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It is going to become a familiar sight this season: Kevin De Bruyne picking the ball up in the middle of the pitch, lifting his head and playing a defense-shredding pass through for Erling Haaland to race away from his markers and slot a clinical finish past a despairing goalkeeper.Who said that Pep Guardiola doesn't know what to do with a striker? For Manchester City, the early evidence is that their new No 9 is not going to disrupt Guardiola's passing machine. The champions outclassed a West Ham side limp from start to finish and eased their way to a sleepy 2-0 victory thanks to two from Haaland, who followed up a first-half penalty with the kind of goal that suggests he is already on the same wavelength as his new teammates.For City, the focus on the summer was finding ways to stay...

For more than a decade, it's been something of a national pastime to proclaim the irrelevance of Triple J. But while Australia's national youth broadcaster has faced some controversies in that time – over the timing of its annual Hottest 100 countdown, softball interviews of far- right figures and, most recently, a regrettable tweet – it's held on remarkably well to its core demographic of 18-to-24-year-old listeners.Until now. last month, the fourth year's radio ratings survey confirmed that Triple J has been shedding those listeners, with its audience share in that demographic dropping by an average of 2.5% across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide between late April and late June. (Audience share is a metric theoretically unaffected by overall upward or downward trends...

Dominic Raab is planning to curb judges' powers in a move likely to make it harder to bring successful legal challenges against the government in England and Wales, according to a leaked document seen by the Guardian.The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) paper suggests the justice secretary, who is also deputy prime minister, is considering changes that would have the effect of limiting ministers' accountability in judicial reviews brought by claimants concerned about the way decisions have been taken by public bodies .The move comes amid rhetoric by ministers about overreach by judges and “lefty lawyers”, with the recent judicial review case – still outstanding – challenging the Rwanda deportation flight having attracted the ire of government.Despite the government having consulted on judicial...

Miguel Garci, last season. / / CORUXO F.C.SECOND RFEFThe green entity will be obliged to release at least one player over 23 years of age to comply with regulatory standardsEl Cacereño adds a new cash to his squad. The Verdiblanca entity made official this Sunday the hiring of the 25-year-old Madrid right winger Miguel Garci, who arrives from Coruxo. Trained in the lower categories of Real Madrid, to the point of making his debut with Castilla, the new Cacereño player already knows what it means to defend the interests of an Extremaduran club, since in the 2020/21 season he landed in Second B with the Merida. In this same category he also wore the shirts of Navalcarnero, Unión Adarve and Sporting B. Last season he was an important man at Coruxo, with whom he played 27 games and score...

Recent years have seen a string of scandals around white people pretending to be other races in order to obtain presumed advantages. Rachel Dolezal, then a chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, went viral in 2015 for claiming to be a black woman despite not having African ancestry. That same year, a white poet called Michael Derrick Hudson was found to be submitting poems to literary journals using the name Yi-Fen Chou. Hudson admitted to using the pseudonym whenever a poem of his was rejected under his real name.This type of incident is a central concern in Elaine Hsieh Chou's debut novel disorientation. Twenty-nine-year-old Taiwanese-American PhD student Ingrid Yang is eight years into her dissertation on the fictional Xiao-Wen Chou, ...

now that the Louisville police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor have been charged, more than two long years after her deathTaylor's family may finally get some accountability. But Taylor will never get her life back. Nor will the next person be killed by the police. Thursday's decision by the Department of Justice to bring charges shows why federal laws with real teeth – and vigilant, competent federal officials – really matter. They are too often the only authorities capable of protecting our freedom and ensuring justice, whether related to police accountability, voting rights or reproductive freedom.The president and Congress have some big decisions on their plates. They have the opportunity to enact change with bills that address underlying factors of police vio...

Apple has reportedly asked Taiwan-based suppliers to label their products as being produced in China, in an effort to avoid disruption from strict Chinese customs inspections resulting from the visit of US congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to Taipei.According to Nikkei, the company has asked manufacturers on the island to label components bound for mainland China as made in “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan, China”. The labels are required in order to comply with a longstanding but previously unenforced rule that requires imported goods to suggest the island is part of the People's Republic of China.The phrase “Made in Taiwan” can lead to delays, fines, and even the rejection of an entire shipment under the rule. But Taiwan itself requires exports to be labeled with the point of origin: either the...

It is usually the artists who are the household names in the music business, but there have been a handful of executives who became well known in their own right, such as Clive Davis at Columbia Records and Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic. One of the greats was Mo Ostin, who was renowned as a champion of music and musicians. During his 30-year career with Warner Bros, Ostin, who has died aged 95, was instrumental in building the careers of many of the most highly regarded artists of his era.After working for Norman Granz's jazz label Verve in the mid-1950s, Ostin was picked by Frank Sinatra to head his label Reprise. After that was bought by Warner Bros, Ostin helped bring the world to the Kinks, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna and Prince, while Paul Simon, Tom Petty an...