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‘It started as a joke, a fantasy’ – F1 heads to football-obsessed Madrid
Formula 1 returns to Madrid this weekend for the first time since 1981, staging a new race in a city dominated by football and home to Real Madrid, widely regarded as the sport’s greatest club. Organisers and F1 are testing whether the sport can carve out attention in a market already saturated by elite football,…
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Russia outpacing Ukraine’s air defences with daily use of new jet-powered drones
Russia has been launching its upgraded, jet-powered “Geran” drones against Ukraine every single day in August, according to BBC Verify analysis of Ukrainian Air Force data, marking an escalation that Kyiv’s air defences are struggling to counter. The drones’ far greater speed, over 300mph, makes them significantly harder to intercept than older models, prompting President…
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August was joint hottest month on record, says European climate agency
August 2026 has been confirmed by the EU’s Copernicus climate service as the joint-hottest month ever recorded globally, tying with July 2023, with the record driven by a combination of long-term climate change and a strengthening El Niño pattern. The finding matters because global temperatures for the month exceeded the critical 1.5C threshold that countries…
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Spanish opposition leader calls prime minister a ‘traitor’ over Ceuta migrant crisis
Spanish opposition leader Santiago Abascal accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of being a “traitor” and a “dog” during a heated parliamentary exchange over the government’s handling of the migrant crisis in Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa. Abascal suggested Sánchez was being blackmailed by Morocco, prompting Sánchez to retort, “I will be a dog,…
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Watch Evanescence and Poppy play their Spiritbox crossover End Of You live for the first time ever
Evanescence singer Amy Lee and Poppy performed their collaborative track End Of You live for the first time, at the opening date of Evanescence’s European tour on 8 September at Leeds’ First Direct Arena. The song, which also features Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante (who was not present at the show), had never been played live since…
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Cole Palmer powers Chelsea to comeback win against Leeds in nine-goal epic
Chelsea reached the fourth round of the Carabao Cup with a dramatic 5-3 comeback win over Leeds United, despite manager Xabi Alonso making nine changes that nearly backfired. Leeds led 2-0 through goals from Tarik Muharemovic and Brenden Aaronson, before a quadruple substitution from Alonso at half-time transformed the game. Cole Palmer was the standout…
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U.S. Open door is wide open, and an American man must walk through it and win the title
American men’s tennis is guaranteed its first US Open finalist since the field lost its two biggest obstacles: world number one Jannik Sinner withdrew before the tournament with a knee injury, and Novak Djokovic was knocked out in the first round. Ben Shelton then beat defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in a five-set quarter-final, setting up…
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Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment
French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is emerging as a rare bright spot in Europe’s troubled space sector, gaining prominence just as the continent faces mounting concerns about falling behind the United States and China. Her company, The Exploration Company, has raised $450 million in Series C funding, the largest such round ever secured by a Europe-based…