14 h. ago Money hungry footballer gave up glory for China and Saudi riches with Miss Universe model

Yannick Carrasco twice swapped the chance of winning major silverware to cash in abroad and live the high life with his former Miss Belgium wife

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6 d. ago Ronnie O’Sullivan whitewashes Stephen Maguire as fine form continues in China

Maguire won a meagre 25 points in five frames.

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7 d. ago Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug deliveryThe Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who created revolutionary porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and remove toxins from water.Susumu Kitagawa, of Kyoto University, Richard Robson, of the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, of the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug deliveryThe Nobel prize in chemistry 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery.Susumu Kitagawa, at Kyoto University, Richard Robson, at the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, at the University of California, Berkeley, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Nepal’s Australian football coach isn’t looking to scale the heights of Asian Cup glory. Just one point would do | Mark Lomas

Amid the social upheaval of the ‘Gen Z’ riots, Matt Ross wants to not only develop his team, but lay foundations for long-term growth of the sportWhen Matt Ross took the Nepal national football team job earlier this year, he knew there would be tough times ahead. Nepal’s mountainous terrain draws millions of tourists each year, but it has also made sporting progress difficult.Hamstrung by its terrain, football pitches are so scarce that the main national competition – the Nepal Super League – must be played over one month at a single venue: the Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu. Continue reading...

Sport

2 w. ago University hails £475,000 fund into ‘groundbreaking’ eczema technology

Heriot-Watt said the device could help those with psoriasis and ‘revolutionise how eczema is diagnosed and treated’.

Economics

3 w. ago ‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir

Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the sameRichard Beard, award-winning author of The Day That Went Missing and Sad Little Men, thought he was writing his next book, a whole life memoir. In the event, he has written his way off the page and into an entirely new publishing model. The Universal Turing Machine is the title both of Beard’s memoir and the mass memoir project he hopes others will help him to build.Organised as a chessboard, each of the 64 squares narrates one year of Beard’s life, in 1,000 words per year. (He’s 58, so the last five years are fictionalised.) The reader moves around the “board” as if they were a knight, picking the next year to read from options limited by the knight’s L-shaped ambulation.Contributions to The Universal Turing Machine can be made at universalturingmachine.co.uk Continue reading...

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