3 h. ago Premier League forced into major VAR change for West Ham vs Brentford amid AWS outage

VAR will not operate as usual during the Premier League clash between West Ham and Brentford, which Sky Sports are showing on Monday Night Football

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5 h. ago Inside Nostradamus' chilling 2025 end of year predictions as prophet hints at 'silent' fall of the West

The writings of famed French astrologer Nostradamus warned of global upheaval for the end of 2025, including what could be a devastating asteroid or atomic bomb falling from the sky.

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6 h. ago Ronald Araújo ignites Barcelona’s comeback spirit before El Clásico | Sid Lowe

Injury-hit and under pressure, Hansi Flick turned to defender turned makeshift striker to take them top of La Liga“I told my teammates: ‘If I go on, I’ll score,’ and everybody laughed,” Ronald Araújo said but they weren’t laughing now. Actually, wait, no: they were laughing now. Laughing and shouting and swearing and scrambling to escape the bench, like someone had set fire to it. Someone like him: 6ft 3in and 15 stone of Uruguayan beef, tearing off his top and leaping over the boards advertising Kicking My Feet, fists thudding at his bare chest while Barcelona’s players chased him, Frenkie de Jong leapt on for a ride, and over on the far side of Montjuic the manager who wasn’t supposed to be there let rip. “It’s football, it’s emotion,” Hansi Flick said.When it’s like this especially. On a weekend when the first 15 seconds of every game weren’t played at all and weren’t always broadcast either – La Liga distracting everyone from the 22-man standstill protests over their unilateral ...

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6 h. ago Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming

We asked experts to share tips on how to take control of dreams once you realize you’re in itUsually, we don’t have much say in what we dream about. Our brains churn up images, and we sit back and watch. But it’s possible to take control. You can turn the monster chasing you into a mouse, or fly through the sky like a bird. All it takes is realizing you’re in a dream, mid-dream – otherwise known as lucid dreaming.Lots of people want to lucid dream. There are online communities devoted to sharing tips and tricks, like the subreddit r/LucidDreaming, which has about 98,000 weekly visitors. Recent discussion topics include “If flying is hard, try giving yourself a Green Lantern ring,” and “Has anyone gone to space in [a lucid dream]?” Continue reading...

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8 h. ago ‘I was working as a cook when it went to No 1’: how Norman Greenbaum made Spirit in the Sky

‘My label said a four-minute single with lyrics about Jesus would never get played on radio. But, in 1969, the song sold two million copies. It’s now been No 1 in three different decades’Spirit in the Sky started as an old blues riff I’d been playing since my college days in Boston, but I didn’t know what to do with it. After I moved to LA, a guy I knew came up with a way of putting a fuzzbox inside my Fender Telecaster, which created the distinctive sound on Spirit in the Sky. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Ruben Amorim must harness Manchester United spirit in bid to avoid another false dawn

First win over Liverpool at Anfield in a decade has to be springboard for brighter days ahead and not latest red herring

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9 h. ago The best time Scots can see Orionid meteor shower peak this week

The Orionid shower is one of the most stunning night sky events of this year.

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10 h. ago Beware the eye in the sky! AI traffic cop catches thousands of drivers texting behind the wheel

Whether it's sending a quick text or casting an eye over your emails, those tempted to look at their phone while driving are finally being caught out.

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11 h. ago I asked 3 chefs how to cook salmon—they all said the same thing

Salmon is a versatile fish that can be cooked in a variety of ways, but three chefs have revealed the 'perfect' method for cooking the popular fish—and it's not what you'd expect

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12 h. ago Amazon web outage full list of every service affected including Ring and Alexa

Some of the big names that are down this morning include Snapchat, Slack, Ring, Vodafone, Signal, Virgin Media, BT, EE and Sky, as well as Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland

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12 h. ago Diamond Sky review – fairytale heist thriller has its head in the clouds

Mesmerising leads Hassan Najib and Elena Rivers play a pair of young hotel workers who carry out high-end robberies in this oddly unconvincing storyIt’s not fair to critics who want to avoid spoilers but there’s a twist at the end of this romance-focused crime thriller that partly explains why everything that has come before has been so oddly stilted, unconvincing and thinly sketched out. Presumably, writer-director Felix Mackenzie was hoping to create a fairytale-like atmosphere but with a present-day London setting.We’re supposed to feel enchanted by the tale of Lucan (Hassan Najib) and Alice (Elena Rivers), two crazy young kids pulling off heists while working day jobs as a bell boy and chambermaid, respectively, in a small hotel. But most viewers will just wonder why their high jinks are so incredibly unconvincing, why they trust their criminal mastermind handlers to show up with escape cars at exactly the moment needed, and why they live in a flat that looks as if it was hired ...

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13 h. ago Internet outages at HMRC, Zoom and Snapchat reported after AWS disruption

Other services showing a spike in reported outages include Slack, Ring, Vodafone, Signal, Halifax, BT, EE and Sky.

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18 h. ago The Beijing courier who went viral: how Hu Anyan wrote about delivering parcels – and became a bestseller

Like so many others, his days have been spent in the gig economy, moving from one precarious job to another, often tied to a gruelling 996 shift pattern. He discusses the harsh realities of modern working life in China, and far beyondHu Anyan is not a fan of online shopping, but, as he discovered during the months he spent as a courier in Beijing, plenty of people are. Not long into the job, he was assigned to delivering parcels to a large construction site. He didn’t have to deliver that many – 10 to 20, most days – but getting them to their rightful owners wasn’t always easy. There was a crane driver who was often in the air when Hu arrived. He would ask him to come again the next day, only to be found in the sky again.“In the end,” Hu writes in his memoir, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing – which is being published in English for the first time this month – “it would take several trips” to deliver this man his parcel. “But this didn’t dampen his passion for online shopping....

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20 h. ago Top secret military firm confesses to sparking New Jersey drone hysteria that left America on edge

The sightings sparked mass hysteria and concerns over the existence of UFOs after footage went viral of unidentified objects lighting up the night sky.

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21 h. ago NORMAN BAKER: Will the Met give Andrew a free ride (again) or will they do their job and investigate?

Now that Prince Andrew's scandalous secrets are exposed, writes NORMAN BAKER, the public have every right to know if such a senior royal has engaged in any law-breaking.

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21 h. ago For all Blair's faults, he presided over growth Reeves would die for. So why won't she take his advice and lower the top rate of tax? STEPHEN GLOVER

Let us try, in a charitable spirit, to enter the mind of Rachel Reeves and see whether we can help her, writes STEPHEN GLOVER.

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22 h. ago Young boy is rushed to hospital with head injuries after fairground ride incident

Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics transported the child to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough on Friday.

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27 h. ago Martin Brundle presents US GP grid walk with Hollywood star guest as F1 fans divided

Martin Brundle was joined by Hollywood actor Glen Powell for Sky Sports F1's grid walk at the United States Grand Prix on Sunday and fans were split over the move to bring in a guest presenter

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27 h. ago Glen Powell told to 'take a bow' after flexing 'double badge in' on F1 grid walk

Hollywood star Glen Powell rocked a 'double badge in' during his Sky Sports appearance on the F1 grid ahead of the United States Grand Prix in Texas

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27 h. ago Virginia Giuffre's brother demands King Charles strip Andrew of 'prince' title

Prince Andrew has been accused of trying to 'dig up dirt' about Virginia Giuffre. Her brother Sky Roberts called on King Charles to strip Andrew of his 'prince' title

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