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South Africa hope to host first African Olympics
The International Olympic Committee confirms South Africa have shown an interest in becoming the first African host of the summer Olympics.
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The International Olympic Committee confirms South Africa have shown an interest in becoming the first African host of the summer Olympics.
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FTSE 100 firm Informa to buy Clarion from private equity group Blackstone Business live – latest updates A British events business that hosts arms fairs and conventions for comic book fans has been snapped up by a FTSE 100 rival for more than £2bn. Informa has struck a £2.24bn deal to buy the London-based events…
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The Glasgow-born singer was the first solo Scottish female singer to top the UK singles chart with One Day at a Time.
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Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing to visit Kuala Lumpur 'in the next few days', Anwar Ibrahim says.
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Exclusive: 11 facilities shut, seven for lack of staff and four over issues such as infestations or lack of running water Eleven bail hostels that were supposed to have housed dangerous prisoners during the early release of stalkers and domestic abusers in England and Wales have been closed, the Guardian can disclose…
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Exclusive: Cop31 leader calling for global curbs on climate-heating gas has landfills producing some of world’s worst plumes Two or three nights each week, the smell descends. Residents of villages on the rural outskirts of Istanbul don’t know what the smell is, but they have been plagued by it for years: a smell so…
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Bush theatre, London Mei Leng Yew’s play veers between humour and horror as a young woman ignores her mum’s warning about big life changes during a ghost festival With shapeshifting performances and smart, heartfelt writing, Mei Leng Yew’s juicily spooky romcom is a seductively assured debut about second-generation…
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‘It doesn’t look like proper cricket,’ says Faf du Plessis as Canada’s Super60 tournament raises a few eyebrows Have you heard about Schrödinger’s six? When a cricket ball has spawned off the edge of the bat and flown all of 35 metres, is that really a six at all? How about when it comes in a hulking yet virtually…
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Physicists have found striking evidence for an unusual form of superconducting behavior in uranium ditelluride, where electron pairs organize into rippling patterns called pair density waves. Even more surprisingly, these patterns appear to survive after ordinary superconductivity disappears, suggesting that the…
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Goals from Hammam Al-Hammami and Firas al-Buraikan give the hosts their fourth Arabian Gulf Cup trophy.
The GuardianSports
Demand for Springboks and All Blacks outstrips hosts England lost 42-21 to Ireland in last Twickenham game England have been outstripped by South Africa and New Zealand in demand for tickets for the Nations Championship finals weekend at their own stadium in an embarrassing snub for Steve Borthwick’s side. Six…
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Wada president Witold Banka says Kenya must strengthen testing, investigations and anti-doping enforcement before hosting the 2029 World Athletics Championships.
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Christopher Alan Saunders becomes highest-ranked Catholic in Australia convicted of sexual abuse over his time as member of clergy A former high-ranking Catholic known for hosting boozy parties will spend at least four and a half years behind bars for sexually abusing two young Aboriginal men. Ex-bishop of Broome…
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Belgian physicist worked to build Antarctic observatory that tracks neutrinos from deep space.
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Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
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Second up for the 2026 Nobel Prizes was the award for physics. And this year it went to just one scientist, Francis Halzen. The Belgian physicist won the prize based on his work on the IceCube detector that observes ghostly particles called neutrinos. Science editor Ian Sample tells host Madeleine Finlay how Halzen…
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Diligent sleuthing by astronomers uncovered a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet. This artist’s concept released on Oct. 5, 2026, depicts that possible explanation. The white dwarf is the “dead” core of a star that burned through all of its…
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Kiribati wants to become a FIFA member and qualify for the World Cup, but rising sea levels mean it may not be able to host games for much longer.