in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, searching for treasure.By day, the destruction caused by grave robbers is apparent. Three-metre-deep holes mar the landscape of Palmyra, where ancient burial crypts lure people with the promise of funerary gold and ancient artefacts that fetch thousands of dollars. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Patsy Palmer leaves crowd in hysterics and Jane McDonald appalled with her 'vagina monologue' during British Soap Awards

The actress, 53, won the prize for Best Comedic Performance at the annual ceremony, held on Saturday night at London 's Hackney Empire.

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2 w. ago Love Island's Ben teases 'never say never' as ITV spice show up with sex scenes

EXCLUSIVE: Daily Star sat down with Love Island's Ben Holbrough ahead of his time in the Majorcan villa. He teased what he could be getting up to in the bedroom come Monday night

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2 w. ago How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset | Elisabeth Ribbans

‘Got’ was changed during the editing of an opinion piece, leading to correspondence lamenting a slide into American English. But language isn’t a fortressIn Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II, a messenger breathlessly announces to the king that, “Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge”. Hold this late 16th-century text in mind as we fast forward to last week when Martin Kettle, associate editor and columnist at the Guardian in the UK, was seen to suggest in an opinion piece that, if King Charles has pushed the boundaries of neutrality, such as with his speech to open the new Canadian parliament, he has so far “gotten away with it”.In a letter published the next day, a reader asked teasingly if this use of “gotten” – and another writer’s reference to a “faucet” – were signs the Guardian had fallen into line with Donald Trump’s demand that news agencies adopt current US terminology, such as referring to the “Gulf of America”.Elisabeth Ribbans is the Guardian’s global readers’ editorguardian...

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2 w. ago 16 and Pregnant star says ‘life is so cruel’ after death of 16

Young mother welcomed her son on the MTV reality show and said the devastating death was her ‘worst nightmare’ come true

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