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How do professional athletes manage to be friends while competing for the sport’s biggest prizes?The current generation of tennis players seem to be closer than ever, with French Open finalists Alexander Zverev and Flavio Cobolli among those who are good mates.But both men insist it will not be difficult to separate their personal friendship from their professional focus – which on Sunday will be winning a Grand Slam title for the first time.Second seed Zverev and Italian 10th seed Cobolli will meet for a third time on clay this season, with Cobolli having won in Munich before Zverev beat him…
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Sunday is significant for one reason.It’s not that they are meeting: The two men met in Beijing just a year ago when China held a massive military parade to mark 80 years since Japan surrendered unconditionally to Allied forces, bringing an end to the second world war.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listWhat’s surprising is that Xi is travelling at all.The Chinese leader has not travelled to Pyongyang since 2019, having steadily cut down his travel in recent years, and world leaders like US President…
Kericho County, Kenya – A typical Saturday morning starts before sunrise for Chepkorir Rotich, a farmer in Kiboito village in western Kenya’s Kericho County. By then, Rotich has already milked her cows and sold the milk, fed her chickens, and headed back to pluck vegetables for orders already placed. Her work starts this way every day, and she does it with passion.When the 33-year-old mother of two left college more than a decade ago, she was excited and ready to join the formal employment sector and secure a full-time job.“I thought I would be employed as a business administrator, but…
Lox is sprawled out on a green sofa, bathed in warm light from a standing lamp, framed art on the wall behind him.This may sound like a relatively ordinary description of someone in their living room – except that Lox is a cat, not a human, and the “living room” he shares with another cat, Lottie, is a converted cupboard in a New York apartment.Lox and Lottie’s owners, married couple Derek and Sarah, are fans of the cat behaviourist Jackson Galaxy, who advocates for creating a “superhighway” for indoor cats that gives them a vertical pathway around a room. Derek,…
Thomas Tuchel was unhappy with England’s “freestyle” performance in the first half of their 1-0 win over New Zealand but the head coach was pleased with Jude Bellingham’s impact as a substitute in Tampa.Harry Kane’s goal just before half-time was the difference in a forgettable encounter at Raymond James Stadium and there was plenty for Tuchel to ponder after his side failed to capture the imagination in their penultimate warm-up game before the World Cup.“I’m OK with it,” was the German’s forthright assessment of England’s display. “I’m not super-happy about it. I like the second half more than the first…
Class started at 9am. Assignments were doled out, ideas were pitched and scripts written, followed by a long day of shooting and editing. Twelve hours later, 20 aspiring and exhausted film-makers were sat in a crowded, makeshift studio, listening to their work being trashed.“The content is still too poor,” the course director, Nan Xin, remarked, after watching a two-minute film about boys on the loose who harass a stray dog.“I didn’t see any deep thought in it. What you did left me with no clue how to actually process it,” Nan told the film’s auteurs, who took the feedback with…
McTominay got the second and Adams the third and fourth following fine work from Ben Gannon-Doak, who was another positive for Clarke.His run downfield was a big part of Adams’ fourth. The Bournemouth youngster is still raw, still searching for consistency with his final ball, but he looked sharper here.The head coach said Gannon-Doak got so excited before the Curacao game that it ran away from him. He looks a real contender again.Adams is a curious sort, a player Clarke cherishes but who has never evoked major support among the Tartan Army. He is a willing and hard-working striker, a…
Republican Stephen Buyer was convicted and sentenced to 22 months in prison, though he has maintained his innocence.Published On 6 Jun 20266 Jun 2026United States President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.The pardon was dated Thursday and released by the White House late Friday night.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBuyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison in 2023 for trades made while working as a consultant and lobbyist.…
Multiple people were shot Saturday near a busy community street festival in Toledo, Ohio, and a search for the suspects was ongoing as victims were taken to nearby hospitals, police said.Toledo police officers responded to a report of a person shot near the Old West End Festival at about 5.30pm. When they arrived, they found multiple shooting victims, the police department said in a statement.Police said “many victims” had been transported to medical facilities but did not provide further details on the injuries or how many people had been shot. Authorities also did not provide details on what may have…
Tuchel has to take his own share of responsibility for this situation, having made some experimental selections leading up to these final preparations, including in the friendlies against Uruguay and Japan at Wembley in March.Manchester City’s Phil Foden played up front against Japan. In the Uruguay game, Tuchel fielded Foden, Everton’s James Garner and Spurs striker Dominic Solanke. None of those made his World Cup squad.Ivan Toney came on for the second half in Tampa after spending a year in the England wilderness, following a three-minute appearance in the friendly defeat against Senegal at the City Ground, Nottingham.This, in effect,…