40 m. ago Zidane, Eusebio, Adams: footballers whose names are also song titles | The Knowledge

Plus: two European ties in the same stadium on one day and the highest opening weekend goals-per-game ratioMail us with your questions and answers“I have just heard CMAT’s song Vincent Kompany because I am cool, young and relevant,” writes the cool, young and relevant Will Unwin. “I was wondering if any other player’s name is the title of a song, beyond simply being referred to?”In this age of streaming, there are many songs online whose titles are the names of footballers, but a few hundred listens here and there doesn’t make them particularly noteworthy. So we have wound back a bit to a time when songs were more commonly created in studios, not bedrooms. Continue reading...

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94 m. ago The Last Laugh is a brilliant comedy with a moving twist and added extra

Bringing Welsh legend Tommy Cooper to life The Last Laugh at the Wales Millennium Centre had me hysterics

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1 hour ago Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love review – gracefully grownup and breezy relationships drama

Doctor Marianne wonders if her gay colleague Tor’s approach to dating would work for her, in the second film of Dag Johan Haugerud’s absorbing trilogyHere is the second of Norwegian film-maker and novelist Dag Johan Haugerud’s seductive trilogy about affairs of the heart and mind, set in Oslo. (It comes between Sex and Dreams.) It is a thoroughly grownup and absorbing drama, acted with such sympathy and warmth, a ruminative and exploratory movie of ideas, and one that pays its audience the compliment of treating them as intelligent beings. Love is about a familiar question: can straight people learn from or even absorb the open and polygamous approach to sex that appears to come easier to gay people (and perhaps younger people of all sexualities), perhaps specifically gay men? Or is that idea stereotypical and naive?Andrea Braein Hovig plays Marianne, a urology consultant whose job it is to give bad news to a succession of men about their prostate cancer. She is single (though her p...

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2 h. ago How dangerous are wildfires and how can we stop them from getting worse?

The conditions for ferocious fires are expected to worsen as the planet heats up, putting more people at riskWith bigger and stronger wildfires becoming more common as Europe swelters in record-breaking heat, people will need to adapt and learn how to stay safe. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago ‘It’s a horrible picture’: Gaza faces new threat from antibiotic

Fatal infections more likely due to malnutrition, injuries and lack of medical facilities under Israel’s blockadeGaza is facing a new threat as diseases resistant to antibiotics spread across the devastated territory, research has revealed.Medical supplies are desperately scarce and tens of thousands of people have been injured in the 22-month war, while many others have been weakened by malnutrition, so the high levels of drug-resistant bacteria will mean longer and more serious illnesses, a more rapid transmission of infectious diseases and more deaths, experts said. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Emmerdale's Lisa Riley teases 'wonderful' project away from soap

Emmerdale star Lisa Riley has taken to social media to share a snippet of her life away from the soap, as she worked on a new project outside the Dales

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17 h. ago Love is Blind: UK couples: where are the Netflix season 1 couples now and who is still together?

Fans might be wondering where the couples from Love is Blind: UK are now 💕📺

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17 h. ago ‘We wondered if it was ethical to adapt it’: can poetry about deaf resistance wow theatre audiences?

Deaf Republic, a collection of war poems written by the Ukrainian American Ilya Kaminsky, have caused a sensation. Now they have been turned into an extraordinary playIn Vasenka, a fictional town under military occupation, a deaf boy is shot by soldiers and the town’s inhabitants become deaf in response. The opening of Deaf Republic – the remarkable second collection by the Ukrainian-American poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky – sets in train a narrative of resistance through silence, as “deafness, an insurgency, begins” and the soldiers start executing the citizens of Vasenka, who refuse to hear their orders.Since its publication in 2019, Deaf Republic has won multiple awards and been critically lauded for what Andrew Motion has described as “a folk drama that feels archetypal, yet is deeply revealing of our here and now”. That quality of being current, urgent in its commentary on war yet as timeless as a fable, appealed to Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd, co-directors of theatre compan...

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17 h. ago Punchdrunk's new live action video game is searching for early access players

Everything to know about how to become a part of this IRL multiplayer stealth survival game set in space

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18 h. ago From Daylesford to Diddly Squat, the Cotswolds farm shops that tourists can’t resist

While Jeremy Clarkson’s farm shop might bring in the biggest crowds, Lottie Gross believes it is far from the best in the region – from merino wool to world-famous sausage rolls, these are the other top spots that draw visitors from across the world

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18 h. ago The Three Graces censored as Fringe show uncovers the truth of explicit art in Japan

Japanese theatre companies Theatre Group Gumbo and Book of Shadowz have “censored” Antonio Canova’s The Three Graces housed at National Galleries Scotland: National, by covering the Neoclassical sculpture with black modesty panels in a tongue-in-cheek jab at prudishness in Japan. The playful and pointed stunt was a bold teaser for their outrageous Fringe show Shunga Alert, performing at Underbelly Cowgate until August 24.

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18 h. ago Love is Blind UK season 1 stars now from Netflix dating show fame to off

As Love Is Blind UK season 2 hits Netflix, fans are wondering what the cast of season 1 are doing now.

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18 h. ago Loose Women's Janet Street Porter sets record straight on show future after 'sad' setback

As part of ITV’s major 2026 overhaul, Loose Women will move to a seasonal schedule of 30 weeks per year and will no longer feature a studio audience

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19 h. ago Loose Women's Janet Street Porter says 'I'm sad' as she addresses major show setback

Loose Women will shift to a seasonal schedule of 30 weeks per year and will no longer have a studio audience, as part of ITV's major shake-up for 2026

Culture

20 h. ago Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts joins cast of West End musical Hadestown

Roberts will play Persephone from September 16 until January 18 2026 at the Lyric Theatre in London.

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21 h. ago Theatre company set up on Scottish refugee ship to perform at Fringe

The show will be performed for one night at the EICC in Edinburgh

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21 h. ago Inside Strictly Come Dancing star Balvinder Sopal's life including lookalike sister

EastEnders actress Balvinder Sopal has captivated audiences with her portrayal of Suki Panesar in the BBC One soap since 2020 but her real life is far less dramatic

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22 h. ago How many cuppas should you offer a tradesman? Use this calculator to find out

Ever wondered how many cuppas to offer a tradesperson? Use this calculator to find out.

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22 h. ago UFC landed a $7.7bn deal with Paramount. But is Dana White’s Trump bond a liability?

The Octagon is more international than ever – so why is Dana White still tied to an administration that seeks to isolate large parts of its audience?Forget for a moment the stereotype that MMA athletes and their fans are All-American bar fighters. The MMA community is far more diverse and far more cerebral than the casual onlooker realizes.Has Dana White forgotten that? Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Brigadoon at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre review: it's a neglected classic for a reason

There are some fine performances here, but it’s an effort to tough your way through the more saccharine moments

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