Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Second set: Fritz 6-3, 1-2 Zverev* The lights in the stadium flicker as Zverev goes through his service motion. Need a new bulb back there, lads. The umpire halts play and calls for them to replay the point. Fritz is getting […]
Tottenham v Arsenal: Women’s Super League – live | Women’s Super League
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Are you at a game today? If you are get in touch and let me know what the stadium food is like. One of my favourite social media accounts is football scran, which details what clubs have available. I must confess […]
Beaver supermoon around the world – in pictures | Science
A bird is silhouetted against the full moon rising over Zurich, Switzerland. The beaver full moon gets its name from Native American and colonial traditions, as beavers are most active this time of year, fortifying their lodges and building dams in anticipation of the cold months ahead. This particular full moon is also a supermoon, […]
‘Here’s how it feels’: how a Lebanese businessman lost everything in five years of turmoil and war | Lebanon
From the balcony of his flat in a monied suburb nestled in the mountains overlooking Beirut, Ibrahim Abdallah could see the smoke rising from a night of airstrikes that pummelled the ghostly southern suburbs below. Columns of white smoke drifted over the smouldering, scarred and deserted tower blocks and up into the tree-lined hills, where […]
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff | University of Oxford
Oxford University has been accused of relying on academics on “Deliveroo-style” and precarious fixed-term contracts to give the majority of its tutorials, after new research revealed just a third of lessons are taught by full-time professors. Data obtained through freedom of information requests by the University and College Union and shared exclusively with the Observer, […]
Middle East crisis live: Israel strikes Beirut after evacuation call | Middle East and north Africa
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Images are coming through of Israel’s strike on Beirut this morning, showing a large plume of smoke rising above the city. Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Haret Hreik neighbourhood. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Smoke billows […]
Australia v Pakistan: second Twenty20 international – live | Australia cricket team
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature WICKET! Australia 52-1 (Fraser-McGurk c Salman b Rauf 20) Haris Rauf comes into the attack. Short works him for two to bring up the fifty in just 3.1 overs, a record for Australia in T20 cricket. Pakistan are already in death-bowling […]
Almost 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit | Cop29
At least 480 lobbyists working on carbon capture and storage (CCS) have been granted access to the UN climate summit, known as Cop29, the Guardian can reveal. That is five more CCS lobbyists than were present at last year’s climate talks, despite the overall number of participants shrinking significantly from about 85,000 to about 70,000. […]
Jake Paul beats Mike Tyson in manufactured mismatch as Father Time comes calling | Boxing
Jake Paul, a 27-year-old social media huckster, beat a 58-year-old man with a long history of health problems, both physically and mentally, in a boxing ring late on Saturday night. The fact that Mike Tyson was defeated so comprehensively on points was meant to give Paul a semblance of authenticity in the unforgiving business of […]
Tesco’s £25 champagne beats Moët & Chandon in festive taste test | Food & drink industry
Champagne at prosecco prices? Every little helps. Tesco’s Finest champagne has triumphed over the prestigious French label Moët & Chandon in a festive quaff test. The Tesco Finest premier cru brut champagne received the top score of 82% in a blind taste test conducted by the consumer group Which?. The £25-a-bottle bubbly was hailed by […]