80 m. ago How Dave Allen, Doncaster’s boxing maverick, finally found direction

After emphatically avenging a disputed defeat by Johnny Fisher, now Allen prepares for a dangerous foe in Arslanbek Makhmudov

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91 m. ago ‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded

In a country once lauded as a progressive bastion in Latin America, protections are being dismantled by a populist leader, and gender-based offences are on the riseIn the week before her murder, Fernanda Soledad Yramain lay awake at night listening as a motorbike circled the house where she was hiding. “She kept saying ‘it’s him’,” remembers Daniella Viscarra, Soledad’s sister-in-law with whom she had sought refuge in the Tucumán countryside. “She was scared all of the time.”A month earlier, in September 2024, 29-year-old Soledad had ended a relationship with her boyfriend, Francisco Timoteo Saldaño. They had been together since she was 14 and he was 35, and shared three children. In the final year of their relationship, Saldaño had turned violent. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Tottenham confirm Cristian Romero as new club captain after Son Heung Min’s departure

The Argentina international takes over as skipper after Son’s departure for LAFC

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1 hour ago LIVE: Manchester trains CANCELLED with warning of disruption for hours

A warning has been issued to passengers

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2 h. ago Emmerdale star 'beyond happy' for Isabel Hodgins after 'last' update

Actress Laura Norton congratulated the Victoria Sugden actress as she prepared to set off on her last adventure before giving birth

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2 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing announce model Ellie Goldstein as ninth contestant

The Strictly Come Dancing countdown has officially begun as another celebrity has joined the line-up to compete in this year's series

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3 h. ago Daniel Dubois' coach QUITS weeks after Oleksandr Usyk KO defeat

Dubois was knocked out in the fifth round of his rematch with Usyk at Wembley last month and now has seen one of his trainers leave

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3 h. ago Thames Water could be sold to the Chinese after the Labour government puts it into temporary public ownership to 'wipe' much of its £16.8billion debt

Steve Reed, the environment secretary is understood to be making 'active preparations' to essentially nationalise Britain's largest water utility.

Economics

3 h. ago Gaza’s sick children wait in torturous limbo for medical evacuations

For some the only hope is treatment abroad, but not all survive the long, desperate wait for Israel’s approvalAbdel Karim Wahdan no longer has the energy to speak. When visitors arrive, the eight-year-old pretends to be sleeping so that no one looks at him. Between his frequent dialysis sessions, he cries. His bones hurt, he says.Abdel Karim is dying. His death should be preventable but because he lives in Gaza he cannot access the treatment that would save his life. What started as acute kidney failure is now chronic: his small body has begun to swell and he spends his days between hospital beds and injections that he hates. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Thomas Frank eyes chance for Spurs to take star billing on Super Cup stage

New head coach hopes team steal limelight on Wednesday against PSG, who only returned to training last weekFor your first trick, please show us Tottenham can trade blows with the best team Europe has produced this decade. If Thomas Frank wanted to make a statement two months after crossing London then defeating Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night would set this season’s bar for performance somewhere beyond the stratosphere. His new role, or at least the relentless public scrutiny of it, begins in earnest beneath the Friulian foothills and it is an opportunity to form the kind of first impression that leaves a lasting signature.Hearts have never been won or lost through showings in the Uefa Super Cup, which has traditionally been as much a late-summer beauty parade as a high-octane heave between the previous campaign’s big winners. There is certainly no guarantee that a hot night in the beguiling surroundings of Udine, whose modest solar-powered stadium has been feted for its envi...

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3 h. ago Iraq’s marshes were considered an Eden. Now the oil industry is sucking them dry

Hawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the waterAt dawn, a veil of mist clings to the canals of Hawizeh, where sky and water seem to blur into a mirror. In the stern of a narrow wooden boat, 23-year-old Mustafa Hashim scans the marshes’ shallows, cutting the motor and switching to a traditional pole to avoid snagging on invasive roots or thickening mud.It takes him about half an hour to push through the shrinking marshes to reach Um al-Nea’aj, once a vibrant lake teeming with boats and birdsong. Now, the water is about half a metre deep. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Chinese firm could take over failing Thames Water marred by £16 billion worth of debts and sewage scandal

Ministers are preparing to take Britain’s biggest water supplier into temporary public ownership

Economics

4 h. ago Erling Haaland leaves Man City training in new £200k monster truck to add to fleet of cars

The Manchester City striker and Norwegian superstar has treated himself to a new 'boy toy' ahead of the new season start this weekend

Economics

4 h. ago Flytipper ordered to pay thousands after dumping concrete on road

Footage captured on CCTV helped the local authority trace the man after he dumped concrete illegally in Neath Port Talbot

Economics

5 h. ago Festivals diary: Why working Fringe is like training for the Marathon des Sables, and flies in the Spiegeltent

The heat makes the Fringe an endurance

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5 h. ago Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs | Rafael Behr

In Alaska the Russian leader will claim to want peace, but only on his terms – and play on the president’s desperation to ‘make a deal’ quicklyWars do not have to be won. Total victories loom largest in the popular imagination because those are the stories nations always tell to sustain patriotic feeling. The fuller version of history is written in stalemates.That is worth remembering when Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. Both leaders have incentives to pretend that Ukraine’s fate can be settled decisively without any Ukrainians at the negotiating table. That doesn’t make it so. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago How the HS2 shambles could have been avoided – if we’d copied the Swiss

Train Talk: After all the squandered billions, some lessons for the future of railway expansion

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5 h. ago Anthony Joshua vs Dillian Whyte revisited: When unbeaten British rivals went to war

As Whyte prepares to once again enter the ring as the underdog in an all-British clash, facing Moses Itauma, James Hicken reflects on Whyte’s most famous rivalry

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5 h. ago Alfie Dorrington hasn't seen Aberdeen Scottish Cup winners medal since Hampden and hopes it won't be on eBay

The Tottenham loanee helped the Dons to famous victory over Celtic as they prepare for next cup campaign away at Morton

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6 h. ago Jimmy Kimmel obtained Italian citizenship in response to Trump’s ‘unbelievable’ re

Late-night host says he was eligible thanks to his Italian grandmother and that president’s second term is ‘so much worse’ than he expectedJimmy Kimmel has revealed he acquired Italian citizenship due to Donald Trump’s presidency, the latest in a wave of celebrities to make contingency plans after his re-election in 2024.Speaking on The Sarah Silverman Podcast, the US late-night host confirmed the news. Italian news agency Ansa confirmed Kimmel had obtained Italian citizenship earlier this year after proving his ancestral lineage. Continue reading...

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