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The British and Irish Lions will play three Tests in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch on their landmark first women’s tour to New Zealand. The Lions will open their tour with a warm-up match against a Black Ferns XV at the Semenoff Stadium in Whangarei on 4 September in 2027. Auckland’s …

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers working at the Social Security Administration (SSA) broke protocols, had more access to sensitive data on Americans than previously disclosed, and were in touch with a political advocacy group hunting for election fraud, the Trump administration admitted in a recent court filing. Justice Department …

Signature Entertainment Jude Law’s portrayal of Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin is one of the major premieres at the Glasgow film festival The programme head of the Glasgow Film Festival has said the long-running festival is “here to stay”, despite financial pressure on the cultural sector. Paul …

Former Australia captain Steve Waugh is among the franchise investors in a men’s European T20 tournament set to be played by city-based teams in Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands later this year. The six-team European T20 Premier League (ETPL) was meant to launch in 2025, but the event was postponed …

Vipotnik’s productive campaign, which has yielded 16 goals in all competitions for club and country, marks a significant improvement from last season. Following his 2024 arrival from Bordeaux, the striker managed only seven goals in 44 appearances in all competitions during his first season. Having initially struggled to hold down …

The British Museum This hoard, dating to 1066, is one of three 2024 finds highlighted by the British Museum as it reveals its latest treasure figures More treasure was found in Norfolk in 2024 than in any other county in England, according to the latest record-breaking figures. Metal detectorists reported …

A succession of injuries damaged City’s challenge on all fronts last season and there is a similar feeling this time round. Guardiola had to make the trip to Norway without eight injured players, as well as new signing Antoine Semenyo, who is ineligible to play in the group phase of …

Pep Guardiola responds to his team’s second defeat in four days as Manchester City lose at Bodo/Glimt in the Champions League. BBC News

Carys NallyWest of England Handout David Trevelyan wanted to thank the rescue teams for their “impressive” assistance saving Bracken A man has thanked rescue services for saving his spaniel after he fell halfway down a cliff. David Trevelyan’s dog, Bracken, was with his family at their home in Sedbury, Forest …

BBC Much of the inquiry evidence has focused on infections at the Royal Hospital for Children The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is drawing to a close, with the key participants making final submissions before a report is published, probably later this year. The public inquiry was ordered in 2019 after a …

Eleanor LawsonWest Midlands Family Neil Thompson was described as a beautiful son, brother, father and friend The family of a man who was found fatally injured on school grounds have paid tribute to him and his love for life. Neil Thompson, who was known by friends and family as Chuck, …

[ An interdisciplinary team including researchers at McGill University has found a range of unexpected chemical contaminants in human milk samples from Canada and South Africa. The chemicals include traces of pesticides, antimicrobials and additives used in plastics and personal-care products. The findings are published across five papers. Source link

Although Audi ran its new car at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya last week, the car unveiled at the event was a show car not representative of the actual Audi design. Audi will join the rest of the teams at the first pre-season test, which is to be held in private …

Sir Keir Starmer faces a showdown with over 100 of his backbenchers if he U-turns on a promise to cap ground rent for leaseholders, a senior Labour MP has warned. Barry Gardiner told Sky News that it will be a “betrayal” of Labour’s manifesto “and of natural justice” if the …

Golden State Warriors forward Jimmy Butler will miss the rest of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Butler, 36, sustained the injury in the third quarter of the Warriors’ 135-112 win over the Miami Heat on Monday. His agent Bernie Lee confirmed the news …

The Canadian Premier League is set to trial Arsene Wenger’s “daylight” offside rule. It was presented to the International Football Association Board (Ifab) at its annual business meeting on Tuesday. It will now go forward to the annual general meeting in Cardiff on 28 February. If approved the trial will …

[ Machinery of the jumping gene LINE1 (red) mounting an attack on the DNA (blue) of germ cells. Credit: Professor Dónal O’Carroll New insights into a sophisticated process that protects sperm cells has revealed a mechanism, similar to an immune system, thwarts genetic chaos during the earliest stages of their …

A parish councillor has said she is “over the moon” after swans were rescued from a pond in Nottinghamshire that was contaminated in an oil spill. The Environment Agency (EA) was contacted after people spotted oil in a pond close to the River Trent in Radcliffe-on-Trent on Saturday. Rescuers were …

Beth Alaw WilliamsBBC Wales Sky Tahar Rahim and Izuka Hoyle star in Sky’s crime thriller Prisoner The first image has been released of forthcoming crime drama Prisoner filmed in Wales which comes out later this year. The six-part series follows a prison officer and trained killer, inadvertently bound together, who …

Every AFC Championship game since the 2011 season has featured either the Kansas City Chiefs of New England Patriots, but even during the Tom Brady days the Pats never had any joy at Mile High. Is this Patriots dynasty reborn? There’s a lot of similarities between life under Mike Vrabel …