2 h. ago Glory and Fury to Devils and Dolphins: Australian team names come full circle | Jack Snape

The trend for unorthodox sporting nicknames has made way for a return to more traditional monikers in recent timesThe naming trends for Australian professional sports teams have come full circle, as fans and officials overlook vibe-driven monikers like Glory and the plurally-challenged Power or Storm to return to animals that bite, some 30 years after one of the great sports marketing revolutions took hold.The three most recent expansion announcements in the NRL and AFL have revived classic animal mascots, through the Perth Bears, Tasmania Devils and Dolphins from Redcliffe. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Scientists claim drinking two cuppas a day slashes risk of heart attack and stroke

Boffs say drinking up to two cups of tea a day can help slash the risk of heart attacks and strokes – but there's a catch for those with sweet tooths.

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2 h. ago Mark Zuckerberg’s secret list of top AI talent to poach has tech world atwitter

Meta CEO reportedly to offer pay packages worth up to $100m, a gambit OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls ‘crazy’Mark Zuckerberg reportedly spent months putting together a list of the top AI engineers and researchers across the globe, preparing to offer potential recruits lucrative compensation packages in Meta’s attempt to poach AI talent from key competitors.Silicon Valley has been talking for weeks about the Meta CEO’s quest to attract top AI talent, including by offering pay packages worth up to $100m. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Exact date 35C heatwave ends as Met Office forecasters predict 'thundery rain'

Met Office weather forecasters have warned that, while relief from the heatwave conditions is on the horizon, it will come with an added risk of 'heavy, thundery rain'

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4 h. ago Lando Norris says 'it's just the beginning' as F1 title rival Oscar Piastri put on notice

Oscar Piastri leads the F1 drivers' championship heading into the Austrian Grand Prix but nearest rival Lando Norris is primed to cut that advantage after securing pole position in Spielberg

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5 h. ago Lando Norris makes statement with scintillating pole position for Austrian Grand Prix

The British driver has been in excellent form all weekend in Austria and took pole by more than half-a-second

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6 h. ago Lando Norris storms to Austrian F1 GP pole as angry Verstappen slumps to seventh

McLaren driver has perfect response to Canada crashVerstappen says Red Bull car ‘completely undriveable’Lando Norris claimed pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix by half a second at the Red Bull Ring, beating Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc into second and his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri to third.It was the perfect comeback for the British driver after his disappointment at having to retire when he crashed into Piastri at the last round in Canada. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was struggling for grip and finished in seventh. Lewis Hamilton was fourth for Ferrari and George Russell fifth for Mercedes. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Alexander Dennis bus firm pulls out of Scotland with manufacturing jobs at risk

Workers at Greenfold Systems Ltd in Dunfermline were informed of potential redundancies as around half the workforce are employed to construct parts for the firm's buses.

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8 h. ago F1 Austrian GP live: Qualifying updates and times as Lando Norris eyes key pole position

Follow live F1 updates from the Red Bull Ring as the drivers eye pole for Sunday’s grand prix

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8 h. ago Sainsbury's urgently recalls household products over glass and fire risk

Some food products as well as kitchen appliances have been deemed unsafe due to glass and fire concerns.

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8 h. ago Van drives wrong way down dual carriageway in horrifying police chase footage

Police have released shocking footage showing officers pursue a van through a major UK city as it drives the wrong way along a dual carriageway and runs a red light

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9 h. ago Modern marvel or concrete ‘blob’? Inside LA’s divisive $700m art gallery

Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building has been a decade in the making and has long vexed critics, but its CEO hopes to turn things aroundAs Los Angeles county’s new $720m art museum building nears completion, it’s still haunted by a single, vexing question: how do you hang art in a gallery where every single wall is made of massive slabs of concrete?Designed by Peter Zumthor, a prizewinning Swiss architect, the new building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) has sparked controversy in the art world since its initial designs were made public in 2013. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Will I get deported for sharing this meme of JD Vance? | Arwa Mahdawi

True or not, people find it all to easy to believe that a humorous picture of the vice-president could get you barred from the USI have a very important public service announcement to make. Do not, under any circumstances whatsoever, make fun of Vice-President JD Vance by sharing one of the millions of unflattering memes dedicated to him. Don’t you dare chuckle at the images of him looking like the “lollipop kid” in Shrek (the resemblance is uncanny) or a chicken nugget. And, whatever you do, do not share the meme that you can find here, where he looks like a big bald baby. You risk hurting the poor man’s feelings and, also, you might get kicked out of the country. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Will I get lost – or liberated? My day at Glastonbury without a phone

No lineup, no map and no meet-ups with friends: is it possible to survive the festival phone-free? For someone who gets lost on the way back from a restaurant bathroom, the 364-hectare (900-acre) sprawl of Glastonbury is a navigational nightmare. I’ve been to the festival three times, and between the music and the drinking I’ve always been glued to my phone, risking a rolled ankle as I hurry along, staring at the site map on the app and racing to recorrect my route to the shows. Losing power or losing my phone hasn’t ever seemed an option here. Without it, I would cease to function.But perhaps, at the ripe old age of 31, it is time to face my fears. What would happen if I ditched my phone for the day? Would I perish from boredom or find myself liberated, finally embracing the full freedom of the Glastonbury experience? Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America

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9 h. ago Saturday Kitchen descends into chaos as guest asks Matt Tebbutt 'did you forget to cook them'

Saturday Kitchen descended into chaos as host Matt Tebbutt attempted to make Vicky Pattison's food heaven

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10 h. ago Online hacks to offline heists: crypto leaders on edge amid increasing attacks

Industry figures are seeing beyond the ‘illusion of invisibility’ after series of investor kidnappingsCryptocurrency traders such as Mohammed Arsalan are prepared to watch their online assets expand and explode if they miss the right moment, making or breaking their fortunes in just minutes. All in a day’s work on the internet. Offline, though, they have found themselves less equipped for the consequences of affluence. A string of kidnappings has plagued the industry over the past year and left traders across the globe paranoid, fearful and keen to invest in physical security measures.Arsalan grew up working class in Karachi, Pakistan. He hustles in any setting. At 14, he started a business exporting T-shirts overseas. By 17, the pandemic swept it all away. Inside, online and penniless, the booming world of Bitcoin beckoned him. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago F1 Austrian GP live: Qualifying start time as Lando Norris eyes key pole position

Follow live F1 updates from the Red Bull Ring as the drivers eye pole for Sunday’s grand prix

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10 h. ago Why Uber’s CEO thinks London is key to future of driverless cars

Why Uber’s CEO thinks London is key to future of driverless cars  The Times

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11 h. ago Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success

New York’s financial elite compare the city to crime-riddled Gotham after democratic socialist bests Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primaryWhen Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described socialist, won New York’s mayoral Democratic nomination last week over a seasoned but scandal-scarred veteran, the city’s financial elite had a meltdown.This was the start of “hot commie summer” in the city, New York hedgevfund billionaire Daniel Loeb posted to X. John Catsimatidis, billionaire CEO of grocery chain Gristedes and friend of Donald Trump, warned on Fox Business: “If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move.” Continue reading...

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