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Image caption, After months of celebrations, the Ambani wedding is finally coming to an end.Article informationauthor, Zoya Mateen and Meryl Sebastianrole, BBC News, Delhi and Kochi2 hours agoThat’s the question many in India are asking as the wedding reception for the youngest child of Asia’s richest man enters its final stages.The celebrations are expected to culminate this weekend with the marriage of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, to Radhika Merchant, daughter of pharmaceutical tycoons Viren Merchant and Shaila Merchant. The four months leading up to the wedding were a series of extravagant events that…

Gregg Berhalter was fired as coach of the United States men’s national team just days after the team was eliminated from the group stage of the Copa America.Berhalter’s second stint as national team coach ended after just 14 games with consecutive losses to Panama and Uruguay in the Copa America.Fan calls for the 50-year-old coach to be fired reached a fever pitch in the days following his shameful departure, and U.S. Soccer officials have now pulled the trigger.The decision, first reported by Fox Sports and later confirmed by the team, will trigger a major rebuild just two years after the…

Freddie Douglas scores for Scotland against Hong Kong China. Image: © Craig Watson www.craigwatson.co.uk Kenny Murray, as expected, named his strongest starting 15 for Friday night’s World Under-20 Trophy Pool A final against Japan – the same 15 he used in the 123-15 first-match win over Samoa.Murray was not impressed with winger and vice-captain David Brock, who led the team to a 101-0 victory over Hong Kong China last Sunday. Jordy Gwynne He couldn’t play in the game because of an injury. The head coach said that both players number 8 and number 9 Johnny Morris Winger Rudo Kolade An…

Sign up for Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter for free and get it sent straight to your inbox.Sign up for Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter England face Spain in the Euro 2024 final on Sunday, aiming to lift a major men’s trophy for the first time in 58 years.Here, the PA news agency looks back at the team that won the 1966 World Cup with a 4-2 victory over West Germany at Wembley Stadium. Of that final team, Sir Geoff Hurst is the only one still surviving.Gordon BanksGoalkeeper Banks won 73 caps for England and played 628 club games…

Larne Bonfire nearing completion (Photo: Kevin Scott)Bonfire makers in Larne are celebrating, saying this year’s bonfire is a world record height.Bonfires will be lit in unionist communities across Northern Ireland on Thursday evening, ahead of the biggest day of the parade season.The height of Craigiehill crematorium will exceed 202 feet in 2022, beating the previous world record of 198 feet set in Lustenau, Austria in March 2019, although no official Guinness World Records adjudicators were present to verify the claim.On Wednesday this year, the Craigiehill Bonfire page said: “Northern Ireland has been hit by severe weather over the past 24…

Sign up for breaking news emails to get free real-time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox.Sign up for our free email updatesWith more and more greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere and the world getting hotter, many heat records have already been broken this year. In many places, the hottest temperatures since records began have occurred in the last 10 to 15 years — the clearest sign yet that humans are changing the climate, says Randall Cerveny, a professor at Arizona State University. Cerveny said 2024 will be much warmer than normal in India, the Middle East…

Luke Littler has been taking the darts world by storm in recent months and Nathan Aspinall admits many of the sport’s top players are desperate to beat the teenager. Luke Littler (pictured) received a warning from Nathan Aspinall ahead of the World Matchplay.(George Wood/Getty Images Darts star Nathan Aspinall has admitted that the sport’s top players are all trying to thwart Luke Littler’s rapid development. The teenage sensation shot to fame at the recent World Championships, where he was crowned Premier League champion in May, and Littler is fast becoming a contender for darts’ biggest honours, including the World Match…

Zara McDermott will delve into the world of trolls in a new BBC documentary and discover the true faces of those who have attacked her online.The 27-year-old former Love Island star has pivoted in her post-reality TV career to present six documentaries for the BBC, covering a range of topics from revenge porn to missing people.And in her latest documentary, Zara explores what it’s like to be a perpetrator of online abuse, with findings revealing that almost one in four UK adults have experienced trolling. Zara has endured her fair share of abuse online, and the documentary reveals that her…

Britain’s new Labour government hopes that its economic plan modelled on “Bidenomics” will reverse more than a decade of economic stagnation and lift stagnant living standards without the need for budget-busting spending.Like President Biden, Chancellor Keir Starmer has promised a more proactive government than his Conservative predecessor, as well as an industrial policy that will boost investment in green energy and domestic manufacturing.But Starmer is due to meet Biden at the White House on Wednesday. — The president inherited an economy strained by more than a decade of political turmoil, insufficient business investment and rigid government planning — and one…

The week after a vacation can be a relentless mix of drudgery (freedom makes drudgery seem less daunting) and burden (that pile of work you didn’t get done on Thursday and Friday). We feel just like you. But instead of following the commonly heard TikTok advice to get up and do 10 squats every hour, I’ve been taking breaks to reset my mind from work by reading long reads that aren’t related to the task at hand. And so far, it seems to be working: to-do items are checked off and my inbox is back to quiet. Maybe this little…