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Evo 2025, the biggest fighting game tournament in North America, starts this weekend. If you tune into one of the nine different Evo Twitch channels, you’ll see some of the top players in the world compete in fighting game staples like Street Fighter and Tekken and newer games like Fatal …

Alex Taylor Culture reporter BBC Waiting for a date I’d hardly chatted to was certainly a different experience I’m sitting – trying to look composed – in a London bar. Cocktail ordered, there’s a rollercoaster knot of anticipation building in my stomach – I’m waiting for a date. Except this …

A British doctor who has just returned from Gaza has described how one of her patients, a 21-year-old woman who was six months pregnant, lost her baby after she was “blown up in her tent”. “Her husband was killed, she lost her eye, she had an open fracture, and both …

The award-winning, quirky survival game Grounded is like the game version of the classic ’80s comedy film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. And Xbox Game Pass subscribers can get early access to that game’s sequel, Grounded 2, now.  Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors’ Choice award pick, offers hundreds …

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said she no longer identifies as Nigerian and has not renewed her passport since the early 2000s. Badenoch, who was born in the UK, grew up in both Nigeria and the US. She returned to England aged 16 because of Nigeria’s worsening political and …

Matt Hancock has defended government deals to buy personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic, saying the country was in a “desperate situation” at the time. In a bad-tempered session at the Covid inquiry, the former health secretary repeatedly criticised the line of questioning describing it as “naive”, “hostile” and …

Mohammad Sartaj Alam Tetgama, Bihar BBC The five members of a family who were lynched by a mob in Bihar Warning: This story contains details that some may find disturbing. Three weeks after five members of a family in India were brutally killed and allegedly burned alive amid accusations of …

Even though VPN bundle subscriptions have been around for a few years now, the trend is showing no signs of slowing down. A handful of the companies we’ve traditionally thought of as “VPN companies” are becoming much more than just VPN companies. They’re essentially rebranding as comprehensive cybersecurity solutions — …

Mateo Retegui, top scorer in Italy’s Serie A last season, has joined Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah from Atalanta. Italian media reports Al-Qadsiah have paid more than £56m for the 26-year-old striker, who has signed a four-year contract. The fee would make Retegui the most expensive Italian player of all …

Ewan Somerville & George Sandeman BBC News Maria Potouroglou Wildfires seen in late July in Chalkida on the Greek island of Euboea It’s been a scorching summer so far in parts of Europe, and with it has come an outbreak of wildfires – and warnings of more. Mainland Greece, some …

BBC Listen to this article on BBC Sounds Ministers, health staff and the public gathered in London last week for a summit to discuss the 10-year NHS plan in England. It was the final roadshow in a nationwide tour to help set out the strategy the government says will rescue …

Thurles racecourse has been closed with immediate effect. The County Tipperary venue, the only privately owned racecourse in the Republic of Ireland, hosted its first recorded race meeting in 1732. Owned for more than a century by the Molony family, a statement said “ever increasing industry demands and the cost …

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Wales were the most recent recipients of the Wooden Spoon Emma Middleton BBC Sport journalist Many are steeped in history, but not all come with bragging rights. Here’s a look at the various Six Nations awards and accolades. What is the Triple Crown? The Triple …

A suspect is on the run after four people were killed in a shooting at a bar in the US state of Montana, authorities say. The shooting happened at The Owl Bar in the city of Anaconda at around 10:30 local time, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation confirmed to …

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ITV/Shutterstock/Netflix This week, we will finally find out which couple has been crowned winners of the latest Love Island. But that’s not all the next seven days have in store. Netflix show Wednesday is back for series 2, new Sir David Attenborough-narrated series Parenthood is released, and MasterChef is scheduled …

Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto EPA A self-imposed deadline for a new US-Canada trade deal came and went on Friday. So what happens next for these two deeply entwined neighbours? Canada and the US have been locked in a tariff war for six months and, despite talk of “intense” negotiations …

Some of the world’s leading tech companies are betting big on very small innovations. Last week, Samsung released its Galaxy Z Fold 7 which – when open – has a thickness of just 4.2mm, one of the slimmest folding phones ever to hit the market. And Honor, a spin-off from …

PA Media Lord Patrick Vallance, former government chief scientific adviser, gave evidence to the inquiry in west London Boris Johnson pushed for a more “ruthless, authoritarian approach” towards people who refused to self-isolate during the pandemic, according to documents seen by the Covid inquiry. The instinct of policy makers was …

The British and Irish Lions were created by three former cricketers – Alfred Shaw, Arthur Shrewsbury and James Lillywhite. The team first toured in 1888, though the name ‘Lions’ did not originate until 1924 and was not adopted formally until 1950. The idea was to bring together the best rugby …