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Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani threw a season-high 110 pitches Friday against the Padres before exiting in the seventh inning when his right biceps tightened up on a swing. He will be held out of the lineup Saturday to afford him some extra recovery time.
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Annie’s lawyers argue that prosecution was so badly executed it breached her human rightsAt her kitchen table, in a village in southern England, Annie* sits with a blue folder stuffed with court documents, witness statements and correspondence relating to the trial of her stepfather, whom she had reported to police for alleged childhood abuse.As she prepared to tell her story for the first time, she was flooded with emotion when a photograph fell from the folder. The square Polaroid showed a you
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The final budget showdown of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency is already gearing up to be France’s highest-stakes fiscal clash of the decade so far.
BBC World
The celebrations in the US capital will feature 850,000 fireworks, a "really long" speech from the president and scorching temperatures.
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Will you get today's tennis player in as few attempts as possible?
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Will you get today's player in as few attempts as possible?
The Guardian
Popular national pastimes of drinking and football will make post-Mexico Monday a day of sore heads and sleepy childrenEngland are through to the round of 16 in the World Cup and, as is customary in the run-up to a major international footballing fixture, the country may be losing its mind.Because piled on top of the 60 years of hurt for the men’s team, England fans have another obstacle to overcome with the forthcoming fixture: a gruelling kick-off time of 1am BST. Continue reading...
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Brexit means ‘home fee’ qualification ends in 2028, leaving those hoping to study in UK not now eligible for loansBritish teenagers living in the EU could be priced out of UK universities in two years’ time as a Brexit rule change means they face the double whammy of paying costlier international fees, while losing access to student finance.British passport holders living in the EU still qualify for “home fee” status at UK universities. But this will no longer be the case when the grace period e
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You’d think there was nothing new to learn about the glamour model-turned-tabloid sensation. You’d be wrong…‘Boobs,” says Katie Price, expressionlessly. “I always wanted a boob job. Always wanted them bigger.” Price, 48, places her tiny, tanned hands on the mountainous upper region of her pastel pink sweatshirt, under which lurk the latest results of this glandular restlessness. “I never wanted natural. I wanted stuck-on,” she says. “I wanted fake.” And so it came to pass. Now, 17 or so operatio
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Politicians across Celtic nations braced for constitutional turmoil if Reform continues to riseThe rise of Nigel Farage has prompted political leaders across Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to game the unthinkable: the break-up of the United Kingdom.Unionists who wish to save the union and nationalists who wish to end it are bracing for constitutional turmoil if Reform UK emerges triumphant – with Farage as prime minister or official leader of the opposition – after the next electi
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The first time I saw a show, I felt like I had discovered a new language. It’s since become one of my greatest pleasuresWhen I was a young girl living in suburban London in the early 1960s, I was looking for ways to find excitement. The first time my mother took me to see the London Festival Ballet (now the English National Ballet), I felt a sense of rapture as I realised that the body could say things words could not.I was yearning for more, and that nigh
Hollywood Reporter
The Iranian auteur discusses the Karlovy Vary-debuting Berlin-set drama, his calls with his friend — who edited and produced the film but can't leave Iran — and why "everybody needs" the ancient practice that gives the movie its name.
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Šimon Holý Turns Drag, Family and Small-Town Life Into a Tender Political Statement in ‘Chica Checa’
A drag queen comes out to his small-town mother but all hell doesn’t break loose in Šimon Holý’s heartfelt and crowd-pleasing feature “Chica Checa.” The film screens on Saturday in the Crystal Globe Competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Holý, who wrote, directed and composed the music for the film, spent “seven or eight […]
BBC Sport
Lionel Messi's World Cup goals roadshow continued with his seventh of the tournament for Argentina against Cape Verde - and delighted the fans who were in Miami to see their hero.