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Seven officials face an investigation over allegations of manipulation of the referee administration process.

India beat Pakistan by 19 runs in gold medal match at Asian Games as Hasan Nawaz's 96 in vain in reply to 211-6.

Floodwaters swept cars through Madrigueras, Spain, after near-record rainfall. One woman was killed and 90 rescued.

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Q1: Just Haas out there at the moment. Bearman follows Ocon round on their first hot laps.

Q1 is under way. It’s hot (33C air, 58C track), it’s humid, the risk of rain is 10%. Esteban Ocon is out first.

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Despite the belief that Croatia v England is being played behind closed doors, that isn’t quite the case. The match in Rijeka officially has that status due to a Uefa punishment for Croatia following crowd trouble involving their supporters during a Nations League quarter-final against France. However, Uefa’s disciplinary rules include an exception for children up to the age of 14 from schools and/or football academies in the local Rijeka area, who have been invited to the match free of charge.

Uefa had initially anticipated around 3,000 children plus guardians, but the Croatian federation now expects between 5,500 and 6,000. In an 8,200-seat stadium, that puts it somewhere around 70% full.

Why Kevin De Bruyne’s 127th cap for Belgium went very well indeed

Frustration for Zinedine Zidane in his first home game as France boss

A hat-trick for Robert Lewandowski

A winner from a Liverpool full-back

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Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial system

UK authorities are being urged to intervene after it emerged that the online prediction market Polymarket has been taking thousands of dollars worth of bets over whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail.

Polymarket – the US-owned company which holds bets on anything from football matches, to the existence of aliens, to when a bomb drops on a city – has allowed users to take $77,507 (£58,530) worth of positions on whether the world’s biggest banks will go under by the end of this year.

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Her last novel sold 5m copies and was adapted into a hit series. Nearly 10 years on, the Korean-American author has written another epic. She discusses ambition and the diagnosis that inspired her to leave work and write

Back in 1995, when she was in her mid-20s, Min Jin Lee quit her job as a corporate lawyer. As a teenager she had been diagnosed as a hepatitis B carrier and doctors told her she was highly likely to develop liver cancer in her 20s or 30s. “I thought, if I’m going to die, I’m going to write a book first,” the now 57-year-old Korean-American author says of her decision to turn her back on a regular pay cheque and healthcare. “I was told so many times that I was going to get sicker and sicker, that I’ve always felt that if I can get a really good book out then I’m done.”

Lee, looking very much alive and well, is on a video call from her home in Harlem, New York, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves behind her. We are meeting to discuss the publication of her third novel, American Hagwon, the final part in what she calls her “Korean trilogy”, following Free Food for Millionaires in 2007 and her 2017 international bestseller, Pachinko, stylishly adapted for Apple TV in 2022. “Korean quartet!” she corrects me now. Thanks to experimental drugs, she is now so healthy she can commit to another book. “Before I turn 70, I should turn in my manuscript,” she jokes. “I’m writing the four books that I wanted to write and after that I’m going to take a long nap.”

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1. The elephant in the room  The Globe and Mail
2. Alberta’s Separatists Are Showing the Limits of Trump’s Power Over Canada  Bloomberg.com
3. Braid: A social media bombardment will tell the world the referendum is rigged  Calgary Herald
4. YOU SAID IT: Time to get tough with Alberta  Ottawa Sun
5. Opinion: Respectful separation: an obvious oxymoron  Winnipeg Free Press

1. Ethiopia's Tigray rebels abandon regional capital Mekelle as pro-government forces advance  France 24
2. Ethiopian federal forces retake Mekelle airport from Tigrayan fighters, residents say  The Spec
3. What to Know About Fighting Between Ethiopia and Rebels in Tigray  The New York Times
4. Ethiopian forces near Tigray capital, fears grow of wider conflict  Reuters
5. Ethiopian gov’t-aligned group claims close to full control of Tigray region  aljazeera.com

1. Ethiopia's Tigray rebels abandon regional capital Mekelle as pro-government forces advance  France 24
2. Ethiopian federal forces retake Mekelle airport from Tigrayan fighters, residents say  The Spec
3. What to Know About Fighting Between Ethiopia and Rebels in Tigray  The New York Times
4. Ethiopian forces near Tigray capital, fears grow of wider conflict  Reuters
5. Ethiopian gov’t-aligned group claims close to full control of Tigray region  Al Jazeera

The flydubai plane plunged more than 17,000ft two and a half hours into its journey before passengers and crew overpowered the attacker.

Nothing is guaranteed but there are ways to boost your chances of experiencing such in-demand events

Whether your passion is the battle of the bands or the Battle of Hastings, what are probably Britain’s hottest cultural tickets are about to go on sale – and to be in with a shout of going, there are insider tips that will get you a good spot in the queue.

General admission tickets to the Glastonbury festival next June go on sale online at 9am on Sunday, while the next tranche of tickets to view the Bayeux tapestry at the British Museum will be released to members on Tuesday 6 October before a public on-sale on 21 October.

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The strike on Northern Bridge comes after repeat attacks on another major bridge in recent days.

1. Brazil's Lula-Bolsonaro showdown unfolds in Trump's shadow — with the Amazon at stake  Axios
2. Brazil’s neck-and-neck election offers test for growing pro-Trump Latin American bloc  The Guardian
3. Lula, Bolsonaro in final push for votes ahead of knife-edge election  National Post
4. Brazilians will vote in a highly polarized presidential race on Sunday. Here’s what to know  Toronto Star
5. Opinion: Brazil is at a crucial crossroads as election arrives  The Globe and Mail

Fifth in the all-time scoring chart for Scotland and closing in on 100 caps, John McGinn could do with finding his best stuff again, writes Tom English.

Attorney general says ‘terrorist attack’ was attempted by suspect who is said to have been barred from flying by Oman because of extremist views

The co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073 used a crash axe to attempt to carry out a “terrorist attack” during the flight, the United ⁠Arab Emirates prosecutor general said on Saturday, according to a state news agency.

The UAE statement cited the prosecutor general as saying the co-pilot also tried to take control of the plane during Wednesday’s attack on the Israel-bound flight. Passengers and crew intervened to subdue the co-pilot and stabilise the plane. Officials said the co-pilot’s actions nearly crashed the flight with 182 people on board by sending it into a sharp plunge.

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A rare repeat success could be on the cards with Daryz well fancied, while O’Brien Jr and Sr go head-to-head in Paris

Trainer: Francis-Henri Graffard. Jockey: Mickael Barzalona. Draw: 5.
Pedigree: Sea The Stars x Daryakana (by Selkirk). Age: 4. Odds: 7-4.

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Former Everton midfielder, known as the ‘Goodison Gazza’, recalls being made to feel special by Alex Ferguson in this autobiography extract

“So this is the scouser ya been goin’ on aboot then …” My face turned Manchester United red. Scanning the room full of smiles and staring eyes, I identified the mystery Scottish voice as the man who’d just become the first player to score more than 20 league goals for the club since George Best in the 1960s. “Good answer,” replied Brian McClair after following up on my smile and nod by asking whether I supported Everton or Liverpool. “Ye’ll dee well ’ere laddie.”

Brian Kidd had just introduced me to the Man United first team by silencing the room to draw attention to my presence. “Lads, this is Billy from up the road,” he said. I was still starstruck from seeing all these famous faces as my chauffeur for the day, Eric Harrison, pulled up in the car park at The Cliff a few minutes earlier. Paul McGrath. Mark Hughes. Bryan Robson. Kevin Moran. Norman Whiteside. I ticked them all off in my head. Thank fuck I was developing an ear for everyday Glaswegian because after a bit of piss-taking from the first-teamers about being a scouser, I found myself standing in an office at the end of a short and narrow corridor, shaking hands with another one.

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A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more

If a third runway is built at Heathrow, what will be the impact on the wealth of the nation? It will cost us somewhere between £23.4bn and £62.5bn. These are not my figures; they weren’t calculated by environmental groups, but by the Department for Transport.

For decades, government ministers have told us that airport expansion is essential for “growth”. As chancellor, Rachel Reeves claimed that a third runway at Heathrow would add 0.43% to GDP, figures we later discovered came from a report commissioned by the airport. The transport department’s own analysis concluded that the real addition to GDP would be between 0.03% and 0.05%: eight to 14 times less. Against this, it weighed the social and environmental costs of the project, to reveal a massive net loss. It found that a third runway would cause major harm to the health and wellbeing of up to 3 million local people.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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Companies race to switch households to ‘voice over internet protocol’ services by the end of January

BT has been accused of “bullying” customers by temporarily cutting off their broadband to pressure them to upgrade to a digital landline, as providers race to switch households over before the January deadline.

Telecoms companies have so far migrated 16-17m lines from the old copper network to digital voice over internet protocol (VoiP), which uses a broadband connection instead, in the biggest technological upgrade since the early 00s, when analogue TV was switched off.

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