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Gradually, brands at all levels of the markets got in on the game, including Allen Edmonds and Wolf & Shepherd, and luxury labels like Tom Ford, Loro Piana and Cole Haan. (The Cole Haan versions are the ones Roman Roy wore.) Wolf & Shepherd even had the N.B.A. Hall of Famer Steve Nash playing basketball in its “dress sneakers.”“Eventually, dress sneakers started appearing on ESPN sports commentators,” Guy said. Then Silicon Valley embraced them as a way to signal that the “move fast and break things” founders had reached a (slightly) more professional stage of business. From there, it was…

That game, in particular, highlighted two clear differences to the Southgate era.The first being the speed of play through the middle third.Southgate’s sides, perhaps more traditionally, built up short – looking to progress the ball more slowly. They wanted to keep the ball, move up the pitch as a unit before – when pinning the opposition in their own third – trying to break down the low block.That worked particularly well against teams who conceded control and were reluctant to press high. But with football always developing, games towards the end of Southgate’s reign featured England facing increasingly clever defensive…

Hayley Williams swaggers on stage with a guitar and begins gleefully raging about her antidepressant of choice. Mirtazapine, a pop-punk ode to the drug that “makes me eat” and “makes me sleep”, swiftly rouses the audience into a boisterous singalong. Her chemistry with the crowd is so potent that it’s easy to forget this is Williams’s first London gig since supporting Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour with her band Paramore in 2024, and her first ever European tour as a solo artist. “I remember so many of you,” she says, beaming at the crowd. She points at someone in…

I have two children aged eight and four. My eight-year-old is very bright. She’s in year 3 and doing year 6 maths. Her state school has large classes and limited resources, so I challenge her by doing fun maths at home. I wanted to try getting her into a grammar school (our local state secondaries do not get good results), but lots of local parents pay for their children to have private tutors, which I can’t afford.I fear my children will be penalised and stuck in a cycle of not fulfilling their potential. This hits personally because I was diagnosed with…

China has added 10 United States-based companies to its export control list and barred government procurement from nearly 50 US companies two weeks after the Pentagon blacklisted some of China’s best-known companies for their alleged ties to the Chinese military.China’s Ministry of Commerce announced the export order on Monday, barring Chinese companies from exporting “dual-use” items that can be used for civilian or military purposes to the US firms.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe list of companies includes rare-earth mine operator MP Materials Corp, rare-earth magnet maker USA Rare Earths, and US defence contractors specialising in fields such…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported that the case fatality rate for Lassa fever rose to 19.3 per cent in 2026, up from 18.9 per cent recorded during the same period in 2025. The agency disclosed this in its Lassa Fever Situation Report for Epidemiological Week 23, covering 1 to 7 June 2026. According to the report, the number of newly confirmed cases remained unchanged from the previous week, with infections recorded in Edo, Ondo, Bauchi, and Ebonyi states. The NCDC also noted that no new infections among healthcare workers were reported during the week under…

Tarek Robbiati, CFO of data storage company Everpure, said that the increased capex spend on AI is ‘not temporary’ even if the industry supply and demand equation rebalances and more AI capacity becomes available. Robbiati said that while the AI market is expected to revert to a mean, it will not happen quickly and it may not go back to the same level. (Source: Bloomberg)

The artificial intelligence industry is spending heavily in the 2026 midterms, hoping to secure influence over the technology’s first generation of legislation – and New York City’s primary has emerged as the key battleground.AI-focused Super Pacs have raised roughly $100m this cycle, of which $44m has been spent so far, in dozens of congressional races across the country. Nearly half of all spending has converged on a single Manhattan race: Tuesday’s Democratic primary in the district of NY-12.And much of that spending has targeted a single candidate: Democratic assemblymember Alex Bores, who is running to represent New York’s 12th House…

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The idea that beards are dirtier than clean-shaven faces has been floating around for decades, says John Tregoning, professor of vaccine immunology at Imperial College London. There is even research that shows people perceive bearded men as less hygienic: one study found restaurant customers rated waiters with facial hair as dirtier. Science doesn’t necessarily back that up, though.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.One of the earliest studies on the subject, published in 1967, looked at how much bacteria could be recovered from men’s faces after being artificially sprayed on to their skin. Researchers compared…