15 h. ago Grand National 2025 fallers: Which horses failed to finish Aintree race?

Several horses didn't finish the race with concerns about Broadway Boy who had a nasty fall after leading at the start of the race

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15 h. ago Grand National horse Broadway Boy suffers nasty fall as 18 horses don't finish

Broadway Boy suffered a bad fall after leading in the Grand National.

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16 h. ago Transgender athlete Lia Rose wins girls event in Oregon... two years after finishing LAST against boys

Rose, a senior at Ida B. Wells High School, won with a height of 4-foot 8-inches and beat her nearest competitor Addyson Skyles by a huge two inches.

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64 h. ago Chaka Khan on Prince, poetry and wild, wonderful nights: ‘No one’s done anything but craziness at 4am’

The singer answers your questions about her drum skills, friendship with Joni Mitchell and more – and reveals unheard music with both Prince and SiaCan you remember the precise moment you realised you had a gift as a vocalist? SalfordRed64I was doing a talent show at the Burning Spear in Chicago. My group, the Crystallettes, graced many a nightclub stage in competitions, and every time either us or [fellow Chicago girl group] the Emotions would win. But I remember singing some Aretha Franklin songs and people in the audience were throwing money on the stage, and they started calling me “little Aretha”. That’s when I connected the dots: “Oh, I see what this is all about.” I realised I didn’t have to become a teacher or a whatever I wanted to be when I grew up back then – I could be a singer!You have so much confidence and you just knew you and [the band] Rufus were going to make it big. Where does that confidence come from? stifwhiffWhen I was with Rufus, I knew I loved what we were ...

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3 d. ago Led by Villegas and Gonzales, London girls and boys win district golf championships

Led by Villegas and Gonzales, London girls and boys win district golf championships  Corpus Christi Caller-Times

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3 d. ago Caroline Weir: ‘I am not the loudest but I’d like to think I lead by example’

Midfielder wants to win silverware with Real Madrid and inspire girls and boys in Scotland as the SFA launches Galáctica, a documentary about herIn a Dunfermline back garden, a young girl doing keepy-uppies in her No 5 Zidane Real Madrid kit turns, shoots and scores in the bottom corner of a green, handbuilt, wooden board, painted by her dad to mark the outlines of a goal. Her family’s video footage is a reminder that the one club Caroline Weir always wanted to play for was Real Madrid.Fast forward two decades and that same all-white shirt – this time with Weir on the back – hangs on the walls of an Edinburgh cinema as the 29-year-old greets guests attending the premiere of a documentary the Scottish Football Association have made to honour their 108-times-capped midfielder. It feels fitting the film is being released within a fortnight of Weir scoring two decisive late goals in the women’s team’s first el clásico victory over Barcelona. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Battle over trans athletes' participation in girls sports comes to California Capitol

A committee in the California legislature plans to vote on bills Tuesday that would restrict transgender athletes from participating in girls sports

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6 d. ago Model marks split from Team GB Olympic icon with fresh ink – including face tattoo

Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams, who made history by becoming the first woman to win a boxing gold medal, has called it quits with her girlfriend of seven years

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7 d. ago Mum of girl too anxious for school wins £1.5k from South London council for failing to provide education

Mum of girl too anxious for school wins £1.5k from South London council for failing to provide education  My London

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9 d. ago Ellie Kildunne to win 50th England cap in Women’s Six Nations clash with Wales

Mitchell makes 13 changes to starting XV from Italy winCardiff match to break Welsh women’s attendance recordEllie Kildunne will win her 50th cap for England when she starts against Wales at the Principality Stadium in the Women’s Six Nations on Saturday as one of 13 changes to the starting XV. Kildunne, who made her England debut in 2017 and has scored 36 tries for her country, will start at full-back after making an appearance off the bench on the wing in England’s 38-5 win over Italy last Sunday.“She is outstanding, she is the girl that everyone is looking up to at the moment,” said England’s forwards coach, Louis Deacon. “She is such an exciting player. To achieve 50 games for the Red Roses is an outstanding achievement but she has got so many more games to come down the line as well.” The wings Abby Dow and Jess Breach will round off the back three either side of Kildunne while Megan Jones and Tatyana Heard feature for the first time this tournament in the centre partnership wi...

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1 week ago Hawk Tuah Girl Haliey Welch reveals documentary claiming 'truth is actually more bizarre'

Haliey Welch, the 'Hawk Tuah' girl, has partnered with an Emmy-winning production company to create a brand new documentary about her life, podcast and the crypto meme coin saga

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1 week ago Transgender athletes stamped out of sport as new bombshell rules force women to prove their birth gene amid pressure from Trump

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said the decision taken by the World Athletics Council was further evidence his organization would 'doggedly' protect the female category.

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2 w. ago Trump returns to Philadelphia to attend NCAA wrestling championships with Musk: Live updates

Trump used his social media platform to demand Maine Governor Janet Mills apologize for disputing his transgender athlete executive order

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2 w. ago Trump demands ‘full throated apology’ from Maine governor over trans athlete dispute: Live updates

Trump used his social media platform to demand Maine Governor Janet Mills apologize for disputing his transgender athlete executive order

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2 w. ago I travelled 2,000 miles from Italy to the tip of Spain – on horseback

I had to brave wolves, bitter weather and mountain passes during my epic journey, but it was transformativeBefore riding a horse across the Ligurian Alps in north-west Italy, I had never heard the phrase “in bocca al lupo” (into the wolf’s mouth). An idiom of good luck, in the same vein as saying “break a leg” to a performer, the words passed the lips of almost every stranger I met. As we travelled through these little-known mountains, the message began to take on a whole other meaning: a call to embrace the unknown, wolves and all.I was on an ambitious journey – from Siena in Tuscany roughly 2,000 miles to the north-west tip of Spain at Finisterre, which literally means “the end of the earth”. I thought that a perfect place to finish. The idea came while working in London as a stable boy and (out of work) actor. Restless and desperate for a sense of purpose, I came across a copy of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’s 17th-century picaresque adventure. It lit my imagination and a que...

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2 w. ago Liverpool star having baby with best friend of bikini bombshell ex after 'love triangle'

Liverpool midfielder Alexis Mac Allister is having a baby with the best friend of his former girlfriend, who he left just days after winning the World Cup

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2 w. ago Man sparks fury by proposing to his girlfriend at the finish line of the marathon: 'He's stolen her moment!'

Welsh runner, Sarah John took to TikTok earlier this week to share the moment her long-term boyfriend popped the question just as she reached the finish line of the Long Course Weekend race in Wales.

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2 w. ago Trump administration suspends $175 million in federal funding for Penn over transgender swimmer

The Trump administration has suspended approximately $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over the participation of a transgender athlete in its swimming program

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2 w. ago Trump administration pauses $175m in funds to UPenn over trans athlete policy

White House official reportedly calls funding freeze ‘just a taste of what could be coming’ for Ivy League universityUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has paused $175m in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s college sports.Citing an unnamed “senior administration official”, Fox Business said the pause was “not a direct result” of a Title IX investigation into the University of Pennsylvania’s transgender athletes policy that was announced by the federal Department of Education in February. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Expelled! review – turning the tables on the private school class hierarchy

Nintendo Switch, iPhone/iPad, Mac, PC (version played); InkleInkle’s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh schoolAs with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls, is accused of pushing the hockey captain out of a window, and the school’s fearsome headmistress is determined to expel her despite the flimsiest evidence. When Verity protests her innocence, Miss Mulligatawney remains unpersuaded, spelling out her reasoning in plain terms: as a northerner with working-class parents, Verity simply isn’t the “right sort”.The injustice of it all is a potent driver, ensuring I set about my goal of preventing Verity’s expulsion with determined zeal, much like Matilda defying the hateful Miss Trunchbull. As in developer Inkle’s 2021 game Overboard!, you’re given a time limit to work within and a ...

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