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Unstoppable Galopin Des Champs surges to Irish Gold Cup hat-trick
There was a moment just after the line in the Irish Gold Cup on Saturday, as Paul Townend stood up in the irons on Galopin Des Champs to acknowledge the acclaim from the packed stands, when the nine-year-old grabbed the bit and pulled for his head, apparently frustrated that he …
‘Why did we give back this alleged criminal?’ Pressure grows on Meloni after Italy releases wanted Libyan police chief
After stepping off an aircraft belonging to the Italian secret services, Osama Najim was triumphantly carried on the shoulders of the crowd of supporters awaiting his arrival at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport.
Najim, also called Almasri, was not a footballer bringing home a trophy but a police chief wanted by the …
Police in Wales appeal for calm after three officers hurt in ‘violent struggle’
South Wales police have appealed for calm after three officers were injured in a “violent struggle” outside a police station.
A 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault, arson and criminal damage after the incident at Talbot Green police station in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
The officers challenged the man …
Israel’s female spotters are free – now their families want to know why warnings were ignored
Roni Eshel told her father many times that she could see Hamas militants training for an attack near the Nahal Oz base where she served in a surveillance unit. The scale of the preparations left her frightened for her life.
She detailed the activity in daily reports over the summer …
Was this the week DeepSeek started the slow unwinding of the AI bet?
At 2.16pm California time last Sunday, the US billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen called it. “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” he posted on X.
A Chinese startup, operating since 2023 and helmed by a millennial mathematician, had unveiled a new chatbot that seemed to equal the performance of America’s …
Scotland hit the ground running as Huw Jones hat-trick sinks Italy
This is a test passed. Not the sternest test, it is true, certainly if ambitions of a first title of the Six Nations era are to be entertained seriously, but how easy to imagine previous iterations of 21st-century Scotland teams failing something similar.
Five beautifully constructed tries against one interception …
AI is not just powerful. What’s really worrying is that DeepSeek has made it cheap, too | John Naughton
Nothing cheers up a tech columnist more than the sight of
$600bn being wiped off the market cap of an overvalued tech giant in a single day
. And yet last Monday that’s what happened to Nvidia, the leading maker of electronic picks and shovels for the AI …On my radar: Kaya Scodelario’s cultural highlights
Born in West Sussex in 1992 and raised in London, Brazilian-British actor Kaya Scodelario rose to prominence playing Effy Stonem in E4’s
Skins
. In 2011, she played Cathy in Andrea Arnold’sWuthering Heights
; her other film roles include theMaze Runner
series,Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell …
Virologist Wendy Barclay: ‘Wild avian viruses are mixing up their genetics all the time. It’s like viral sex on steroids’
Wendy Barclay is a leading British virologist and head of the department of infectious disease and the Action Medical Research chair in virology at Imperial College London. An expert on the pathogenesis and transmissibility of influenza viruses, she served on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) and the New …
Heather Knight set to consider future as England captain after Ashes thrashing
Heather Knight says she will need to make “an emotional decision” about her future as captain in the next few weeks after England suffered a 16-0 Ashes whitewash – the worst result of her nine-year tenure.
The England and Wales Cricket Board have already confirmed they will be conducting a …