2 h. ago Indian Super League in turmoil with domestic game on brink of collapse

Dispute between governing body and commercial partner has forced top-flight clubs to suspend player salariesCrystal Palace may be disappointed the court of arbitration for sport ruled against them on Monday but at least they now know their fate. Imagine if all Premier League clubs were waiting for a court decision that would, in effect, determine whether the season would go ahead at all. That is the situation the 14 Indian Super League (ISL) teams find themselves in. The whole of football there has been waiting for a ruling from the supreme court. It was expected in mid-July but has still not arrived. The season is due to start in September. Or at least, it was.The ISL, formed in 2013, has grown from eight teams to 14, becoming the top tier along the way. Football Sports Development Ltd (FSDL) runs the competition but put the 2025-26 season on hold on 11 July. At the time, despite the shock, most stakeholders felt it would go ahead but confidence, trust and bank balances have taken ...

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3 h. ago Katabasis by RF Kuang review – a descent into the hellscape of academia

The bestselling author’s sixth novel is far from perfect, but this journey into the underworld is delivered with heretical gleeThe more academia has broken your heart, the more you’ll love RF Kuang’s new novel. Katabasis knows the slow grind of postgrad precarity: the endless grant grubbing and essay marking; the thesis chapters drafted, redrafted and quietly ignored by a supervisor who can’t be bothered to read – let alone reply to – an email. Living semester to semester, pay shrinking, workload metastasising, cannon fodder in a departmental forever war. Katabasis knows how it feels to spend your best thinking years doing grunt work to further someone else’s ideas, clinging to the bottom rung of a ladder you will never be allowed to climb: less an ivory tower than a pyramid scheme.Academia is a hellscape; Katabasis just makes it literal. The American author’s sixth novel is an infernal twist on the campus farce: David Lodge with demons. Kuang’s previous book, 2023’s Yello...

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3 h. ago Man Utd deliver Sekou Kone update after young star's head injury sees match abandoned

Manchester United's U21 side saw their game at Tamworth called off due to a head injury to Sekou Kone but the teenager is now stable after receiving treatment and requiring an ambulance

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3 h. ago Betrayed Kelly Clarkson's reaction after discovering ex Brandon Blackstock was dating her assistant... as friends hint at REAL reason for divorce and say: 'He was not a great husband'

The singer is now having to deal with the fallout from the shock revelation that Brandon Blackstock, who died last week, was romantically involved with her former assistant.

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4 h. ago Voices: I’m obsessed with a celebrity and I know he’d like me too if he met me

The Independent’s agony aunt Victoria Richards is here to help. Email dearvix@independent.co.uk for advice on love, work, family and relationships

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6 h. ago Grocery wars! Amazon expands food delivery to 1,000 cities in push to compete with Walmart

In 2024, Amazon raked in more than $100 billion in gross sales of groceries and household essentials — excluding Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh

Society

6 h. ago Father of New Zealand woman held in US by Ice along with six

Rod Price recounts ‘frantic’ call he received from Sarah Shaw after her detention at US border while returning from CanadaThe father of a New Zealand woman who has been held in a US immigration detention centre for three weeks with her six-year-old son is hopeful the pair will be released by the end of the week.US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detained Sarah Shaw and her youngest son after they attempted to re-enter the US from Canada on 24 July. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Photos of Bolivia’s road to the polls under the shadow of an economic crisis

Bolivia is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, marked by high inflation and severe fuel shortages, as voters prepare for the Aug. 17 general election, where they will choose a new president and legislators in both chambers.

Economics

10 h. ago Children often having final say when it comes to families moving house, survey reveals

Seventy-four per cent of families in the study said the significant voice in any house move came from the children

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10 h. ago Celebrate Exam Results with a FREE card from Moonpig plus FREE delivery!

The A level results are in – and it’s time to give a big “well done” to the teens, grandkids or friends who’ve worked their socks off this year for their A levels and GCSEs.

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10 h. ago Huddersfield shock Leicester as Sheffield Wednesday set up Yorkshire derby in Carabao Cup

Nicholls made two stops in the shootout against Leicester

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10 h. ago Celebrity SAS star Harry Clark breaks silence on axe after shock 'boozy brawl'

Traitors star Harry Clark has addressed his shock exit from Celebrity SAS despite his army past following reports he was involved in a boozy brawl at this year's Brit Awards

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12 h. ago Christian Pulisic, his father and Tim Weah rail against ‘evil’ US soccer critics

Trio made comments in new docuseries episodePulisic: Critics ‘disrespected me in a lot of ways’Tim Weah, Christian Pulisic, and Mark Pulisic (Christian’s father) all delivered searing takes on ex-US men’s national team players who criticized the team during their recent run of bad form, with Weah deeming the pundits to be “evil.”The trio made the comments in the latest epsiode of the Pulsic docuseries on Paramount+, the final episodes of which were released this week. The new episodes cover the national team from the 2024 Copa América, in which the US underperformed by exiting at the group stage, up through the 2025 Nations League final, where the US lost against Panama and Canada en route to a disappointing fourth-place finish in a competition they had won in each of the previous three editions. Following that tournament, Pulisic kicked off a media firestorm when he announced that he would skip the 2025 Gold Cup, the team’s last competitive tournament before next year’s World Cup o...

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13 h. ago UEFA deliver new message on Gaza before PSG vs Tottenham after Mo Salah criticism

UEFA presented a message to the world ahead of Tottenham and Paris Saint-Germain's Super Cup final

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13 h. ago New York man charged with cyberstalking a family member of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO

A New York man has been charged with cyberstalking a family member of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly leaving threatening voicemails that expressed glee about the killing within hours of the fatal shooting

Society

14 h. ago Policing must strike a balance between transparency and justice

Editorial: No democratic society should concede the principle of the right to a fair trial, one uncontaminated by misreporting that might influence a jury. But new guidance that permits police to share a suspect’s ethnicity and nationality with the public will enable the force to defend itself against often baseless allegations of ‘two-tier’ policing

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15 h. ago Newsboy's horse racing selections for Thursday's five meetings, including Windsor nap

Newsboy believes his nap, Nakaaha, can deliver a three-timer for his new stable in the 6.00 at Windsor's Racing League meeting and he also expects Backer Bilk to be on song at Chelmsford (8.45)

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16 h. ago JD Vance delivers special message from Trump to US troops based at UK RAF base

JD Vance delivered a message from Donald Trump to American troops stationed at a British navy base during his visit to the UK.

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16 h. ago Arsenal's makeshift striker Mikel Merino admits Viktor Gyokeres has 'surprised' him

Viktor Gyokeres will be expected to deliver goals for Arsenal this season and the Sweden international has already impressed for other reasons following his arrival at the Emirates

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16 h. ago AI could soon detect early voice box cancer from the sound of your voice

Scientists analysed more than ten thousand voice notes to detect distinctive ‘vocal biomarkers’

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