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Brentford v Tottenham: Premier League – live

And another transfer line:

Postecoglou advises that Van de Ven is OK, they’re just trying to manage his minutes, while explaining that 17-year-old Moore has earned his go.

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India v England: fifth men’s T20 cricket international – live

2nd over: India 21-1 (Abishek 5, Varma 0) Tilak Varma is the new batter. England move a leg slip in place for the flick in the air. Wood goes outside off stump and the new batter leaves it alone. A lesser spotted leave.

Roger Binny and Rishi Sunak are in the crowd at the Wankhede. There’s a joke to be made there somewhere but I don’t have the time.

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How SoftBank bet and lost billions on WeWork

On December 6, 2016, Masayoshi Masa — founder of Japanese investment company SoftBank — was due to visit the headquarters of WeWork in New York City. As usual, he was running late, and his subsequent meeting with president-elect Trump loomed large. The planned two-hour at WeWork tour turned into a 12-minute walk-about. Unabashed, Masa invited WeWork’s...

Luis Rubiales to go on trial in Spain over Jenni Hermoso kiss at World Cup

Spanish football federation’s former president is accused of sexual assault and coercion over incident in 2023

Spain’s former football chief Luis Rubiales will go on trial in Madrid on Monday over the unsolicited kiss he planted on the World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso, a gesture that stunned millions of TV viewers and unleashed a backlash against sexism in sport.

Rubiales, 47, is accused of sexual assault as well as coercion after allegations that he tried to force Hermoso, 34, into publicly declaring that the kiss, which occurred as she celebrated her team’s victory in the 2023 World Cup in Australia, was consensual.

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‘Very retaliatory’: the federal workers caught up in Trump’s DEI purge

Employees condemn ‘unprecedented and scary’ effort to push out those who had worked on diversity programs

Jeremy Wood thought he was safe from the shuttering of federal government diversity initiatives that he expected to start as soon as Donald Trump was sworn in.

A Raleigh, North Carolina-based career civil servant in the US agriculture department, Wood had been among those tasked with implementing policies ordered by Joe Biden to curtail discrimination on the basis of race, sexual orientation and gender identity in the federal government.

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Pressure rises on Bank of England and the Fed as the interest rate debate gets political

The UK is likely to make a cut this week; Trump has made it very clear he wants his central bank to follow suit

The Bank of England is preparing to announce a cut in UK interest rates on Thursday, with central banks around the world facing increased scrutiny as Donald Trump ramps up his attacks on the US Federal Reserve.

Trump wants lower borrowing costs to boost the economy, even though the US has maintained the highest rate of growth in the G7 richest nations for several years and has every prospect of topping the G7 poll in 2025.

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Mercedes grand prix car raced by Stirling Moss fetches record £42.7m

Silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen sold at Stuttgart auction for highest amount ever made by a grand prix car

A streamlined Mercedes raced by the Formula One greats Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 set a record for a grand prix car on Saturday, selling at auction for €51.15m (£42.7m).

The sleek, silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen, one of only four complete examples in existence, was sold by RM Sotheby’s at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, on behalf of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS).

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