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Name: Cold feet.Age: No, wait, I know this. Late 90s I think, so about 31? No, because this isn’t to do with Cold Feet, the TV comedy drama about middle-class couples living in Manchester. We’re talking lower-case cold feet.As in last-minute hesitation, likely caused by fear or second thoughts, before a major life event, such as your own wedding? Not even. Think more literally: feet that are cold.Got it, lower case, lower temperature. And why are they cold? Because you’ve put socks on them.But I tend to put socks on to keep them warm. These socks have been in the…

Several Russian regions are facing fuel shortages because of Ukrainian attacks.Published On 23 Jun 202623 Jun 2026A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least three people, as Moscow struggles with the economic strain of the four-and-a-half-year Russia-Ukraine war.Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih defence council, said in a post on Telegram on Tuesday that 25 people had been wounded in the attack, which he said used a cluster munition warhead.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“People died within 200 metres [660 feet] of each other because of this barbaric…

An artist has withdrawn a video installation from the National Portrait Gallery in London that blamed Winston Churchill for a famine in colonial-era India, after a historian and others complained that its characterization of Churchill’s role was inaccurate.In the video, titled “Persistence,” the artist Helen Cammock, who narrates the work, compares Churchill to Oliver Cromwell, a commander during the British Civil Wars of the mid-1600s. She says in the video that her opinion of Cromwell changed after she learned that he had “starved people, en masse, a little like the willful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill.”Andrew Roberts,…

SpaceX shares climbed about 5% on Tuesday, bouncing back from a three-day skid during which the stock lost nearly 24%.Shortly after the market open, shares slipped below $150, the price of its first trade when it debuted nearly two weeks ago. The initial slide also took the market cap below $2 trillion.Elon Musk’s space and artificial intelligence company saw a $400 billion sell-off on Monday, tanking 16%, following drops of 3.6% and 5% the previous two days of trading.SpaceX posted huge gains after a record-breaking IPO on June 12, briefly surpassing Amazon and Microsoft in market capitalization, before falling back…

Password manager maker LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a recent hack at one of its technology partners, marking the company’s latest data breach in recent years. In an email shared with TechCrunch from an affected customer, LastPass said the breach occurred at market research firm Klue, and not its own systems. However, hackers abused their access to obtain reams of data about LastPass customers. LastPass is the latest in a growing list of cybersecurity companies that have reported data thefts as a result of the breach at Klue, which…

Welcome to the ConversationWelcome to our latest Q&A with a Guardian journalist. Political columnist Rafael Behr is online now answering your questions.Sign up here to join the discussion and post your questionsShareUpdated at 18.05 CESTKey eventsHas the neoliberal ship run aground?thegreatfatsby asks: How difficult do you think it will be to pull the centrist neoliberal ship off the reef its foundering on and reverse course? double quotation markRaf: My instinct is that the era where the policies generally clustered as “neoliberal” enjoyed broad consensus and supremacy is over. Core aspects of liberal market economics will, of course, endure and liberal politics…

Scientists with the SETI Institute have completed a search for possible technological signals coming from 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. Using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) at Northern California’s Hat Creek Radio Observatory, researchers examined a broad range of radio frequencies for evidence of extraterrestrial technology. As expected based on previous observations, they found no signs of artificial signals, further supporting the conclusion that 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet-like object. First identified in July 2025, 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed entering our Solar System. It follows the discoveries…

The Giannis Antetokounmpo trade saga lasted 13 months. The market reaction to the trade took seconds.Immediately after the news late Monday night that the Milwaukee Bucks had agreed to send the two-time NBA MVP to the Miami Heat, bettors jumped on the Heat. Miami went from +3000 at DraftKings to win the 2026-27 NBA title to +1800. In addition, the Heat dropped from +1200 to win the Eastern Conference—behind the Celtics (+225), Knicks (+250), Pistons (+800) and Pacers (+1100)—to +600 to win the East, behind just Boston (+225) and New York (+300).Bet on the 2026-27 NBA champion at DraftKings and…

Skateboarder-turned-actor Isiah Hilt has taken his lumps riding the deck. “I broke both my feet, and I broke my femur [skateboarding],” Hilt tells Deadline. “The doctor told me I broke my wrist. This was new news to me because I didn’t know… I had like a little fracture somewhere on my wrist.” Those knocks are nothing compared to what he has faced away from the cement skate parks. “I ran away from home when I was 12 years old. I been in 7 group homes, 1 foster home and 11 high schools,” Hilt writes in an Instagram post. “My adult…

Africa could be on the verge of its greatest-ever collective performance at a FIFA World Cup, with up to five nations still in contention to reach the knockout stage of the expanded 2026 tournament. With the group phase entering its decisive final stretch, the continent has already produced some of the competition’s most compelling stories, and there is growing belief that African football could surpass its previous benchmark for teams advancing beyond the first round. The current record was set at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil when Algeria, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire all progressed from their groups. Twelve years…