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Austria wins 69th Eurovision song contest with Wasted Love

18 mai 2025 à 01:05

Israel finished second, with Estonia third and the pre-contest favourites from Sweden fourth

Austria has won the Eurovision song contest after JJ triumphed in Basel with their song Wasted Love, an operatic ballad with soaring vocals that mutates into a club anthem for the finale. It is the third time the country has won, with JJ following in the footsteps of Udo Jürgens in 1965 and Conchita Wurst in 2014.

Switzerland, which hosted the first ever Eurovision song contest in 1956, was the venue this year after Nemo won in Malmö last year with their song The Code. Austria will be expected to host in 2026, with Vienna having twice held the competition before.

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© Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

© Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP

Paquetá betting rules case is taking physical and mental toll, reveals West Ham’s Potter

18 mai 2025 à 00:20
  • FA inquiry into Brazil midfielder has lasted over two years
  • ‘Stress, pressure, can manifest itself,’ warns manager

Graham Potter has revealed the investigation into whether Lucas Paquetá breached betting rules is taking its toll both mentally and physically on the West Ham player.

The Football Association’s inquiry into allegations Paquetá deliberately got himself booked in four matches, which he denies but which could leads to his being banned for life if found guilty, has lasted more than two years.

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© Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

© Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact

18 mai 2025 à 00:18

State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of Heritage Foundation, key player behind Project 2025, for curriculum

As part of the latest Republican push in red states to promote ideologies sympathetic to Donald Trump, Oklahoma’s new social studies curriculum will ask high school students to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election results.

The previous standard for studying the 2020 election merely said: “Examine issues related to the election of 2020 and its outcome.” The new version is more expansive: “Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”

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© Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP

© Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP

Caitlin Clark powers Fever over Sky as tempers flare after hard foul on Reese

18 mai 2025 à 00:08
  • Indiana trounce Chicago 93-58 in both teams’ opener
  • Clark says flagrant for shoving Reese not ‘malicious’

Caitlin Clark posted a 20-point triple-double, Aliyah Boston racked up 19 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks and the Indiana Fever torched the rival Chicago Sky 93-58 in both teams’ season opener Saturday in Indianapolis.

To start her second WNBA season, Clark made four three-pointers and added 10 assists, 10 rebounds and four blocks. She also was called for a flagrant-1 foul on rival Angel Reese in a third-quarter sequence that called to mind some of the controversial moments of the Indiana-Chicago rivalry last year.

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© Photograph: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images

UK on verge of deal with EU to let Britons use European passport e-gates

Exclusive: Agreement could cut airport queues, caused by need to have passports stamped after Brexit

British holidaymakers could face shorter airport queues this summer with negotiators on the verge of striking an agreement for UK passport holders to use e-gates across Europe.

Downing Street said on Saturday that it was poised to strike a deal with the EU that would improve things for British families facing “queues on holiday”.

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© Photograph: David Pearson/Alamy

Five people killed in helicopter collision in Finland

Par :Reuters
17 mai 2025 à 23:11

Two aircraft crashed just after noon on Saturday in wooded area near Eura airport in south-west of country

Five people were killed when two helicopters collided and crashed in a wooded area near Eura airport in south-western Finland, police have said.

Police said the mid-air collision occurred shortly after noon on Saturday near the town of Kauttua, with the wreckage falling 700 metres from the Ohikulkutie road.

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© Photograph: Petri Hakosalo/Reuters

© Photograph: Petri Hakosalo/Reuters

Glossy black cockatoos could be pushed towards extinction in Victoria if burns go ahead, experts warn

17 mai 2025 à 22:00

Fire in black sheoak forest of East Gippsland would destroy the birds’ food supply, conservationist says

Glossy black cockatoos could be pushed towards extinction in Victoria if planned burns of 13,000 hectares of forest go ahead, ecologists and conservationists warn.

The Victorian government is being urged to abandon the burn, which is intended to reduce bushfire risk.

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© Photograph: handout

If you get lost in rugged bush, these are the SES searchers who’ll be sent to track you. Just don’t call them elite

17 mai 2025 à 22:00

When a missing person strays into ‘tiger country’, the call goes out to the volunteers from the NSW State Emergency Service’s specialist BSAR unit

A few months ago a man was liloing down the Wollangambe River, a few hours north-west of Sydney, when he slipped and broke his leg.

Clinging to a riverbank and unable to climb to safety, the man happened upon some incredibly good luck. Or rather, the luck chanced upon him.

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© Photograph: Rémi Chauvin/The Guardian

© Photograph: Rémi Chauvin/The Guardian

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