3 d. ago Forza Horizon 5 crossplay on PS5, Xbox and PC – how to play with friends on different platforms

The Forza series makes its PlayStation debut with Forza Horizon 5 on PS5 and new cross-platform social features to support the launch across all versions of the game.

Politics

5 d. ago Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history: ‘It wasn’t fair. I wasn’t on a level playing field’

How did the women’s 1500m in the 2012 London Olympics get its unenviable reputation? Athletes who were cheated out of medals talk about what happened that day – and how the results have slowly unravelledThe tunnel in which athletes wait before they enter a stadium ahead of a major race is “by no means a friendly place to be”, says Lisa Dobriskey – and as a former Team GB athlete who won Commonwealth gold and world championship silver at 1500m, she has stood in enough of them to know. “Different people handle it differently,” she says. “Some people are really relaxed and friendly; other people just look right through you. It’s scary. I remember my coach saying to me, ‘When you go to the Olympics, you’ll be standing next to the meanest, toughest, hardest people that you’ll ever face.’ Everybody wants to win.”As it turned out, the wait to walk into London’s Olympic stadium for the final of her event in August 2012 was even more stressful than she’d been warned. With British excitement ...

Sport

6 d. ago Pete Hegseth’s controversial chief of staff leaves post unexpectedly

Exit comes after Joe Kasper was implicated as orchestrator of power grab that led to dismissal of three Pentagon officialsUS politics live – latest updatesJoe Kasper, the controversial chief of staff to the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who was central to a dramatic power struggle at the Pentagon, has left his post, in an unexpected departure.Despite Hegseth’s assurances just days ago in a TV appearance on the Fox & Friends show that Kasper would merely transition to “a slightly different role” within the department, Kasper confirmed to Politico in a Thursday interview he will instead return to government relations and consulting, maintaining only limited Pentagon ties as a special government employee. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Keir Starmer reveals how breakfast clubs helped his family as 750 schools begin rollout

Keir Starmer said getting a proper breakfast makes 'a massive difference' to kids’ ability to learn and make friends - and offers extra childcare to parents in the morning

Society

1 week ago Trump’s political bullying of Harvard will do nothing to foster diversity of thought | Kenan Malik

Substituting liberal biases with conservative will only serve to subvert academic objectivityFew people want to live in an echo chamber. Many have no problem being friends with those who vote differently to the way they do. And many would probably agree with John Stuart Mill that “he who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that” – that to truly know one’s own argument, one must also know the arguments of those who disagree.How to create a culture that encourages more fruitful engagement between those of differing political views has become a key question in contemporary public debate. Nowhere more so than in universities, where there has been much debate about “viewpoint diversity”, the aspiration to nurture differing and conflicting perspectives within an institution or group as a means of sharpening arguments and teasing out truths. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata

The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’“I have had relationships with humans, but I’ve also loved a lot of people in stories,” Sayaka Murata, the Japanese author of the bestseller Convenience Store Woman, confides a few minutes into our interview. “I’ve been told by my doctor not to talk about this too much, but ever since I was a child, I’ve had 30 or 40 imaginary friends who live on a different star or planet with whom I have shared love and sexual experiences.”It is 7pm in Tokyo, mid-morning in London. Sitting upright at a desk in an empty publisher’s office, the 45-year-old author – wearing a cream silk blouse and with a neatly curled bob – might be reading the news rather than discussing imaginary friends. For context, her latest novel to be translated into English, Vanishing World, depi...

Events

2 w. ago Olympian mum demolishes all other parents in son's school sports day race

Sprinting legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce took part in a parents' race at her son's sports day, and the eight-time Olympic medallist showed she is still the one to beat

Sport

2 w. ago Meagan Good says marriage to ‘best friend’ Jonathan Majors is ‘amazing’ but ‘feels different’

Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good married in March after announcing their engagement in November 2024

Politics

2 w. ago What’s up, Doc? How Doctor Who lost its mojo – and how it can get it back

Ever since its deal with Disney+, ‘Doctor Who’ has become a different, more family-friendly show. Ed Power has some ideas about how it could regain its former glories

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3 w. ago SARAH RAINEY: I tried the NAD+ IV drip celebs claim will help them to 'look young forever' , the next day my school mum friends couldn't believe the difference...

Lying on a turquoise hospital gurney, hooked up to a drip of clear, sparkling fluid, I can feel a tingling sensation pulsing through my body.

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