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Paraguay’s players celebrate after winning the penalty shootout during the 2026 World Cup round of 32 football match between Germany and Paraguay at the Boston Stadium in Foxborough on June 29, 2026. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP) Paraguay stunned Germany in a penalty shootout on Monday to reach the last 16 of the World Cup. The South Americans won 4-3 on spot kicks after the match finished 1-1 in extra-time to inflict Germany’s first ever defeat in a penalty shootout in a World Cup.

Kevin Spacey went on Bill Maher‘s Club Random podcast this week and Maher was characteristically blunt from the get-go. “I’m not going to lie to you, I go by numbers with scandals,” began Maher. “If it’s like one person, I’m always like, ‘I don’t know if I wasn’t in the room.’ When it gets to like you had, it’s like, ‘Come on man, there’s too much smoke to be no fire.’” Spacey didn’t deny that. “I never said there was no fire. It just wasn’t a raging forest fire. It was a small kitchen fire that could have been put…

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Households across parts of the country are beginning to experience relief as retail prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly known as cooking gas, decline following improved product supply and softer depot prices, The PUNCH reports. The latest market update from gas marketers showed that retail LPG prices have started easing in major cities after weeks of elevated prices, although the reductions have not been uniform because of varying transportation costs, distance from supply depots and retailer margins. Checks by marketers indicated that cooking gas is now selling for between N1,100 and N1,350 per kilogramme in Lagos, Ibadan and Abeokuta, while…

Chalmers says opposition having ‘meltdown’ not marketing problemLabor are trying to squeeze out all they can from Melissa McIntosh’s rebrand comments yesterday (and her doubling down today).During a dixer, Jim Chalmers says the opposition aren’t having a marketing problem, but a “meltdown”.He says the three rightwing parties “share a divisive, anti-worker, anti-housing agenda and that, more than anything, explains the mess that they’re in”. double quotation markIt is not a marketing problem over there, it is a meltdown. The member for Hume [Angus Taylor] said his leadership was a change or die moment and he made the wrong choice. He…

Inde Navarrette in “Obsession.”Focus FeaturesCurry Barker’s Obsession, starring Inde Navarrette and Michael Johnston, is new on digital streaming this week as the blockbuster horror thriller keeps racking up big ticket sales at the box office worldwide.Obsession, which had a production budget of $750,000, was acquired by Focus Features for about $15 million at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Written and directed by Barker, the film follows the harrowing plight of Bear (Johnston), a music store employee who has an enormous crush on his co-worker Nikki (Navarrette). Forbes‘Obsession’ Star Inde Navarrette Discusses Her Spellbinding Performance In Hit Horror ThrillerBy Tim…

Ford says it has hired back some human engineers after AI failed to match their skills and experience.In a bid to reap the benefits of the tech, which developers claim can cut costs and boost productivity, the US carmaker adopted it across some parts of its operations including for quality checks.But, according to Bloomberg, external, its executives said the firm has rehired more than 300 “veteran” quality inspectors in recent years to make up for the pitfalls of automated systems.”Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” Charles Poon,…

This month, an email from a consumer landed in Martin Lewis’s inbox. It was from an elderly woman with a disability who had been scammed when she invested in a scheme purportedly endorsed by Lewis – and lost her life savings. “THEY ARE BASTARDS!” Lewis wrote at the top of his social media post about it. Even though the personal finance expert is a veteran campaigner against fraud, he says he had “tears running down my face”. He still sounds upset. “I felt a mixture of frustration, anger and sadness.” Not only for the plight of the woman, but for…

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MOROCCO BEAT THE NETHERLANDS ON PENALTIES!Netherlands 1-1 Morocco (2-3 pens) Ismael Saibari’s penalty wins it! A remarkable finish to a classic in Monterrey.Morocco players dash to celebrate with Ismael Saibari after he scored Morocco’s winning penalty. Photograph: Carl Recine/Getty ImagesShareUpdated at 06.04 CESTKey eventsNick Ames has the match report from a wild night in Monterrey. And with that, I sign off from the US. Thanks for following along for a World Cup thriller!ShareAnd from Emma, in Rabat, where it’s 5.13am:“Nothing like being woken up by the horns and shouts of a thrilled Morocco. I live in Rabat, and I knew at…