4 h. ago Naomi Osaka dominates Coco Gauff to power into US Open quarter

Four-times grand-slam champion wins 6-3, 6-2Osaka has always won title after reaching last eightNaomi Osaka turned back the clock on Monday in New York, producing the cleanest big‑stage performance of her comeback from maternity leave to overwhelm Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-2 in a blockbuster fourth-round meeting inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.In front of a packed 23,771-seat arena, the two crossover stars – who between them own three of the past seven US Open championships – reprised a rivalry that began with their famous encounter here in 2019. This time there were no tears, no consolations, only the sight of a four‑times major champion dictating terms again on the sport’s biggest stage. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Celine Dion's 'miraculous' comeback as she 'gently rehearses' to perform again

Celine Dion is said to be 'doing great' as she continues to recover from stiff person syndrome, a rare nerve disorder that causes rigidity and muscle spasms

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7 h. ago Stroke centres in England given AI tool that will help 50% of patients recover

NHS equips all centres with life-saving software that will increase number of patients avoiding serious disabilityHalf of all people who experience a stroke in England will now recover thanks to a revolutionary AI scanning system that increases the number of patients avoiding serious disability.The NHS has equipped every stroke centre in England with life-saving software that quickly tells doctors if they need to perform emergency surgery and can triple the rate of recovery. Continue reading...

Science

10 h. ago Who could Anthony Joshua face in ‘carefully’ chosen comeback fight?

Joshua is eyeing a super-fight with Tyson Fury next summer, but might first bid to shake off any ring rust

Sport

10 h. ago Eddie Hearn makes honest admission about Anthony Joshua’s next opponent

‘AJ’ is still on the hunt for a comeback fight after talks over a potential clash with Jake Paul collapsed

Events

11 h. ago The Divine Comedy on Something for the Weekend: ‘We hired a statuesque model for the video. I had to stand on a box’

‘I skip one part when we perform it these days. As I’m in my mid-50s it would be creepy’Having made two albums with a chamber vibe, I was thinking, “Where do I go from here?” I started hearing your Suedes and Saint Etiennes, and Blur were referencing stuff from the 60s and 70s too. I could see the way the wind was blowing. That sounds quite knowing, but I already loved John Barry, the Kinks, Adam Faith and, of course, Scott Walker. Continue reading...

Culture

12 h. ago Benidorm fans say 'he's all grown up' as cast reunites sparking new series speculation

Benidorm fans were thrilled as Tony Maudsley shared a sweet cast reunion snap sparking excitement and fuelling rumours that the hit comedy could be making a comeback

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12 h. ago Homes Under the Hammer host amazed after 'massive plus point' discovery in property

Homes Under the Hammer host Dion Dublin was left stunned after he'd stumbled across a 'massive plus point' in a property in a West Yorkshire property

Society

13 h. ago Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for mini mushroom okonomiyaki | Quick and easy

A crisp cabbage and mushroom pancake, made with rice as the ballast, and stuffed with cheddar, onions and a secret ingredient I’ve made chef Tim Anderson’s okonomiyaki from memory for years, realising only recently that rice is not a traditional ingredient and that his recipe is, in fact, for rice yaki, a speciality of Kyushu. It’s the first cousin to okonomiyaki in that it’s a crisp cabbage pancake, but with cooked rice as the main ingredient; after that, however, it’s up to you what you put in. I like to make this mini mushroom version because, miraculously, my children eat it. And the secret to a super-crisp pancake? A good gluten-free flour (I like Freee) – the combination of flours in a gluten-free mix gives you an amazingly crisp pancake. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago How you can help this high school band perform at London's New Year's Day parade

How you can help this high school band perform at London's New Year's Day parade  WPTV

Culture

15 h. ago Help Palm Beach Lakes Community High School band perform at London's New Year's Day parade

Help Palm Beach Lakes Community High School band perform at London's New Year's Day parade  WPTV

Culture

16 h. ago Katie Price spotted celebrating as her eight year old song swipes number one spot

Reality TV legend Katie Price's 2017 hit single I Got U has soared to the top of the UK charts and the former glamour model has been spotted making the most of her bombshell comeback

Culture

17 h. ago Katie Price is supported by children Junior and Princess as she makes major musical comeback

In recent days, the star's 2017 hit, I Got U, has been bizarrely climbing the charts eight years on - now managing to surpass its initial performance in the charts.

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18 h. ago Countryfile legend left in tears after struggling to perform basic task

Julia Bradbury has gone from receiving a shock cancer diagnosis to being the fittest and healthiest she's ever been – but in her new book she reflects on the dark times after her surgery

Politics

29 h. ago Local high school band invited to perform in London, needs community support

Local high school band invited to perform in London, needs community support  WPEC

Culture

29 h. ago My Tennis Maestro review – unforced errors keep Italian coming

Venice film festivalPierfrancesco Favino is a robust lead as a teenage tennis hopeful’s charming yet flawed new coach in a film that’s too long and too indecisive to stand up to recent big hittersWe have had some sparky tennis movies recently, such as Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, and it seemed at first as if this coming-of-age comedy from Italian actor turned director Andrea Di Stefano could be joining them. But despite a very robust lead performance from Pierfrancesco Favino, the enjoyably grizzled alpha male of Italian cinema, this completely runs aground in the third act, quite unable to decide if it should offer the traditional comeback story of an underdog sports movie, or if it should pursue its implied repudiation of the win-at-all-costs ethic. The other issue is whether its young hero should ignore what his dad has to say in favour of an attractive, if flawed, new mentor. The film does in fact appear finally to get off the fence on ...

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29 h. ago Educating Yorkshire review – the joyful return of this school show is just the blast of optimism we need

The comeback of Channel 4’s fly-on-the-wall series is perfectly timed. It’s a moving, uplifting look at how children can shine with support. What a tonic for all the bad news stories about education in BritainThe trailer for the new series of Educating Yorkshire is a work of art. Shot in one take and clocking in at more than three minutes, it was written and performed by the children of Thornhill community academy in Dewsbury – in collaboration with Dougal Wilson, the director of Paddington in Peru – and takes in a school band, percussionist dinner ladies and a child seemingly being fired out of a cannon from the roof. It’s sweet and funny, but it’s pointed, too, in style and content.This hasn’t been a great year for the public profile of British secondary schools. The national orgy of hand-wringing prompted by Netflix’s superb Adolescence has led to something approaching despair at the state of education, entrenching the perception that overstretched and under-resourced teachers ac...

Culture

30 h. ago Educating Yorkshire viewers all left saying the same thing minutes into new series

Channel 4 viewers were all left saying the same thing as the hit series Educating Yorkshire made its long awaited comeback after 12 years off screens with a new set of students

Politics

32 h. ago Father Mother Sister Brother review – Blanchett and Rampling pick at family guilt in Jarmusch’s delectable triptych

Venice film festivalJim Jarmusch explores the awkwardness and closeness of parents with their grownup children in three slyly comic panels of drama set in the US, Dublin and ParisJim Jarmusch has made anthology films before: Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). In fact, he could claim to be the pre-eminent specialist in this now very unfashionable movie form. But with his new one, a deeply pleasing and gently quietist triptych on the subject of family, he is giving us something new and personal.It’s the sense of mortality and the gathering cloud of darkness over our heads as we enter middle age, a perpetual nagging worry about the health and happiness of our elderly parents, with the guilt and sadness of not going to see them, or seeing them only rarely, and the related feeling of closeness – or perhaps the opposite – with your siblings for whom these parents are the number one topic of conversation. Then there’s the feeling of relief mixed with...

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34 h. ago Gruda fires late winner in Brighton’s comeback win over Manchester City

When a team loses the aura of champions, it can go absolutely.Opponents suddenly look at them and wonder what on earth once seemed so intimidating, how on earth a bunch of players in these shirts, could seem so unbeatable. At half-time, Manchester City led, and seemed comfortable in their lead against opponents who had never got going. By the time Brajan Gruda calmly rounded James Trafford and dumped Rayan Aït-Nouri on his backside before rolling into an empty net, a Brighton winner had come to seem almost overdue. Continue reading...

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