Sports

Spring in Sesko’s step is thanks to Carrick scrapping Amorim’s tactical stranglehold

Benjamin Sesko’s Manchester United career divides into two distinct periods. In the first he played 1,404 minutes and scored two goals; in the second he has played 274 minutes and scored six, moving from 702 minutes per goal to 45 minutes 40 seconds per goal. On 4 January

Tech

Pokémon Winds And Waves Skipping Original Nintendo Switch

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company revealed the next mainline entries in the series: Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves. On February 27 the official Pokémon account said the tropical-based Winds and Waves will be playable only on Nintendo Switch 2 when it launches in 2027, noting players will “travel across beautiful

Crypto

Ethereum Holder Retention Rebounds From a 4.5-Year Low

Ethereum holder retention has begun to recover after falling to a 4.5-year low, even as the network’s growth weakened and price action remained broadly sideways. The exit of new participants weighed on sentiment, while some longer-term metrics show early signs of improvement. Daily new addresses plunged nearly 36%

Culture

What Are the ‘Backrooms’ in A24’s New Horror Movie, Anyway?

The first teaser for A24’s Backrooms leans into unsettling visuals and a haunting narration. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s character describes finding a massive place with countless rooms that "just goes on and on and on," as the footage shifts through yellowed rooms, dropping level after level until furniture

Sports

Lamine Yamal will gift hat-trick match ball to his mum

Lamine Yamal says he will give the match ball to his mother after scoring a hat-trick in Barcelona's 4-1 win over Villarreal, a victory that moved the Blaugrana four points clear of Real Madrid and was capped by a late Robert Lewandowski goal. Yamal dominated at Camp Nou,

Crypto

Iran uses $7.8 billion crypto shadow economy to bypass sanctions

Fresh U.S. and Israeli strikes have drawn attention to a financial network Tehran has built alongside its battered banking system: bitcoin mining and a fast-growing stablecoin economy. Iran legalized crypto mining in 2019, allowing licensed operators to use subsidized electricity in return for selling mined bitcoin to the central

Culture

Kelly Osbourne attends 2026 BRITs with Sharon after defending weight loss

Kelly Osbourne showed off a dramatic weight loss while walking the red carpet with her mother, Sharon, at the 2026 BRIT Awards at Manchester’s Co-Op Live. She wore a figure-hugging black feathered gown and a cross-shaped necklace that appeared to pay homage to her late father, Ozzy Osbourne. Her

Culture

Doom: The Dark Ages DLC 'basically like a sequel,' director says

Doom: The Dark Ages is big. But can it get bigger? Game director Hugo Martin seemed to think so during the Slayers Club Live stream that went up on YouTube yesterday. While playing the base game he said, "I'm not gonna lie, the DLC is nothing like

Business

OSBP Engagement 2026: L.I.F.T.

Leveraging Industry and Supply Chains for Future Technology (L.I.F.T.) will take place September 15, 2026, as an in-person event at Space Center Houston, TX. The Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) is committed to strengthening the agency’s industrial base by creating opportunities for small businesses and

Culture

First look at Amazon’s God of War live-action series

Amazon has begun production on its live-action God of War series and released a first production photo showing Kratos, played by Ryan Hurst, standing behind Atreus, played by Callum Vinson. A press release on February 27 said filming has started in Culver City, California. Ronald D. Moore serves as showrunner,

Culture

When 'Scream 7' Will Stream on Paramount+

Scream 7 opened in theaters on February 27, 2026, bringing Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott back into the fold as her teenage daughter Tatum becomes a target. The film is described as a “full-circle story” for Sidney, offering a chance to address wounds tied to motherhood and her own mother’

Crypto

Bitcoin Bottom Signal Fires But This Time Investor Risk Appetite Is Absent

A Bitcoin bottom signal that preceded a 130% rally in 2024 has appeared again this week, suggesting the price may be nearing another bullish inflection point. At the same time, liquidity, exchange-traded fund flows and macroeconomic conditions differ from two years ago, so the path forward may not mirror the

Business

Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal Could Reshape Cable with 20+ Channels

Paramount Skydance’s agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery values the company at roughly $77 billion in equity and more than $110 billion including debt. The deal was unanimously approved by both boards but still needs regulatory and shareholder sign-off. David Ellison, who runs Paramount Skydance, says the merger will

Sports

Ronaldo misses penalty, suffers hamstring scare as Al-Nassr comeback wins

Al-Nassr battled from behind at Al-Fayha to complete a comeback and retake top spot from Al-Ahli. Cristiano Ronaldo scuffed an early penalty and later limped off after feeling something in his hamstring, but the visitors recovered to secure the victory. The spot-kick arrived after Mikel Villanueva reached for a loose

Culture

Leonardo DiCaprio skipping 2026 Actor Awards despite nomination

Leonardo DiCaprio will not attend the 2026 Actor Awards on Sunday because he is filming in Europe. He is on set with Martin Scorsese’s new project, "What Happens at Night," opposite Jennifer Lawrence; the pair play a married American couple who travel to a small European town

Culture

Inaccessible zone in World of Warcraft: Midnight hints at next update

Blizzard has long been engaged in a quiet battle with World of Warcraft dataminers who find content in game files. These days the discoveries are relatively minor but can still hint at future, unannounced updates. During Midnight's alpha and beta testing, players found an island called Atal'

Health

Australia’s aged-care-at-home system fails dying people and carers

Dying Australians who have been approved for government-funded aged care at home are struggling to access essential supports, carers say, with long delays and little control over how money is spent. Emma Nicolle cared for her father, Alan, after he was assessed and granted the highest package in October, with

Culture

Pokémon Winds And Waves Starters: Browt, Pombon and Gecqua

The initial announcement of Pokémon Winds And Waves revealed the three new starter Pokémon trainers can choose at the beginning of the game — and, by extension, the first three Pokémon unveiled for Gen X: Browt, Pombon and Gecqua. Browt is an owl-ish baby bird with big eyebrows and serves as

Culture

Where Monarch Season 2 Fits in the Monsterverse Timeline

After a two-year wait, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters returns with Season 2. The Monsterverse spin-off premiered on Apple TV in December 2023 and earned an 87% critical score, the best in the franchise. Although the Monsterverse spans more than seven decades in-story, its releases are not presented in chronological order.

Culture

Best Picture Winners That Aged Like Fine Wine

People often complain that the Academy hands out undeserved Oscars, but it also gets things right—especially when Best Picture winners have been treated well by time. Many of these films have become classics that defined the Seventh Art, and their victories have themselves aged well; only the passage of

Sports

Phil Parkinson hails Wrexham’s resilience after Charlton win

Phil Parkinson praised his side’s resilience after Wrexham edged Charlton 1-0 at the Valley, a result that kept them in sixth place and kept promotion hopes alive. The victory extended Wrexham’s strong run of form and continued their success away from home. Oliver Rathbone, who recently extended his

Culture

I met Keegan-Michael Key on a plane

I boarded a flight from Newark Airport in Jersey City to San Francisco with a business-class seat that a clothing brand I was working for had booked. My row 11 window seat felt like a treat — I usually fly economy — and I was settling in when a woman asked if

Culture

10 anime to watch if you love Pokémon

Pokémon began in the mid-1990s as Red and Green and grew into a sprawling multimedia empire after the anime’s debut. For many fans, the franchise’s appeal is bound up with Pokémon the Series, which aired more than 1,300 episodes between 1997 and 2023 and made Pikachu a

Sports

Manchester City close gap to two points at top after Semenyo sinks Leeds

For those wondering if Manchester City are over reliant on Erling Haaland, they offered a riposte at Leeds. It was neither a fluid nor entertaining victory but, importantly, it closed the gap at the top to two points, increasing the pressure on Arsenal. Antoine Semenyo scored his 14th of the

Culture

Shia LaBeouf says 'gay people are scary' in first interview after Mardi Gras

In an interview with Andrew Callaghan’s Channel 5 posted on YouTube, Shia LaBeouf blamed his Mardi Gras bar brawl arrest on his fear of gay people, saying, “I’ll be honest with you, big gay people are scary to me.” He added, “When I’m like standing by myself