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Cheltenham festival 2025: The New Lion roars to opening win on day two – live

Preview: 2.40 The Coral Cup Handicap Hurdle, 2m 5f

This is always one of the fiercest betting heats of the week, and also one of the trickiest of all the races to solve, with just two successful favourites this century and winners at 50-1, 33-1 (twice) and 28-1 in the last dozen years alone. Dan Skelton fields the likely favourite in Be Aware as he attempts to complete a three-timer in this race, following victories for Langer Dan in each of the last two runnings, and while the old warrior in not in the field this time around, Henry de Bromhead’s Ballyadam, the three-and-a-half length runner-up 12 months ago, is back for another crack. Be Aware, a hold-up horse who is certain to get a strong pace to aim at, has run well in handicaps at Cheltenham and Ascot on his two previous starts this season, but his run-style means he will need some luck in running and punters are, frankly, spoiled for choice if they are looking for an alternative. JP McManus’s colours will be aboard a couple of very live runners in Impose Toi and Comfort Zone, while Tony Bloom, another owner who likes a punt, will have high hopes of Bunting, seventh home behind Majborough in last year’s Triumph Hurdle. Harry Fry’s Beat The Bat also seems sure to appreciate a return to this trip after an eye-catching run in the William Hill Handicap Hurdle last time and is possibly the pick of the prices at around 12-1.

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© Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

Musk blames ‘Ukraine area’ for X cyberattack | Reporter Replay

12 mars 2025 à 14:31
Billionaire entrepreneur and DOGE chief Elon Musk claims that X went dark as the result of a “massive cyberattack” that originated in the “Ukraine area.” “We’re not sure exactly what happened,” Musk told Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow about the apparent operation targeting his social media platform. NY Post reporter Georgia Worrell shares this...

Wife of Columbia graduate student detained by Ice speaks out about his arrest

12 mars 2025 à 14:26

Mahmoud Khalil was detained by Ice agents on Saturday, part of Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus protesters

Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, who is now eight months pregnant, issued a statement on Tuesday night after the Columbia University graduate student and activist was arrested in New York by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) as part of the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke his green card and have him deported.

“I am pleading with the world to continue to speak up against his unjust and horrific detention by the Trump administration,” Khalil’s wife, who is a US citizen, said in her statement, remaining anonymous for fear of harassment.

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© Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters

Nasa’s new Spherex telescope lifts off to map cosmos in unprecedented detail

12 mars 2025 à 14:23

The $488m Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies evolved over billions of years

Nasa’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before – a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time.

SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth’s poles. Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to study the sun. Spherex popped off the rocket’s upper stage first, drifting into the blackness of space with a blue Earth in the background.

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© Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Reuters

‘Carers need care, too’: Bruce Willis’s wife speaks out after deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa

12 mars 2025 à 14:22

Emma Heming Willis, who is primary carer for the actor since his dementia diagnosis in 2023, says there is ‘a broader story’ to tell about their plight

Emma Heming Willis, the primary carer for her husband, the actor Bruce Willis, who is suffering from a rare form of dementia, has issued a statement in the wake of the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa.

An investigation by local authorities concluded last week that Arakawa, 65, died of a rare respiratory disease around seven days before her husband, meaning that it was likely he spent a week by himself, disorientated and increasingly malnourished.

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© Photograph: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

Up to 200 still held hostage amid train hijack standoff in Pakistan

12 mars 2025 à 14:18

Baloch Liberation Army says attack took place because of ‘decades-long colonial occupation’, while officials say dozens of militants killed

An operation to rescue hundreds of people taken hostage when a train was hijacked by a separatist militant group in remote south-west Pakistan continued into its second day, with dozens killed in the onslaught.

On Wednesday, Pakistan’s security services claimed to have rescued about 190 people who were being held captive after militants from the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) blew up a railway line and launched an attack on the Jaffar Express train.

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© Photograph: Naseer Ahmed/Reuters

Russia launches deadly missile strike on President Zelensky’s hometown

12 mars 2025 à 14:12
Russia launched a deadly missile assault on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown on March 12 — just hours after Kyiv agreed to a US-proposed cease-fire with Moscow. The overnight attack on Kryvyi Rih killed a 47-year-old woman and injured at least nine others, while damaging high-rise apartment buildings, an infrastructure facility, a shop and an educational...

Nottingham Forest have a Champions League place within their grasp

12 mars 2025 à 14:00

The last time the club played in Europe’s premier club competition, in 1980, they were the defending champions

By WhoScored

Nottingham Forest’s 1-0 win over Manchester City on Saturday was a statement. Nuno Espírito Santo’s side have claimed some impressive results at the City Ground this season. They beat Aston Villa and Tottenham at home in December; they smashed Brighton 7-0 last month; and they have taken points off Liverpool and Arsenal. Yet victory over the defending champions in a battle for a Champions League finish spoke volumes. It was Forest’s first home win against City since Jason Lee bagged a brace and Steve Stone added a third in a 3-0 victory in September 1995. It was a win a long time in the making.

Importantly, though, the result wasn’t a huge shock. Forest beat the drop by just six points last season, albeit with a four-point deduction, but they are now third in the table and on course to qualify for the Champions League. They are four points clear of fifth-placed City, with sixth-placed Newcastle a further point back. It feels more likely than not that Forest will return to Europe’s elite club competition for the first time in 45 years, particularly with fifth place in the Premier League likely to be enough to guarantee Champions League football. The last time the club played in the European Cup, in 1980, they were the reigning champions.

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© Photograph: Paul Bonser/SPP/REX/Shutterstock

‘I’m all for strange’: Sister Midnight’s Karan Kandhari on his punk rock debut, two decades in the making

12 mars 2025 à 13:56

The director talks about his genre-trampling film Sister Midnight, the hilarious and gory story of a female force of nature stifled in an arranged marriage

One of the most powerful scenes in Sister Midnight is also a quiet and unexpected one. The protagonist, Uma, sits idly with her neighbour Sheetal outside their adjoining homes in Mumbai. To pass the time, the bored housewives pretend to be divorcing one another. Amid the role play, Uma turns to her confidant and says: “I’m tainted goods, I’m a divorcee. But it’s OK. I’ll wear this like a badge and go forth to the hills, form a manless nation and build a monolithic altar to the pussy.”

The statement captures what is so provocative about the film – it turns societal norms on their head and dares to ask: what if we did things differently? At its core, the film feels quite feminist. “That word comes up a lot,” says director Karan Kandhari. “I’m happy people can see the film like that, but I didn’t set out to make something with an agenda. I would say the film is actually punk rock because it questions things that don’t make sense. Just because something is tradition or old doesn’t mean it’s right.”

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© Photograph: Ian West/PA

Russia demands details from US before decision on Ukraine ceasefire

12 mars 2025 à 13:37

Marco Rubio confirms US will talk to Moscow on Wednesday about results of US-Ukraine talks

The Kremlin has declined to commit to an immediate 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine, stating that Vladimir Putin must first be briefed by the US before deciding whether the proposal would be acceptable to Russia.

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said Moscow was awaiting “detailed information” from Washington after talks between senior US and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia, where Kyiv declared its readiness to implement an immediate ceasefire.

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© Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP

Will Gareth Taylor’s Manchester City sacking turn out to be a masterstroke?

12 mars 2025 à 13:28

Results and off-pitch changes contributed to coach going days before a cup final and months after all seemed rosy

On a cold Manchester night last November, as Gareth Taylor watched his team secure a 10th straight victory of the season by beating Hammarby, the idea that he would not be in charge of Manchester City by mid-March seemed fairly far-fetched. City were on a run of 21 wins and one defeat in 23 WSL matches, meaning that across 12 months they had the best league results in the country. Yet four months and four painful league defeats later, Taylor is out.

To some, who were surprised Taylor was given a one-year contract extension in May 2023 despite City finishing fourth, his departure has been on the cards because of a relatively low trophy return – the FA Cup in 2020 and League Cup in 2022 – and City’s eliminations in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League in 2022 and 2023. To others, who see him as the coach who was within a whisker of winning the league last term, his dismissal may seem brutal.

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© Photograph: James Gill/Danehouse/Getty Images

Liverpool dumped out by perfect PSG after Anfield thriller – Football Weekly

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen and Archie Rhind-Tutt as Liverpool lose on penalties to PSG in the Champions League

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On the podcast today; PSG knock out Liverpool on penalties after two thrilling legs. PSG rarely put a foot wrong in either game including four perfect spot kicks.

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© Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

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