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How We Watched the World Cup: Smelling Maradona – video
If you had the chance to meet Diego Maradona, what would you do? Smell him? That’s what our chief sports writer, Barney...
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India’s workers are training AI robots to take their jobs
Developers believe that feeding first-person footage into specialised AI models will help robots copy human behaviour.
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Mexico’s historic Azteca Stadium to kickoff World Cup opener: All to know
Mexico City's iconic Estadio Azteca will become the first venue to host matches at three separate World Cups.
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Two children die from measles as England data shows 100 new infections
London, the east of England and the West Midlands have highest number of cases, as UKHSA urges families to get children...
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‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down twice to direct Bond
Film-maker says he approached producer ‘Cubby’ Broccoli after Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind were hits, but...
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Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energyEven as Donald Trump boosts coa...
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What my dad taught me about the inevitability of death | Amanda Sloat
Most fathers would shield their children from death. Mine, a psychologist, did the oppositeMy dad and I kept a running l...
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Three Indian sailors killed in US strike on oil tanker
A US strike on an oil tanker accused of transporting Iranian oil has killed three Indian sailors.
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Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
(Dirty Hit)Aided by Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Sampha and more, the cello-playing singer-songwriter’s abstracted yet tun...
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From Vecna to Mr Burns: TV’s greatest ever villains
Violent drug barons, brutal monarchs, interdimensional murderers … television has no shortage of horrifying baddies. Her...
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Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
Ten years ago, the Ghostbusters reboot was released into a firestorm of rage and revulsion. What did the onslaught show...
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World celebrates, but Gaza watches the World Cup from a distance
Amid war and ruins, Gaza footballers keep training but feel erased from the World Cup and global football stage.