33 m. ago Beautiful EU holiday destination that’s hot in September with lower prices and fewer crowds

Want guaranteed good holiday weather? Here’s our handy calendar of the best places to visit, all year round – including 28+ degrees in April and 'shoulder season' ideas

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46 m. ago Thousands of tabletop gamers return to the Royal Highland Centre this September

Tabletop Scotland is one of the UK’s premier festivals of analogue gaming, allowing visitors to unplug from technology and enjoy the best in board games, card games and roleplaying games. With over 130 different exhibitors, gamers will be spoilt for choice when exploring the tabletop hobby at the Highland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, over three days on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of September.

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46 m. ago Meet Alexander Isak's controversial agent who FIFA investigated and brokered Chelsea deals

Alexander Isak is being advised by an agent who's found himself at the heart of several controversies in European football since the early 2000s, with Newcastle being his latest battle

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51 m. ago Millions of people over State Pension age set to pay tax in retirement this year

HMRC estimates 8.7 million pensioners will pay tax for the 2025/26 financial year.

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54 m. ago Football fans rank Barcelona's Camp Nou the ultimate stadium to visit globally

A poll of 2,000 fans has crowned the Camp Nou as the most sought-after venue outside the UK to watch a match, while the Bernabéu came a close second

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54 m. ago Barcelona's Camp Nou tops Real Madrid in global stadium popularity poll

A poll of 2,000 football fans has disclosed the stadiums they would most like to visit in the world - with Barcelona's Nou Camp and Liverpool's Anfield topping the bill

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1 hour ago Business news live: Perplexity launches shock £25bn bid for Google’s Chrome browser

Stock market news and latest business and finance updates from Wednesday

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1 hour ago Zidane, Eusebio, Adams: footballers whose names are also song titles | The Knowledge

Plus: two European ties in the same stadium on one day and the highest opening weekend goals-per-game ratioMail us with your questions and answers“I have just heard CMAT’s song Vincent Kompany because I am cool, young and relevant,” writes the cool, young and relevant Will Unwin. “I was wondering if any other player’s name is the title of a song, beyond simply being referred to?”In this age of streaming, there are many songs online whose titles are the names of footballers, but a few hundred listens here and there doesn’t make them particularly noteworthy. So we have wound back a bit to a time when songs were more commonly created in studios, not bedrooms. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago ‘Challenger level is about survival’: brutal reality of life below elite tennis

Shared motel rooms, sleeping on floors and making a net loss are among hurdles facing the globetrotters chasing ranking pointsLess than a year after exiting the 2022 Wimbledon quarter-final on the All England Club’s pristine No 1 Court, Cristian Garín found himself 10,000 miles away on a hard court on the Pacific island of Nouméa, New Caledonia.The Chilean, who had a career-high ranking of world No 17, had signed up for an ATP Challenger event, tennis’s second-tier tour, mostly attracting players outside the top 100, after a wrist injury forced him to miss two ATP Masters 1000 events. By January 2023, Garín sat at a precarious No 82. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Gaza’s sick children wait in torturous limbo for medical evacuations

For some the only hope is treatment abroad, but not all survive the long, desperate wait for Israel’s approvalAbdel Karim Wahdan no longer has the energy to speak. When visitors arrive, the eight-year-old pretends to be sleeping so that no one looks at him. Between his frequent dialysis sessions, he cries. His bones hurt, he says.Abdel Karim is dying. His death should be preventable but because he lives in Gaza he cannot access the treatment that would save his life. What started as acute kidney failure is now chronic: his small body has begun to swell and he spends his days between hospital beds and injections that he hates. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Women's Rugby World Cup 2025: Six players to watch as globe's best battle for glory

England have home advantage on biggest stage

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1 hour ago Australia unfazed by England’s aggression before Ashes, says Scott Boland

Fast bowler hoping for selection after Windies hat-trickHome Ashes series starts with Perth Test on 21 NovemberFast bowler Scott Boland says Australia will ignore any on-field aggression brought down under by England this summer, 100 days from the first Ashes Test in a tour that looks set to break records.England and India completed a thrilling drawn series last week across five Tests marked by tension between the two sides, prompting Indian captain Shubman Gill at one point to describe the hosts’ behaviour as not “what I would think comes in the spirit of the game”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago State Pension age set to rise next year for people with specific birthdates

The State Pension age will increase from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028.

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2 h. ago Transfer news live: Isak forcing Liverpool move, Donnarumma’s agent rages over Man Utd deal, Chelsea agree Garnacho terms

Follow all the latest transfer rumours, gossip and signings

Economics

2 h. ago 21 fan theories that will completely change the way you watch iconic movies

Louis Chilton takes a look at some of the craziest bits of cinematic speculation out there... that could well be true

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2 h. ago 'I was raped at 8, a mum by 10, married at 11 and had six children aged 17'

A child herself, Sherry Yvonne Johnson first gave birth when she was just 10 and was raising six children by the time she turned 17 — her own mother made her marry her rapist.

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2 h. ago 'I watched friend get eaten by a shark and most haunting moment was exactly like Jaws'

A woman who survived a shark attack in Florida when she was just 21-years-old has opened up about the terrifying ordeal that invovled watching a predator eat her friend

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2 h. ago 'I had six children aged 17 after being raped at 8 and married to rapist at 11'

Sherry Yvonne Johnson was just eight years old when she was first raped by a man nine years her senior - and by the time she was 11, she was married to him

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2 h. ago American visits Poundland for first time ever and is shocked by one part of store

An American YouTube star has been left stunned by her first ever visit to Poundland as one section of the budget store left her exclaiming "I was not expecting it"

Events

3 h. ago Gianluigi Donnarumma's agent blasts PSG and provides update as 'terms agreed' with Man City

Gianluigi Donnarumma's agent has opened fire on PSG and their treatment of the goalkeeper with his time in Paris up as Manchester City look to swoop in and sign him

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