37 h. ago Politician's horror death after his home was invaded by huge swarm of monkeys

Surinder Singh Bajwa, a deputy mayor in New Delhi, India was rushed to hospital with devastating head injuries after trying to fight the marauding horde off during the attack

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50 h. ago Footballer has car key jammed into his head during fight at match

Jonathan José Smith stepped in to try and defend one of his pals who was being attacked, but just seconds later he was stabbed with a car key that was embedded in his skull

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54 h. ago In me head, son! Car key ends up embedded in footballer's forehead after fight between players

Smith, a defensive midfielder who has had a long career in Argentine lower-division football, had been watching his daughter, 16, play before the fight broke out.

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2 w. ago Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance

The story of hot tea and unconsummated love hails from a very different era – and was far from easy to make. Yet it remains a key influence for film-makers from Sofia Coppola to Celine Song, James Ivory to Greta GerwigThe first time David Lean’s 1945 romantic masterpiece was shown to the public, the audience were in stitches. It not being a comedy, this was far from ideal. The director was so embarrassed, he returned to his hotel planning to break into the film lab and burn the negative at the earliest opportunity.Eighty years on, the legacy of Brief Encounter has proved anything but. First, its train station setting and ubiquity on British TV led to parodies by everyone from Victoria Wood to Birds Eye ready meals. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brendon McCullum confident England can throw off batting blues for Ashes

Smith, Duckett and Root all fail again in New Zealand loss‘In Tests we have a pretty decent idea of where we’re at’Brendon McCullum has predicted England’s batters will have no trouble shaking off the woes that have dogged their white-ball tour of New Zealand in time for the AshesTheir top order crumbled yet again on the way to a third successive defeat in Wellington on Saturday and several key members of the Test squad, including Jamie Smith, Ben Duckett and Joe Root, have struggled badly in recent one-day internationals. But the team’s head coach believes their troubles are limited to the 50-over format.“It’s a different form of the game and it’s a completely different kind of challenge that we’re going to be confronted with,” he said. “Sometimes the process you go through in regards to batting doesn’t necessarily translate to runs, but the game can come in time. That’s what we’re holding on to, anyway. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Promising young sports star, 14, dies in car crash near farm

Leon Arundel was taken to hospital but died on Thursday from his injuries following a car collision near a farm in in the Llangynog area between Carmarthen and St Clears.

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2 w. ago WRU's Jamie Roberts speaks out: I stand by decision, a really key point got lost

'If we want to make change for the good, it's going to be difficult for players, for fans, for all stakeholders in the game,' explained Wales icon Jamie Roberts

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3 w. ago Wolves goalkeeper gets out of his car to argue with fans of Premier League's bottom team

Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa was involved in a heated conversation with supporters following his side's 3-2 defeat by Burnley on Sunday.

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3 w. ago Brendan Rodgers keeps Celtic car comments going as two new models enter fray

Performance against Sturm Graz is much more to manager’s satisfaction

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3 w. ago ‘Attacks will get through’: head of GCHQ urges companies to do more to fight cybercrime

Anne Keast-Butler says government and business must to work together to tackle future attacks as AI makes cybercrime easierCompanies need to do more to mitigate the potential effects of cyber-attacks, the head of GCHQ has said, including making physical, paper copies of crisis plans to use if an attack brings down entire computer systems.“What are your contingency plans? Because attacks will get through,” said Anne Keast-Butler, who has headed GCHQ, the British government’s cyber and signals intelligence agency, since 2023. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Man Utd legend's car destroyed by savage hooligans after fashion shoot 'offence'

Nemanja Vidic is widely regarded as one of the toughest defenders in Premier League history, but even the Manchester United icon was left fearing for his safety at times

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4 w. ago Six reasons Celtic have become a car crash with Brendan Rodgers in firing line after ill

The wheels are coming off at Parkhead with warning lights on and off the pitch and a manager needing to do emergency repairs

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last month World’s first international football stadium that was ‘blueprint’ for the future faces being turned into block of flats

FEARS have been expressed that the ‘world’s first international football stadium’ could be turned into flats or a car park. The original Hampden Park in Glasgow was the home of Queen’s Park from 1873-1883 and hosted Scottish Cup finals and Scotland internationals. It was the first to build toilets, turnstiles and grandstands and has been...

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last month Chelsea: Reece James singles out one person 'behind the scenes' key to his return to form

The Blues skipper is an almost ever-present and just produced his best performance of the season

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