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Week one upset special: These three college football teams should be on upset alert this weekend
A Fox Sports OutKick column previews college football’s first full weekend of the season, identifying three favoured teams that could be vulnerable to a surprise defeat. The piece highlights how coaching changes, roster turnover and travel factors can make early-season betting lines unreliable, a familiar theme given college football’s long history of week-one shocks. The…
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Police keep the peace after protesters confront travellers who ripped up wildlife haven in ‘bank holiday land grab’
Police have maintained a presence at a field in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, after residents confronted travellers who moved onto the wildlife site and began construction work over the August bank holiday weekend. Hundreds of angry locals camped overnight on the land near Rod Stewart’s Durrington House estate to halt the works, and their protest succeeded on…
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Pistol in a lake gives hope for French cold case
French investigators probing the unsolved 2012 murder of a British family near Lake Annecy have found a Luger pistol in the lake, raising hopes of a breakthrough in the 14-year-old cold case. Saad al-Hilli, his wife, his mother-in-law and a passing cyclist were all shot dead near their campsite, and the killer’s weapon was identified…
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The Witcher 3: Songs of Past looked alright in its behind-closed-doors preview, though I’m more enticed by the remaster’s combat upgrades
Rock Paper Shotgun’s hands-off Gamescom preview of The Witcher 3’s Songs of the Past expansion left the outlet more excited about the free Remastered edition’s combat overhaul than the paid expansion itself. The preview, jointly run by CD Projekt Red and co-developer Fool’s Theory, largely focused on reworked combat, movement, UI and role-playing systems coming…
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Social media photo craze sparks tourist invasion at picture-perfect vacation hot spot
Crowds of tourists have been forming long queues at some of Santorini’s most photographed spots, as visitors flock to recreate iconic images popularised on social media. Videos shared online show people lining up in the narrow streets of Oia from early morning to pose in front of the Greek island’s famous blue-domed churches, prompting fresh…
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United will now let you join standby lists for earlier flights through its mobile app
United Airlines has launched a new mobile app feature that lets passengers add themselves to standby lists for multiple earlier flights when they have been rebooked onto a later service due to a delay or cancellation. The update, introduced ahead of the US Labor Day weekend, aims to give travellers more control over recovering from…
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Rose Ferguson’s four-week reset targets menopause bloating and fatigue
Nutritionist Rose Ferguson has designed a four-week “September Reset” aimed at menopausal and midlife women looking to shed post-summer bloating and belly fat without counting calories. She argues that common midlife complaints such as fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep and low libido stem from shared root causes—chronic inflammation, hormonal imbalance, stress and poor gut health—rather…
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Push for a new September public holiday in NSW gathers steam after Western Australia introduced two this year
Hundreds of retail, fast food and warehouse workers rallied at NSW parliament on Tuesday to demand an extra public holiday, arguing the state has fewer than any other in Australia. The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) is pushing for 1 September to be made a public holiday, saying irregular retail hours already prevent…