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Manchester City warned; Celebrity Traitors opens to acclaim
The FA warns Manchester City over integrity findings. Celebrity Traitors opens with 21 celebrities, a new heart valve is approved and violence erupts in France over education.
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Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Researchers have reported several recent scientific findings, including a possible dark matter signal and quantum entanglement between Z bosons at the Large Hadron Collider. The results add to ongoing research into fundamental physics, but the dark matter observation is only a hint and does not establish a discovery. The LUX-ZEPLIN detector, located in a South…
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Shivon Zilis says relationship with Elon Musk has ended
Shivon Zilis said she and Elon Musk had ended their relationship after an account tracking social media follows reported that Musk had unfollowed her on X. Her post described a sudden breakup and expressed deep affection for Musk, drawing attention to their personal relationship and the public scrutiny around it. Zilis and Musk have four…
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Global Diesel Crisis: G7 Releases Strategic Reserves as Prices Hit Records
G7 countries have agreed to release up to 100 million barrels of emergency reserves, including a substantial amount of diesel, after Donald Trump threatened to ban US diesel exports. The move aims to ease shortages and price pressures, but has drawn criticism from experts who say the US threat pressured European leaders into acting. The…
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Iran war drives diesel costs higher, squeezing US independent truckers’ margins
Rising diesel prices linked to the war with Iran are putting pressure on US truckers, whose businesses depend on fuel to move goods across the country. Independent drivers say the higher costs are cutting into already narrow margins and may force some to stop operating, with knock-on effects for their household finances and the transport…
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Rocket Report: SpaceX completes launch triple-header; Rocket Lab nets big contract
The space industry saw major breakthroughs this week, with SpaceX reaching a historic orbital milestone and Rocket Lab securing its largest contract. – SpaceX’s Starship reached low-Earth orbit for the first time on Monday after 14 flight attempts, successfully deploying 26 new-generation Starlink V3 satellites. – Rocket Lab signed its largest Electron launch service agreement:…
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Pam Tanowitz reimagines Beethoven’s Pastoral in a spare, vivid dance work
Pam Tanowitz’s *Pastoral* has premiered in the UK at London’s Barbican, where dance, music and visual art reinterpret Beethoven’s *Pastoral Symphony*. The work strips away theatrical haze and dense sound to create a bright, spare setting, giving audiences room to notice the dancers’ precise, sometimes eccentric movement and the fleeting ideas it evokes. Composer Caroline…
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Richard E. Grant’s Traitor slip-up unsettles Celebrity Traitors’ opening episode
Richard E. Grant’s accidental revelation that he was a traitor in episode one created early jeopardy for his game, forcing him to spend much of episode two attempting damage control. Despite this slip-up, Grant and fellow traitor Maya Jama successfully expanded their power by recruiting James Acaster as a third traitor and eliminating Amol Rajan,…
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Bassam Tariq turns abandoned Blade reboot into Mahershala Ali thriller
Bassam Tariq has completed “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother,” an original thriller starring Mahershala Ali after the pair’s Marvel’s Blade reboot project was abandoned in 2022. Despite 18 months of intensive preparation including choreographed fight sequences, the Blade film was shelved before filming began due to script issues, freeing Tariq to pursue this stylish…
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Celebrity Traitors – FIVE-STAR Review: Dazzling. Thrilling. Utterly unpredictable… it’s only episode one and Traitors fever has me howling at the moon!
The first episode of The Celebrity Traitors opened with a theatrical mock funeral in a Scottish chapel, setting a Gothic, comic tone that the reviewer says makes the series dazzling and unpredictable. Its star-studded cast and immediate twists underline the show’s growing status as a flagship BBC programme. The 21 contestants include Maya Jama, Richard…