33 h. ago Fantasy Football fans will use AI to gain an edge in their teams – here's who it picked

The fantasy Premier League is back, and so is the battle to win the title - with two thirds of fantasy football players set to use AI throughout the season to get one over on their rivals

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58 h. ago Second World War veterans return to Scotland for ‘magical’ visit to Edinburgh Tattoo

The veterans revisited Scotland in a journey was organised by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans.

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5 d. ago Australia beat South Africa by 17 runs in first men’s T20 international – as it happened

Australia battled back from a dreadful start n Darwin to win the first of three T20 matches5th over: Australia 60-3 (Green 25, David 18) So the run rate’s up and the wickets are falling. David doesn’t mind the latter, he maintains the former, thrashing Corbin Bosch’s first ball over backward point for four. It was full and wide but David has the reach to fetch what Travis Head couldn’t earlier. Bosch, tall and blond and built, looks annoyed, bowls the next into leg stump, and has David hitting to his outfielder at deep backward. That’s more the plan. No plan is containing Green though, who makes it look so easy slotting another six over long on. He’s 24 off 7 balls! Then races a single. He’s six foot seventy-three but he’s also quick enough. One ball to come, and David drives it over cover for six!Oh boy. Three down and they’re going at 12 an over. The ground DJ is playing Chappell Roan. Hot to Go. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Readers' letters: Israel's war in Gaza is not and act of 'self

A reader says it’s ludicrous to sugest Israel’s actions in Gaza are defensive or a proportionate response to Hamas’s terrorism

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8 d. ago Emotional moment £1m lottery winning single dad battling cancer tells son of huge win

Paul, 51, told his son he won £1million in the lottery as the teenager got home from school – the two were captured celebrating their life changing winnings in the kitchen

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1 week ago F1: Norris wins battle with McLaren teammate Piastri to take Hungarian GP

McLaren top podium in Hungary as Norris closes title gapGeorge Russell grabs third for Mercedes in thrilling raceLando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix after taking advantage in an absolutely gripping, tense strategic battle to pull off a one-stop coup for McLaren and beat his teammate Oscar Piastri into second by just seven-tenths of a second after an extraordinary, dramatic finale that went to the wire. George Russell was third for Mercedes and Charles Leclerc fourth for Ferrari, with Fernando Alonso fifth for Aston Martin. Lewis Hamilton could manage only 12th for Ferrari after he endured a poor qualifying.Norris won after a bad start saw him drop places and he was forced to take a counter one-stop strategy, where his rivals all opted for two stops. It meant he was chased down hard at the end by Piastri on fresher tyres but as the pair vied furiously in the final five laps, Norris emerged on top and has closed the gap to his title rival Piastri to just nine points. Continue re...

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1 week ago Norris wins battle with McLaren teammate Piastri to take Hungarian F1 GP

McLaren top podium in Hungary as Norris closes title gapGeorge Russell grabs third for Mercedes in thrilling raceAs a finale to the first half of the ­season, Formula One could not have asked for a better send-off than the Hungarian Grand Prix, a race which sets up the championship run-in after the forthcoming summer break to perfection. The two title protagonists and McLaren teammates, Lando ­Norris and Oscar Piastri, were wheel to wheel to the flag, with ­Norris emerging on top after a nerveless denouement that suggests the championship too will go down to the wire.For all that this was a contest made by an adroit and opportune ­strategy call for Norris, it also delivered a fiercely competitive head to head between the ­British driver and ­Piastri. As the ­Australian chased down his rival at the death it was the season writ large. On the penultimate lap he threw his McLaren up the inside of turn one in a desperate bid for the lead. His wheels locked up and the ­Hungaroring took an...

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1 week ago Inside Britain's deadliest gang: Meet the mobsters who gun down rivals, firebomb homes and attack innocent children on our streets

EXCLUSIVE: Scottish gangsters on the frontline of a brutal gang war have boasted to the Daily Mail about their sickening crimes - from machete and gun attacks to assaulting children.

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1 week ago Lions lose battle but win war and their four Scots are modern greats

Australia salvage pride in rain-delayed final Test in Sydney

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2 w. ago From orgies to marathon sex scenes: how did period drama get so raunchy?

Non-stop coitus, controversial nudity and shocking sex toys: steamy scenes in costume dramas have changed since Colin Firth got his shirt wet in Pride and Prejudice. Here is an outrageous history of small-screen saucinessOutlander first sizzled our screens in 2014, with Vulture soon declaring that the period drama had “the best sex on television”. Its tale of second world war nurse Claire (Caitriona Balfe) time-travelling to 18th-century Scotland and falling in love with clansman Jamie (Sam Heughan) certainly earned the accolade. The wedding night episode features Claire reaching such an explosive orgasm that it requires smelling salts for viewers to get through. There’s a knee-trembling “castle cunnilingus” scene and, at one point, the extraordinary moment when Claire saves Jamie’s life by masturbating him. It has proved so popular that in 2026 its eighth (and final) season will air.In the last year we’ve had shows such as Carême, about a Napoleonic-era celebrity chef who like...

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3 w. ago Tonight's rugby news as Wales lose and Australia's superstar cavalry to play Lions second Test

The latest rugby news headlines as Wales' Under 20s World Championship campaign ends and the Lions win

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4 w. ago Arsenal gazump Liverpool as Gunners set to win another transfer battle vs rivals

Arsenal have reportedly swooped to sign Salford City striker Will Wright after making a bid that has blown their rivals out of the water for the highly-rated 17-year-old

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4 w. ago Where the first Lions Test will be won and lost v Australia: DAN BIGGAR breaks down the five key battles

DAN BIGGAR: I strongly believe the Wallabies need to win the first Test to have any chance of winning the series. There are going to the five key battle grounds - here's how each side can win them.

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4 w. ago ‘In the world of psychiatry, all your certainties are shattered’: has cinema’s champion of kindness run out of patience?

Nicolas Philibert completes his triptych of films about mental health centres with a documentary about where patients go on their darkest daysLaurence is a woman in desperate need of an act of human kindness. A hug, a cuddle: that is all she needs to keep at bay the nightmarish visions that haunt her day and night, the grey-haired patient urges her psychiatrist, words pressed through a clenched jaw, eyes bulging in panic. Yet on her ward at the Esquirol hospital centre in Paris, such simple gestures are impossible to come by. “When I asked for a hug,” Laurence laments, “they gave me a jar of yoghurt.”This scene, from Nicolas Philibert’s new documentary At Averroès & Rosa Parks, is as hard to watch as anything you are likely to see on a cinema screen this year. But it is especially remarkable coming from perhaps the world’s pre-eminent maker of humanist documentaries. The Frenchman Philibert is one of modern cinema’s great champions of kindness. Aged 74, he has built a career mak...

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4 w. ago Chloe Chua: Mozart Violin Concertos album review – teenage prodigy’s interpretations are balanced and mature

Chua/He/Singapore Symphony Orchestra/Graf(Pentatone)The Singaporean violinist plays Mozart with a clean focused tone, an elegant turn of phrase and a quiet wit. As Chloe Chua points out in her notes, Mozart’s Violin Concertos were written by a teenager – so why shouldn’t a teenage violinist do them justice? Chua – joint winner of the junior Menuhin Competition in 2018, aged 11 – was 15 and 16 when she made these recordings. The framework is conventional – there are no great surprises in the tempos, and she is backed by the modern instruments of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, who give an energised but refined performance conducted by Hans Graf. So far, so traditional. And yet Chua consistently holds the attention with interpretations that are notably mature: balanced, considered and never trying too hard. The faster movements having a gentle momentum, the slow ones plenty of space; everything Chua plays has a clean, focused tone, an unfailingly elegant turn of phrase and a quiet w...

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