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Gauff battles through back injury to keep WTA Finals hopes alive

Coco Gauff shows all of her battling qualities as she fights through a back injury to beat Marta Kostyuk and keep her WTA Finals last-four hopes alive.

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Ghana kick-start Afcon 2027 bid despite Ayew penalty miss

Ghana kick-start their Afcon 2027 qualifying campaign despite Jordan Ayew having a penalty saved, while Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Senegal register wins.

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Bond producer first female president of film school

Barbara Broccoli is succeeding David Puttnam in the role in February.

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How BBC got message from Vinícius Jr to Sudan football fan who lost his legs in war

Double amputee Zaher told the BBC last year about his favourite footballer and a dream of being able to walk again.

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Before Scott Colom, these two men were the last black US senators from Mississippi

The Democratic candidate won in a southern state that had not seated a black senator since 1874.

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“No electricity, no water, and no heating”: Ukrainians are suffering as a result of Russia’s targeting of the energy grid

For parents in some parts of Ukraine, trying to live a normal family life with electricity available for only a few hours a day has become a heavy burden.

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CMAT joins Philomena Begley on stage in surprise appearance

Philomena Begley was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her 64-year career.

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The chaos that took Carrick from two-year deal to sacked within 15 games

Michael Carrick becomes the third Manchester United manager to be sacked in three seasons - where did it go wrong?

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US envoys arrive in Moscow for Russia-Ukraine talks with Putin

The meeting with Kushner and Witkoff comes after two days of trilateral talks in the UAE yielded no breakthrough.

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‘I railed against the stereotype of the humourless lesbian’: the cheeky, feminist photography of Jill Posener

Her witty photos served as a rebuttal to 80s misogyny and Thatcherite conservatism. Now 50 years on, the photographer is receiving an overdue retrospective. ‘I loved that we could respond with humour,’ she says. If it were a lady it would get its bottom pinched. If this lady was a car she’d run you down.” These are the words that Jill Posener immortalised in November 1979, when she picked her way through traffic on London’s Farringdon Road to photograph something most would have overlooked: a graffitied billboard. The first sentence was there by design – a sexist attempt at wit intended to pro

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‘I railed against the stereotype of the humourless lesbian’: the cheeky, feminist photography of Jill Posener

Her witty photos served as a rebuttal to 80s misogyny and Thatcherite conservatism. Now 50 years on, the photographer is receiving an overdue retrospective. ‘I loved that we could respond with humour,’ she says. If it were a lady it would get its bottom pinched. If this lady was a car she’d run you down.” These are the words that Jill Posener immortalised in November 1979, when she picked her way through traffic on London’s Farringdon Road to photograph something most would have overlooked: a graffitied billboard. The first sentence was there by design – a sexist attempt at wit intended to pro

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