32 m. ago India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ approves groundbreaking policy giving all women paid menstrual leave

Karnataka becomes first Indian state to extend menstrual leave benefits to women in both government and private sectors

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37 m. ago Senne Lammens put in awkward spot as Man Utd dressing room claim made

Senne Lammens has enjoyed a promising debut for Manchester United after an awkward start to life at Carrington, helping Ruben Amorim's side beat Sunderland 2-0 at Old Trafford

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54 m. ago World Cup 2026: which countries have qualified and how did they do it?

Twenty of the 48 places at the tournament have now been filled, including co-hosts Canada, Mexico and the USAFour of the nine automatic places have been filled, with the four best runners-up competing in November’s pan-African playoffs for one place in the intercontinental playoffs.EgyptMohamed Salah scored twice as Hossam Hassan’s side beat Djibouti 3-0 on Wednesday in Casablanca and made up for missing out on Qatar 2022 by reaching the finals with a game in hand. This will be Egypt’s fourth finals, even though they have yet to win a game. Bizarrely, the Pharaohs did qualify for the first World Cup, in 1930, but missed their boat from Marseille to South America after a storm delayed them. Continue reading...

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55 m. ago Everything the police have said about Ricky Hatton's death at 46 as he's laid to rest

Former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton, who passed away at the age of 46 last month, is set to be laid to rest in a ceremony in his native Manchester

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72 m. ago Sadiq Khan calls for pause in new immigration rules after 200 to 300 TfL staff put at risk of deportation

Mayor says people who joined TfL on graduate visa have been ‘left in limbo’ by Government restriction on foreign workers

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88 m. ago Aberdeenshire crash: Pensioner dies 6 days after being airlifted to hospital following crash on A939

Police are appealing for dashcam footage.

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97 m. ago NBA stars return to China six years after controversy over pro

Today's match will mark NBA’s first game played in a Chinese territory since 2019 as millions of fans await the return of one of the most beloved sports leagues to mainland, Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports

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1 hour ago Colin Farrell ‘lived in casino’ to play gambler in Ballad of a Small Player

Colin Farrell has revealed that he “lived in a casino” to get in character for his role as a gambler in Ballad of a Small Player.

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1 hour ago Beethoven 5 Vol 4: Salvatore di Sciarrino album review – classical weight, contemporary subtlety

Jonathan Biss/Swedish Radio SO/Omer Meir Wellber(Orchid Classics)Biss pairs Beethoven’s fourth concerto with Sciarrino’s 21st-century miniature, creating a programme that is thoughtful and vividly expressiveTen years ago, immersed in his project to record all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, Jonathan Biss began commissioning new works to pair with each of the composer’s five piano concertos. His recordings of these with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra reach their penultimate volume with the Concerto No 4 and Salvatore Sciarrino’s 15-minute Il sogno di Stradella, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber.Biss’s tempos are unhurried in the concerto, and while his playing fizzes when Beethoven asks it to, this exuberance isn’t a constant undercurrent; the first movement sometimes feels a little episodic. Yet the tension in the middle movement between the belligerent orchestra and the serene piano is highly effective, and the finale, genial without being playful, has enough weight to balance it ...

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1 hour ago How you can speed up your home sale or purchase to beat the pre

Solicitors, brokers or other parts of the purchase chain can all impact on a deal going through - but there are steps you can take

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1 hour ago Fate is playing with a Scotland top on because the 30 year World Cup dream is finally happening – Keith Jackson

It was a Houdini act for the ages from Steve Clarke's team and it now looks as if it's finally happening

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2 h. ago Nobel Peace Prize winner to be announced today – here's who could beat Donald Trump

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce Friday who has won the Nobel Peace Prize, a highly coveted but notoriously unpredictable award. Here's who's in the running

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2 h. ago Andy Burnham reveals policing protests 'every weekend' has left GMP with a £2m blackhole

'We are increasingly dealing with a level of protest and activity in the city that presents real challenges'

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2 h. ago Andy Burnham reveals policing Gaza protests 'every weekend' has left GMP with a £2m blackhole

'We are increasingly dealing with a level of protest and activity in the city that presents real challenges'

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2 h. ago US man linked to Wieambilla shooters strikes plea deal with prosecutors

Donald Day Jr will have charges relating to allegedly threatening FBI agents and other officials dropped under dealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA US man linked to those behind the deadly Wieambilla attack that left six people dead – including two Queensland police officers – has agreed to a watered-down plea deal.Arizona-based Donald Day Jr will face court on 21 October after striking the plea deal with US prosecutors. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago I saw desperation at the Tory conference – but all traditional parties may be in this position soon | Andy Beckett

The feeling of crisis in Manchester also afflicts Labour and the Lib Dems. It leaves voters facing a dangerously unstable political orderMuch of democratic politics is about getting people’s attention. That’s a particular problem for struggling, less-than-compelling leaders. The further your party falls in the polls, the larger the temptation to launch dramatic, supposedly transformational policies. It’s like speaking more and more loudly to someone who has stopped listening.Thus this week’s Conservative conference in Manchester, with the party at historic lows in the polls, featured a frenzy of policy announcements, on once-successful Tory themes such as tax cuts, law and order, welfare and immigration, that were often made to half-empty rooms. Expanses of blue carpet had been installed in the huge, barn-like convention centre – as if to reassure delegates that the party still had an identity – yet much of the time they were eerily deserted. The Conservatives, famed and feared for ...

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2 h. ago Dr Amos Ogunkoya and Zoe Kalar on burnout and the dark side of social media

Are we all doomed to burn out, or are there ways to balance good health with our busy world? Founder of alternative social media platform WeAre8 Zoe Kalar and GP Dr Amos Ogunkoya of The Traitors Fame discuss the risks of poor health as a result of intense corporate careers, how social media algorithms are engineered to keep us hooked in a cycle of negativity and how to break out of these patterns. With host Emilie Lavinia, the pair also suggest ways to recognise and beat burnout and to live more mindfully.

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2 h. ago Hamilton Accies boss: We've had to modify training and playing, we can't afford injuries

John Rankin says they have to be careful with demands placed on players

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2 h. ago Man City player ratings with five 8/10s as Donnarumma and Khusanov drive change

Manchester City player ratings for the season so far including a perfect score for Erling Haaland after a terrific start to the campaign

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3 h. ago ‘It’s like fencing with a close friend. Terrifying in a lovely way’: Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton on taking a gamble with their new drama

The actors star in Edward Berger’s woozy casino film Ballad of a Small Player. Amid the opulence of a Macau hotel, they talk risk, addiction and Fabergé eggsOn a humid morning in Macau, a blue-and-orange phoenix embellished with more than 60,000 flowers is hatching from an enormous pink Fabergé egg in the lobby of the Wynn Palace hotel. The haughty bird basks in the attention of onlookers as it rotates on a diamond-encrusted perch to the triumphant sound of clarions, before returning to its shell. Chancing upon this spectacle, you think to yourself, “How lucky that I was passing at that precise moment!” Stick around and you will be disabused of your sense of good fortune: the hatching occurs every 15 minutes without fail.It is summer 2024, and Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton are guests here while shooting Ballad of a Small Player, directed by Edward Berger (Conclave) and based on Lawrence Osborne’s clammy 2014 novel about ghosts, guilt and gambling. Farrell plays Brendan Reilly, an ...

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