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⚽️ World Cup kick-off time: 7pm ET/12am BST/9am AEST ⚽️ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Contact Beau Beau will be here shortly. In the meantime, catch up on what to know about Côte d’Ivoire and Ecuador with our team guides. Côte d’Ivoire return to the world stage for the first time since the golden years of the early 2010s. They do not quite have the star power of old, but their squad…

The net rippled and Curaçao’s bench exploded in every conceivable ­direction, their giddiness underpinned by a lucid awareness of the goal’s place in history. Livano Comenencia had just equalised against Germany and an island of 158,000 inhabitants, represented here by an accomplished group born almost entirely in the Netherlands, could revel disbelievingly in the moment it had dreamed of. Realit…

Squad has evolved since 2024 but the European champions are happy to embrace the tag of tournament favourites Spain knew, now everyone else does too. It was almost 1.30am on 15 July 2024 when Álvaro Morata, the captain who had lifted the Henry Delaunay trophy, headed down the slope and towards the team bus parked beneath the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. A European champion now, he came with a big b…

A beautiful interface isn't created by random colors. The right color palette can increase usability, improve brand recognition, and guide users toward important actions. Here's a simple process I follow when designing products: ✅ 1. Start with Your Brand Personality Ask yourself: • Professional or playful? • Premium or affordable? • Modern or traditional? Examples: 🔵 Blue = Trust, security, prof…

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The project is situated in the Foresky Community on the South Fourth Ring in Beijing , surrounded by parks. It serves as a community center that fosters a shared living place—a communal space among neighbors. Its design is based on the concepts of Gathering and Return, which focus on spatial experience. The center provides a gym, a children's center, a restaurant, a café, and an art shop.

In Bars 2 and 3 of the final duet, ‘Natus cadit, atque Deus’, from Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacinthus, the melodic line, taken by the first violins, falls below the upper line of the horns. It seems odd. ...

Precious win gives Steve Clarke’s team a platform but nervy display against Haiti could prove a missed opportunity It felt so typically Scottish that even rare success on the World Cup stage delivered such paradoxes of emotion and analysis. In Ireland, sporting glory is routinely cherished without contradiction. Scots have far more of a tendency to apply “ah, but” as an addendum. So it proved fro…

Two strangers become entangled in an alien cover-up and lovers indulge in a road-trip crime spree

Celebrations filled the streets, subways and bars until well after midnight in the five boroughs after Knicks win Marvita Davis, 70, was a teenager in Harlem the last time the New York Knicks won a championship, in 1973. “I was like, Oh, I like this game. I can get into this game,” recalled Davis, who went on to play basketball at Northeastern University. Continue reading...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 13 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07355-0 Performative authorship: engaging with the problem of authorial identity in Meena Kandasamy’s Exquisite Cadavers

Snape Maltings, Suffolk This year’s Aldeburgh festival opened with a stripped-back concert staging by Rory Kinnear with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Trying to unlock the secrets of Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, is a slippery task at the best of times. Doing so in a barely there staging, with the orchestra on the pl…

From his taut, sun-kissed portraits of LA to his vast psychedelic Yorkshire landscapes to his 70m iPad Normandy epic – here’s our pick of the artist’s best works Continue reading...

Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London Performers representing the four seasons of life – and a wide range of styles – dance to a ravey remix of Vivaldi It was a great idea: a dance through the four seasons of life, with performers whose own ages range from spring to winter, set to a reimagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Neat. It’s amazing to see older dancers who can bring all the textures of t…

Our favourite music, clothes and books used to be markers of individuality – but the algorithm has made us all sheep. Meet the style rebels fighting back What are you into? What floats your boat? What music, films, clothes, art, books – anything, really – do you actually like? Do you find these questions more difficult to answer than you would have done 10 years ago? How about 20? You do? You’re …

As he opens a career-spanning show in London, the Turner prize-winning artist gives us a private view of his giant studio and talks censorship, controversy and why disobedience is central to making great art In Anish Kapoor’s 3,100 sq metre studio complex in south London, photographers, assistants and gallery representatives gather in an upstairs meeting room. The artist has a staff of 23 in Lond…

The Telekom Tower, southeast of Konstanz's historic city centre, quite literally stands out from its surroundings. For a long time, this 1970s building stood in stark contrast to its urban fabric, not only for its height but also for its architectural language; it was perceived as an almost alien presence within the city. Converting the vacant office tower into a residential building offered the …

He challenged homophobia not through sexualised imagery but by reshaping ideas of beauty, intimacy and desire. The result? From posters to cushion covers, A Bigger Splash has become an essential presence in countless gay households ‘He changed the world just by looking at it’ David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88 Six decades after David Hockney painted A Bigger Splash , his mo…

From lush rose gardens and botanical studies to sculptural acrylic blooms and impasto flower portraits, this week’s Heart List celebrates seven artists finding entirely different ways to paint flowers. These works come from artists across the globe, each bringing their own approach to colour, texture, atmosphere, and storytelling. Some capture the fleeting beauty of a garden at dusk, others trans…

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost I always felt a little bad for the ghosts in Pac-Man. They patrol the maze, they corner the guy, and then he eats a glowing pellet and suddenly they're the ones running for their lives. So I built a small game where you finally get to play the other side. Pac-Man has its own AI, and your job is to catch him before he clears the maze. The twist is the same one that al…