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(Sub Pop)The Rhode Island five-piece return with a ferocious rallying call to fight for your beliefs, with bouncing basslines, muted house chords and stomping drumsOptimism might feel outdated, but Downtown Boys are proud outliers. On Public Luxury, the Rhode Island band’s third and best album, they wear their politics proudly – while bringing new ambiguity, strangeness and shadow to their passionate, sax-blasted bilingual punk. Opener No Me Jodas (Don’t Fuck With Me) comes out roaring, fists up
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Two of the greatest forwards in world football will go head-to-head at Boston Stadium on Friday, as France and Kylian Mbappe take on Norway and Erling Haaland.
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In “Bouchra,” directors Merriam Bennani and Orian Bakri use animation to tell an intimate story taken from Bennani’s life, creating a distance from personal narrative. Instead of making a documentary where Bennani confronts her own family, or translating it into a drama with actors, they have created a world in which human emotion is told […]
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As Belgian head coach Wouter Vranckin takes charge at Hearts, it marks a strengthening of the club's data-driven vision, writes Thomas Duncan.
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T. Rowe Price is betting on a pullback in the yuan, arguing that it looks “expensive” against a basket of currencies from China’s major trading partners.
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Hearts striker says sole focus is on Champions League qualifying despite links to France as Celtic are set to end long negotiations with coaching staff...
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The films of S.S. Rajamouli have consistently pushed the scale of Indian filmmaking – with blockbusters such as “RRR,” before that the “Baahubali” films. His upcoming feature “Varanasi,” set to release in April 2027, is set to go even further – set across thousands of years and locations as remote and Antarctica, the plot seeing […]
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Navis Capital Partners is planning to sell its majority stake in nuts and snacks company Dan-D Foods Ltd.
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The capture of a juvenile great white shark in Spain has provided fresh evidence that the Mediterranean's elusive "ghost" population of great whites still survives. Researchers reviewing 160 years of records say the discovery could even hint that the sharks are still breeding in the region.
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Fears hard-won gains in reducing child mortality over 20 years are at risk after end of USAID funding for nutrition programmesChild malnutrition in Nepal has reached “alarming” levels, according to the largest ever survey of under-fives in the country.The new figures came just over a year after USAID, the former US flagship agency closed by the Trump administration in 2025, stopped funding work on child nutrition in Nepal. Continue reading...
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Britain has found itself looking for all three protagonists at once. Who gets to stand at the centre of the national story?It’s been the refrain of the week. Why can’t the country hold on to a prime minister – and how can it be that Larry, the Downing Street cat, has managed to outlast six of them? Have we become ungovernable? Is it because one government after another has failed to halt the slide in living standards – or have online attention spans eroded our patience for change?But Westminster
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Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C The community living next to the largest datacentre park in Europe say the scorching summer heat has grown unbearable.On days like Wednesday, said Nabeel Nawaz, the store manager of a Chaiiwala franchise in the centre of Slough, the heat is like something “pinching your body and burning your skin”. Continue reading...
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Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising the roundabout and why she hates cover versions of her songsYou were part of perhaps the richest and most exciting era of music since the German and Italian classics of the 19th century. How was it for you and what made it all tick? eamonmccWilliam Stevenson discovered me after I had won an amateur contest. It was like a dream come true that a producer would come and ap
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There are flashes of low-rent fun to be had here but a busy script makes it feel like a limited series inelegantly cut down to movie lengthStrung is a cautionary tale about following your gut. Directed by Malcolm D Lee – the under-heralded virtuoso behind Girls Trip, Barbershop and other fine franchises – the Peacock suspense thriller stars Chloe Bailey as Laila, a classical violinist with her sights set on a seat in the city philharmonic. A substitute music teaching gig leaves that dream feelin
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From “The Best Man” director Malcom D. Lee and “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” scribe Alan B. McElroy, Peacock’s new horror thriller, “Strung,” is an absurd, campy film offering that leans fully into the ridiculous. “Strung” follows a naive violinist whose new role as a private music tutor for an affluent family leads […]
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Ina Yoon leads the Women's PGA Championship by two shots after the first round as Nellie Korda's hopes of a third straight major falter.