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Massimiliano Allegri will replace Antonio Conte as Napoli manager, the Serie A club announced Friday. “Napoli welcomes Massimiliano Allegri as manager of the first team,” it said in a statement, adding that the 58-year-old had signed a three-year contract lasting until 2029. Allegri previously coached Juventus (2014-19, 2021-24) and AC Milan (2010-14, 2025-26). Milan sacked him after the team missed out on next season’s Champions League. Since the end of the season, nine of the 20 Serie A teams have changed coaches, including Napoli, AC Milan, which hired the Portuguese Ruben Amorim, Atalanta Bergamo (Maurizio Sarri), and Fiorentina (Fabio Grosso).…

If you are intrigued by the idea of a social drama that doesn’t follow all the tropes that you can expect based on tradition and past cinematic experiences, A Happy Family is for you. After all, the feature debut of Swiss director and writer Jan-Eric Mack features an ambivalent main character, namely a single mother who doesn’t fit neatly into categories of black or white and good or evil. Complexity instead of moralizing is the motto. Plus, the film takes pleasure in mixing genres, surprising with thriller vibes that many won’t see coming. A Happy Family, world premiering on Saturday,…

‘There is room for movement on tax,’ says Burnham in first interview since becoming MPGood morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics.Andy Burnham, the lead contender to succeed prime minister Keir Starmer, has hinted at some of his tax proposals as he draws up plans to revitalise Britain’s high streets.In his first interview since being elected MP for Makerfield, Burnham told LBC there is “some room” in the Labour manifesto for “movement on tax”. While he reaffirmed his commitment to “stick” to the promises made by the manifesto of not raising income tax, VAT or national insurance…

Last week’s heatwave across western Europe shattered national June records and set new all-time highs.The UK recorded a provisional high of 37.7C at Lingwood in Norfolk on Friday 27 June, smashing the previous June record of 35.6C, set in 1976. Such a margin is exceptionally rare: temperature records are typically broken by 0.1C or 0.2C, not a remarkable 2.1C.A boy cools off in a Berlin fountain. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty ImagesGermany reached 41.7C in Coschen on 28 of June, breaking its all-time record for a third consecutive day. The Netherlands set a new June record with 39.4C on 26 June, while Hungary…

Gold bars are stored in a safe deposit room in Munich, Jan. 28, 2026.Angelika Warmuth | ReutersSpot gold prices rose by 1.4% on Friday morning, putting the precious metal on track for its first weekly gain in five weeks after coming under sustained pressure this year. By 4:30 a.m. ET, spot gold was trading at around $4,182.28 an ounce and on course for a 2.3% weekly gain – which would be its first weekly rise since late May. Front-month U.S. gold futures were up by 1.5% on an intraday basis. Stock Chart IconStock chart iconSpot goldGold prices have fallen this year,…

“We don’t have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat,” says Yann LeCun, one of the leading figures in the world of artificial intelligence.He worked at Facebook-owner, Meta, for a decade, where he was chief AI scientist, but left in 2025 and founded Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs).His goal is to move AI beyond current systems like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. They have their uses, he says, but will never be able to tackle complicated situations in the real world, like getting a robot to do household chores.”They’re not a path towards…

Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary, is to step down this autumn after two years in the job, she has announced to party staff.Ridley, an ally of Keir Starmer who ran Labour’s field operations in the 2024 general win election, said in an internal email she would stand down after the party’s annual conference in September.Saying this was in part for personal reasons, Ridley said it was also the right thing to allow Labour’s ruling national executive committee to pick a new general secretary “to work alongside a new leader once they are elected”.Starmer announced in June that he was stepping…

Bumble bees have demonstrated an impressive ability that scientists once believed was limited to humans and other animals with much larger brains. In a new study, the insects successfully completed a completely unfamiliar object manipulation task despite never being taught how to solve it. The findings challenge a long-standing belief that spontaneous problem solving is unique to humans and other large-brained vertebrates. More than a century ago, psychologist Wolfgang Köhler showed that chimpanzees could suddenly solve unfamiliar problems by combining objects in new ways, such as stacking boxes to reach a banana hanging overhead. Those experiments became classic examples of…

Barely one week after emerging from one of the most controversial fixtures in this year’s Nationwide League One (NLO) playoffs, Yewa FC Academy will begin another decisive chapter in its quest for promotion to the Nigeria National League (NNL). The Ogun State based-club has been drawn alongside Ijebu United FC, Adeyemi FC and Dokkal Khairu FC in the South-West 2 Promotional Playoffs scheduled for 10 to 14 July at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado-Ekiti. Yewa will open its campaign against Ijebu United on 10 July before taking on Adeyemi FC two days later. The club will conclude the round-robin…