30 h. ago What time is the Wimbledon final? Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner start time after TV change

The Wimbledon singles finals are scheduled to start at 4pm UK time on Saturday with the men's showpiece taking place on Sunday afternoon, following a two-hour delay from the traditional 2pm start.

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6 d. ago Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel peace prize at White House meeting expected to focus on Gaza

The prime minister made the announcement at a dinner with the president, with the US expected to push Israel to agree a Gaza ceasefireBenjamin Netanyahu told Donald Trump that he would nominate him for the Nobel peace prize on Monday, as the two leaders met for the first time since the US launched strikes on Iran’s nuclear program as part of a short-lived war between Israel and Iran.Trump was expected to press Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire in Israel’s 21-month-old war against Hamas in Gaza amid an outcry over the humanitarian cost of an offensive that has led to nearly 60,000 deaths, most of them Palestinian. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago India beat England by 336 runs in second men’s cricket Test, day five – live reaction

Akash Deep takes six second-innings wicketsSign up for The Spin newsletter | Email TahaNothing is happening so I’m going to grab a coffee. In the meantime, here’s Geoff Lemon with the latest from Australia’s tour of the Caribbean.The rain has eased so the groundstaff are getting to work. It’s still spitting and there’s been no discussion of a potential start time. Could be at least an hour – the outfield looks sodden. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The kindness of strangers: I used to hate being judged, but then a woman on a train praised my parenting

I saw that my toddler was annoying some passengers but the words of encouragement made a stressful situation a lot more bearableRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesI had my eldest child when I was 19, and being a young mum can be tricky – I was used to feeling judged by other people in public.One evening, I was on a crowded train home in Melbourne at peak hour, which is also witching hour for toddlers. My two-year-old son just started losing it, so I was distracting him with silly noises and games. It was largely working and he was mostly laughing and squealing with delight. I registered that it was annoying some passengers, but the alternative would have been much louder and annoying for us all. Making matters worse, no one offered me a seat, so we were standing up and bumping into other people, who were getting pissed off. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Israel continues airstrikes on Gaza after Hamas says it is ready for ceasefire talks

Hopes that pause to the killing may be agreed were boosted despite 24 Palestinians being killed including 10 seeking aidIsrael has continued to launch waves of airstrikes in Gaza, hours after Hamas said it was ready to start talks “immediately” on a US-sponsored proposal for a 60-day ceasefire.The announcement by the militant Islamist organisation increased hopes that a deal may be done within days to pause the killing in Gaza and possibly end the near 21-month conflict. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s final gig – follow it live!

The Birmingham band are back together for one last concert at Villa Park, entitled Back to the Beginning – joined by the cream of heavy metal. Follow every song hereYou’ll be thinking: show me photos of all these starry metal shenanigans! I’m really sorry but Live Nation have told me there won’t be any photos available until the end of the gig, and the livestream doesn’t allow screengrabs. Use the power of your mind, I guess.There are a notable number of empty seats there, but remember this was all going on two hours ago which is quite an early start for a massive stadium show. “Stadium really pretty full from the beginning – testament to the depth of the line up,” Michael says. “Maiden a fortnight ago had a higher proportion of battle jackets though.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Palestine Action loses appeal hours before terror ban due to start

The Court of Appeal heard the challenge ahead of the planned ban starting at midnight.

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1 week ago Exact time in day workers feel 'mentally drained' as Olivia Attwood offers pep talk

New research has found the average worker starts to feel 'mentally drained' just four hours into the day, with Monday being the toughest day to get through

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1 week ago Gaza ceasefire: Hamas responds as Donald Trump says Israel has agreed to 60

Israel has agreed to the "necessary conditions" for a 60-day ceasefire, Donald Trump has claimed.

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1 week ago Trump touts Gaza '60 day ceasefire' after Israel agrees US terms but tells Hamas 'it will only get worse'

A ceasefire in Gaza could be at hand after the US President revealed that Israel had agreed to the 'necessary conditions' to bring about a 60-day pause in hostilities

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1 week ago In Gaza we watched Iranian missiles go by, heading for Israel. That war is over – it seems ours will never end | Hassan Abo Qamar

For two years, we’ve waited for a final ceasefire that has never come. Peace will be delayed as long as our lives are considered disposableLast Tuesday night, Donald Trump announced on social media that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire, ending what he called a “12-day war”. It was the second war this year, after India and Pakistan’s four-day conflict, to start and end under Trump’s watch. They followed another, earlier conflict between Lebanon and Israel during President Joe Biden’s term.Here in Gaza, all eyes were fixed on the Iran-Israel conflict. Even cut off from the internet, people found ways to follow the news – on the radio, or by catching weak phone signals by climbing to high rooftops or walking near the sea, or just by staying up all night watching the sky, where some of the missiles launched from Iran could be seen from Gaza. Many wondered if Trump, the man who once promised to stop “endless wars”, would seize the moment to stop not only war on Iran but also the...

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1 week ago Diddy trial verdict chaos as jury surprises judge with note two hours after starting deliberations: Live updates

Sean ' Diddy ' Combs' trial was thrown into chaos after the jury handed the judge a note just two hours after starting deliberations.

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2 w. ago Chelsea’s progress lost in the storm as chaos steals the limelight

The weather delay should not mask the standard of Chelsea’s performance against Benfica at the Club World CupAmerican weather one, football nil. The chaos stole the limelight but it was a shame that the standard of Chelsea’s performance against Benfica on Saturday got lost in the storm. All anyone could talk about when a bonkers occasion finally came to an end, four hours and 38 minutes after it started, was the lightning. There was a lot of sitting around during the delay, a lot of wondering about the precise way it was going to go wrong for Chelsea when play resumed with 85min 30sec of normal time gone. Enzo Fernández missing the decisive kick during a penalty shootout? A catastrophic red card?In the event it was left to VAR to drag it into extra time, an equaliser for Benfica arriving in the 95th minute when a penalty was awarded after Malo Gusto was punished for the kind of unavoidable handball that would no longer be pored over in the Premier League. A goal up when the weather ...

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2 w. ago Wimbledon fans pitch tents to start queuing 24 hours early to get into the grounds

Hundreds of die-hard Wimbledon fans have already descended on SW19, pitching up tents and braving the heatwave to be among the first in line when the tournament begins tomorrow.

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2 w. ago ‘The nurse told me I couldn’t keep my baby’: how a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children

Two hours after Keira Alexandra Kronvold gave birth, her daughter was taken from her – the third child to be removed from her care following a now-banned assessment that disproportionately targets Inuit women in Denmark. Will she win the fight to get Zammi back?‘Now your two hours begin.” The countdown started when Keira Alexandra Kronvold had just given birth in the early hours of 7 November 2024. Keira, 38, was originally granted just one hour with her daughter, Zammi, before her baby was to be removed from her and taken to foster parents – but the midwife begged authorities to give them more time. Before Zammi’s arrival, the midwife asked if Keira had any wishes. “I said, ‘I want hand and footprints. I want to grab her, I don’t want you to catch her when she is born. I want to catch her myself.’”During labour – which lasted just an hour and a half – Keira kept checking whether her 20-year-old daughter, Zoe, who had never seen a birth before, was OK; and she was determined no...

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2 w. ago Pakistan debates Trump Nobel peace prize nomination after US strikes on Iran

Pakistani government had credited US president with ‘pivotal leadership’ in its ceasefire negotiations with IndiaMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump’s intervention into the Iran-Israel war, and brokering then announcing a ceasefire, has drawn a heated debate in Pakistan – where the government had formally nominated the US president for the Nobel peace prize as the US military was making its final preparations for a strike that threatened all-out war in the Middle East.A statement in the early hours of Saturday local time – shortly before US B-2 bombers left the Whiteman air force base in Missouri and headed to Iran – had credited Trump for a “legacy of pragmatic diplomacy” and “pivotal leadership” for ensuring Pakistan’s ceasefire with India in a conflict that had begun with the killing of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir in April. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Iran accused of 'hiding nuclear weapon ingredients' as Donald Trump's ceasefire holds firm

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Iran hangs in the balance only hours after it was announced by President Trump - and an expert warned Iran may be hiding 'thousands of nuclear bomb supplies'

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2 w. ago Trump has royal lovefest with Dutch Queen Maxima as he arrives in Netherlands for NATO summit without Melania

Donald Trump was all smiles as he arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday and rubbed shoulders with European royalty after facilitating a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran.

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2 w. ago What is a ceasefire? Iran and Israel continue war after agreement

Israel has accused Iran of firing missiles just hours after a ceasefire was announced

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2 w. ago Iran Israel live: Chilling threat as Trump's ceasefire 'violated' within hours

Israel accused Iran of violating the ceasefire agreement within hours of it coming into force today, with Donald Trump's diplomatic work left in tatters

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