10 h. ago Tete and Wilson’s fast start earns Fulham victory at struggling Spurs

A Tottenham Hotspur manager’s lot is so rarely a happy one. In record time, Thomas Frank has gone through the gamut of his predecessors, from hope to disappointment to what now looks like hopelessness. Demolition by Arsenal had already put him on a sticky wicket. A decent midweek showing in Paris, amid another defeat, had barely increased his credit rating. Defeat to Fulham, a team with an away record as miserable as Spurs’ home form, only intensified the pressure. Frank being appointed by the departed stewardship of Daniel Levy is to be noted; fresh ownership regimes tend to be trigger happy with the managers they inherit.Should such a decision be made, and it still seems a premature outcome considering Frank made slow starts at his previous clubs, Marco Silva, linked previously on a couple of occasions, would be a live contender. By six minutes in, Silva was cavorting on the sidelines with his Fulham staff. His team were 2-0 up, and the home fans were baying for blood. By the fina...

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13 h. ago Steve Tandy refuses to blame fixture and denies humiliation has caused serious damage

The Wales coach tried to remain positive after watching his side suffer a record home defeat

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13 h. ago Sickening moment South Africa rugby star GOUGES Wales rival’s eye in worst ever Welsh defeat on home soil

SOUTH AFRICA rugby star Eben Etzebeth was shown a straight red in the closing minutes of his team's 73-0 win over Wales for eye-gouging Alex Mann. The Springboks were cruising to a rampant win over sorry Wales before the sickening incident in the 78th minute. After a fracas towards the end of the game, Etzebeth...

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15 h. ago South Africa inflict record home defeat on Wales but ugly Eben Etzebeth eye gouge mars win

Wales 0-73 South Africa: The Springboks lock was sent off after forcing a thumb towards the eye of Alex Mann at the end of a one-sided victory in Cardiff

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15 h. ago Etzebeth red card mars South Africa demolition job as Wales slump to record home defeat

Wales 0-73 South AfricaSpringboks score 11 tries but Etzebeth sent off for eye gougeEvery bit as dispiriting as expected. Worse, was it pointless? Well, it certainly had more points to it than Wales would have liked. But, worse again, was it actively alienating? A record defeat, the first time since 1967 Wales have failed to score a point here, 11 tries conceded.South Africa continue to demonstrate their superiority over every other nation. People are starting to compare them to the best sides we have ever seen. And they remain as brutal as ever, mostly legitimately, sometimes less so. They received their third red card of the autumn, their third to a second row, but there was no arguing with this one. Eben Etzebeth, a full head taller than any of his opponents in the middle of a fracas two minutes from time, jabbed his thumb into the eye of Alex Mann. The least contentious red card of the autumn. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Etzebeth red mars South Africa romp as Wales slump to record home defeat

Wales 0-73 South AfricaSpringboks score 11 tries but Etzebeth off for eye gougeEvery bit as dispiriting as expected. Worse, was it pointless? Well, it certainly had more points to it than Wales would have liked. But, worse again, was it actively alienating? A record defeat, 11 tries conceded, the first time since 1967 Wales have failed to score a point in Cardiff. The opposition on that day 58 years ago, Ireland, scored 70 fewer than the Springboks here.“It’s quite a raw, emotional dressing room,” said Dewi Lake, Wales’s captain. “The boys are proud Welshmen, so coming off the field with the scoreboard looking like that is tough to take. But I don’t think it’s going to ruin the confidence of the younger boys. If anything, it drives you even more. You recognise the gap and what you’ve got to do.” Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Springboks lock Eben Etzebeth facing long ban after red card for eye gouge mars record win over Wales

The veteran second row was shown a straight red card after his thumb made contact with the eye of Alex Mann

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25 h. ago My cultural awakening: Thelma & Louise made me realise I was stuck in an unhappy marriage

One line from Ridley Scott’s classic movie was the shove I needed to walk out on my husband after years of his controlling behaviourIt was 1991, I was in my early 40s, living in the south of England and trapped in a marriage that had long since curdled into something quietly suffocating. My husband had become controlling, first with money, then with almost everything else: what I wore, who I saw, what I said. It crept up so slowly that I didn’t quite realise what was happening.We had met as students in the early 1970s, both from working-class, northern families and feeling slightly out of place at a university full of public school accents. We shared politics, music and a sense of being outsiders together. For years, life felt full of promise. When our first child arrived, I gave up my local government job to stay at home. That’s when the balance between us shifted. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Football club honoured with new South Western Railway Arterio 'Phoenix' train

The new South Western Railway Arterio train has been dubbed the ‘Phoenix’ to mark the National League club's memorable victory at Wembley, a nod to their emblem after they beat Spennymoor Town 3-0 in the final

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48 h. ago Dawn raids arrest two Iranian men and one naturalised Brit after shady criminal mini

More than 100 mini-marts, car washes and barber shops operating from Dundee to south Devon have been linked to a crime network.

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68 h. ago The US government ruins Thanksgiving: it’s a South Park holiday special

Idiotic US war secretary Pete Hegseth launches an attack on a turkey-based festivity in frustration at his inability to outsmart a buffoonish police detective. A wild season finale loomsTonight’s South Park is something of a breather in what has been their most story-driven season (or seasons, as it turned out) ever. There is some advancement to the overriding plot of Donald Trump attempting to kill the unborn baby he’s expecting with his lover, Satan, before it can unleash the prophesied apocalypse – a plot that involves master manipulator (and new Trump sex partner) JD Vance and billionaire/self-proclaimed antichrist expert Peter Thiel (recently incarcerated by South Park’s finest for kidnapping Eric Cartman). But tonight’s instalment, Turkey Trot, focuses more on the goings-on in the titular town than in Washington DC.As Thanksgiving approaches, South Park finds its annual holiday marathon in jeopardy. None of its regular sponsors – Stan Marsh’s Tegridy Weed Farms, recently shutt...

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4 d. ago AD FEATURE: Your guide to magical festive days out with National Trust Cymru

Castles and houses adorned with decorations, breathtaking light projections, family trails, and festive markets - magical adventures await in South Wales this Christmas

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5 d. ago Man charged with murdering two women five months apart and raping another

Simon Levy, 40, has been charged with the murder of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, who was found dead at a property on the Aylesbury Estate in south London on March 17

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6 d. ago Cyril Ramaphosa bangs gavel to close G20 summit after US handover row

South Africa rejects proposal from US, which hosts next summit, for president to hand over to embassy officialSouth Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year’s time.South Africa presented the two-day event as a triumph for multilateralism but it was marred by a boycott by the US, which has repeatedly accused South Africa of discriminating against white minority Afrikaners, a claim that has been widely discredited. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Cyril Ramaphosa closes G20 summit after US boycott and handover row

South African president bangs gavel after rejecting plan from US, which hosts next meeting, for him to hand over to junior officialSouth Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, closed the G20 summit in Johannesburg by banging a gavel, having rejected a US proposal for him to hand over to a relatively junior embassy official for the next summit in Florida in a year’s time.South Africa presented the two-day event as a triumph for multilateralism but it was marred by a boycott by the US, which has repeatedly accused South Africa of discriminating against white-minority Afrikaners, a claim that has been widely discredited. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Urgent search for missing girl, 11, who vanished 24 hours ago carrying pink bag

An 11-year-old girl, Maryam, is missing in South London, and the Met Police has launched an urgent appeal for information

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8 d. ago South Africa’s dispute with US escalates amid row over G20 handover event

Trump press secretary accuses Cyril Ramaphosa of ‘running his mouth’ after US boycott of summit in JohannesburgThe dispute between South Africa and the US over the Trump administration’s decision to boycott the G20 in Johannesburg has continued, with South Africa objecting to a US plan for a junior embassy official to take part in the closing ceremony meant to mark the handover to the next summit, which will take place in Florida.The two-day summit, which opens on Saturday, comes at a febrile moment in global politics. The US has proposed a deal to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which it agreed with Moscow without the involvement of Ukraine or the EU. Continue reading...

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1 week ago World Cup 2026: which countries have qualified and how did they do it?

We now know 42 of the 48 of the teams that will play next year, but for a host of teams the race goes on via playoffsAll nine of the automatic places have been filled by the nine group winners, with the four best runners-up – DR Congo, Gabon, Cameroon and Nigeria – competing in November’s playoffs in Morocco. Nigeria beat Gabon 4-1 in the first semi-final, while Cameroon fell to a last-gasp 1-0 defeat by DR Congo in the second tie. DR Congo upset Nigeria after a gripping penalty shootout in the final, and go through to represent Africa in the intercontinental playoffs in March.EgyptMohamed Salah scored twice as Hossam Hassan’s side beat Djibouti 3-0 in Casablanca in October and made up for missing out on Qatar 2022 by reaching the finals with a game in hand. This will be Egypt’s fourth finals, even though they have yet to win a game. Bizarrely, the Pharaohs did qualify for the first World Cup, in 1930, but missed their boat from Marseille to South America after a storm delayed them....

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1 week ago My first Royal tour was Charles and Diana's 'miserable' visit to South Korea it wasn't what ended their marriage

Hardman told co-host and historian Kate Williams that coverage of the visit was 'unfair' - although he acknowledged it 'wasn't easy' for the Prince and Princess.

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2 w. ago England v New Zealand: Autumn Nations Series rugby union – live

Updates as All Blacks visit Twickenham (3.10pm GMT)England seek end to 13-year wait | Email Lee hereEngland Freddie Steward; Tom Roebuck, Ollie Lawrence, Fraser Dingwall, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso; George Ford, Alex Mitchell; Fin Baxter, Jamie George, Joe Heyes, Maro Itoje, Alex Coles, Guy Pepper, Sam Underhill, Ben Earl.Replacements: Luke Cowan-Dickie, Ellis Genge, Will Stuart, Chandler Cunningham-South, Tom Curry, Henry Pollock, Ben Spencer, Marcus Smith. Continue reading...

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