49 m. ago Get Real: serial Champions League winners Madrid face fresh threat | Jonathan Wilson

Paris Saint-Germain, who beat Liverpool with verve and energy, are the upstart newcomers among big-name quarter-finalistsNarratives are never as straightforward as they may appear. One era does not yield easily to another. What constitutes an era changes over time. While history is happening it’s often hard to make sense of it; patterns seem to emerge that, from the perspective of 20 years later are meaningless, or culs-de-sac. That seems particularly true this season. As the Champions League reaches its quarter-final stage this coming week, it feels that one age has ended and another has yet to materialise.The past was a simpler place. First there was the age of dominance by Real Madrid and Benfica, teams from the capitals of Iberian nations under right-wing dictatorships, packed with great individuals. Then came systematisation, catenaccio and the Italian ascendancy, followed, with a brief period of crossover, by the era of domination by the northern European industrial powers, sk...

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85 m. ago Premier League clubs in transfer battle for ace who started season in non

EXCLUSIVE: Premier League clubs are set to do battle 21-year-old Barnsley goalkeeper Kieran Flavell, who has impressed in League One after starting the season in non-league

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2 h. ago Vitor Pereira likes what he sees as Wolves hit back to seal a big win at Ipswich

Wanderers are 12 points above the Suffolk side following the success at Portman Road.

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2 h. ago Airdrie boss Rhys McCabe hails side after battling Partick Thistle win

McCabe says the Diamonds showed a lot of character to take the points

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2 h. ago Jeep Run starting in New London on April 12 to benefit man battling prostate cancer

Jeep Run starting in New London on April 12 to benefit man battling prostate cancer  Muddy River News

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2 h. ago King Charles will have to tone down support for net zero after Badenoch says 2050 is ‘impossible’

Constitutional expert says Tory leader’s break from political consensus over target for greenhouse gasses will require monarch to choose his words carefullyKing Charles will have to temper his public support for net zero after Kemi Badenoch broke the political consensus over the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions.Senior royal sources have conceded that the 76-year-old monarch, who has spent more than half a century highlighting environmental challenges, will have to choose his words more carefully now that the Conservatives under Badenoch have said it will be impossible for the UK to hit net zero by 2050. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Gladiators star Fury gives Lionesses prediction for women's rugby – 'it just exploded'

Former Sale Sharks and Exeter winger Jodie Ounsley, now 'Fury' in hit BBC show Gladiators, has backed John Mitchell's England stars to build on their momentum and become household names

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3 h. ago The EXACT date Celtic can win the league as Rangers defeat turbo charges Premiership title party forward

Brendan Rodgers' Treble-chasers are now just two victories away from clinching a 55th title

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4 h. ago Arthritis and back ache sufferers say £23 cow udder vet cream is 'magic' for cruel conditions. Now doctors are weighing in... and their verdicts may surprise you

It is, as the name hints, a veterinarian treatment for soothing dairy cows' udders. But Uddermint is gaining a cult following among humans who swear it eases their aches and pains.

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4 h. ago Grand National 2025 result in full: Where your horse finished plus fallers

Nick Rockett battled to a remarkable Grand National triumph for father and son combination Patrick and Willie Mullins.

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4 h. ago Genetic data is an another asset to be exploited – beware who has yours | John Naughton

The bankruptcy of genealogy company 23andMe has resulted in a fire sale of millions of people’s genetic information – and there’s no shortage of eager buyers with questionable motivesEver thought of having your genome sequenced? Me neither. But it seems that at least 15 million souls have gone in for it and are delighted to know that they have Viking ancestry, or discombobulated to find that they have siblings of whom they were hitherto unaware. The corporate vehicle that enabled these revelations is called 23andMe, which describes itself as a “genetics-led consumer healthcare and biotechnology company empowering a healthier future”.Back in the day, 23andMe was one of those vaunted “unicorns” (privately held startups valued at more than $1bn), but is now facing harder times. Its share price had fallen precipitately following a data breach in October 2023 that harvested the profile and ethnicity data of 6.9 million users – including name, profile photo, birth year, location, family s...

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6 h. ago Ndiaye on the spot as Everton put further dent in slim Arsenal title hopes

Liverpool do not require favours to secure the Premier League title but their neighbours gave them one anyway. Everton denied Arsenal the victory they needed to maintain extremely thin hopes of challenging the league leaders courtesy of Iliman Ndiaye’s penalty.Leandro Trossard put Mikel Arteta’s visitors on course for a win their overall display just about deserved but a soft second-half spot-kick, awarded for a fall by Myles Lewis-Skelly into Jack Harrison, enabled Everton to secure a fifth draw in six Premier League matches. The upshot is that Arne Slot’s side need only 11 points from their final eight games to seal Liverpool’s 20th league championship. Arsenal can have no complaints over the destiny of this season’s title. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago New club enters Jadon Sancho transfer battle as Man United learn conditions of deal

Latest Manchester United transfer news as Jadon Sancho's transfer saga takes another twist with a new club in the battle

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6 h. ago Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests

Revolutionary scanner to be fired into Earth orbit this month to measure effects of deforestationScientists are about to take part in a revolutionary mission aimed at creating detailed 3D maps of the world’s remotest, densest and darkest tropical forests – from outer space. The feat will be achieved using a special radar scanner that has been fitted to a probe, named Biomass, that will be fired into the Earth’s orbit later this month.For the next five years, the 1.25-tonne spacecraft will sweep over the tropical rainforests of Africa, Asia and South America and peer through their dense 40m-high ­canopies to study the vegetation that lies beneath. The data collected by Biomass will then be used to create unique 3D maps of forests normally hidden from human sight. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Kae Tempest review – a brave, intimate set where the personal is political

Village Underground, LondonThe laser-focused spoken-word performer returns to the musical stage with new tracks focusing on their identity, but wider concerns are never far away“This has been a performance piece about how technology is going to be the death of us all,” jokes rapper, poet, author and playwright Kae Tempest as a keyboard player and a technician wrestle with malfunctioning equipment. We’re just two tracks in; Tempest assures us that if the electronics are not back up soon, they’ll do the whole show a cappella.They could, too. The teenage Tempest cut their teeth battle-rapping in south London, turning to slam poetry when more direct avenues into hip-hop refused to open easily to a young, blond slip of a thing. You suspect they have never wasted the opportunity when handed a mic. Given Tempest’s extended output over more than a decade of albums, works of fiction, poems, plays and nonfiction, with prizes and accolades for many of them – you can’t imagine them ever being a...

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6 h. ago Music fans stumped after discovering what Thin Lizzy's band name actually means

Thin Lizzy was a band which needs no introduction, but it turns out there's something pretty surprising about the group's name that some fans might not know

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7 h. ago James May criticises Jeremy Clarkson’s rival pub despite never visiting

‘Mines much better,’ former Top Gear presenter claimed

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7 h. ago Man United 'target' Tyler Dibling sent clear summer transfer warning by Southampton boss

Southampton youngster Tyler Dibling is thought to be in high demand ahead of the summer transfer window opening at the end of the season

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7 h. ago Rangers vs Hibs LIVE score and goal updates from Premiership clash at Ibrox

Barry Ferguson's men are back at Ibrox against the in form Hibees who in the midst of a battle for third place behind the Gers

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7 h. ago Rangers 0 Hibs 0 LIVE score and goal updates from Premiership clash at Ibrox

Barry Ferguson's men are back at Ibrox against the in form Hibees who in the midst of a battle for third place behind the Gers

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