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California settles lawsuit against Paramount/Warner merger, angering advocates
State AGs had "very strong" case that merger is illegal, Lina Khan says.
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Houthis move to seize strategic terrain after Trump calls off airstrikes at last minute
US president reportedly changed his mind over Saudi Arabia’s pleas for assistance as bombs were being loaded Houthi fighters are moving to seize strategic heights in Yemen that would cut the Red Sea coast off from areas held by Saudi-backed forces after Donald Trump called off US strikes on the group at the last minute, reportedly as bombs were being loaded on to aircraft. Amid increasingly heavy fighting in Yemen, which has displaced tens of thousands of people in recent weeks, the New York Times reported on Monday that the US president had flip-flopped wildly in recent days after a call from Saudi Arabia for US strikes on the Houthis. Continue reading...
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Get tested and talk to your partner: how to have safer sex after age 50
At 51, I want many more years of a healthy, happy sex life. So I decided to compile my own guide When I got divorced after 28 years of monogamy, I was excited to be having sex again, but had concerns. I was 48, and the last time I’d been single was in the 90s; terrified of pregnancy and hyperconscious of HIV/Aids, I hadn’t considered condomless intercourse an option back then. Now, at 51, I’ve been wondering how important barrier protection is for me. Though I haven’t hit menopause, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) says that “by 45 getting pregnant naturally is unlikely”, and HIV/Aids prevention and treatment have improved significantly in the last three decades. Continue reading...
Man charged with causing death by dangerous driving over crash that killed 6
Four members of the same family and a married couple on a motorbike died in the 2024 collision.
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US strikes on alleged drug boats may constitute ‘crimes against humanity’, UN finds
Dozens of US attacks on boats in the Pacific and Caribbean have killed more than 230 people since September 2025 A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean “constituted crimes against humanity”. The boat strikes, carried out since September 2025 on the stated grounds of stopping drugs being trafficked by sea to the US, have killed more than 230 people. The latest, on Saturday, killed four people in the Caribbean. Continue reading...
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Was Neville right to call out Man Utd for a 'lack of effort'?
Was Gary Neville right to call out Manchester United for a "lack of effort" in their 1-1 draw at Fulham on Sunday?
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Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches "AI Force" instead
The president offered few details on what his proposed new AI Force would do.
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The last two seasons were grim for Spurs. This is as bad as it’s ever been | Jonathan Wilson
Pre-season thoughts of European qualification are already beginning to look bafflingly optimistic for Roberto De Zerbi’s team Sign up for our free newsletter here In March, Tottenham, fearing possible relegation, spent big to bring in Roberto De Zerbi, who will probably never go into a negotiation with a stronger hand. There was obvious improvement and they stayed up on the final day of the season. Since then, Spurs have spent a net £175m ($234m) on improving the squad. The message seemed clear: the fiscal caution of the Daniel Levy era was over and this was a club willing to spend. Yet Spurs go into the first international break bottom of the Premier League table. To an extent, the issue is confidence. On the opening weekend at Brentford, with a weird mishmash of a side, a team that was clearly undercooked, they were hammered 3-0 by much better-prepared opponents. That was not hugely surprising given how sensible Brentford’s transfer dealing had been and how early they had done it. More worrying was what happened the following week as Spurs, starting well before fading, lost 2-0 at home to Newcastle. Continue reading...
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Football Daily | Brighton’s organised chaos viciously pecks Arsenal into submission
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! For an elite head coach who isn’t used to seeing his team lose, suffering a rare defeat on the weekend before an international break is particularly hard to take. With the vast majority of your players hightailing it out of Dodge to rack up more air miles than Santa Claus across a decade’s worth of Christmas Eves, the chance to quickly put things right simply isn’t an option. With the first lull of the season set to be longer than any before, the potential for introspection, self-flagellation and over-thinking has never been higher. Luckily, Mikel Arteta has never struck Football Daily as the kind of intense, brooding and meticulous perfectionist likely to spend the next 19 days beating himself up over the monstering his team suffered from Brighton on Saturday. Whether it’s forlornly moving magnets around a tactics board or walking Win the dog around Arsenal’s largely-deserted training ground until her little legs are stumps, we’re confident the Arsenal boss’s every fleeting thought over the next three weeks will not be laser-focused on the manner in which the Seagulls viciously pecked his team of champions into submission and how best to ensure such a humiliation is never repeated. Oxford United’s decision to market an American college-themed ‘United 93’ kit shortly after the 9/11 anniversary, only then to have to recall it (Friday’s Football Daily, full email edition), is a tad unfortunate. But until 1960 they were known as Headington United, from their heady days in the Southern League. So I am eagerly awaiting the ‘1960 Ron Atkinson’ range celebrating both their history and leading appearance maker (still)” – Jon Harris. Following Andros Townsend’s freak (but miraculously not serious) on-pitch accident, will future fixtures between Prachuap and Pattani be known as the Roller derby?” – Phil Taverner. OK. I messed up. On 30 August, I made a claim that Emilio Martínez’s transfer to Chelsea for £7.5m might be the bargain of the season. Now five games in and 12 goals conceded, I wish to retract my statement. I will try to do better and stay away from any rash predictions” – Nigel Sanders. Football knowledge aside, I take great pride in knowing a lot about The Simpsons (earlier years especially … I haven’t watched it in about a decade). It was Wiggum who advised to dig up, not Homer (Friday’s Football Dailly letters )” – Mark Shrewsbury. Continue reading...
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Paper trail of protests: José Mourinho plays the hits in Madrid derby defeat | Sid Lowe
Facing Diego Simeone 13 years on, José Mourinho brought a print-out and paranoia. Some things don’t change. Some people don’t, either There were many questions to emerge from the Madrid derby, which Atlético won 2-1 in front of 70,514 very, very noisy people at the Metropolitano on Sunday afternoon, even if not the one José Mourinho was asking. Like: what year is this? Or: what was Dean Huijsen thinking? Why always Arda? And whatever happened to Vinícius Júnior? How come Koke is still the best? And how long before Giuliano Simeone actually bursts, his atlético insides exploding across the pitch? Above all though, you were left wondering: where did Real Madrid’s manager get a printer from? And how did he get the bloody thing to work? You could still hear the singing outside when Mourinho turned up in the press room, laid down his glasses and sat. In his hand was a piece of paper. Thirteen years after his last derby, on the Santiago Bernabéu night when Madrid lost the Copa del Rey final and a 13-year unbeaten run against their neighbours, Diego Simeone had defeated him again. The stage was new – this stadium didn’t exist then – but his adversary was somehow still the same man, still dressed in black, and the scene was a bit like old times, a classic. Mourinho unfolded the paper and held it up. “We can save ourselves the bother of the press conference,” he said, “because the story is right here.” Continue reading...
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Grab an Xbox controller and a $50 Xbox gift card together for just $80
Newegg is hosting a bundle that includes Microsoft’s wireless Xbox controller (in black) and a $50 digital Xbox gift card together for $80. Given that this model typically sits around $50 to $60 depending on the color you want, this is a fantastic value since it essentially knocks its price down to $30. Another way […]
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Inquest into British aid workers killed in Gaza may call on Israeli and UK military chiefs
Lawyer tells review hearing that families wish to know whether weaponry involved in the deaths was made in UK Israeli and UK military commanders could be requested to give evidence to an inquest concerning three British workers killed in Gaza when aid vehicles they were travelling in were hit by an airstrike. It is also possible that the inquest into the deaths of John Chapman, 57, Jim Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, may examine whether the weaponry that killed the men was made in the UK. Continue reading...
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A job that changed me: I cried nearly every day working in aged care, then realised I could bring joy instead
I once asked a resident what she would do if she could do anything. She replied: ‘I’d run in a field’ In my 40s, I was beginning to wonder where I fit in the employment world. I had a variety of jobs including an improv instructor, actor and corporate facilitator, then Covid arrived and all those people-facing roles disappeared. Living in Sydney, with my kids at school and a mortgage to pay, I took on some temp work through an agency. Continue reading...
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Sylvia Plath Stole My Boyfriend: the 95-year-old who has turned her romance with Ted Hughes into a play
The Yorkshire poet had a ‘magic touch’, Liz Hicklin recalls, felt by many women: ‘It was like I was blossoming’ Liz Hicklin had missed the ferry that could change her life. Pelting rain had made the drive to the Sorrento terminal perilous. Sitting in the car park, watching the boat glide off, she chastised herself. Go home. Don’t be ridiculous. You’re 92. She got on the next ferry. This decision would prove to be a sliding doors moment. As Hicklin, now 95, says: “I really should be knitting” – but instead she debuts her first play at Melbourne fringe festival this October: Sylvia Plath Stole My Boyfriend, about her romantic relationship with a young Ted Hughes. Continue reading...
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Sense and Sensibility review – Daisy Edgar-Jones leads sober-minded next-gen do-over of Austen romcom
With Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as the Dashwood sisters, this fresh take on a beloved classic is not to be confused with Ang Lee’s There’s no reason for anyone working on a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to be intimidated by the celebrated 1995 movie by director Ang Lee and screenwriter Emma Thompson, any more than they should be or overawed by Austen’s original novel. Sacred cows are there to be … not slain, but re-invented. The decision to bring out a next-gen Sense and Sensibility, with a new young cast – as opposed to, say, a new Northanger Abbey or a new spin on the unfinished The Watsons – might bemuse some and at first it bemused me, like hearing about a Love Actually remake starring Millie Bobby Brown. But this turns out to be a more downbeat, ruminative version, happening in much cloudier weather than 30 years ago and without the sugar-rush final wedding scene. The mood is cooler, but interestingly austere, sober and thoughtful. There are also some strange casting decisions. The sisters at the heart of the story, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, played in 1995 by Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, are now played by Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles, and frankly don’t look and sound much like the sisters we thought we knew. They look like young women who knew each other reasonably well at uni and are now in a flatshare in London. It is a story of financial and romantic crisis. Mrs Dashwood and her three daughters, having happily occupied a handsome Sussex estate, are forced to move to humble Barton Cottage in Devon when Mrs Dashwood’s stepson John Dashwood inherits their property and effectively evicted them. Continue reading...