Alexander Isak was ‘targeted by a family of burglars who carried out a series of raids’ after ‘arriving in the UK on a ferry from France just days prior’ Alexander Isak’s Northumberland home was hit by family of burglars last April The Swedish striker, 25, is believed to be the third victim of the gang LISTEN NOW: It’s All Kicking Off! Is it harsh on Anthony Gordon that he misses the Carabao Cup final? By TUM BALOGUN Published: 04:05 EST, 5 March 2025 | Updated: 04:05 EST, 5 March 2025 Alexander Isak was targeted by a gang of burglars who carried out a string of high-value break-ins, Newcastle Crown Court has heard. The Swedish international’s Northumberland home was broken into last April, with police confirming at the time that a
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Wayne Bridge has spoken about an ‘unbelievable’ fight he saw while at Chelsea He revealed how an ex-Chelsea star knocked his team-mate out in training LISTEN NOW: It’s All Kicking Off! Is it harsh on Anthony Gordon that he misses the Carabao Cup final? By SAM BROOKES Published: 03:59 EST, 5 March 2025 | Updated: 03:59 EST, 5 March 2025 Former Chelsea star Wayne Bridge has revealed how two of his former team-mates once settled their differences by fighting each other in training – and it didn’t end well for one of them. Bridge spent six years at Chelsea between 2003 and 2009, and won four major trophies including the Premier League title. It was a hugely successful period for the Blues, but that didn’t mean that the players always
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Sony Pictures Releasing The mid-2010s were a great time for Matthew McConaughey, who found himself gaining a newfound level of respect as an actor for his one-two punch of “True Detective” and “Interstellar” in 2014. The executives over at Marvel seemed to take note of The McConaissance, which is why they asked him to join the cast of “Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2.” He would’ve played Star Lord’s father, Ego, and we’re sure he would’ve done a great job at it. (Not that we have any complaints about Kurt Russell’s performance, mind you.) But McConaughey declined the offer, opting instead to star in “The Dark Tower,” a fantasy movie that also came out in 2017. Whereas “Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2” was a big critical/box office success, this
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Big picture: Australia have denied India before “[T]here’s nothing more satisfying than hearing a big crowd go silent.” Pat Cummins won’t be in Dubai on Tuesday, but the words he spoke on November 18, 2023, will be. The players may not themselves be thinking about them, but viewers around the world quite likely will – if not about the words themselves, certainly about the broader theme they represent. Since winning their quarter-final game at the 2011 World Cup, India have met Australia four times in ICC ODI tournaments, winning twice and losing twice. The two wins came in round-robin matches at the 2019 and 2023 World Cups, and the defeats in the 2015 semi-finals and the 2023 final. Many months have passed since November 19, 2023, and Tuesday’s Champions Trophy
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Mar 2, 2025; South Bend, Indiana, USA; Notre Dame Fighting Irish guard Hannah Hidalgo (3) reacts in the first half against the Louisville Cardinals at the Purcell Pavilion. Mandatory Credit: Matt Cashore-Imagn Images Hannah Hidalgo posted 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists as No. 3 Notre Dame halted a two-game skid, defeating No. 25 Louisville 72-59 to gain a piece of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship on Sunday at South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame (25-4, 16-2 ACC) shares the regular-season title with NC State, which will hold the No. 1 seed for the ACC tournament based on defeating the Irish in double overtime last Sunday in Raleigh, N.C. Notre Dame will be the No. 2 seed. Olivia Miles scored 15 points and Sonia Citron and Maddy Westbeld both had
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Airstream’s first production-spec electric camper trailer has a 10.3-kWh battery pack. Unlike the much larger and more expensive Lightship RV, this trailer doesn’t have powered wheels. The Airstream’s battery powers all the appliances. Airstream, maker of iconic aluminum travel trailers, has finally entered into the electric era with the new Basecamp Xe. Based on the regular Basecamp model, the Xe adds a battery pack and a bunch of solar panels on the roof to power all the amenities inside. That said, Airstream’s first electric camper doesn’t have electric motors to alleviate the range loss experienced by the vehicle that’s towing it. The company showcased a rather impressive electric trailer concept called the eStream back in 2022 that had a huge 80-kilowatt-hour battery pack and could assist the towing vehicle while
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A payback kiss, a surprise win, and defying gravity at the Oscars Noor Nanji Culture reporter at the Academy Awards, Los Angeles• @NoorNanji Watch: Standout moments from the Oscars 2025 This year’s Oscars had it all – glamour, tears and the Wicked stars defying gravity. Here are some of the top moments from the biggest night in Hollywood. Mikey Madison steals the show Getty Images An audible gasp was made by journalists in the winners’ room (where I was) when Mikey Madison was announced as the best actress winner. Demi Moore was the favourite for much of this campaign. Things did shift after Madison’s Bafta win, but the race remained incredibly tight. In the end, it was Madison’s night and marked an incredible moment for a 25-year-old actress who was
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The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra comes with 1,526 horsepower and costs $72,750. The brand wants to sell 10,000 units of the SU7 Ultra in 2025. Recently, the SU7 Ultra beat a Porsche Taycan Turbo GT around the Shanghai International Circuit by about 1.5 seconds. It can be pretty hard to keep up with the breakneck speed of China’s electric vehicle industry. Within about 18 months, Xiaomi pivoted from making cheap cellphones and laptops to a full-blown electric car. That model rocketed to the top of Chinese sales charts and even impressed the hell out of Ford’s CEO, who drove one around the Chicagoland area for weeks. Now, the brand has put 1,500 worth of electric motors in the thing, and they’re gunning for necks of some of the fastest EVs on
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By Minh Nga  March 1, 2025 | 08:00 pm PT Screenshot photos of Kim Gap-nyeo when she appears on the TV Show “You Quiz on the Block” by tvN TV channel in October 2024. An 87-year-old woman in South Korea is set to enroll in university after graduating from high school this week, seven years after returning to school. Kim Gap-nyeo graduated from Ilsung Women’s High School, an institution for adults in Seoul, on Feb. 25 and will begin studying Social Welfare at Sookmyung Women’s University this month. “A goal? I don’t have one. I just enjoy learning and being with people,” she said in an interview with Korea Times. Kim’s story gained national attention after she appeared on the popular TV show “You Quiz on the Block” on the
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News “To have him back and to have him fit and excited about playing is a real win for English cricket,” Brendon McCullum says There are few positives from what has been, even by England’s recent ODI standards, a disastrous Champions Trophy campaign. But according to Brendon McCullum, there were glimmers amidst the darkness. The one that shone brightest was the performance, as well as the fitness, of fast bowler Jofra Archer. He bowled his allotted quota in each of the first two games, as well as nine of the 29.1 England needed to send down in Karachi. He did so with decent pace, picking up wickets in each game, and was the pick of the English bowlers by a distance despite South Africa’s romp to victory. “He’s been out
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20th Century Studios By Bill Bria March 1, 2025 11:00 pm EST In hindsight, the American cinema of the 1970s has two major legacies attached to it. On the one hand, there’s the American New Wave aka the New Hollywood movement, in which “Five Easy Pieces,” “Klute,” “The French Connection,” and other films like them eschewed the mainstream studio filmmaking formula in favor of telling stories that were creatively daring and heartfelt. On the other, there’s the dawn of the blockbuster, a trend that continues to this day and whose beginning is most often attributed to Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” from 1975. But while “Jaws” gets the lion’s (er, shark’s) share of the credit for birthing the blockbuster, a good dollop of credit must also go to the other populist trend in
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The Israeli government says it has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza because the first phase of the ceasefire with Hamas has expired. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Hamas had so far refused to accept a temporary ceasefire extension under a proposal by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff. A Hamas spokesman called the move “cheap blackmail” and a “coup” on the ceasefire agreement and urged mediators to get Israel to resume the supply of aid. The Palestinian group wants phase two of the deal to go ahead as originally negotiated, with the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. On Friday night, Hamas said it would not agree to any extension of phase one without guarantees from
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Feb 27, 2025; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Nashville Predators center Ryan O’Reilly (90) steals the puck from Winnipeg Jets center Vladislav Namestnikov (7) during the second period at Bridgestone Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steve Roberts-Imagn Images First-period goals by Filip Forsberg and Tommy Novak held up as the host Nashville Predators snapped the Winnipeg Jets’ 11-game winning streak with a 2-1 victory on Thursday. Goaltender Juuse Saros made 23 saves as Nashville ended a two-game losing skid, arguably the most important coming in the final minute as Saros turned away a wrist shot by Nikolaj Ehlers on a golden chance to tie the affair. Neal Pionk scored the lone goal for the Jets, whose franchise-record winning spree began on Dec. 22. Eric Comrie finished with 28 saves for Winnipeg. The Jets failed
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The tenth season of the six-team Pakistan Super League (PSL) will begin on April 11 with a fixture between defending champions Islamabad United and two-time champions Lahore Qalandars in Rawalpindi. The matches – 34 in total – will be played across Rawalpindi, Karachi, Multan and Lahore, with the playoffs slotted for Rawalpindi (May 13) and Lahore (May 14 and 16) and the final also in Lahore on May 18. The refurbished Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore will host the most matches, 13, including two of the playoff fixtures and the final, while Rawalpindi will host 11, including the opener and the first qualifier, and Karachi and Multan will host five matches each. There will be a total of three double-headers: Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators in Rawalpindi and Karachi Kings vs
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Freed hostage Eli Sharabi shared harrowing details of his 491-day captivity, the loss of his family, and the struggle to survive, in an interview with Channel 12’s ‘Uvda’. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF FEBRUARY 28, 2025 00:51 Updated: FEBRUARY 28, 2025 01:13 Released hostage Eli Sharabi is reunite with his family, 08/02/2025. (photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO) According to released hostage, Eli Sharabi, Hamas’s tunnels were so well fortified and protected that military operations to get hostages out the tunnels alive would have been nearly impossible. Sharabi, who was held hostage by Hamas for 491 days, was interviewed by Ilana Dayan on Channel 12’s “Uvda” program on Thursday evening, where he shared his experiences living in the terror tunnels. “If there’s one thing I’ve been saying to everyone from the start—family, medical