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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePennant watch. As ever, PSG’s offering is a gloriously free-form affair. Perhaps the jazziest thing to come out of Paris since the hot days of Stéphane and Django.Can a pennant swing? If so, this one does. Like a mother. Photograph: Valerio Pennicino/UEFA/Getty ImagesTottenham’s earnest effort is a tad dull by comparison. Not totally dissimilar to the pennants foisted on England’s women’s and men’s teams, but the class of the raised lettering ensures it doesn’t plumb the FA’s will-this-do depths.Quality tassel, as well, to be fair. Photograph: Valerio Pennicino/UEFA/Getty ImagesShareHarbinger…

The amount of people in the UK visiting the most popular pornography sites has decreased sharply since enhanced age verification rules came into place, new figures indicate.Data analytics firm Similarweb said leading adult site Pornhub lost more than one million visitors in just two weeks.Pornhub and other major adult websites introduced advanced age checks on 25 July after the Online Safety Act said sites must make it harder for under-18s to see explicit material.Data experts at Similarweb compared the daily average user figures of popular pornography sites from 1 to 9 August with the daily average figures for July.Pornhub is…

EJ Antoni, United States President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency that produces the nation’s jobs and inflation data, has been embroiled in criticism from economists.Antoni was chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation and an author of Project 2025, the far-right wish list the think tank created for then-candidate Trump – or the next Republican president.His selection threatens to bring a new level of politicisation to a producer of measurements of the nation’s economic health that has, for decades, been widely regarded as a nonpartisan and reliable agency.“Trump has nominated a sycophant to…

France has acknowledged its role in decades of violent repression of independence movements in Cameroon, the latest stage in a slow process of reckoning with its brutal colonial past.In a letter to the Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, dated 30 July, Emmanuel Macron said it was “up to me today to assume the role and responsibility of France in these events”.The letter, which was disclosed on Tuesday, conveyed the findings of a joint Franco-Cameroonian commission that investigated the colonial-era repression of independence movements from 1945 to 1971.It also took into account crimes committed by the French-allied post-independence government of Ahmadou Ahidjo…

United States President Donald Trump has unveiled his slate of picks for the Kennedy Center Honors, an annual awards show designed to honour actors, musicians, designers and creative professionals who have dedicated their lives to the performing arts.On Wednesday, Trump appeared on stage at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, one of the premier stages in Washington, DC, in a show of power over the national cultural institution.“We’ll make it better than it ever was, frankly,” he said of the awards show. “ It’ll be something that people are going to be very proud of.”This year’s five honourees…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reiterated that there should be no peace talks to end the Russia-Ukraine war now in its fourth year without representation from his country, and also said Russia should face sanctions if it does not agree to an immediate ceasefire, following a virtual meeting between him, United States President Donald Trump and European leaders.Zelenskyy delivered the message after the call on Wednesday, two days ahead of a summit between Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska, which comes as part of Washington’s so far failed attempts to end the war in Ukraine.Meanwhile, Trump promised…

If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here we are, absorbing a story from the New York Times this week in which Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are discovered to have been running a private school out of their compound in Palo Alto, California, in violation of city zoning laws. More pertinently, the school of 14 kids, which includes two of the couple’s three daughters, is less than a mile from the school for low-income families that the couple founded…

The heatwave-fuelled wildfires that have killed two people in Spain over recent days, devouring thousands of hectares of land and forcing thousands of people from their homes, are a “clear warning” of the impact of the climate emergency, the country’s environment minister has said.Speaking on Wednesday morning, as firefighters in Spain, Greece and other Mediterranean countries continued to battle dozens of blazes, Sara Aagesen said the 14 wildfires still burning across seven Spanish regions were further proof of the country’s particular vulnerability to global heating.Aagesen said that while some of the fires appeared to have been started deliberately, the deadly…

 After briefly exiting the studio, Jason Bourne is making Universal his permanent home. NBCUniversal announced today that it has acquired all rights, excluding publishing, to Robert Ludlum’s popular Jason Bourne and Treadstone book series, in perpetuity.  As the studio notes, the deal fortifies the future of the Bourne franchise across the NBCUniversal arms, and will pave the way for new installments for Ludlum’s beloved character and the spy world he inhabits. The move follows the exit of the screen rights in March, when WME began shopping the rights to the spy franchise and the rest of the Robert Ludlum library on behalf of the…

We claim to value privacy, but surrender it daily, often without knowing.We say we care about privacy, but this episode examines whether our actions reflect that.In The Privacy Paradox, we unravel the disconnect between our stated values and our digital behaviour.From mindless clicks to routine app permissions, this episode exposes how everyday online habits feed a vast, invisible data economy, often without our knowledge or consent.