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The Chiefs have 15 straight wins in one-score games. How do they get away with it?
The Kansas City Chiefs have been living a charmed life all season. Coming into Sunday night’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers, the two-time defending Super Bowl champions had already set an NFL record with victories in 14 straight one-score games. And their point differential of +54 was the worst …
Tuesday briefing: What happened when the doors of Syria’s most notorious prison were finally opened
Good morning. Of all the horrific symbols of the deposed Assad regime, few carry the notoriety of Sednaya, the most feared node in the Syrian government’s repressive prison system. About 30,000 people were killed there between 2011 and 2020, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated, more than in any …
‘The world is his oyster’: what’s next for Gout Gout after setting athletics world alight
Gout Gout’s success over the last weekend instantly made him Australia’s biggest athletics name, triggering a frenzy of media and commercial interest, and he will soon rub shoulders with Olympic champion Noah Lyles in the US before returning to his Year 12 studies.
But Athletics Australia and Gout’s team are …
Rugby Australia sets out bold plan to return to top of the sport amid fears over jobs cuts
Rugby Australia has declared it wants to be the sport’s No 1 nation by 2029 in a strategic plan launched on Tuesday that flags job cuts at head office if an anticipated revenue windfall led by broadcast negotiations currently underway is not forthcoming.
RA and Channel Nine – the code’s …
‘What does AI mean?’: Amazon reveals UK’s most asked Alexa questions of 2024
Virtual assistant units have become a staple in many UK households, telling people whether it is expected to rain, what the time is, and what the result in the football was.
Among the most common used is Alexa, whose parent company Amazon has released the top questions and requests given …
Brisbane is deciding on a 2032 Olympics stadium: how do the options stack up?
The 2032 Olympics have for a long time felt far away, but it took Gout Gout to show they are just around the corner. The Brisbane teenager’s barely believable 200m national record on Saturday has upped the urgency on organisers to get Games planning right, as Queenslanders dream of an …
F1 2024 awards: Max Verstappen joins the greats after hardest-won title
Driver of the year
With a fourth consecutive world championship, Max Verstappen deserves to be recognised as one of the greats, a place he has earned not least with this year’s title, his most hard-fought yet. After opening in a dominant Red Bull, he executed clinically to take four of …
Human rights for Syrians but perhaps not for Saudis in Labour’s Middle East
Not that the foreign secretary was trying to take any of the credit for the collapse of the Assad regime, but without the UK standing firm then the dictator would have been around a lot longer. Just saying. Only maybe things weren’t entirely that simple. Because David Lammy had given …
My friend John Rose, who has died aged 79 from renal failure, was a lifelong socialist. He was also a committed anti–Zionist from a Jewish background and passionately supported the Palestinian cause.
As an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in the 1960s, John was one of the leading …
Five key takeaways for England after their series success in New Zealand
Pressure tells
Unless you’re Australia, New Zealand is not an easy place to win a Test series. India haven’t done so since 2008-09; England hadn’t managed it since 2007-08. The relatively modest praise for England’s achievement suggests New Zealand are condescended to in defeat as well as victory. If the …