Spaniard loses narrowly in fourth round of the Cincinnati Open yet the buzz around him will only get louder

As Rafael Jódar slowly trudged from the court, he could only bring himself to wave at his adoring crowd for no more than a millisecond. The 19-year-old was appropriately devastated after he had come within two points of victory on numerous occasions before losing 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the fourth round of the Cincinnati Open to an excellent Flavio Cobolli.

No matter, Jódar departs Ohio having further solidified himself as the subject of so much conversation on the ATP Tour. This has been a turbulent and unpredictable year in men’s tennis, largely thanks to Carlos Alcaraz’s extended injury layoff. The one certainty through it all has been the imperious rise of Jódar. After a short period competing at the University of Virginia, Jódar started to play regularly on the tour only in May last year. In August 2025, he was ranked No 540. He began the 2026 season at No 165.

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Lisa Hayden-Johnson was convicted of child cruelty, but she still insists that she didn’t do anything wrong – and barely gets a grilling about it. Her children, who speak for the first time in this documentary, deserve much more

There’s an increasingly common pattern emerging whereby documentary makers take a story that was run through the Outrage-A-Tron by the tabloids to produce headlines that warped public understanding (“Britain’s Worst/Most Evil/Most Deadly” and so on), then proceed to put back some of the lost nuance and present the more complicated original picture. Lucy Letby (“Britain’s Worst Child Killer”) has been the subject of at least two such films redressing the lost balance. Last week, the story of Rhianan Rudd (“Britain’s Youngest Terrorist”) was unpacked and its many sadder parts laid out for inspection in The Schoolgirl Terrorist?

In Love You to Death, it is the turn of Lisa Hayden-Johnson, who became known as “Britain’s Most Evil Mum” during her trial and conviction for child cruelty after years spent fabricating her son Matthew’s apparent illnesses. He was put through more than 300 medical encounters, nine general anaesthetics, four operations by the age of nine, and endured many unnecessary constraints on his life, including using a wheelchair, feeding tube and oxygen tank, until Lisa was arrested when he was nine.

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• France World Cup midfielder could cost £50m

• Tottenham discussing £150m double deal for forward pair

Manchester City have identified Roma’s Manu Koné as a potential target to further strengthen Enzo Maresca’s options in midfield.

While City have already bought Elliot Anderson for £116m and are closing in on the £85m signing of Lille’s Ayyoub Bouaddi, Maresca also admires Koné for his dynamic mode of play. He would be expected to cost around £50m.

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El Gran Silencio

Alice in Chains

Randy Newman

CISA says the Medusa ransomware operation has breached more than 500 U.S. critical infrastructure organizations since 2021, up from more than 300 reported last year. The group has targeted healthcare, government, defense, manufacturing, IT and financial organizations, evolving into a ransomware-as-a-service operation that recruits initial-access brokers and uses stolen data to pressure victims into paying. BleepingComputer reports: The three federal agencies recommended that network defenders secure their networks against the ransomware group's attacks by mitigating security vulnerabilities to protect operating systems, software, and firmware from exploitation attempts. Security teams are also advised to segment networks to block lateral movement after compromise and to block access from untrusted origins to remote services on internal systems.

[...] "Medusa developers typically recruit initial access brokers (IABs) in cybercriminal forums and marketplaces to obtain initial access to potential victims," the advisory says. "Potential payments between $100 USD and $1 million USD are offered to these affiliates with the opportunity to work exclusively for Medusa."

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NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn woensdag met bescheiden winsten gesloten. Farmaceut Moderna verdubbelde ruimschoots in waarde na de bekendmaking van positieve onderzoeksresultaten rondom een mogelijk nieuw vaccin tegen huidkanker. Beleggers verwerkten verder een aankondiging van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Financiën die de rentes op langlopende staatsobligaties omlaagbracht.

De Dow-Jonesindex klom 0,2 procent tot 53.463,05 punten. De S&P 500 steeg 0,2 procent tot 7707,98 punten en techbeurs Nasdaq eindigde ook 0,2 procent hoger op 26.331 punten.

Moderna maakte een historische koerssprong van 178 procent, maar is nog steeds minder waard dan tijdens de coronapandemie. De farmaceut meldde samen met branchegenoot Merck & Co positieve resultaten van een onderzoek naar een mogelijk vaccin tegen huidkanker. Beleggers reageerden enthousiast op het nieuws, omdat het positieve vooruitzichten kan bieden voor kankerbehandelingen op basis van mRNA. Die technologie werd ook gebruikt voor coronavaccins, waar Moderna tijdens de pandemie groot mee werd.

Rentes

De afgelopen dagen verloren de belangrijkste beursgraadmeters nog terrein, onder andere door zorgen over oplopende rentes op de obligatiemarkten. Woensdag daalden de rentes na een opvallende mededeling. Het ministerie van Financiën wil het inkoopprogramma voor langer lopende staatsobligaties minstens in omvang verdubbelen.

Analisten en beleggers zien dit als signaal dat de regering zich zorgen maakt over oplopende rentes op langlopende obligaties. Die bereikten dinsdag het hoogste niveau in bijna twintig jaar door zorgen over de Amerikaanse staatsschuld, het effect van de Iranoorlog op inflatie en het vele geld dat techbedrijven lenen voor de ontwikkeling van AI.

Zorgen over inflatie

Uit de notulen van de rentevergadering van de Federal Reserve werd duidelijk dat beleidsmakers zich zorgen maken over aanhoudend hoge inflatie. Veel van hen verwachten dat een renteverhoging nodig is als de prijsstijgingen niet in hevigheid afnemen, staat in de stukken.

Chipmaker Marvell won bijna 10 procent na de aankondiging van een grote deal met Google. Dat techbedrijf krijgt het recht om voor 12,2 miljard dollar aan aandelen van Marvell te kopen. De halfgeleiderfabrikant levert Google tegelijkertijd chips voor de ontwikkeling van AI. Google-moederbedrijf Alphabet steeg 0,2 procent op de beurs.

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