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• Current Lord’s Test will be her final appearance

• ‘I’m privileged to have gone on this journey’

Heather Knight will retire from international cricket at the end of this week’s Test against India at Lord’s. Knight, who has made a record 320 appearances for England, has joined her teammate Tammy Beaumont in calling time on her career at the end of what is the first women’s Test at the home of cricket, and one in which England appear headed for defeat after a gruelling second day’s play on Saturday.

The 35-year-old made her England debut in 2010 and went on to captain the side on 199 occasions between 2016 and 2025, guiding the team to success at the Women’s World Cup on home soil in 2017. However, Knight was sacked as captain in March last year after a disastrous three-format Ashes tour of Australia in which England were trounced 16-0.

Yankee Stadium, New York City

The rapper celebrates 30 years of his classic debut album Reasonable Doubt with eye-popping visuals and special guests in a love letter to hip-hop culture

The beauty of watching Jay-Z live is more than just watching him calmly spit bars that effortlessly prove why his career has been this long and brilliant; it’s also the complex but lovely feeling of watching an audience (and the artist himself) relive the past. It’s almost unfathomable that 30 years ago, Jay-Z was starting out as a relatively unknown rapper from Brooklyn chronicling his life as a hustler. Quite possibly the greatest pure MC of all-time – encompassing flow, patience, humor, live ability and his taste as an auteur – Jay built a career on restrained tales of wide-eyed dreams and braggadocious stanzas about financial gain.

His 1996 debut album, Reasonable Doubt, was the start of that career, and on Friday night, I’m at New York City’s Yankee Stadium as Jay-Z performs the album’s tracks in order, front to back, making it impossible to forget its legacy in a visually stunning show that splits the difference between close connection and grand spectacle. At times, with a wide, movie-like screen backing Jay that shows funerals of presidents, footage of Mike Tyson, or his wife, Beyoncé, cutting his hair at the ballpark, the show feels influenced by previous tours like Watch the Throne mixed with the street romance of the 2002 movie Paid in Full. Yet the care and attention to detail ensures that the 50,000-capacity venue feels intimate, for the folks who heard the album and felt seen through its songs of regret and paranoia.

Я гоняю один и тот же пул из 60 промптов через шесть ИИ-движков раз в месяц — это часть мониторинга, который я веду для одной ниши. В какой-то момент решил не просто читать ответы, а посчитать, откуда движки берут источники. Ожидал разную выдачу по одной теме — обычное дело для поисковиков. Получил другое: два практически несвязанных множества доменов. Из 174 уникальных источников за последний срез общих оказалось 7.

Расскажу, как я это посчитал, почему дело не в шуме прогона, а в архитектуре, и почему первый вывод оказался не там, где я его искал.

• Only Test, Day two: India 285 & 154-1; England 170

• Gaud takes 5-37 to write name on Lord’s honours board

India are in firm control of their one-off Test after bowling England out for 170 and reaching 154 for one at the close, building a substantial lead of 269. The 22-year-old seamer Kranti Gaud showed true mastery of red-ball bowling to finish with five for 37: her teasing line and length, combined with wobble seam, had England reeling at 47 for four.

This is Gaud’s second Test, after making her debut at the Waca against Australia in March, and she enters the record books as the first woman to have her name carved on the Test honours board at Lord’s.

• Fifth T20i: England, 257-3 beat India, 201-8, by 56 runs

• Buttler hits 131, Brook 95 as England seal 4-0 series win

Cast your minds back to February 2022: the Partygate scandal is in full swing as news breaks of the surprise birthday party held for Boris Johnson two years earlier and four of the prime minister’s top advisers resign; Russia launches a “special military operation” in Ukraine; Adele sweeps artist, song and album of the year awards at the Brits; and India beat West Indies to go to the top of the ICC’s T20 rankings. Finally, 1,601 days and two World Cup wins later, and after a humbling series of defeats across Ireland and England came to an often calamitous crescendo, they have been usurped. Instead England end a couple of phenomenal weeks on top of the world.

An extraordinary, and extraordinarily one-sided, series got the ending it deserved, with England scoring a remarkable 257 for three – breaking the record they set in Mumbai in March for the highest total ever posted against India in T20s – and though the tourists’ chase was, at least for a while, more spirited than much of their fielding they managed only 201. England won the game by 56 runs and the series 4-0.

• South Africa 42-28 Scotland

• Scots run in four tries to earn bonus point

A breathless match, all the more so given the thin air of Pretoria, but the upshot is, for all Scotland’s wit and energy, South Africa march on with another full house of points. The visitors were brilliant in scoring their four tries, their pace and skill regularly making mugs of their hosts, but power remains the thing the Springboks do better than anyone. At this altitude, it is very hard to stop.

They were unanswerable in the middle of each half, scoring five of their six tries around then, but Scotland scored two apiece in the second and fourth quarters. They were within sight of a losing bonus point with 10 minutes to go. They even looked as if they might score again. But Jesse Kriel’s late score meant they had to settle for one.

Скромный и немного скучноватый рассказчик «Великого Гэтсби» Ник Кэррауэй был трейдером на рынке облигаций (его сыграл Тоби Магуайр). Облигации долгое время считались самым скучным видом активов. Они никогда не фигурировали в массовом воображении так же, как акции или корпоративные слияния и поглощения (M&A). Даже Ян Флеминг выбрал имя «Бонд» для своего шпиона, потому что считал, что это «самое неприметное имя, которое я когда-либо слышал». Но, скорее всего, именно они вызовут следующий финансовый кризис.

• Ninth seed beats fellow Czech 6-2, 5-7, 6-3

• Muchova falls short in second major final

As one of her worst nightmares on a tennis court appeared to be unfolding before her disbelieving eyes, Linda Noskova walked solemnly to her chair with both index fingers plugged into her ears. She was attempting to block out the roars of a booming Centre Court crowd, which had erupted in jubilation at her failure to convert no fewer than five championship points. But the 21-year-old knew deep down that what she truly needed to block out were her own fatalistic thoughts.

Noskova’s hopes of capturing her first Wimbledon title were in freefall by that point. She had lost five consecutive games, her easy 6-2, 5-2 lead crumbling to dust as she found herself in an unwanted final set. Having betrayed all of her tension and fears to her bloodthirsty compatriot, victory seemed much further away than the scoreline suggested.

⚽️ Argentina v Switzerland: quarter-final latest
⚽️ Match report | Golden Boot | Mail Scott

You won’t need reminding that tonight’s game could go to extra time and penalty kicks. So if it indeed goes all the way, what on earth should Harry Kane do if he wins the toss? Mo Salah has the answer …

England have four players walking the disciplinary tightrope this evening. Jude Bellingham was booked against DR Congo, while Marc Guehi, Nico O’Reilly and Declan Rice were all cautioned against Mexico. A yellow card for any of them tonight, and they’ll miss the semi-final should England get through. Norway have only one player on a yellow in winger Antonio Nusa. (Yellow cards were wiped at the start of the knockouts, and will be again after the quarters.)

Midfielder has risen from the bench to come up with the decisive goal in past two games – Spain’s first World Cup knockout victories since they won the tournament in 2010

“I look behind me and I see Mikel Merino and I think: ‘I’m calm as can be,’” Luis de la Fuente said when at last the heart rates had returned to normal. Everyone else’s heart rates, anyway. In those moments when time is running out and the tension is running high, there’s something about Spain’s coach. And there’s certainly something about the midfielder.

On the afternoon before Spain faced Belgium in their quarter-final, De la Fuente had an attack of the giggles as he recalled how when he was a kid only three television events gathered his family around the screen: the national team, Eurovision and the gloriously silly, inexplicably bizarre gameshow Un, dos, tres (whose UK version was 3-2-1).

На повестке дня — сервис Яндекс.Музыки. Я меломан, у меня куча лайкнутых треков, и знаете что? Я устала. Устала их лайкать. На телефоне-то всё удобно: сверху висит плашка с названием трека и сердечком, и всё делается за секунду.

А вот десктопное приложение — это просто до свидания. Я амбассадор мака (это слово нынче тренд), и меня дико бесит, что для лайка трека мне приходится сворачивать вкладку или уводить фокус со страницы, на которой я работаю.

Но мы упрямые. (и немного наивные)

Идеальная постановка задачи: нажатием кнопки на наушниках ставить лайк на играющий трек Яндекс.Музыки, если он ещё не лайкнут, и показывать overlay с его названием. А если уже лайкнут — просто написать, что вы его уже лайкнули.

Реалии, к которым я пришла: слёзы, куча матов, экзистенциальный кризис от невозможности переопределить кнопку M на Marshall и, конечно же, гора костылей.

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Ro Khanna said settlers were armed with US-made weapons and Israel Defense Forces refused to intervene

The US congressman Ro Khanna says armed Israeli settlers detained him during a visit to the Israel-occupied West Bank recently, describing the experience as a first-hand view of the realities faced by Palestinians living under occupation.

In an interview with Reuters on Thursday from a Palestinian village, the progressive US House Democrat from California said his detention happened the previous day while his delegation visited an area of the southern West Bank that has experienced repeated attacks by Israeli settlers.

Ro Khanna said settlers were armed with US-made weapons and Israel Defense Forces refused to intervene

The US congressman Ro Khanna says armed Israeli settlers detained him during a visit to the Israel-occupied West Bank recently, describing the experience as a first-hand view of the realities faced by Palestinians living under occupation.

In an interview with Reuters on Thursday from a Palestinian village, the progressive US House Democrat from California said his detention happened the previous day while his delegation visited an area of the southern West Bank that has experienced repeated attacks by Israeli settlers.