5 h. ago Tractor SC complete journey to upset Iran’s establishment and claim historic title | John Duerden

The club’s success has brought hope, unity and a voice to millions of Azerbaijani- Turks, the largest minority in IranThe league title was won with games to spare by a coach in his first season, leaving fans in the north-west of the country to wait for the official presentation of the trophy. Jamie Carragher said on Sunday that “Liverpool as a city feels like it is ‘us against the world” but that is nothing when compared to those who follow Tractor SC, a club that brings hope, unity and a voice to millions of Azerbaijani Turks, the largest minority in Iran. Now they have a first Iranian championship to celebrate.That journey to the very top took 55 years. It started when the state-owned tractor company set up a team for its workers and residents in Tabriz, the biggest city in the Iran’s East Azerbaijan province as a whole, not far from the border with Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The relationship with the club and Tehran has been mixed ever since, especially as Tractor, after not...

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3 d. ago John Cena beats Randy Orton at WWE Backlash to retain Undisputed WWE Championship

John Cena retained the WWE undisputed title with a victory over Randy Orton at Backlash, just three weeks after winning it at WrestleMania for a record 17th world title reign

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3 d. ago WWE Backlash 2025 LIVE: John Cena takes on Randy Orton after huge upset in IC title match

WrestleMania seems so long ago now as we head into the first major PLE since John Cena become the most successful wrestler in history when he became WWE champion for the 17th time

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3 d. ago WWE Backlash 2025 LIVE: John Cena beats Randy Orton to retain his Undisputed Title

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3 d. ago Southampton claim point to avoid ‘worst team in Premier League history’ tag

Pep Guardiola has an extremely fond memory of St Mary’s Stadium. It was here on the final day of the 2017-18 season that he watched Gabriel Jesus score a stoppage-time winner to ensure Manchester City finished as the Premier League champions with a record 100-point haul. It was a number at the opposite end of the spectrum that provided a prominent subplot this time.Southampton kicked off on 11 points, level with the lowest haul in the competition – that collected with apologies by Derby in 2007-08. Could Southampton, who had suffered so much, get something to lift them clear of the unwanted association? Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Nintendo makes huge new Switch 2 claim which could make history

Nintendo Switch 2 launches in just under a month, and the company is expecting huge things with a new forecast suggesting it'll be one of the fastest-selling consoles in history

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6 d. ago Donald Trump dubbed 'dumbest president in history' after 'money saving' claim

The 47th President of the United States has been ridiculed online after suggesting the US was saving a trillion dollars by not trading with China - a claim some say is not accurate

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7 d. ago ‘They’ll have to go home’: Trump’s World Cup task force touts welcome, warns visitors

Trump convenes first meeting of World Cup task forcePresident hails windfall despite questions over readinessUS president Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his administration’s 2026 World Cup task force on Tuesday in a public event in which he revealed that he did not know Russia had been banned from Fifa competitions and insisted the tournament would go off without a hitch.Boasting repeatedly that the 2026 World Cup, due to be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, will be the “biggest, safest and most extraordinary soccer tournament in history”, Trump went on to claim that the tournament would generate “tens of billions of dollars in economic activities for local businesses” and “thousands and thousands of jobs for American workers”. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ‘They’ll have to go home’: Trump’s World Cup taskforce dismisses fears but warns visitors

Trump convenes first meeting of World Cup taskforcePresident hails windfall despite questions over readinessUS president Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his administration’s 2026 World Cup taskforce on Tuesday in a public event in which he revealed that he did not know Russia had been banned from Fifa competitions and insisted the tournament would go off without a hitch.Boasting repeatedly that the 2026 World Cup, due to be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, will be the “biggest, safest and most extraordinary soccer tournament in history”, Trump went on to claim that the tournament would generate “tens of billions of dollars in economic activities for local businesses” and “thousands and thousands of jobs for American workers”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago London terror swoop as five arrested in 'plot to target single premises'

Four of the men arrested on May 3 are Iranian nationals and the nationality of the fifth is still being established by police

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1 week ago London Counter Terrorism Police swoop to arrest five men in 'plot to target single premises'

Four of the men arrested on May 3 are Iranian nationals and the nationality of the fifth is still being established by police

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1 week ago Notes to John by Joan Didion: Dispatches from the therapist’s chair are a guilty pleasure

Joan Didion, who died in 2021, never intended Notes to John to be published. They are, as the title intimates, notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and they are about meetings with her psychiatrist, Dr Roger MacKinnon, over the course of a little more than a year, beginning in 1999. These 150 pages of notes were in her archive and, given that there wasn’t going to be any more Didion fiction or journalism, someone must have thought that this was a way to continue her story.

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1 week ago 'They want history to repeat itself': Prince Harry makes VERY sinister claim about Diana and his family in shocking interview which has left King 'frustrated and upset'

Prince Harry chillingly insinuated his downgraded security status could leave him and his family to suffer the same fate as the late Princess Diana, who died in a fatal car crash in Paris in 1997.

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1 week ago Falkirk history groups to get chance to claim museum collection pieces in major review

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1 week ago Ronnie O’Sullivan v Si Jiahui LIVE: World Snooker Championship score and updates as Trump battles Brecel

Ronnie O’Sullivan continues his quest for a history-making eighth world title against Si Jiahui after Mark Williams beats John Higgins 13-12 in a thrilling quarter-final

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2 w. ago Ronnie O’Sullivan v Si Jiahui LIVE: World Snooker Championship score and updates as Williams beats Higgins

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2 w. ago Ronnie O’Sullivan v Si Jiahui LIVE: World Snooker Championship score and updates plus Higgins v Williams

Ronnie O’Sullivan continues his quest for a history-making eighth world title against Si Jiahui while John Higgins and Mark Williams play to a finish in their quarter-final

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2 w. ago Ronnie O’Sullivan v Si Jiahui LIVE: World Snooker Championship updates as ‘The Rocket’ leads quarter

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2 w. ago Ronnie O’Sullivan v Si Jiahui LIVE: World Snooker Championship updates as ‘The Rocket’ in quarter

Ronnie O’Sullivan continues his quest for a history-making eighth world title against Si Jiahui after John Higgins takes 5-3 lead over fellow ‘Class of ‘92’ veteran Mark Williams

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2 w. ago John Higgins v Mark Williams LIVE: World Snooker Championship updates before Ronnie O’Sullivan plays

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s continues his quest for a history-making eighth world title against Si Jiahui after fellow ‘Class of ‘92’ veterans John Higgins and Mark Williams do battle

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