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World No. 3 and U.S. Champion Fabiano Caruana showed off his newfound mastery of speed chess last week as he won the SuperUnited Zagreb Rapid and Blitz with a combined score of 27/36 tournament, which is part of the Chess Grand Tour organized in St. Louis. With five rounds remaining, Caruana is a sure winner.Rapid (G25+10) and Lightning (G5+2) have nine rounds each, and the former counts double points. The total prize award is $175,000. In nine years on tour, there have been 10 quick/blitz totals of 24.5 or better, five of which were dominated by Carlson, Caruana, Alireza Firouzja,…

Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline after blue screen of death error screens were seen on Windows workstations across the globe.Users on the subreddit for cyber security firm Crowdstrike reported issues in India, the United States and New Zealand.Sky News in the United Kingdom returned to broadcasting after the channel was off air for several hours on Friday morning. GP surgeries in England also said they were unable to access patient records or book appointments.Melbourne airport advised customers it was “experiencing a global technology issue which is impacting check-in procedures…

SWhen I first met Tom Daley during the school holidays in Plymouth sixteen years ago, he uttered a series of nonchalant catchphrases, including “blah-di-blah”, while talking about his growing fame , and revealed that his two brothers kept telling him he was “rubbish” as he prepared for his first Olympics.Daley, who at just 13 had just become the youngest ever European diving champion, admitted he found it strange to appear in a fashion magazine ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics: “It was weird. Normally I would pull out pictures of athletes and hang them up. On the wall. Now young…

The prosecution: Tiger I want to pay off my debt to Theo, but now I’m working for him he talks to me like I’m an idiot Theo, my boyfriend of seven years, has always earned a lot more than me and is really supportive. We have got into a rhythm in the past couple of years where he usually pays for most things, like our rent and bills, but I contribute and do more around the house in terms of the cooking and cleaning. It hasn’t necessarily been a problem but sometimes when we talk to our friends, they call me a “kept…

Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination Thursday at the Republican National Convention, a night that should have been filled with calls for unity but instead was filled with alarmist language and false claims.Here’s a fact check on some of the things said on the final night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday, and why they’re untrue.Trump claims US has experienced worst inflation ever under Joe BidenIn his speech, Trump claimed that the country has seen its worst inflation ever under the Biden administration.This statement is misleading. In June 2022, when Biden took office, inflation reached a record high…

I remember reading Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace many years ago and feeling almost as if I was being beaten about the head with its brilliance. I loved it, admired it, wanted to tell all my friends about it, but I had to take a few days to recover from a sort of cudgelling-by-quality first.I feel much the same about Lady in the Lake. This is a seven-part adaptation of the 2019 bestseller of the same name by Laura Lippman, an exceptional thriller writer, that stars Natalie Portman in her first small-screen role and marks visionary director Alma Har’el’s first time…

Cameron Smith has been licking his wounds after one of the most brutal days of his major-winning career at the British Open, shooting his first 80 in one of golf’s four major tournaments.In 33 majors nine years ago, the 30-year-old Queenslander has never before suffered the indignity he experienced in Thursday’s opening round at Royal Troon, when he shot 9-over. Rod scores.A bogey on the first hole and a triple bogey on the second allowed Smith to surpass his previous worst round in a major, the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. During the tournament, another round of 79 was…

A police car was flipped on its side and a bus set alight after unrest broke out in Leeds on Thursday evening and residents were advised to stay at home.Footage appeared to show people throwing objects at the police vehicle before it was pushed over in Harehills, just east of the city centre. The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, condemned the “shocking scenes and attacks”, saying “disorder of this nature has no place in our society.”A local restaurant owner said the chaos was linked to children being taken into care, adding that some people in the community responded by setting fires…

A woman has been given a suspended sentence after killing her neighbor, a child on her 11th birthday, using poison gas brought from Italy to rid a London flat of bed bugs.Jesmin Akter, 34, illegally imported aluminum phosphide without a license to tackle an infestation at her flat in Tower Hamlets, east London.Without reading the packaging, she distributed the lethal drug around the house and took her family out for 24 hours.The substance reacts with moisture to produce the toxic gas phosphine, similar to a chemical warfare agent.The virus infiltrated neighboring apartments at Nida House, resulting in the death of…

Ukrainian aerial and maritime drones struck Russian military targets on the illegally occupied Crimean peninsula on Thursday, a defence source in Kyiv said. An operation by the navy and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) damaged or disabled a command centre and an ammunition depot among other facilities at Lake Donuzlav in western Crimea, the source told Agence France-Presse. The Russian military said it brought down 33 Ukrainian aerial drones over Crimea and 10 naval drones heading for the peninsula. The figures were not independently verified and Russian officials routinely claim after attacks that most or all threats were eliminated,…