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Mirra Andreeva: ‘I would say that I’m still a kid sometimes. I can be a pain’
In the final weeks of her first season competing at the highest level of professional tennis, the best teenage player in the world found herself on the brink of a perfect ending. Facing off against her good friend and compatriot Daria Kasatkina in the Chinese city of Ningbo, Mirra Andreeva …
Social media fuelling rising terror threat in France, says minister
The Breakdown | Willis brothers prove that resilience is key in harsh world of rugby union
Sometimes people forget the most priceless quality in a rugby player. It can also be easily overlooked, particularly on sunny days in benign conditions when tries flow like warm honey. Even away from home in deepest midwinter, with sub-zero temperatures freezing your snot, it is only fully visible to those …
Dignity and humanity of Afghan women must be worth more than game of cricket | Jonathan Liew
“There’s all types of lines you can draw. We’ve drawn a line.” So explained Mike Baird, the chair of Cricket Australia, last month in explaining the governing body’s stance on playing against Afghanistan, the country that has just banned women from looking out of windows.
According to a new decree …
Bumper Christmas for UK supermarkets boosted by food price inflation
Food price inflation jumped to 3.7% last month, the highest level since March, helping fuel a bumper season for supermarkets.
Sales at the big grocery chains were up 2.1% over the four weeks to 29 December compared with a year before, according to the analysts Kantar. However, that rise was …
Trump Jr expected to visit Greenland on Tuesday amid father’s interest in island
Donald Trump Jr is expected to land in Greenland on Tuesday, hours after his father reiterated his interest in taking control of the Arctic autonomous territory, pledging to “make Greenland great again”.
Trump Jr said in a podcast that aired on Monday that he was “not buying Greenland” but that …
Former chair of child abuse inquiry says another one would only delay action
There should be no more inquiries into grooming gangs because it would further delay action by government, the former chair of an inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales has said.
Prof Alexis Jay said there had already been a delay of more than two years in implementing …
Apple says it will update AI feature after inaccurate news alerts
Apple has said it will update an AI feature that has issued inaccurate news alerts on its latest iPhones, including that a man accused of killing a US insurance boss had shot himself and that tennis star Rafael Nadal had come out as gay.
The tech company said it was …
Labour apologises for TikTok video with ‘inappropriate’ soundtrack
The Labour party has apologised for using a soundtrack with “completely inappropriate” lyrics in a promotional TikTok video.
The video features AI-generated animals including a hare dressed as a nurse, a bulldog in a police uniform and a hedgehog wearing dungarees.
But the party took down the video when viewers …
Sam Darnold turned into a pumpkin on Sunday. But he can still be Cinderella
If you were waiting this season for Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold to fail – not in an evil
schadenfreude
sense, but more in an “Oh, there’s the Sam Darnold of old” sense – then Darnold’sSunday night performance
against Detroit in a 31-9 Lions win gave you …