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‘The heartbeat of game day’: how NWSL fans in Boston built culture from the ground up
Fans in Boston have spent more than two years building a supporters’ culture for the city’s new NWSL franchise, the Legacy, forming the Independent Supporters’ Association (ISA) before the club even had a name, mascot or roster. Their efforts culminated in a striking display at the team’s home opener at Gillette Stadium in March 2026,…
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Hong Kong’s first leader Tung Chee-hwa dies at 89, as LIV Golf files for bankruptcy
Overseas and sport lead the bulletin as Hong Kong’s first post-handover chief executive dies aged 89 and LIV Golf enters Chapter 11 after losing Saudi backing; also covered: One Nation’s press-conference row, a scam using AFL star Tom Lynch’s image, and a nurse’s fatal accident that saved seven lives through organ d…
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‘I thought a devil was about to appear from the smoke’: Jerry Hsu’s best photograph
In this instalment of the Guardian’s “best photograph” series, American skateboarder-turned-photographer Jerry Hsu discusses an eerie image of black smoke rising from a street grate in downtown Los Angeles, taken around 2011-2012 shortly after he relocated to the city. He describes the moment as unexpectedly cinematic, as though something demonic might emerge from the cloud,…
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East Is East review – the classic cross-cultural comedy is as sharp as ever
Bolton Octagon has revived Ayub Khan Din’s East Is East, thirty years after the play about a mixed-race family navigating 1970s Britain first opened at Birmingham Rep before becoming a Bafta-winning film. Director Kash Arshad’s touring production, staged just miles from the story’s Salford setting, is praised for drawing out the script’s comedy while preserving…
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Instacart now has its own AI assistant called Clementine
Instacart has launched Clementine, an AI shopping assistant designed to help users decide what to cook while sticking to a budget. Available now across North America on the Instacart Marketplace, the tool responds to natural-language requests, such as asking for a quick, high-protein dinner for two, by suggesting recipes with ingredient lists that can be…
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The Gate theatre’s creative daring gave a tiny stage international scope | Michael Billington
London’s Gate theatre, a small but influential venue not to be confused with Dublin’s Gate, is closing next month after five decades, undone by rising costs, falling funding and disruption from its 2022 move away from its original Notting Hill Gate home. Despite its tiny size, the theatre earned a reputation as a nursery for…
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Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
Besxar, a start-up founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, is developing a way to manufacture advanced semiconductor precursors in orbit, using the vacuum of space to avoid the costly clean-room infrastructure required by terrestrial chip fabs. Crucially, the company has secured a deal with SpaceX to test its technology aboard reused Falcon 9 rocket…
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Evanescence review – devastating power and range from one of rock’s great vocal talents
The Guardian’s review of Evanescence’s concert at Leeds’ First Direct Arena praises frontwoman Amy Lee’s exceptional vocal range, describing her mezzo-soprano voice as capable of shifting from “skyscraping and spectacular to haunting and devastating.” The show leans heavily on the band’s new sixth album, Sanctuary, produced largely by Jordan Fish of Bring Me the Horizon,…
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‘They handpick the most beautiful kids, the brightest and bravest. They want to create total fear in Iran’: The heartbreaking story of the 19-year-old sentenced to hang while her twin sister faces 25 years in prison… just for wanting a better life
Twin sisters Tareneh and Romina Rahimi, both 19, were sentenced by an Iranian revolutionary court in Isfahan after taking part in anti-government protests on 8 January this year. Tareneh was sentenced to death by hanging, while Romina received 25 years in prison, in a case that highlights the Iranian regime’s use of harsh punishment to…
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White House pulls Tetris-style ‘Build The Wall’ game after copyright concern
The White House has removed a Tetris-style browser game called “Build The Wall” from its website, after The Tetris Company objected to the unauthorised use of its game’s likeness. In the game, players stacked falling blocks to construct a border wall to “protect the border”; the firm said on 4 September it was “not involved…