• Wolves accept Palace’s £48m bid; Mateta wants Milan

• Slot keen on bulking up squad with versatile defender

Crystal Palace have had a £48m bid for Jørgen Strand Larsen accepted by Wolves, after the south London club reignited their interest in the striker.

The Norway international, who joined Wolves on a permanent deal from Celta Vigo last summer for £23m, has scored one Premier League goal this season. The 25-year-old was a substitute for Wolves’s 2-0 home defeat to Bournemouth on Saturday.

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Taylor Rehmet’s win adds to Democrats’ record of overperforming in special elections so far this cycle

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that Donald Trump won by 17 points when he clinched a second presidency in 2024.

Rehmet, a labor union leader and veteran, easily defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist, in the Fort Worth-area district. With almost all votes counted, Rehmet had a comfortable lead of more than 14 percentage points.

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Eighteen-year-old Swiss national injured in blaze at Swiss ski resort died on Saturday

A teenager injured in the fire that engulfed a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana during new year celebrations has died in hospital, taking the death toll from the blaze to 41.

The Wallis canton’s public prosecutor, Beatrice Pilloud, said in a brief statement on Sunday: “An 18-year-old Swiss national died at a hospital in Zurich on January 31. The death toll from the fire at Le Constellation bar on January 1 2026 has now risen to 41.”

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Officials say calm restored to province day after dozens killed in suicide and gun attacks in at least 10 cities

Pakistan’s security forces have intensified their operations against separatist militants in Balochistan province who launched a majorassault on Saturday in which at least 31 civilians and 17 security personnel were killed.

A day after the militants carried out suicide attacks in the heart of the province’s capital, Quetta, the chief minister of the south-western region, Sarfraz Bugti, said 145 people he described as militants had been killed in 40 hours and that their bodies were in the custody of the authorities.

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On his Filatelia Grafica Instagram account, graphic designer Diego Bucciero shares some of his favorite postage stamps, with an emphasis on “iconography, form, typography and branding”. (via it’s nice that)

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MELBOURNE (ANP/AFP) - Carlos Alcaraz haalde veel kracht en inspiratie uit de aanwezigheid van landgenoot Rafael Nadal bij zijn gewonnen Australian Open-finale. "Dit is een heel speciaal moment, een droom die uitkomt. En om eerlijk te zijn maakte de aanwezigheid van 'Rafa' het nog bijzonderder", zei Alcaraz (22) na zijn eerste titel in Melbourne, waardoor de Spanjaard nu als jongste ooit alle vier de grandslamtoernooien heeft gewonnen.

Alcaraz moest vrijdag in zijn halve finale diep gaan tegen Alexander Zverev, een vijfsetter die meer dan vijf uur duurde. De nummer 1 van de wereld haalde richting de finale tegen Novak Djokovic inspiratie uit de halve finale van Nadal tegen landgenoot Fernando Verdasco op de Australian Open van 2009, die ook meer dan vijf uur duurde.

"Daar moest ik aan denken na mijn halve finale. Hoe Rafa daar fysiek gezien van herstelde en in een geweldige finale Roger Federer versloeg. Ik moest vandaag ook doorbijten. Soms keek ik naar Rafa en dan gaf hij me goede energie", zei Alcaraz.