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Jamie T kicked off Reading 2026 with a last minute indie celebration of a set on the new main stage, The Grid. Check out photos, footage and the setlist below. After teasingly begging the festival to let him play before confirming his appearance last night, the London indie icon delivered his opening “33 minute and 10 second” performance (in honour of his new single ‘3310‘) to get things going on the Friday (August 28). “We got on the bill then,” he said with a smile, arriving on stage to introduce ‘Hippodrome’before rolling into ‘The Old Style Raiders’ for the early arrivals. “Thank…

The 2026 US Open begins in earnest on Sunday, and it’s hard to think of a time when this tournament felt so wide open among both men and women.There is no Jannik Sinner. There might not be a fully healthy Carlos Alcaraz or Novak Djokovic. Aryna Sabalenka, the two-time defending champion, has been in a slump. Seven different women have won the past seven Grand Slams.AdvertisementThere’s no telling how it will work out, with multiple layers of drama built into the draw. Let’s get into all of that.Jannik Sinner out, Carlos Alcaraz inThis is becoming a problem.More than any sport,…

Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Velasco and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held their first face-to-face meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, amid tensions in Mexico-U.S. relations. Both officials commented on the meeting in social media posts, though a Bloomberg report citing sources familiar with the matter revealed a tougher private ask. Velasco, who succeeded Juan Ramón de la Fuente as foreign minister in April, wrote on X that he and Rubio “reviewed security progress” and Mexico and the United States’ “joint work against drugs and arms trafficking and against transnational organized crime.” He asserted that the bilateral “security cooperation…

Debut albums, they don’t just fall from trees. With tattoos used to come off in the pool, Jem Cassar-Daley took time to find her voice, and the confidence that comes with life lived, experience. Maturity. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Tattoos (via Sony Music Australia) is the proud Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung singer-songwriter’s long-awaited first full-length album. Cassar-Daley might be branded a newcomer, but that’s not the full picture. She’s already a multiple award-winner, with a growing, national fanbase, and several songs that are part of Australia’s rich cultural tapestry.   Earlier this year, she won two categories at…

The day after President Donald Trump launched the war in Iran on Feb. 28, he said the fight could last four to five weeks. Six months later, there is little to suggest the end is near.The Iran war has become a major challenge to Trump’s second term, buffeting his standing with voters at home and eroding the U.S. position in the Middle East. And the president’s ability to shape the outcome appears to be severely constrained after Iranian leaders discovered that they could withstand intense bombardment and slowly degrade the world’s most powerful military with a cheap combination of mines…

Generali Global Assistance offers a simple approach to travel insurance by providing potential customers with three policy options tailored to their specific travel needs. There are no annual or multi-trip options, but you can add certain upgrades, such as CFAR and rental car coverage. In our Generali Global Assistance travel insurance review, we cover the basics of its policies, how much they cost, and what they typically exclude. Generali Global Assistance travel insurance rating Star rating: 4.4 out of 5 ⭐ Generali doesn’t quite make our list of the best travel insurance companies, but it’s still a highly rated provider…

Annette Young is pleased to welcome Gareth Redmond-King, Head of the International Programme at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. He warns we are entering a period in which climate change is not only intensifying extreme weather but adding greater instability to the climate system itself. Natural phenomena such as El Niño will then amplify, and intensify, that disruption, effectively “fanning the flames of climate change” and making already dangerous extremes even more severe. For Europe, this means that the extreme heat, drought, water shortages, storms and flash flooding we are experiencing should no longer be regarded as exceptional. They…

News A passerby called 911 earlier this month after interpreting the protruding legs of an anthropomorphic sculpture as a person in need of medical assistance. Allysa Pierre’s “Untitled (the preparator)” (2024) (photo courtesy Access Gallery)Emergency personnel forced entry into Access Gallery in Vancouver on the night of August 14, after a 911 caller mistook a sculpture of an art preparator as a person in need of medical attention, as first reported by the local media outlet CityNews. Officers were dispatched to the downtown address after a witness reported “a person’s feet protruding from behind a counter … and believed medical assistance…

The BBC Sport website and app will keep you updated all day on the latest moves and deals.There will be a dedicated Transfer Deadline Day live page running from 07:00 BST until the early hours after the window shuts, with news from across the Premier League as well as the biggest updates from the EFL.You can also access the separate EFL live page with news from across the Championship, League One and League Two.As well as the latest deals, the Transfer Deadline Day live page will have analysis and reaction from our club reporters and experts across text, video and…

Mexico added almost 1.1 million informal sector jobs in July but lost more than 400,000 formal sector positions, according to data published by the national statistics agency INEGI on Thursday. Mexico’s informality rate — the percentage of the total Mexican workforce employed in the informal sector — thus rose from 55% in June to 56.2% in July, the highest level since December 2021. INEGI’s data shows that the number of people in informal sector jobs rose by just over 1.08 million in July to reach 34.1 million. Meanwhile, the number of people in formal sector jobs — i.e. workers with…