Updates from the Wallabies’ clash with the Pumas in Townsville
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Now we see them, striding out past the delightfully kitsch Puma Trophy.
Ten minutes after the advertised start time, still no sign of either team on the Townsville turf.
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The two southern hemisphere heavyweights collide in a mammoth meeting at Eden Park
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Sinner brushed off any concerns after his battling win over Felix Auger-Aliassime
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Two sections of a surfboard were retrieved and taken for examination, police say
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On its eighth year and second facelift, this hybrid SUV still has a lot going for it – great for long hauls with comfortable seats – but it’s those ingrained Volvo values that set it apart, writes Sean O’Grady
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Joe, 31, an office manager, meets Mabyn, 36, who works in costume for theatre
What were you hoping for?
To have a nice time and learn something new.
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Pleasingly simple as curries go, this seasonal dish can be vegan if you choose dairy-free yoghurt and gluten-free if served with rice in place of chapatis
My grandmother, Narmada Lakhani, passed away earlier this year aged 92. Well, we think she was 92, but no one recorded her birth date, so we can only estimate. What we do know about her, though, is that she had a very cheeky laugh, and that she loved lager tops, penny slot machines and tucking £10 notes down her bra, ready to hand out to an unsuspecting grandchild as a gift. She never asked if I was happy, only if I’d eaten well, which I assume to her were the same thing. At this time of year, eating well for her meant tucking into sweetcorn, so, in her memory, I’m going to do the same.
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Alliance of global autocrats has been accelerated by Donald Trump’s use of political and economic pressure against friends and foes alike
Waving beatifically over the crowd of 50,000 spectators assembled in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Wednesday, Xi Jinping exuded an aura of confidence that many leaders in the west could only envy. To his left stood North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of an increasingly strident hermit kingdom. To his right was the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, Xi’s “old friend” and China’s biggest ally in opposing the US-led world order. The last time that the leaders of these three countries were together in public was at the height of the cold war.
“Humanity once again faces the choice between peace or war, dialogue or confrontation,” the Chinese president told the gathered crowds. His insistence that China would “adhere to the path of peaceful development” was punctured somewhat by the country’s biggest ever military parade that marched through the square beneath his rostrum atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the entrance to the Forbidden City that has – on and off – been the seat of Chinese power since the 15th century.
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The dog watches anxiously as my wife swims out to sea. At least someone can relate to my holiday state of mind
I am on holiday, standing on a coastal headland under a bright blue dome of sky, the wind light and warm, looking at the weather app on my phone. The forecast and the scene are in agreement: it’s a nice day.
I scroll through all the locations where I’ve previously felt the need to check the weather – Exeter, Marseille, York – until I get to London, where, it turns out, it’s also pretty nice.
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New Delhi spent decades cosying up to the US. The truth is, Washington doesn’t have allies outside the west – it has clients
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When Donald Trump won his second term, India’s ruling elite must have been quietly pleased. Prime minister Narendra Modi’s performative courting of King Donald, both in and out of office, suggested a special chemistry between these two titans of the hard right.
As Trump set about remaking global trade and geopolitics by weaponising tariffs, India got into trade negotiations with the US early. New Delhi accepted that negotiations would be difficult, given its red lines on agricultural and dairy products. Yet it was optimistic about getting a deal commensurate with India’s economic heft – and strategic value to the US as a counterweight to China.
Mukul Kesavan is an Indian historian, novelist and political and social essayist
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When the TV presenter was offered a free health screening, she thought it was pointless: she was ‘the healthiest woman you’ve ever met’. But then came the shocking diagnosis. Now fully recovered, she’s re‑evaluating everything
It all starts with the coil. Of course it does. This is Davina, and Davina McCall doesn’t do personal by halves. “I loved the coil, but people always used to go, ‘I’m not getting the coil, ugh.’ I always wondered why it wasn’t more popular.” So, it was June 2023 and McCall was getting her preferred method of contraception replaced – on TV, naturally, for a documentary. “I asked my children’s permission. ‘Can Mummy get her coil refitted on television?’ They all rolled their eyes, like: ‘God! Here she goes again.’”
Post-fitting, her friend Dame Lesley Regan, a gynaecologist, suggested that McCall have a health screening at the state-of-the-art women’s health clinic where she worked, in exchange for a talk she would give on menopause. To be honest, McCall says, she thought the idea ridiculous. “I was like: ‘Honestly, I don’t need that. I’m the healthiest woman you’ve ever met. I don’t go to the doctor, I have a good immune system, I eat well.’”
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Crawford simultaneously built strength, speed and muscle throughout camp to rise up two weight classes. His strength and conditioning coach Chet Fortune tells Harry Bullmore how the pair accomplished this complex goal
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Tyson will box Mayweather next year in the latter’s latest exhibition bout
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The Italian actor, who won millions of international fans for her fiery turn in ‘The White Lotus’, talks to Ellie Harrison about becoming a queer icon, her new role in ‘The Paper’, and what happened when she met Al Pacino in LA
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