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First set: Sinner 4-1 Auger-Aliassime* (*denotes next server)

Auger-Aliassime is playing quite well tonight but Sinner is just too good in the extended rallies. The Italian gets the better of him in a 19-shot exchange to open the fifth game, before Auger-Aliassime takes a couple of points for 15-30. Might it be a chance for the Canadian? Sinner responds with a commanding 125mph service winner down the middle, then another off a short rally for 40-30. He then mixes in his first double fault of the night for deuce. (Notably, his first-serve percentage is below 50% in these early stages.) Sinner gets to game point when Auger-Aliassime nets a backhand, but Auger-Aliassime outlasts the Italian in a 12-stroke rally for deuce. Auger-Aliassime is able to force a third deuce point, but Sinner fights him off from there with a couple of quick points, including his third ace, to pocket the hold and maintain his break advantage.

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And even then, it's not particularly memorable.

The Chiefs faced off against the Los Angeles Chargers at Corinthians Arena in São Paolo.

The AFC West rivalry game is taking place at Arena Corinthians in Brazil.

For more than 70 years, Olive Dell Ranch in San Jacinto was a sanctuary for naturists -- a 136-acre retreat where residents could live unclothed.

After trans shooter Robin Westman's horrific attack on a Minneapolis Catholic church shooting last week, the Department of Justice is reportedly considering proposals to block all trans people from purchasing firearms by declaring them "mentally ill."

The sophomore was expected to start his second year of studies Tuesday, but he was absent from NYU's Greenwich Village campus.

Anutin Charnvirakul’s hobbies, which include playing saxophone, flying planes and cooking, show a relaxed and casual yet shrewd politician

The man who will become Thailand’s next prime minister after securing the backing of the majority of lawmakers in parliament on Friday is a staunch royalist and conservative with an eclectic mix of passions and hobbies.

Among other things, Anutin Charnvirakul, 58, is an advocate for cannabis legalisation, a pilot who has used his private jets to deliver organs to transplant patients, a saxophonist and street food enthusiast.

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Toronto film festival: adapted by Max Porter from his novella Shy and co-starring Little Simz, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman this brutal but ultimately hopeful story is fiercely affecting

Producer-star Cillian Murphy and director Tim Mielants last collaborated on a superlative adaptation of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, and their new project together could hardly be more different: a drama suffused with gonzo energy and the death-metal chaos of emotional pain, cut with slashes of bizarre black humour. Max Porter has adapted his own 2023 novella Shy for the screen and Murphy himself gives one of his most uninhibited and demonstrative performances.

Murphy is Steve, a stressed, troubled but passionately committed headteacher with a secret alcohol and substance abuse problem, in charge of a residential reform school for delinquent teenage boys some time in the mid-90s. With his staff – deputy (Tracey Ullman), therapist-counsellor (Emily Watson) and a new teacher (Little Simz) – he has to somehow keep order in the permanent bedlam of fights and maybe even teach them something.

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© Photograph: Robert Viglasky/Netflix

Francisco Alvarez has one healthy thumb and pinkie but is hopeful that will be enough to get him through the rest of the Mets' season.

"This is the face of someone who has done plastic surgery on her face and jaw," one user wrote Thursday.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna are calling for greater monitoring of 3I/ATLAS which could release "mini-probes" to monitor Earth and "appear as UAPs."

“Christy,” a biopic about the boxer Christy Martin that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a major leap for Sydney Sweeney in Hollywood.

Toronto film festival: the actor is a reliably committed presence in this gentle Alan Bennett-scripted first world war tale which might have worked better on stage

There are simple Sunday afternoon pleasures to be had in the gentle comedy drama The Choral, the latest collaboration for Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett. Their last was 2015’s The Lady in the Van, a slight, mostly unmemorable film blessed by a spiky Maggie Smith performance but cursed with an uneven tone. Unlike that, and their previous two works together on screen, this wasn’t based on a play but it often feels like it and, at too many points, that it also maybe should have been one instead. There are moments of creaky comedy and some bluntly emotional dialogue that one can more easily picture in front of a specifically catered-to live audience.

On a big screen, The Choral is a little out of place, its only moments of pure cinema courtesy of the spectacular Yorkshire scenery. Well, that and those when star Ralph Fiennes fully takes command, an actor who adds not just weight and class but also one who gives a more studied and delicate performance than many of those around him. The star is having a bit of a moment after both Conclave and 28 Years Later and while this project is in a far lower register, and far less likely to be meme-friendly, it’s further proof of his remarkable flexibility. He plays Dr Guthrie, a choir master hired by desperate locals in 1916, a time of loss and confusion, with many already dead or missing and many others waiting to be conscripted. It’s meddled with the social order and allowed for some to find space they might not have otherwise occupied, shown in the new makeup of the choir, which Guthrie must craft and control.

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© Photograph: Sony Pictures Classics

Second violent verse, same as the violent first.

The Jets are going to need Breece Hall, along with fellow backs Braelon Allen and Isaiah Davis.

The "Wednesday" star read a dirty letter Irish poet James Joyce wrote to his 'dirty little f--kbird.'

A stellar debut.

The star 49ers running back didn’t practice on Friday.

You're on your own, kid.

Bessent slammed the Fed for policies he said helped feed inflation, enriched the rich at the expense of the poor, and exacerbated the housing affordability

"From what I was told," one officer said, "he's doing a semester at another NYU campus."

Countries including Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Tonga have given Israel vital backing at the UN

After almost two years of war in Gaza, tens of thousands of deaths and now the reality of famine, Israel has found itself increasingly isolated on the world stage, with alliances that date back to the country’s founding at breaking point.

Through the growing outrage however, a collection of island nations in the Pacific have stood steadfastly with Israel – with perhaps only the United States a more reliable international ally.

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© Photograph: Sarafina Sanerivi/Samoa Observer

Prue must have heard that new baker Jessika is a Drag King and wanted to give it a go.