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Australia dominate snowboard halfpipe as Scotty James wins final World Cup before Olympics

18 janvier 2026 à 02:32
  • Valentino Guseli takes bronze and NZ’s Campbell Melville Ives silver

  • More medals in bobsleigh and snowboard cross ahead of Milan-Cortina Games

Snowboard king Scotty James has dazzled to reign supreme in the last World Cup halfpipe event before the Olympics, where he’ll be seeking an elusive gold medal.

On a big day for Australia’s Olympic hopes, James sent a clear message to rivals as he won the prestigious Laax Open in Switzerland for a third consecutive time and fifth time in total, while young countryman Valentino Guseli was third.

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© Photograph: Andreas Becker/AP

© Photograph: Andreas Becker/AP

Woman killed by falling tree branch in NSW storms as landslide and flood warnings issued for Sydney

Residents near Narrabeen Lagoon told to leave on Saturday night, after death of woman near Wollongong

Summer storms on Australia’s east coast have claimed one life and threatened dozens more as flood waters rise.

Residents and holidaymakers have been told they can return back after being evacuated Narrabeen Lagoon in Sydney’s northern beaches overnight on Saturday, while a landslide damaged three homes and injured at least one woman 20km north, at Great Mackerel beach.

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Australia news live: woman dead in powerful storm as landslide and flood warnings issued for Sydney

18 janvier 2026 à 00:55

Woman killed by tree branch as NSW SES records more than 800 calls for help. Follow updates live

Jail time for leaving dogs in cars under broad changes

New South Wales will crackdown on people who leave their dogs in cars and use painful collars in proposed changes to animal welfare laws.

It was proper wet season rain. And we needed it. We needed it badly.

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Frank’s future in doubt as Romero calls West Ham defeat ‘a disaster’ for Spurs

  • Manager barracked by fans after late 2-1 defeat

  • Romero comments add to sense of unease at Tottenham

Thomas Frank’s future as the Tottenham manager is in doubt after Saturday’s last-gasp 2-1 home defeat by West Ham, at which the club’s supporters called for him to be “sacked in the morning”.

The Spurs hierarchy have been mindful of the difficulties Frank has faced during what was always likely to be a transitional season. The chief executive, Vinai Venkatesham, wrote an open letter to fans on Saturday morning, the tone of which was supportive, the overriding message being a call for patience.

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Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US

Heads of state across Europe respond in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland, and boycott of World Cup suggested

Donald Trump threatened a 25% tariff on a slew of European countries including Denmark, Germany, France and the UK – until the US is allowed to purchase Greenland, in an extraordinary escalation of the president’s bid to claim the autonomous Danish territory.

In a lengthy post on Saturday on Truth Social, Trump said he would impose a 10% tariff on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland beginning 1 February, “on any and all goods sent to the United States of America”.

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‘We stick them in shoes and forget about them’: how to really look after your feet

17 janvier 2026 à 20:00

About one quarter of our bones are in our feet. How can you keep them strong and pain free for longer?

Dentists have trained us well to visit them on a regular basis for a check-up, rather than waiting until things start to hurt. Hylton Menz, a professor of podiatry at La Trobe University in Melbourne, wishes we’d do the same for our feet.

“We probably ignore our feet relative to other parts of our body, because we stick them in shoes and they’re a long way away, so we tend to forget about feet,” he says. “It’s only really when they don’t actually function properly – so when they become painful, they don’t do what we want them to do – that we really think about them.”

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Does my obsession with old trinkets make me a hoarder or a sentimental maximalist? | Eleanor Burnard

17 janvier 2026 à 20:00

Nostalgic knick-knacks will always have a place on my shelf – and in my heart. There’s something magical about being able to access the past in tangible, physical ways

It’s important to state that I am the most insufferably sentimental person I know.

There are old birthday cards collecting dust in my jam-packed cupboards, stuffed toys – their colours long-faded – sitting in my bedroom despite their prime cuddling years over, while gifts handmade by friends I no longer talk to take up real estate on my cluttered shelves. You couldn’t pay me to part with any of them.

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