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India are poised for victory in the one-off Test at Lord’s after reducing England to 130 for six in their second innings, having spent the first two sessions of the day batting them out of the game.Yastika Bhatia became the first woman to score a century in a Lord’s Test, as India piled on the runs before finally declaring on 341 for seven, 456 runs ahead. Bhatia underwent anterior cruciate ligament surgery last year, and had to rebuild her leg muscles from scratch; here was just reward for months of hard rehab.Bhatia thanked her parents, ­sister and doctors for their…

The available court documents give new information about what is claimed to have taken place in the incident, which occurred at Top Gear’s test track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey on 13 December 2022.There were microphones in the car, and BBC Studios said Flintoff expressed concern at one point when the car’s front wheel lifted as he took a corner, but was reassured by Rees that it could not roll over.Approaching the same corner again, Rees told Flintoff to “now turn right… now full power, full power”, BBC Studios’ defence filings said.The document claimed that “a front wheel lifted…

Fifty-six days after being held in captivity, pupils and teachers abducted by Ansaru terrorists in Oyo State were rescued, not through a daring assault, but through a carefully coordinated campaign that combined intelligence, inter-agency cooperation, sustained military pressure and the systematic dismantling of the terrorists’ support network. Chiemelie Ezeobi brings an exclusive report on how, over several weeks, security forces employed intelligence preparation of the battlefield, signals intelligence, aerial surveillance, coordinated ground operations, logistics denial, security choke points, targeted arrests of key associates, and financial and psychological pressure to gradually constrict the terrorists’ freedom of movement and compel the safe release of the…

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Nigeria’s Para Badminton team won a total number of 14 medals at the 2026 Uganda Para Badminton International Championship, held from  7 to 12 July 2026. The medals comprising of nine gold and five silver medals, further reinforcing the country’s growing status as one of Africa’s leading forces in para badminton. Lyka Brown claimed gold in the WH1 Women’s Singles and partnered with Chukwuemeka Ijeoma Gift to secure another gold medal in the WH1 & WH2 Women’s Doubles.  Chukwuemeka Ijeoma Gift also emerged victorious in the WH2 Women’s Singles, adding another gold to Nigeria’s tally. In the men’s wheelchair events,…

Mohammed Dewji, Tanzania’s richest businessman, has offered to invest $100 million in Aliko Dangote’s planned oil refinery in Kenya, backing what could become one of Africa’s largest energy projects, despite stating that he would have preferred the plant to be built in Tanzania. Read also: Beyond Dangote: Meet the billionaires driving Africa’s industrial transformation Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg, Dewji said he was ready to support the estimated $17 billion refinery even though the project was moved from Tanzania to Kenya for what Dangote described as “commercial and technical” reasons. “I would lean more toward Tanzania than Kenya,” Dewji said.…

Over the years, the game has sometimes been a victim of its own hype and global appeal.Police and safety groups once warned players not to become so engrossed in catching the next Psyduck that they got lost or put themselves in danger.The game’s immense popularity sometimes also meant “servers buckled under the strain”, said Reynolds, meaning connectivity problems were “rife for some time”.And while the pandemic was seen as a boon for many in the video game industry, Steranka says the initial strict lockdowns “impacted Pokémon Go probably more than any other game out there”.The game later bounced back as…

More than 50 years ago, physicist Sir Roger Penrose proposed a remarkable idea: under the right conditions, it might be possible to extract energy from a rapidly spinning black hole. In his concept, a particle entering the black hole’s ergosphere, a region where spacetime is dragged along by the object’s rotation, could split into two. One fragment would fall into the black hole while the other escaped carrying away more energy than the original particle. Later, physicist Yakov Zel’dovich expanded on this concept, predicting that waves interacting with an object rotating fast enough could also gain energy and become amplified.…

One month after the world number one suffered a seismic shock at the French Open, another upset was brewing.Confronted with unwanted history, Sinner would have to come from behind to beat Miomir Kecmanovic in five sets and avoid becoming only the third defending Wimbledon men’s champion to lose in the first round.The 24-year-old’s durability in marathon encounters has long been a concern, with Sinner having lost eight of his previous nine matches that went the distance.There had also been a shattering event in Paris for the second year in a row.Sinner arrived at Wimbledon having not competed since his extraordinary…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. You don’t have to go deep in the desert to find a little tranquility these days, at least not in Arizona, where the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort has just unveiled a new $25 million spa renovation that completely reimagines the celeb-loved space, just in time for the property’s 90th anniversary. A destination steeped in Scottsdale history, the JW Marriott property was one of the first full-service spa resorts in the Southwest, and Camelback Inn quickly…