England's forward #17 Ivan Toney, England's defender #02 Kyle Walker, England's defender #08 Trent Alexander-Arnold, England's goalkeeper #01 Jordan Pickford and England's midfielder #04 Declan Rice celebrate after winning the UEFA Euro 2024 quarter-final football match between England and Switzerland at the Duesseldorf Arena in Duesseldorf on July 6, 2024. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)

England turnaround penalty torment to reach Euros semis

England’s history at major tournaments is littered with penalty pain but they put that tortured past behind them to beat Switzerland and reach the semi-finals of Euro 2024. The Three Lions were
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A handout picture taken and released by the BBC on June 23, 2024, shows Britain's Home Secretary James Cleverly appearing on the BBC's "Sunday Morning" political television show with journalist Laura Kuenssberg. (Photo by JEFF OVERS / BBC / AFP)

Aide to UK minister calls Rwanda migrant plan ‘crap’ in leaked audio

The UK interior minister has defended a parliamentary aide who called the government plan to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda “crap”, in a leaked audio revealed by the BBC Sunday. A controversial
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Belgium's forward #10 Romelu Lukaku heads the ball during the UEFA Euro 2024 Group E football match between Belgium and Romania at the Cologne Stadium in Cologne on June 22, 2024. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Theate backs ‘unlucky’ Lukaku to come good for Belgium

Belgium defender Arthur Theate said he has no doubt Romelu Lukaku’s luck will turn after seeing three goals ruled out in his team’s first two matches at Euro 2024. Lukaku is Belgium’s
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Rescuers and police officers work at the site of a destroyed residential building following an aerial bomb in the centre of Kharkiv, on June 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP)

Ukraine missile attack on Crimea kills 2, wounds 22 – Moscow-appointed governor

A Ukrainian missile attack Sunday on Sevastopol on the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula killed two people including a two-year-old child and wounded 22, the city’s Moscow-appointed governor said. Sevastopol, a Black Sea port
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Islanders protest against new minibuses on the island of Buyukada, in Istanbul on June 20, 2024. - Buyukada is one of the Princes' Islands, a popular destination for tourists and a retreat for many of Istanbul's 16 million inhabitants. Motor vehicles are prohibited in the islands, except for essential services. But the controversial new minibuses, with a capacity of 12 people, went into service on June 15, driving through the narrow alleys of the islands. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP)

Locals protest against Turkish island’s ‘monstrobuses’

Ibrahim Aycan has been waging all-out war against the electric minibuses newly introduced on the car-free island of Buyukada, which he says threaten his corner of paradise on the southern shores of
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A rescuer and a service dog inspect the debris at the site of a destroyed residential building following an aerial bomb in the centre of Kharkiv, on June 22, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP)

Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv kills two: -rescuers

A Russian strike on a residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv killed two people and injured more than 50, rescuers said on Sunday, revising down a previous death toll. Russia has
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Aidan Gomez, the CEO and co-founder of Cohere, is photographed during an interview at the Collision 2024 tech conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 18, 2024. - For a few days, AI chip juggernaut Nvidia sat on the throne as the world's biggest company, but behind the company’s staggering success are questions on whether new entrants can stake a claim to the artificial intelligence bonanza. “Enterprises are skeptical of technology, and they're risk averse, and so we need to win their trust and to prove to them that there's a way to adopt this technology that's reliable, trustworthy and secure,” Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told AFP. When he was just 20 years old, Gomez co-authored the seminal paper “Attention Is All You Need,” which introduced the Transformer, the architecture behind popular large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4. (Photo by Cole BURSTON / AFP)

Beyond Nvidia: the search for AI’s next breakthrough

For a few days, AI chip juggernaut Nvidia sat on the throne as the world’s biggest company, but behind the its staggering success are questions on whether new entrants can stake a
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A butcher is seen at work on a piece of game meat as carcasses hang at an abattoir in Bela Bela, on April 22, 2024. - Carcasses of impala, kudu and wildebeest hung from a slaughterhouse rail, ready to be turned into steaks, sausages and burger patties of the kind South Africa would like to see on dinner tables. The abattoir in Bela Bela, north of Johannesburg, is one of a few dedicated to game meat, an untapped sector authorities say can create jobs and, perhaps counter-intuitively, help preserve wildlife while pleasing the palates of climate- and health-conscious meat eaters. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

S.Africa to dish up more zebra to boost jobs and conservation

Carcasses of impala, kudu and wildebeest hang from a slaughterhouse rail, ready to be turned into steaks, sausages and burger patties of the kind South Africa wants to see more of on
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