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‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site
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Chaos erupted at Bill West’s business in Page, Arizona, last week when he was forced to tell dozens of paid clients their summer vacations were either canceled or on hold – effective immediately. West, the owner of a...
‘Like purgatory’: diaspora in despair as India sinks deeper into Covid crisis
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Since the pandemic began, Fatima Ahmed has lost 29 of her family members in India and one in the US to Covid-19. A few days ago, her uncle died in his car as he was driving back home from a hospital in Hyderabad, a ci...
A year after Beirut blast, Lebanon sinks deep into mire of corruption
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At ground zero of Lebanon’s apocalypse a stench of dead rats seeps from hulking piles of rotting grain. Broken silos teeter above, their sides ripped apart by the catastrophic blast that also broke the soul of Beirut;...
Alfredo Morelos sinks Sparta Prague to send Rangers into knockout stage
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Controlled, composed and convincing. Giovanni van Bronckhorst will face sterner challenges as the manager of Rangers – Sparta Prague provided feeble opposition – but this has to be considered a wholly acceptable start...
Attenborough series sinks teeth into fruits of ‘dinosaur revolution’
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A “dinosaur revolution” is taking place with a new species being discovered every week, the makers of a groundbreaking new docuseries exploring life on Earth 66m years ago have said. Prehistoric Planet, produced by BB...
Aubameyang sinks Norwich to deliver Arsenal’s first league win this season
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If ever there was an afternoon when any win would do, then this was it. Arsenal’s performance will not live long in the memory but change has to begin somewhere and Mikel Arteta now has some sort of platform from whic...
Beth Mead’s quick hat-trick for England sinks stubborn Northern Ireland
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The post-match lap of honour was lengthy, the smiles were broad. Thanks to Beth Mead the second-half super sub, England’s perfect qualifying record for the 2023 World Cup endures. Until Mead arrived, taking mere secon...
Blackstenius sinks West Ham to no avail as Arsenal miss out on WSL title
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Arsenal knew what they had to do in the final game of the season: win against West Ham and hope Chelsea slipped up against Manchester United. They did the former with two goals and a clean sheet, overcoming a steely d...
Brennan Johnson sinks Derby as Nottingham Forest win after fiery finale
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If this is to be the last east Midlands derby for a long time, then at least it will live long in the memory. James Garner helped create both goals for Nottingham Forest, whose push for a play-off place will be booste...
Brilliant Liebenberg sinks Sale to maintain Leicester’s perfect record
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Not since 2014 have Leicester enjoyed a run like this. Not for seven largely barren years has this famous old club experienced such delight. It explains much: the fervour, the passion, the roar that filled the Welford...
Canada win Olympic title after Julia Grosso sinks Sweden in shootout
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Christine Sinclair won her first major tournament gold at 39 as the University of Texas’s Julia Grosso scored the decisive penalty for Canada in a sudden-death shootout with the back-to-back silver medallists Sweden. ...
Chelsea on verge of WSL title after Sam Kerr’s double sinks Tottenham
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Sam Kerr scored twice against Tottenham to put Chelsea tantalisingly close to retaining their Women’s Super League title on Wednesday. With one game left to play, against Reading on Sunday, and a two point gap to seco...
Chris Wood penalty sinks Wolves and eases Newcastle’s relegation fears
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Eyebrows were raised when Newcastle United paid Burnley £25m for Chris Wood in January. The consensus was that, in triggering the New Zealand striker’s release clause, Eddie Howe had overpaid – but it seemed money ver...
Christoph Baumgartner strike sinks Ukraine and puts Austria in last 16
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Austria had spent the buildup to this game batting away concerns that they might inflict another Anschluss on their rivals and the watching public, but they duly disabused everybody of that notion. There had been a te...
Diogo Jota double sinks Arsenal and sends Liverpool into Carabao Cup final
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Now you see him, now you don’t. Liverpool surged into the final of the Carabao Cup on a chilly evening in north London, and will face Chelsea at Wembley at the end of February. By then they will almost certainly have ...