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Key eventsThat’s it from me. Billy Munday is back to take you through a big evening of athletics.ShareJudo: England have a bronze: Jemima Yeats-Brown in the women’s -70kg, beating New Zealand’s Moira de Villiers. She also won Commonwealth bronze in 2022 and all the way back in 2014.ShareWales are up in the top 10 in the medal table: see the full standings here:ShareGold for Emma Finucane in women’s 1,000m time trialCycling: Last up is New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews, another Olympic champion. But she can only manage third, so it’s gold for the Welsh athlete, her third of these Games.Emma Finucane…

Linda Blair, the Exorcist star-turned-animal rescue activist, says she’s doing fine after her Southern California property was searched by the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control yesterday regarding a reported kennel operation. Animal control officials, along with the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning, conducted the search of the property that the officials suspected was being used as a kennel operation with more than 100 dogs present. (Subsequent reports indicate there were as many as 200 dogs on the property.) “The warrant allows us to lawfully access the property and verify compliance with County codes,” the…

August: do you buy for the holiday you’ll be melting through this month, or the one you’ll be pretending to enjoy in a jumper come October? Answers on a postcard, please! The key to staying (relatively) sane in silly season is to embrace the contradictions.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.Read on for the holiday-coded necklace I’ve fallen in love with and the elegant leather handbag I’m dreaming of when I hang up my straw basket. Plus, a lace camisole and a cosy jumper – and the absolute…

Former officials will appeal sentences handed down for neglecting intelligence warnings before the deadly attacks.By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and APPublished On 1 Aug 20261 Aug 2026A Sri Lankan court has sentenced a former police chief and a former Defence Ministry official to death after finding them guilty of criminal negligence for the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 260 people in 2019.Former Police Chief Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Ministry Secretary Hemasiri Fernando were convicted and sentenced in a 2-1 decision on Friday by the three-member High Court bench.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of listThe judgements at the special…

At least 11 people have been wounded in a Colombian car bombing, days before right-wing President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella is set to take office.The detonation occurred in the city of Cucuta, which borders Venezuela, on Saturday, six days before de la Espriella is set to replace outgoing President Gustavo Petro, the country’s first left-wing leader.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“At this time, we have eight police officers and three civilians who have been injured,” George Quintero, the security secretary for the department of Norte de Santander, told reporters.No groups immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Several rebel…

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Screen-time apps aren’t effective for many people because, in the end, they depend on your willpower. They remind you to stop scrolling or let you set timers, but such notifications can be easy to ignore.  Autonomous Key takes a different approach to this issue simply by being a physical device. It’s an NFC key that pairs with a companion app to let you lock away distracting apps. So instead of tapping a button to bypass the block, you have to physically scan the key with your phone to regain access to your locked apps. Each unlock session can last for…

James Udemba On Tuesday, 21 July, Remi Tinubu visited Abia State and Governor Alex Otti rose to welcome the First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, with a tribute to her husband that no card-carrying APC chieftain could have bettered. He asked the gathering to thank the President for his sacrifices. According to Governor Otti, it took a man of courage to remove the petrol subsidy in 2023 and to float the naira. He went further to explain and enumerate what those decisions had done. They had freed up money hitherto burned on subsidising petrol consumption. And the result, in his own…

NASA’s Curiosity rover has encountered an extraordinary landscape while climbing through a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande.” Images sent back by the rover show the ground covered with honeycomb-like patterns known as polygonal fractures, each measuring about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. Curiosity has seen small clusters of similar geometric shapes before, but never anything approaching the scale of the field now visible in Valle Grande. A Sea of Polygons Across Mars The full extent of the formations appears in a 360-degree panorama captured on June 19 and 20, during the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days,…

Anna Morris and Jess Roberts secured a one-two for Wales in the women’s 25km points race. Morris followed up her individual pursuit success with another gold, that after she had won team pursuit bronze alongside Roberts.The qualified doctor bossed the race from start to finish, picking up points in each of the first three sprints before lapping the field to claim 20 points with around 60 laps left.Roberts followed in lapping the pack and climbed the points table. In the second half of the race, the lead switched back and forth between the Welsh pair several times before Morris took…