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Follow updates as Jose Mourinho returns to lead Madrid – including the build-up, analysis and live text commentary.

Celebratory glasses of champagne were handed out inside the Langham Hotel in midtown Manhattan when the WNBA and its workforce agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement in March that would send players into a new tax bracket.But that wasn’t the end of the celebration. As the season began, and players received their first paychecks with an average increase in pay of 366%, there were plenty of reasons to rejoice.Courtney Williams celebrated by sharing her newfound wealth — a 561.1% increase in her annual salary — in her own way.”I went to the strip club and blew a bag,” Williams…

The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival wrapped up on Friday, with Austria taking home the top prize. During the awards ceremony at National Theatre Sarajevo, the jury awarded Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s Everytime with the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Narrative Feature Film, which comes with a prize of 16,000 euros. “Moments of cinematic grace float through this mesmerically elastic and transcendental grief-soaked ghost story. Our decision was unanimous,” said the jury, which consisted of SFF President Emily Watson, director Igor Bezinović, actress Sara Klimoska, European Film Academy CEO/director Matthijs Wouter Knol and Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari. Scroll on to…

For some prisoners with problematic sexual arousal (PSA), “images of sex flood their minds” all of their waking hours, according to Prof Belinda Winder, a leading forensic psychologist who has evaluated the use of drugs to control libidos.“I remember talking to one guy a few weeks after he started taking the medication. He said: ‘It’s amazing. I followed a film plot. I wasn’t just looking for when I could see bra straps, when I could see nipples, when someone’s going to bend over so I could see their bum.”“Without the drugs, these images were going around his head all the…

Nearly 40,000 bottles of eye drops are being pulled from store shelves across the US over concerns about potential contamination, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Prestige Brand Holdings, based in Tarrytown, New York, has voluntarily recalled 39,060 bottles of Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief eye drops because of a “lack of assurance of sterility”, an FDA enforcement report states. The FDA classified the action as a Class II recall, defined on the agency’s website as a moderate-risk situation “in which use of or exposure to a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences…

Bruno Mars scores new hits on several Billboard charts — and reaches milestones on several tallies — thanks to his feature on Karol G’s “Still” single. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JULY 24: Co-Owner of SelvaRey Rum Bruno Mars attends the SelvaRey Pina Colada Party Hosted by Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak at The Hollywood Roosevelt on July 24, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for SelvaRey)Getty Images for SelvaReyBruno Mars has several singles going strong on the Billboard charts at the moment. Multiple cuts from his latest album, The Romantic – which was released earlier this…

W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Active, United Shades of America, and We Need to Talk About Cosby, his blend of comedy, social commentary, and political activism has helped him stand out. He’s won a Peabody and four Emmys, been a Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, received honors from the ACLU, and been crowned the Ambassador of Fishbone by founding member Chris Dowd. Bell is, if nothing else, a busy man.So we’re very grateful that he took time between episodes of his podcast Who’s With Me, his…

Lando Norris beat Mercedes duo George Russell and Kimi Antonelli to pole position at the Dutch Grand Prix in a hectic end to qualifying.Rain threatened to cause an anticlimax to qualifying but the track remained dry enough for the McLaren and Mercedes drivers to battle it out for top spot, with Norris edging out Russell by 0.102s and championship leader Antonelli by 0.133s. Oscar Piastri was just 0.142s off in fourth in another tight session – a continuation of the trend throughout the Sprint weekend at Zandvoort – and sets up a fascinating race on Sunday when the lights go…

The New York native also was memorable as a Resistance fighter on ‘V’ and as the doomed inmate Omar White on ‘Oz.’

A fire outbreak has razed parts of the SPAR shopping mall in Calabar, Cross River State, destroying property belonging to traders and shoppers. The fire reportedly started in the early hours of Saturday, with firefighters deployed to the premises as people rushed to evacuate their belongings from the mall. A content creator, “Dr Laff,” who shared a video of the incident on Facebook, said millions of naira worth of properties had been destroyed in the fire. Fire razing Spar Mall in Calabar, Cross River State “As I speak right now, millions of properties have been damaged,” Dr Laff said in…