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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature77th over: England 347-6 (Smith 2, Overton 8) England need 27 to win Krishna to finish off the four balls of last night’s over. Overton pulls the first, a short ball, for four. Bang. The next also greets the boundary – an awkward inside edge, scything past leg stump. Has a dirty swipe at the next, misses. And plays back carefully at the fourth.ShareMorning session – England need 35 to winA full house, a huddle for India, chewing gum for Jamie Smith. Jerusalem the soundtrack.Jamie Smith and Jamie Overton…

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How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600 frames taken by a drone from approximately 50 meters away? If done with a human eye, weeks or months. If analyzed by an artificial intelligence system, one afternoon. The National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, known by it’s Italian initialism CNSAS, relied on AI to find the body of a person missing in Italy’s Piedmont region on the north face of Monviso—the highest peak in the Cottian Alps—since September 2024.According to Saverio Isola, the CNSAS drone pilot who intervened along…

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Emilia BelliWestminster correspondent, BBC Wales NewsMel WallaceMel Wallace was a keen motorbike rider but now, as she waits for a hip replacement, she struggles to put her own socks onNHS patients from Wales who need knee and hip operations in England face lengthy delays after a health board asked English hospitals to copy Wales’ longer waiting times.Powys health board announced the change as it could not afford the cost of how quickly operations over the border were being carried out, but patients have said they were not informed.Mel Wallace, 59, from Howey, Powys, was initially told she would have a…

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The outcry after a recent marketplace crackdown on games with adult content, seemingly due to pressure from payment processors, prompted Mastercard to release a brief statement Friday pushing back against recent headlines. “Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations,” the company said, adding, “At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.” This follows an open letter by the advocacy group Collective Shout addressed to executives at…

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When 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020, it ripped through the city, killing more than 218 people. Among them was three-year-old Alexandra Naggear.Five years later, the investigation into who is at fault for the blast has been delayed, and at times derailed, by political interference.“The most important thing for us is not for the decision, but for full justice to happen,” Tracy Naggear, Alexandra’s mother and a key activist advocating for the blast’s victims, told Al Jazeera by phone. “And we won’t accept a half-truth or half-justice.”As the fifth anniversary of the tragedy…

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Addra* insists that his aunt, Anyessi Dossou, does not have a story to tell. “She’s just an old woman who’s never left the village,” he says, as he guides us along dirt tracks in fading light to her home in Avlo, Benin.When Dossou, in her early 80s, emerges from her room in the compound house she shares with generations of her extended family, the conversation begins hesitantly. “I told you,” Addra says.Then the levees break. Asked about her husband, Dossou recounts the impact of being widowed at a young age and raising five children. She speaks of small joys and…

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15 The rental market in Lagos has been described as unstable, unpredictable, and filled with hidden rules that many tenants do not understand. This was revealed in the third edition of the State of Lagos Housing Market report, published by the Roland Igbinoba Real Foundation for Housing and Urban Development. According to the report, the Lagos housing market remains one of the most active in Nigeria, with strong demand across all income levels, especially among low- and middle-income earners. But the demand is not matched by enough supply, making decent housing harder to find for most residents. The report pointed…

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Opening summary: Scotland braces for amber weather alertGood morning and welcome to our blog covering Storm Floris with a yellow weather warning for wind already in effect for a swath of the northern UK and an amber wind alert for much of Scotland due to start at 10am. Heavy rain and winds of up to 85mph are possible, the Met Office said.Some trains and ferry services have already been cancelled with more likely to be affected.Train operator LNER has told passengers not to travel north of Newcastle while Avanti West Coast has advised passengers not to travel north of Preston,…

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Cinema can “preserve history, influence mindsets, and provide a space for reflection and escape,” Cambodian auteur Rithy Panh (Graves Without a Name, Exile, Meeting With Pol Pot, Everything Will Be OK) said when he was unveiled as the surprise jury president of this year’s 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival. The long-time documentary chronicler is best known for his work about the 1970s Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, which saw his parents, siblings and extended family perish of starvation and forced labor. Panh escaped to Thailand and then to France, where he discovered filmmaking. In 2013, his The Missing…

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