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Coco Gauff walked off Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday night with eyes still wet and a clenched fist raised high. The world No 3 had lived through another serving ordeal, this time against Donna Vekić, yet she emerged intact – emotionally frayed but victorious – with a 7-6 (5), 6-2 win that lifted her into the third round of the US Open.The match was less a straight-line triumph than a public unravelling and recovery, a window into the psychological toll of remaking her most important shot in real time. Gauff’s seven double faults in the first set recalled the low…

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: Previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations and coding sessions, and it said it’s extending data retention to five years for those who…

Lady Gaga has announced that her new song “The Dead Dance” will be released on September 3. Variety broke the news earlier this month that the pop star was planning to drop the song slated to appear in the second season of the Tim Burton-helmed Netflix series “Wednesday.” Early last month, several outlets speculated that Gaga had been with Burton on the Island of the Dolls in Xochimilco, south of Mexico City, to film a music video for the track. Gaga announced the release date, fittingly set for a Wednesday, on social media shortly after appearing on the carpet at…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says ready to defend ‘sovereignty’ as US military deploys warships near country’s territorial waters.Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said there was “no way” United States troops could invade his country as tension rises with Washington and a US naval force builds up in the Southern Caribbean near Venezuela’s territorial waters.“There’s no way they can enter Venezuela,” Maduro said on Thursday, stating that his country was well prepared to defend its sovereignty as US warships arrive in the region in a so-called operation against Latin American drug cartels.“Today, we are stronger than…

Suzanne BearneTechnology Reporter, Querétaro, MexicoArterra/Getty ImagesQuerétaro is known for its impressive stone aqueductLocated in the middle of Mexico, Querétaro is a charming and colourful colonial-style city known for its dazzling stone aqueduct.But the city, and state of the same name, is also recognised for a very different reason – as Mexico’s data centre capital.Across the state companies including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and ODATA own these warehouse-like buildings, full of computer servers. No one could supply an exact number, but there are scores of them, with more being built. Ascenty, which claims to be the largest data centre company in…

The UK, France and Germany have begun the process of restoring major UN sanctions on Iran – lifted under a 2015 deal – as tensions once again escalate over Tehran’s nuclear programme.The move will trigger a so-called snapback mechanism, which could result in the return of sanctions in 30 days.In a letter to the European Union’s policy chief, Iran’s foreign minister said the three countries had “no legal jurisdiction” to reactivate the sanctions and that both Russia and China supported Iran’s position. The minister wrote that Iran was ready to resume “fair and balanced” negotiations on the disputed programme if…

167 South Africa’s Competition Tribunal has confirmed settlement agreements involving WesBank, FirstRand, and subsidiaries of Toyota, over allegations of uncompetitive behaviour in the country’s vehicle financing sector. The companies will pay an administrative penalty of R30 million as part of the settlement, though they have not admitted liability. The case follows an investigation by the Competition Commission, which found that WesBank and Toyota Financial Services were involved in collusion that limited consumer choice. According to the commission, the companies entered into a shareholder agreement that effectively divided the vehicle finance market by restricting which customers WesBank could serve at authorised…

Tesla sales slumped 40% across Europe in July compared with a year earlier as Elon Musk’s electric car company faces increasingly tough competition from its Chinese rival BYD.There were 8,837 sales of Tesla cars last month across the EU, the European Free Trade Association and the UK, according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). That compared with 14,769 at the same point last year.New car registrations for BYD across Europe rose to 13,503 last month, compared with 4,151 a year earlier. BYD now has 1.2% market share, the ACEA found. Tesla’s share remains at 0.8%.Chinese car brands,…

new video loaded: Egypt Recovers Ancient Artifacts From Underwater CityBy Amogh Vaz and Jamie Leventhal•August 28, 2025As part of a major archaeological operation, Egyptian officials uncovered underwater remnants from a 2,000-year-old “party town” known as Canopus. Archaeologists believe that the city may be larger than previously thought.Recent episodes in News Clips: Middle EastShow more videos from News Clips: Middle East

We were interested to see your gallery of pictures from the exhibition Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine at V&A Dundee (‘A symbol of Palestinian presence and identity’: the personal and political world of ‘tatreez’ – in pictures, 18 August), having visited the partner exhibit at V&A South Kensington.The tatreez embroidery tradition should indeed be celebrated, but as scholars we are concerned by the failure to use historically correct language, and to recognise the diversity of cultures that existed in the area presented here simply as “Palestine”. Formally speaking, there was no such place in the late 19th and early 20th…