70 m. ago Pape Gueye fires Senegal to Afcon glory against Morocco after walk

This had been, by general agreement, the most predictable, least dramatic Cup of Nations in living memory. And that was true, until eight minutes into injury time in the final, when a video assistant referee decision contrived to produce perhaps the most ludicrous finale to any major final in history. Senegal won it, but that is a tiny detail in the denouement that erupted. There was a walk-off in protest, a missed Panenka and a brilliant winning goal from Pape Gueye.The chaos began two minutes into injury time when Abdoulaye Seck was penalised for a slight push on Achraf Hakimi as he headed against the post. Ismaïla Sarr nodded in, but the whistle had already gone. Four minutes later, Adam Masina was penalised, following a VAR review, for a pull on Morocco’s Brahim Díaz as he defended a corner. For Senegal, already convinced there was a plot against them, that was too much and the majority of their players stormed off. Sadio Mané seemed notably reluctant to go, and it was he who ev...

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5 h. ago The Guardian view on microplastics research: questioning results is good for science, but has political consequences | Editorial

Errors in measuring microplastic pollution can be corrected. Public trust in science also needs to be shored up It is true that science is self-correcting. Over the long term this means that we can generally trust its results – but up close, correction can be a messy process. The Guardian reported last week that 20 recent studies measuring the amount of micro- and nanoplastics in the human body have been criticised in the scientific literature for methodological issues, calling their results into question. In one sense this is the usual process playing out as it should. However, the scale of the potential error – one scientist estimates that half the high-impact papers in the field are affected – suggests a systemic problem that should have been prevented.The risk is that in a febrile political atmosphere in which trust in science is being actively eroded on issues from climate change to vaccinations, even minor scientific conflicts can be used to sow further doubt. Given that there...

Politics

6 h. ago Bessent says Europe is too weak to guarantee Greenland’s security

US refuses to back down in the face of outrage among its allies over plan to acquire Danish territory

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7 h. ago ‘It’s not “talking London down” to tell the truth about crime’

‘It’s not “talking London down” to tell the truth about crime’  Spiked

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9 h. ago AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsI am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not just what a gadget does, but who it does it for, and who it does it to.What I do not do is predict the future. No one can predict the future, which is a good thing, since if the future were predictable, that would mean we couldn’t change it. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Tormented life of mum slaughtered by own husband who forced child to conceal crime up for years

Robert Rhodes ended his wife Dawn’s life at their family home, while their child hid in a bathroom upstairs, the final, fatal chapter in years of suffering he inflicted upon her

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13 h. ago South Australian premier urged Adelaide Writers’ Week board to drop Palestinian writer, letter reveals

Malinauskas urged the festival board to drop Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah, warning of public backlash

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14 h. ago Businesses near Glasgow 'drug consumption room' report crime surge

"I'd say since that centre has opened, it has got worse down here. I think because here's the place to be for them [drug users], and they're all congregating in certain areas, they're all basically got a local hangout to be in."

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16 h. ago Can you solve it? Are you cut out for these puzzling slices?

Or will they have you in pieces?Today’s puzzles are all geometrical, and all from the mind of the UK’s most enduring and eloquent popular maths writer, Ian Stewart.1. Bonnie Tiler Continue reading...

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17 h. ago I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be

My experience of court was eye-opening. And when I sat in on other cases, I realised how often mothers are vilifiedIt’s 1836 and the French writer George Sand is swimming in the River Indre with her clothes on, weighed down by layers of ankle-length fabric. To anyone passing by, she must look mad or worse – driven by a death wish. But for her there is the relief of cool water sluicing hot skin, after walking for hours in 30C heat. She’s been moving all day because if she stops she’ll remember how frightened she is: she’s about to go to court to fight for her children against a husband driven by punitive anger.Custodire. To care. To look after. To guard. To restrain. Maternal care is, we are constantly told, the most natural of functions. But for century after century, women who transgress the expected norms of what a mother should be have battled for their children and been found wanting. Maternal care comes at a price when the law is involved. And all too often custody can be more ...

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19 h. ago I stayed at Wales' best hotel with a dreamy spa and epic beach views, but I wasn't prepared for the food

St Brides Spa Hotel was crowned 'Best in Wales' for 2026 at the AA Hospitality Awards - our writer was recently lucky enough to try it out

Society

22 h. ago She was at the center of one of Netflix's most shocking documentaries after being kidnapped TWICE

Mary Ann Broberg, the mother of kidnapping survivor Jan Broberg and a central figure in the story told in the 2017 true-crime documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, has died.

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25 h. ago 'Our current policing model was built for the 1960s': Two of the UK's most senior police chiefs say having 43 separate forces is 'inefficient' and 'outdated'

Our ability to tackle the crime threats to communities, whether local or global, is undermined by this outdated system.

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25 h. ago The Masked Singer Sloth's true identity 'exposed' and they're a Good Morning Britain star

ITV The Masked Singer fans are convinced they have finally worked out the real identity of Sloth

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25 h. ago The Rip star Lina Esco said she and Ben Affleck were ‘dorking around’ during bedroom scenes

New Netflix crime thriller reunites Affleck and Matt Damon as Miami cops

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26 h. ago Teen dead and three injured after shooting at historic New Orleans restaurant and civil rights landmark

Three bystanders visiting the city were injured after shooting victim was chased inside 85-year-old landmark

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26 h. ago Health board accepts probable link between infections and hospital water system

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry has been examining issues at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) and Royal Hospital for Children.

Science

26 h. ago 'Puddle of blood' seen on pavement as Stockport road taped off by police

A crime scene is in place

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27 h. ago 'Epic' 80s TV series inspired by the true story of a Welsh gran is now streaming

Romance saga The Thorn Birds was a major talking point in the 80s is now available to stream - and it was inspired by a Welsh grandmother

Culture

28 h. ago Love Island star's dad Tamer Hassan's 'crime classic' is streaming now

Many film fans claim it is "one of the best British gangster movies ever made"

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