Sports

Spain to wait for 'best time' to return Lamine Yamal, Karanka says

Spain say they will be patient over Lamine Yamal’s recovery, with RFEF technical director Aitor Karanka insisting the national side will not rush the Barcelona winger back into action. With just five days until La Roja’s World Cup opener against Cape Verde on 15 June, concerns had grown

Culture

Scooter Braun and Taylor Swift cross paths at Knicks game

Scooter Braun attended Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden with girlfriend Sydney Sweeney, where Taylor Swift was also courtside with friends Este and Alana Haim. Swift appears in an Instagram video seated courtside; Braun and Sweeney sat three rows back, separated from the singer by a

Culture

Halo: Campaign Evolved is fun but not the remake the series deserves

Returning to Halo's first campaign via the upcoming remake, Halo: Campaign Evolved, highlights how quickly the series found its footing. Halo Studios has taken a light touch: a glossy Unreal Engine 5 makeover that preserves the original game's moment-to-moment action while making the ringworld look fresh.

Culture

Sudoku 7,343 hard

Click here to access the print version. Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading... sudoku, sudoku 7343, hard, print version, grid, row, column, 3x3 box, numbers 1-9, puzzle

Tech

Galaxy S26 Ultra $1,217 on Amazon — $283 off

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is listed on Amazon for $1,217, a $283 reduction from its $1,500 price, representing a 19% discount. It runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chipset with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The 6.9-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X

Tech

Free Android app makes deleting photos as easy as swiping left

Phones can fill up fast with years of photos and videos, and clearing them out with Google Photos often feels slow. Sponge takes a different approach, letting you swipe left to delete and right to keep, and it supports single-photo deletion and date-based purges — with collection deletion available in the

Culture

Ridley Scott to Receive Honorary Academy Award at 2026 Governors Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present an Academy Honorary Award to director Ridley Scott at the 17th Governors Awards on Nov. 15, 2026. The ceremony will also honor actor Glenn Close and animator Floyd Norman, while producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler will receive the Irving

Culture

Star Wars Quiz: Which Force User Are You?

The Force is not a binary. It is a spectrum — from the serene halls of the Jedi Temple to the shadowed corridors of Sith space. Ten questions will reveal where you truly fall. 🔵Jedi Master 🟡Padawan 🔴Sith Lord ⚫Inquisitor ⚪Grey Jedi. Disciplined, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the living Force,

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Laurence Olivier honoured with blue plaque unveiled by Ian McKellen

Laurence Olivier has joined David Garrick, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward with an English Heritage blue plaque outside his former London home. Ian McKellen unveiled the plaque at 22 Lupus Street in Pimlico, where Olivier lived from the age of five to 12 and discovered a talent for

Sports

How to watch South Korea vs Czechia worldwide (with a VPN)

If you want to access your usual streaming service from another country or avoid geo-restrictions, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) can help. A VPN such as ExpressVPN creates a secure, encrypted connection and lets you change your virtual location to a country where the South Korea vs Czechia match is

Sports

Why Travis Kelce skipped Game 4 while Taylor Swift cheered the Knicks

Travis Kelce did not accompany soon-to-be wife Taylor Swift to Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. Kelce was in Kansas City for a mandatory three-day minicamp with the Kansas City Chiefs, which began Tuesday at the University of Kansas Health System Training Complex and concludes

Tech

Xbox giveaway and internal 'Reset' letter expose supply and funding tensions

Microsoft held its annual summer showcase at the Los Angeles Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that fans with special badges at the event—all of whom paid their own way to Los Angeles and surely own an Xbox—will receive a free limited

Culture

Russell T. Davies Leaves Doctor Who, 2026 Christmas Special Canceled

Russell T. Davies has announced he is stepping down as showrunner for a second time and is taking his Bad Wolf production company with him. That decision means the promised 2026 Christmas special will not happen and the cliffhanger that closed 2025’s season will remain unresolved as the BBC

Science

Rocket Integration Complete for Katalyst Swift Boost

Engineers completed installation of Katalyst Space’s LINK robotic servicing spacecraft into a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket on Tuesday, June 9, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Launch is anticipated later this month. Katalyst was contracted to build and launch LINK to raise the altitude of the

Culture

Spielberg's Disclosure Day projected to top Jurassic Park opening

Steven Spielberg's new sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day is projected to open to roughly $115 million worldwide, with domestic receipts of $35+ million and $65+ million internationally, Deadline projects. The film, based on an original story, arrives in theaters this weekend. That haul would surpass the original Jurassic Park&

Culture

Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive?

Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive. The quiz asks about instincts and survival choices: what resource you guard most fiercely, the kind of threat that keeps you up, how you deal with authority, which environment you

Sports

Chelsea release Michael Olise's younger brother as 11-year spell with Blues ends

Chelsea have confirmed the departure of 20-year-old defender Richard Olise, bringing an 11-year spell at Stamford Bridge to an end. While his older brother Michael continues to shine for Bayern Munich and the France national team, Richard is now searching for a new club. The exit forms part of a

Crypto

XRP Demand Falls 91.5% as Traders Eye $0.63 Support

Glassnode data shows XRP’s onchain activity has contracted sharply since its 2025 peak: the 90-day simple moving average of total fees paid on the network fell to 500 XRP from 5,900 XRP — a 91.5% drop — and the 90-day realized profit-to-loss ratio slid to 0.38 from 50.

Culture

What is Gloom used for in Mortal Shell 2?

Gloom in Mortal Shell 2 is a glowing white currency you pick up while chopping through enemies. The game also includes Coins, which you can safely expect to spend with a trader. Gloom is used to level up your Harbinger, with each upgrade requiring increasingly larger amounts. You can level

Culture

Killer Bean Is a Very, Very Bad Game

Killer Bean was first revealed in 2023 by solo developer Jeff Lew via a Twitter teaser that drew millions of views, and it later appeared at Summer Game Fest 2024 promising intense first- and third-person gunplay, Max Payne–style bullet time, vehicular mayhem, open-world chaos and more. The game has

Culture

HBO's Task Adds Edgar Ramirez for Season 2

Edgar Ramirez has joined the second season of Task, appearing alongside Mark Ruffalo. He will play Miguel Contreras, described as "a devoted family man and loyal DEA second-in-command torn between duty and guilt." Ramirez's credits include Zero Dark Thirty, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime

Culture

Which Horror Villain Are You Most Likely to Survive?

A horror survival quiz asks eight questions to figure out which killer you might actually have a fighting chance against. It matches your instincts, strengths, and way of thinking under pressure to a single villain. Five antagonists anchor the results: Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pennywise, and Chucky. The

Sports

England's final World Cup warm-up delayed after Florida storm floods pitch

England's final World Cup warm-up against Costa Rica at Orlando's Inter&Co Stadium was delayed after a tropical storm flooded the pitch and forced organisers to push back kick-off. Images from the ground showed water pooling on the playing surface as a heavy downpour disrupted

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Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet match in Knicks-themed denim

Kylie Jenner joined boyfriend Timothée Chalamet at Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the Spurs on Wednesday night, turning up in matching Knicks-themed denim. Both wore Chrome Hearts jeans customized with blue and orange crosses: his a baggy pair with embellishments around the ankles, hers a low-slung cuffed style

Tech

Microsoft struggles to price next Xbox amid memory crisis

Microsoft is facing a memory pricing squeeze its AI ambitions have helped create, making it hard to offer a cutting-edge Xbox at a price ordinary buyers can afford. The next console, codenamed Helix, will deliver "leading-end performance," new Xbox boss Asha Sharma said, but other comments suggest Microsoft