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Sunderland midfielder Habib Diarra has been ruled out until December after having an operation to resolve a groin injury.The 21-year-old Senegal international suffered the problem during training before the 1-1 draw with Aston Villa on Sunday.Sunderland said Diarra had successful surgery on Monday.Diarra joined the Black Cats from Strasbourg in July in a deal worth a reported club record £30m.He played in each of Sunderland’s four Premier League games prior to the Villa match, while he also made two appearances for Senegal in September.Sunderland, who beat Sheffield United in the Championship play-off final last season to earn promotion to the…

The owner of B&Q and Screwfix has upgraded its profit forecast after reporting strong demand for new kitchen ranges and garden products amid good summer weather.The Kingfisher chief executive, Thierry Garnier, talked of “slowly rising consumer confidence” with better mortgage affordability and stabilising property sales. “We have seen a resilient consumer in the UK,” he added.Kingfisher, which runs DIY stores across Europe, including Castorama and Brico Dépôt in France, posted sales growth of 1.9% at established stores in the six months to 31 July. This was driven by selling more items, with prices broadly flat.Garnier said sales of big-ticket purchases…

Malawi’s former President Peter Mutharika has taken a comfortable lead in the country’s presidential race, with two-thirds of districts having reported provisional results.The 85-year old has received around 66% of the valid votes counted so far, with his closest rival, the incumbent Lazarus Chakwera, 70, trailing on around 24%.Results declared so far indicate that Mutharika has won in areas known to be Chakwera strongholds, including the capital, Lilongwe, and Nkhotakota.But Chakwera’s camp remains hopeful that once results are declared from other areas, his vote will increase, forcing a run-off.A candidate needs more than 50% of the vote to be declared…

Philippa RoxbyHealth reporterAndrea BradyJessica Brady contacted her GP practice more than 20 times feeling unwellGPs in England are being urged to “think again” if they see a sick patient three times and can’t pin down a diagnosis, or find their symptoms are getting worse.The new NHS initiative, called Jess’s Rule, is named after Jessica Brady who contacted her GP on more than 20 occasions after starting to feel unwell in the summer of 2020. She was told her symptoms were related to long Covid and that she was “too young for cancer”. She died from advanced stage 4 cancer later…

Google’s Pixel superphone is back, packed with a bigger battery, faster charging, magnetic accessories and even more cutting-edge AI tools to try to usurp Apple and Samsung as the monarchs of really big phones.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.The Pixel 10 Pro XL is the largest slab phone Google makes and is one of the biggest available in Europe and the US. It costs £1,199 (€1,299/$1,199/A$1,999), sitting above its smaller sibling the Pixel 10 Pro and below the upcoming folding Pixel 10 Pro Fold, and competing directly…

Typhoon Ragasa is the strongest storm anywhere on earth so far in 2025A super typhoon that caused thousands to be evacuated in the Philippines has “slightly” weakened, according to the country’s weather bureau. Super typhoon Ragasa made landfall over Panuitan Island, one of the Babuyan Islands in the Philippines’ northern Cagayan province, at 15:00 local time (08:00 GMT) Monday. Ragasa, packing 285km/h (177mph) wind gusts, is expected to barrel west towards southern China.Despite its small change in intensity, it still brings a “high risk of life-threatening storm surge”, with peak heights exceeding 3m (10ft), the Philippine weather bureau said.Authorities have…

It sounds like the setup to a joke: a viral author and a global virus walk into a novel. The punchline is long Covid, an illness that defies narrative – dissolves it. Patricia Lockwood’s new autofiction, Will There Ever Be Another You, is the product of that cruel dissolution. “I wrote it insane, and edited it sane,” she explained in a recent interview. The madness is the method. But must you know the mind before you can know the madness?Lockwood is the literary Frankenchild of Dorothy Parker and Flannery O’Connor: a heretical wit fused with gothic strangeness, vintage quippery rewired for…

11 The governments of the United Kingdom and the United States have set up a new body to reduce barriers for companies trying to raise funds in both countries’ capital markets and to strengthen cooperation in the regulation of digital assets, including cryptocurrency. The initiative, announced by Britain’s finance ministry on Monday, is called the Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future. The taskforce will prepare its first report in 180 days, focusing on short-term collaboration opportunities between the two nations and exploring long-term reforms, including the development of wholesale digital markets. According to the UK government, the body will…

Jamison HensleySep 23, 2025, 01:46 AM ETCloseJamison Hensley is a reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North before focusing exclusively on the Ravens beginning in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year award in 2018, and he authored a book titled: Flying High: Stories of the Baltimore Ravens. He was the Ravens beat writer for the Baltimore Sun from 2000-2011.BALTIMORE — Running back Derrick Henry let out his frustration after another costly fourth-quarter fumble by slamming his helmet into the bench on the sideline.By the…

new video loaded: Egypt’s President Pardons Imprisoned Arab Spring ActivistBy Axel Boada•September 22, 2025Alaa Abd El Fattah, pardoned after spending most of the past 12 years imprisoned, gained prominence through his biting, visionary commentary on Egypt’s 2011 Arab Spring revolution.