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Analysis by BBC Sport Scotland’s chief sports writer Tom English Outside Scotland, this selection is going to cause sharp intakes of breath. Maybe inside Scotland, or in parts of it, this selection is going to cause sharp intakes of breath. It really shouldn’t. Yes, Blair Kinghorn has been a shoo-in …

Andrew Bartonand Antony Collins,Yorkshire Google The name Crackpot originates from kraka (crow) and pot (a rift in limestone) From Blubberhouses to Crackpot and Fryup to Sexhow, North Yorkshire is a festival of funny place names, with many a hamlet observed through fits of giggles inside passing vehicles. But have you …

Volodymyr Zelenskyy dropped a barrage of truth bombs on his European allies about their collective failure to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and be respected by his US counterpart, Donald Trump. Invoking the spectacle of Bill Murray’s classic 1990s comedy, Groundhog Day, at a speech in Davos, the …

Available for 29 days Gigi Salmon is joined by Russell Fuller and former world number six Chanda Rubin on Rod Laver Arena to review day three at the Australian Open as the first round comes to an end. We discuss Naomi Osaka’s dramatic win, her striking on-court outfit and what …

A recent Reddit thread suggests that it’s possible for a cosmic orange iPhone 17 Pro to turn vibrant pink. As PCMag’s Eric Zeman noted, it’s likely that the phone has been discolored by cleaning substances that affected the finish, turning it from vibrant orange to a wild hot pink. Sure, this might …

Dramatic video shows a paraglider fall nearly 500ft (152m) into the into ocean at Riviera Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida on 9 January. The Riviera Beach Police Department said the 52-year-old Pompano Beach man survived the incident, after his powered paraglider malfunctioned and crashed off Singer Island. “The windward …

Kaleigh WattersonNorth West BBC The Sedge Lynn is one of a number of surviving temperance billiard hall buildings in Manchester Many of the buildings on high streets up and down the country have their origins in a movement that swept through Victorian England and encouraged people to give up or …

Will Jacks drops a simple catch on the boundary as England miss the chance to remove Travis Head, who remains unbeaten on 121 on day three of the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney. BBC News

Fergal KeaneSpecial correspondent BBC Content warning: this article includes details about the impact of conflict on children in war zones and descriptions of injuries that some readers may find distressing. The first thing was that Abdelrahman’s dad was killed. The family home was struck by an Israeli air strike. The …

Available for over a year What does the arrival of winter mean for plants and animals? In this programme Tom Heap and Helen Czerski find out how wildlife survives the freezing temperatures and short days of the winter months. In a time of climate change, they also ask how warmer …

At Christmas, the world can seem a little more humane than usual – even in wartime. One such glimpse of peace appears each year in what is widely considered the world’s longest-running communist insurgency. Fought in the Philippines, the guerrilla conflict between the Maoist New People’s Army (NPA) and the …

When Octopath Traveler launched in 2019, it was something that looked similar to yet ended up being totally different from the traditional turn-based Japanese role-playing game Square Enix was known for. The series made some innovative changes to the formula, from the roster of eight playable characters to the Boost …

Leeds Museums and Galleries Ralph Thoresby’s meticulous documentation preserves information that would otherwise have been lost The earliest known written account of a daring bid to rescue King Charles I from imprisonment in Leeds has gone on display in the city. The plot, revealed in Ralph Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis – …

Laura Cress,Technology reporterand Lily Jamali,North America technology correspondent, San Francisco Getty Images TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has signed a deal with investors to run its business in the US. But what does this mean for the over 170 million Americans (or so the social media platform claims) who use the …

Scotland’s justice secretary has survived a vote of no confidence amid claims she misrepresented a leading expert on grooming gangs and therefore misled parliament. MSP Angela Constance has ignored calls to stand down and has First Minister John Swinney’s full backing in the wake of comments she made about Professor …

WhenWhen he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one. Language models reviewed …

There’s a VPN travel hack doing the rounds again — mostly thanks to a viral X post. Supposedly, if you set your VPN to a cheaper country, flights and hotel prices become cheaper. So I tried it. Properly. I used a VPN to switch my location to Brazil, Vietnam, Taipei and …

Katie RazzallCulture and Media Editor Reuters BBC chairman Samir Shah says his job is now to “steer the ship” If you tuned into the Culture, Media and Sport committee hearing on Monday expecting a gladiatorial showdown, you’d have been left wondering where the swords were. There have certainly been occasions …

A recent Reddit thread suggests that it’s possible for a cosmic orange iPhone 17 Pro to turn vibrant pink. As PCMag’s Eric Zeman noted, it’s likely that the phone has been discolored by cleaning substances that affected the finish, turning it from vibrant orange to a wild hot pink. Sure, this might …

James Anderson survives the last over of the fourth Test in Melbourne to give England a draw and avoid an Ashes whitewash in the 2021-22 series. WATCH MORE: Burns bowled first ball of Ashes Listen to ball-by-ball commentary from the Ashes on BBC Sounds and watch the best of the …