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Aston Villa’s president of football operations Monchi is poised to leave the club. The 56-year-old’s imminent departure comes with Villa 18th in the Premier League after a winless start to the season. Monchi joined Villa in 2023 from Spanish side Sevilla, where he had been sporting director, having previously worked …

Chichester City footballer Billy Vigar has been placed in an induced coma after suffering what the club said was “a significant brain injury” during a match. It happened in the game between Chichester and Wingate and Finchley on Saturday in the Isthmian League Premier Division. The striker, who is 21 …

Paris St-Germain forward Ousmane Dembele won the men’s Ballon d’Or – widely regarded as football’s most prestigious individual award – on Monday. For this week’s big Tuesday quiz we’ve gone bigger than ever before and want you to name all 69 winners of the men’s Ballon d’Or. Only the most …

Scott Parker’s team have beaten Derby County in this season’s Carabao Cup after entering at the second-round stage, while Cardiff have seen off Swindon and Cheltenham to set up the trip to Lancashire. “I am really excited to go to a Premier League team in a competition where we have …

A man wielding a crossbow has died from “self-inflicted injuries” during a stand-off with police at a village pub. Specialist officers and negotiators from Bedfordshire Police were called to the Chequers Inn in Wootton, near Bedford, at about 10:15 BST on Friday morning. Shortly after emergency services arrived at the …

Oracle has announced that Safra Catz is stepping down as CEO after 11 years at the helm, with insiders Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia being promoted as co-CEOs. Magouyrk previously led Oracle’s cloud infrastructure unit, while Sicilia presided over the company’s applications and AI products. The co-CEOs are now focused …

All remaining Bodycare stores are to shut with the loss of 444 jobs. Administrators said the business was “no longer viable to continue” trading and a sale of the stores was “now unlikely”. As a result the chain’s remaining 56 stores will shut, the administrators said, with the closures expected …

Graeme Dey has been appointed Scotland’s minister for parliamentary business following the resignation of Jamie Hepburn. Hepburn quit last Friday after being accused of assault and verbal abuse by Conservative MSP Douglas Ross. The SNP MSP admitted using a few “choice words” after a clash over discussions about a summit …

Northamptonshire all-rounder Rob Keogh has signed a contract extension with the club for next season. Keogh is just 38 runs short of 10,000 in all competitions and has also taken 220 wickets with his off-spin. He has played 10 County Championship and five One-Day Cup matches this season after revealing …

A Merseyside drug dealer who peddled heroin and crack cocaine into North Wales has been detained. Ross Keegan, from Liverpool, controlled the so-called “Scouse Kane line” in the Wrexham area, said Merseyside Police. The 20-year-old was first arrested in July in Wrexham over an outstanding warrant. His role in supplying …

The Duchess of York has been removed as patron of a children’s charity, in the wake of an email in which she called sex offender Jeffrey Epstein her “supreme friend”. Julia’s House, a children’s hospice charity serving families in Dorset and Wiltshire, has removed Sarah Ferguson from her role as …

Wales right-back Ronan Kpakio has signed a new contract with Cardiff City. The 18-year-old academy graduate has enjoyed a breakthrough season with the Bluebirds, who are fourth in League One having lost only one game so far. Kpakio’s form was rewarded with a first senior Wales cap during the friendly …

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 Reform UK announce that they would scrap indefinite leave to remain within 100 days of government – but what impact will this have? Sam and Anne discuss the practicalities of the policy and whether Nigel Farage is trying to …

The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max appear to provide little resistance to scratches and scuffs around the sharp edges of the camera bump. Tech blogger Zack Nelson demonstrates this weakness in a durability test on his JerryRigEverything YouTube channel, explaining that the anodized aluminium layer on the iPhone …

England’s Meg Jones has been nominated for the World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year award. Jones has started 11 of England’s 12 matches in 2025, and has been a key player in the Red Roses’ run to Saturday’s World Cup final, including a stand-out performance in the semi-final …

Highways England Motorists have been urged to avoid the area Part of a motorway has been closed after a rush-hour crash. The A1(M) has been shut in both directions from junction four for Hertford and Welwyn Garden City to junction five, Hertfordshire Police said. The force urged drivers to avoid …

We wrap up the weekend’s Scottish League Cup action with Celtic beating Partick Thistle. Source link

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo took to X on Wednesday to claim that a MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen was expected to enter mass production by late 2026. Today Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is following up to remind us that he was reporting on a touchscreen MacBook Pro way back in 2023. …

If you’re the kind of person who owns leather driving gloves in multiple colors to match your different Jaguars, then there hasn’t been a digital paper option that could live up to your lofty luxury standards until now. But Montblanc is finally delivering a truly bougie take on the e-ink …

The World Athletics Championships bid farewell to Tokyo, but not before Great Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson has a chance to add world gold to her collection. Show more The World Athletics Championships bid farewell to Tokyo, but not before Great Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson has a chance to …