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Bills v Ravens was supposed to be about two stars. It was settled by a brutal drop
Josh Allen v Lamar Jackson was set to be an epic. The idea of this season’s MVP favorites sharing a field was chill inducing. Because whichever quarterback punctuated a brilliant individual season with a conference championship berth would do so because he outplayed his counterpart.
Then the actual game was …
English quintet face uphill task at business end of Champions Cup | Robert Kitson
Five English clubs have made it beyond base camp in the Champions Cup this season, but scaling the distant summit already feels like an impossible dream. While Northampton, Saracens, Leicester, Sale and Harlequins have all secured qualification for the last 16, they will need something truly special if they are …
Jannik Sinner toughs out medical episode against Rune to reach Australian Open last eight
Defending champion and top seed Jannik Sinner overcame a debilitating medical episode as well as Dane Holger Rune to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open for the third time with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory.
The world No 1 had looked like continuing his serene progress through the …
Today’s puzzle retrospectively commemorates UNESCO’s World Logic Day, which took place last week. (The date, January 14, is both the day Kurt Gödel died and the day Alfred Tarski was born, a calendrical coincidence that links the pre-eminent logicians of the twentieth century.)
It is a logic puzzle and, as …
Novak Djokovic comfortable in conflict as he makes headlines in Australia again | Jack Snape
The accompaniments of the Australian summer are varied but vivid. Barbecues and beaches, fireworks and firefighting. The song of cicadas, the sweetness of cherries, and the sound of Novak Djokovic, back in the headlines.
until Channel …Monday briefing: Will Trump really begin his second term with a message of unity?
Good morning. Today, at midday in Washington DC, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president of the United States for the second time. Yesterday,
he promised a blitz of executive orders
on illegal immigration, transgender rights and other rightwing priorities within hours of his arrival.While …
Starwatch: Venus and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye
Venus continues to shine like a brilliant beacon in the evening sky. This week it draws close to Saturn, offering an opportunity to see the nearest and further planets that are readily available to the naked eye.
The chart shows the view looking south-west from London on 20 January at …
‘Not a mouthpiece of the regime’: Syria’s state news agency enters new era
Zyad Mahameed finally has the job he always wanted. In his previous role in the media team for the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, he often thought about the Syrian state news agency – an Assad regime mouthpiece he considered his opposition – and what he would do if he …
‘I don’t trust them’: voters wary as Reform eyes possible Runcorn byelection
As Nigel Farage toured US television studios before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, his face was almost as unavoidable in a quiet Cheshire market town more than 3,000 miles from the White House.
“He’s already got an office here, hasn’t he?” exclaimed Rob Hitchmough, 65, walking his cavalier King …
Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial
A groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients’ mood using a brain-computer-interface that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound.
The device, which is designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses of ultrasound to “switch on” clusters of neurons. Its …