14 h. ago Wimbledon 2025 day one: Raducanu eases through, Alcaraz survives huge scare, and more – live

British hopefuls Kartal, Tarvet and Fery advanceEmail John | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Wimbledon 2025 day one: Alcaraz survives huge scare, Raducanu in action, and more – live

British hopefuls Kartal, Tarvet and Fery advanceEmail John | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Chelsea star Romeo Lavia eyes Club World Cup glory after 'craziest game I've played in'

Chelsea will now face Palmeiras in Friday’s Club World Cup quarter final in Philadelphia with a growing belief they can go all the way in this competition

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18 h. ago Wimbledon 2025 day one: Alcaraz in action, Sabalenka wins but Medvedev out – live

British hopefuls Kartal and Tarvet advanceEmail John | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Wimbledon 2025 day one: Alcaraz and Sabalenka in action, Kartal and Tarvet win – live

Kartal stuns Ostapenko, world No 733 Tarvet advancesEmail John! | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Wimbledon 2025: Kartal stuns Ostapenko; Alcaraz, Sabalenka and Raducanu in day one action – live

The first round matches get under way at SW19Email Michael | Raducanu faces Xu in openerAnswers to my game. Thank you all for playing. 1) Wimbledon! The Southfields sign in the background and Waitrose plastic bag in the foreground were a bit of a giveaway. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago 'I want to win because I'm skint' admits darts legend as he returns to televised event

Richie Burnett was back on the oche as he made it to the semi-finals of the Modus Super Series to face Richie Howson – but he's not just playing darts for the love of the game

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25 h. ago Celtic transfer bulletin as Hayato Inamura breaks cover, new Balikwisha stance emerges and clock ticks on £9m defender

The Albirex Niigata defender appears to have played his last game for the J-League side

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47 h. ago A chance at £10k a month for 30 years? This £6.38 lotto syndicate could be the savvy way to play

This Wowcher lottery deal offers 500 entries into the Set For Life game at a reduced cost, giving players the chance to join a syndicate for a regular prize draw.

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3 d. ago Can I tame my 4am terrors? Arifa Akbar on a lifetime of insomnia – and a possible cure

From Van Gogh’s starry skies to the nocturnal workings of Louise Bourgeois and Patricia Highsmith, sleepless nights have long inspired heightened creativity. Could those artistic impulses actually help us to sleep?I can’t remember when I first stopped sleeping soundly. Maybe as a child, in the bedroom I initially shared with my brother, Tariq. I would wait for his breathing to quieten, then strain to listen beyond our room in the hope of being the last one awake, and feel myself expanding into the liberating space and solitude. By my early 20s, that childhood game of holding on to wakefulness while others slept began playing out against my will. Sound seemed to be the trigger. It was as if the silence I had tuned into as a child was now a requirement for sleep. Any sound was noise: the burr of the TV from next door, the ticking of a clock in another room. When one layer of sound reduced its volume, another rose from beneath it, each intrusive and underscored by my own unending thoug...

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3 d. ago Euro 2025 is sure to showcase just how far women’s football has come | Emma Hayes

England, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands are the teams to beat but the tournament in Switzerland will be incredibly tightYou only have to wind the clock back two full major-tournament cycles, to Euro 2017, and there were no fully professional women’s leagues in Europe. Thanks to increased investment in the women’s game, there are now more than 3,000 full-time female players across the continent, and that professionalisation is why my overriding feeling about this summer’s Euros is that the quality is going to be so much higher than we have seen before. And it will be so tight.In Spain, England and Germany there are three strong favourites who are all capable of going on to win it and I would add the Netherlands to the top four. I was so impressed when we [the United States] played the Dutch in December. They will need everybody fit but, on their day, they are a top side. Beyond that, this tournament is going to show the prowess of the Nations League, which was introduced since th...

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3 d. ago Alexander Isak to Liverpool transfer: Reds 'play waiting game' for dream summer signing

Liverpool have already splashed the cash in the transfer market this summer and could potentially make Newcastle star Alexander Isak their latest big-money signing

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3 d. ago Is Trump a genius? Top economist and tariff skeptic admits president may have outsmarted us all on the economy

Torsten Sløk, the chief economist at Apollo Global Management, theorized a possible way for President Donald Trump to avoid wrecking the global economy with his tariffs — if he changes how he’s playing his game

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3 d. ago Everything you need to know about GTA 6 as game listed on Xbox early

A dummy listing for the game has sent Xbox players into a frenzy

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3 d. ago Switch 2 gets classic title to rival EA FC for nostalgic Nintendo fans

There's another cracking GameCube game coming for Switch 2 players as Nintendo reveals the next classic available – here's why it's so exciting for football fans this time around

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3 d. ago Putin warns Keir Starmer 'I majored in law' as he claims UK has 'robbed' Russia

Russia President Vladimir Putin is seemingly playing a game of 'I'm a bigger lawyer than you' with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, despite not actually doing anything law-related for decades

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4 d. ago Squid Game final season review – an ending so WTF it entirely beggars belief

After a wild new player is forced to join the game without consent, the action gets even more operatic and bloodthirsty. But if you can get on board with the twists – and that’s a big if – you will not believe what happens in the last minute The two main talking points of the third and final season of Squid Game are both massive spoilers. This means that I won’t be able to mention the final minute of the whole thing, which contains a moment so WTF and genuinely surprising that I bet my editor a serious amount of money she wouldn’t be able to guess what happens. She couldn’t, thankfully, but such reckless gambling is the sort of behaviour that would land me in Squid Game in the first place, so it just shows that nobody here has learned any lessons from it whatsoever.Nor should I talk about another key development, though in this case, it becomes so central that it needs to be mentioned somehow. So, vaguely speaking, a new player is forced to enter the games, without being capable of ...

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4 d. ago EA Sports is giving the community 'huge priority' on EA FC 26 as 'big difference' claim made

EA Sports senior producer, Samuel Rivera, gave an insight into EA FC 26's development recently, with players still awaiting an official reveal of the game.

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4 d. ago Darren McGregor involved in car accident as Hibs legend to miss testimonial match

The ex-Rangers defender is recovering in hospital and will be unable to play in the game against Bolton on Saturday, July 19

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4 d. ago A real issue: video game developers are being accused of using AI – even when they aren’t

Generative AI is causing new and unusual problems for developers as players become more sensitive to the use of artificially generated ‘slop’ imagesIn April, game developer Stamina Zero achieved what should have been a marketing slam-dunk: the launch trailer for the studio’s game Little Droid was published on PlayStation’s official YouTube channel. The response was a surprise for the developer. The game looks interesting, people wrote in the comments, but was “ruined” by AI art. But the game’s cover art, used as the thumbnail for the YouTube video, was in fact made by a real person, according to developer Lana Ro. “We know the artist, we’ve seen her work, so such a negative reaction was unexpected for us, and at first we didn’t know how to respond or how to feel,” Ro said. “We were confused.”It’s not wrong for people to be worried about AI use in video games – in fact, it’s good to be sceptical, and ensure that the media you support aligns with your values. Common arguments against ...

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