50 m. ago Neil Robertson cue with ‘new technology’ leaves pundits dumbfounded as Aussie reveals secret to form revival

The Thunder from Down Under believes some pioneering tech is behind his impressive recent form - but pundits are in the dark on changes

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67 m. ago Real Sociedad vs Man United Europa League score predicted with late drama and rare Hojlund goal

Manchester United face Real Sociedad in the Europa League on Thursday evening, so we simulated the clash to predict the final score.

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75 m. ago Ilaiyaraaja leaves for London for symphony debut: I'm incredible, no one's like me

Ilaiyaraaja leaves for London for symphony debut: I'm incredible, no one's like me  India Today

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81 m. ago MAFS Australia 2025 trailer teases 'wildest series yet' with unseen moments

The new season of Married at First Sight Australia is set to feature lots of drama and explosive revelations as a group of newlyweds tie the knot to complete strangers

Culture

97 m. ago Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man

From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be aliveSamuel Butler’s 1903 novel The Way of All Flesh carried with it an implied subtitle. In the book of Kings, from which Butler drew his title, the dying David tells his son Solomon, “take thou courage and shew thyself a man”. Butler’s inference was clear enough: here is a book about what it means to live, what it means to die, and what might be a worthwhile way to fill the time in between.Flesh, the sixth book from Booker-shortlisted David Szalay, has more than just a biblical allusion in common with Butler’s masterpiece. Thrillingly, in an age when we arguably have weaker stomachs for such things, it also shares its bold ontological and artistic ambitions. In Flesh, Szalay has written a novel about the Big Question: about the numbing strangeness of being alive; about what, if anything, it means to amble through time in a ma...

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97 m. ago Commercial director behind £100m deal resigns in latest setback to RFU

Stuart Ramsey to leave next month for role in triathlonChair has also quit and chief executive is under pressureThe Rugby Football Union’s commercial director has resigned in another setback for the beleaguered ­governing body. ­Stuart Ramsey, who was ­instrumental in securing a £100m naming rights deal for Twickenham with Allianz last year and recently agreed a partnership for England teams with Apple, will leave the RFU next month for a new role in triathlon.Ramsey’s impending departure follows the resignation of the RFU chair, Tom Ilube, last December over an executive pay row with the news coming a few weeks before a special general meeting of the RFU, which will determine the fate of the chief executive, Bill Sweeney. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Twiggy review – breezy telling of sunny star’s landmark career

Sadie Frost’s documentary follows the working-class Londoner taking bad luck in her stride as she progresses from fashion to film stardom and back againThis feelgood film directed by Sadie Frost is about the 60s fashion icon Twiggy; originally Lesley Hornby from Neasden in London, latterly Lesley Lawson after her marriage to actor Leigh Lawson, and then Dame Lesley Lawson with her DBE in 2019. (That is how she was gazetted, at all events, although Dame Twiggy has a ring to it.) With comments from A-listers including Edward Enninful and Suzy Menkes, it tells us the story of a working-class heroine with an almost eerily beautiful gamine face who became a fashion legend with a pop-star status that eluded earlier figures such as Jean Shrimpton, though without the smouldering attitude of the supermodel generation that came later.Twiggy made a glorious success of her life, and never conformed to any tragic narrative about how triumph in the ephemeral world of fashion and fame must surely ...

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2 h. ago Twiggy review – Sadie Frost’s breezy telling of sunny fashion star’s landmark career

Frost’s documentary follows the working-class Londoner taking bad luck in her stride as she progresses from fashion to film stardom and back againThis feelgood film directed by Sadie Frost is about the 60s fashion icon Twiggy; originally Lesley Hornby from Neasden in London, latterly Lesley Lawson after her marriage to actor Leigh Lawson, and then Dame Lesley Lawson with her DBE in 2019. (That is how she was gazetted, at all events, although Dame Twiggy has a ring to it.) With comments from A-listers including Edward Enninful and Suzy Menkes, it tells us the story of a working-class heroine with an almost eerily beautiful gamine face who became a fashion legend with a pop-star status that eluded earlier figures such as Jean Shrimpton, though without the smouldering attitude of the supermodel generation that came later.Twiggy made a glorious success of her life, and never conformed to any tragic narrative about how triumph in the ephemeral world of fashion and fame must surely be pun...

Events

3 h. ago A Cruel Story: Ruth Ellis filming locations as new ITV show debuts

A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story debuted on ITV on Wednesday night, but where was the new drama series filmed and what locations were used for the filming?

Culture

3 h. ago Archaeological excavation at Italian town rewrites timeline of Rome’s collapse

Excavations suggest the town was likely visited by Julius Caesar

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3 h. ago TikTok goes into meltdown as pilot leaves plane passenger amazing note on napkin

TikTok users reacted to Steph Bohrer's post about the jaw-dropping note the tourist received at a busy airport - and the pilot's sweet words have divided opinion

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4 h. ago ‘The entire coastline will be cemented over’: the tiny Italian town set to become a dock for giant cruise ships

Only 20 miles from Italy’s capital, Isola Sacra was ignored for years but now Royal Caribbean has plans to turn it into a major new portOn a cloudy day in January, Isola Sacra, a hamlet in Fiumicino, 20 miles from Rome, does not look like a place that would attract masses of tourists. Low-rise family homes with small gardens alternate with meadows and fields and life has the sedate pace of a provincial town.An old lighthouse now lies in ruins and not far away is the darsena dei bilancioni, the beach that takes its name from the stilt houses, or bilancioni, once used for fishing. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Love It or List It viewers left baffled by couple's decision to leave renovated three

On tonight's episode of the Channel 4 show, hosts Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer headed back to Shropshire to catch up with Jamie Lea and Curtis, who started their journey on the show in 2019.

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10 h. ago Hundreds of US diplomats decry dismantling of USAid in letter to Rubio

Officials say slashing of US Department for International Development leaves power vacuum for adversariesHundreds of diplomats at the state department and US Agency for International Development have written to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, protesting against the dismantling of USAid, saying it undermines US leadership and security and leaves power vacuums for China and Russia to fill.In a cable expected to be filed with the department’s internal “dissent channel”, which allows diplomats to raise concerns about policy anonymously, the diplomats said the Trump administration’s 20 January freeze on almost all foreign aid also endangers American diplomats and forces overseas while putting at risk the lives of millions abroad that depend on US assistance. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago A Cruel Love viewers 'give up' as they 'struggle' just minutes into new ITV drama

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story hit our TV screens on Monday night, but viewers spotted a major problem

Events

10 h. ago Antiques Road Trip's newest expert leaves BBC viewers saying the same thing

Tahmina Ghaffar made her Antiques Road Trip debut on Monday's episode of the BBC show with expert David Harper

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10 h. ago Trump gives Hamas ‘last warning’ to release hostages and leave Gaza or ‘there will be hell to pay’

Roughly 60 living and dead hostages remain in Gaza

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10 h. ago A Cruel Love viewers ‘give up’ just minutes into new ITV drama after major problem

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story viewers were quick to point out an issue just minutes into the new drama as they admitted ‘it’s confusing’.

Events

11 h. ago A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story on ITV review: a riveting portrayal of a monstrous miscarriage of justice

Toby Jones is on characteristically excellent form as the doomed Ruth’s barrister in ITV’s latest true crime series

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11 h. ago Alisson's remarkable Paris heroics save Liverpool but will leave one Reds player furious

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN 0-1 LIVERPOOL: Alisson turned in a stunning display to keep PSG at bay and set up the prospect of a late, if undeserved winner from Harvey Elliott

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