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World’s top tennis players call truce in prize-money battle with grand slams

  • 18-month campaign comes to an end after US Open

  • Sinner and Sabalenka most vocal of leading players

The world’s leading tennis players have agreed a truce in their long-running battle with the grand slam tournaments over prize money, welfare and player consultation.

In a statement released after the men’s US Open final on Sunday the players announced they would stop their 18-month campaign of agitating against the grand slam tournaments, which culminated in a media boycott at the French Open this year, a plan first revealed in May.

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Researchers hope powerful new microscope will reveal ‘root cause’ of incurable bowel disease

No run-of-the-mill tech, ‘Curie’ operates at 10 times the resolution of conventional microscopy and could spur discoveries leading to new treatment

The number of young people living with debilitating and incurable bowel conditions worldwide is growing, but researchers now hope a one-of-a-kind microscope will help them understand such diseases and find new treatments.

According to the British Society of Gastroenterology, more than half a million people in the UK are living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis the two main forms.

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Alexander Zverev claims first US Open after four-set battle with Ben Shelton

  • No 1 seed wins 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2

  • American’s hopes dashed in tense final

For a passing moment at the end of a rugged third set, hope sprung anew for Ben Shelton. He had been outserved and outplayed for nearly three hours, but at 6-5 in the third set, one game from defeat, the American finally broke through. He burst into the return game finally pounding his forehand freely and he willed himself into an unexpected fourth set.

After he had finished pumping his fist, cupping his ear to the crowd and admirably trying to initiate a drastic momentum shift, the next sequence was most revealing. Shelton opened the fourth set with a shaky game, immediately losing his serve at the start of the set. He worked hard until the end, but he was beaten by Zverev, the top seed, who closed out a 6-3, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-2 victory to lift his second grand slam title of the year.

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Babies review – Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen embrace childlessness in breezy comedy

Toronto film festival: To be a parent or not to be a parent is the question propelling this often insightful yet largely run-of-the-mill riff on a Judd Apatow movie

It’s a question still casually and routinely asked to couples everywhere regardless of familiarity, one that many fear and some feel actively offended by: are you guys gonna have kids?

Despite living in an age where we’re supposedly more accepting of people who make choices that don’t conform to whatever dusty old standards our parents and their parents had to live by, there’s still an odd regressive judgment attached to those who dare to say no or even maybe. There’s the sad tilt of the head and maybe a “but you’d make such great parents” on top, as if either would make a difference to one of life’s biggest decisions. It’s a question that writer-director Lauren Miller Rogen knows all too well and as the wife of Seth Rogen, it’s one that has an answer that immediately becomes a headline.

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‘An error of judgement’: Pro Ref admits mistake in awarding Haaland’s derby winner

  • Officiating body announces it will review the incident

  • Unhappy Carrick says error was ‘as obvious as it gets’

Pro Ref admitted Erling Haaland’s winner in Sunday’s Manchester derby should not have been allowed after the video assistant referee ruled Enzo Fernández was not interfering with play in the build-up. The elite officiating body will review the decision and has contacted Manchester United.

Haaland’s 60th minute goal for Manchester City at Old Trafford was initially ruled offside before the VAR’s intervention. It came after Josko Gvardiol’s cross hit Patrick Dorgu’s boot, passed Fernández and the United defender Lisandro Martínez, and was finished by the City No 9. VAR decided Fernández was not interfering despite Martínez marking the midfielder.

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‘Sweat the asset’: new development minister plots path to make UK aid count

Kirsty McNeill reaffirms Labour’s 0.7% of GDP pledge and promises value for money to allay voter concerns

The development minister, Kirsty McNeill, has declared herself “a huge believer in aid”, as she reaffirmed Labour’s manifesto pledge to return to a target of 0.7% of national income spending.

McNeill, a former adviser to Gordon Brown and senior executive at Save the Children, declined to give any timetable, repeating the formula that the government would work towards the target “when fiscal circumstances allow”.

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All the key moments from the 2026 Spanish Grand Prix

Kimi Antonelli came out on top as Formula 1 made its first visit to the Madring for the Spanish Grand Prix.

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Zverev verslaat thuisfavoriet Shelton en wint US Open

NEW YORK (ANP) - Tennisser Alexander Zverev heeft zondag de US Open gewonnen. De Duitse nummer 2 van de wereldranglijst was in vier sets te sterk voor de Amerikaan Ben Shelton: 6-3 7-6 (2) 5-7 6-2. Het is de tweede grandslamtitel in de carrière van Zverev, eerder dit jaar won hij zijn eerste op Roland Garros.

Hoewel Zverev al jaren meedraait in de internationale top won hij met Roland Garros eerder dit jaar pas zijn eerste grandslamtoernooi. Een maand later haalde hij ook de finale van Wimbledon, maar die verloor hij van de Italiaanse nummer 1 van de wereld Jannik Sinner. Bij afwezigheid van Sinner was Zverev de als eerste geplaatste speler op de US Open.


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Taroona looking towards the Tasman Sea, Tasmania.
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