• Squad arrived home at 2.30pm local time on Monday

• Victory festivities to centre around the Plaza de Cibeles

More than a million Spaniards, many still bleary-eyed and feeling a little delicate after the country’s historic World Cup victory against Argentina, are expected to descend on central Madrid on Monday night to welcome the triumphant national team home.

La Roja, who beat Argentina 1-0 in the final in New Jersey on Sunday night, were afforded the first of many heroes’ welcomes when they touched down at Madrid’s Barajas airport at 2.30pm local time on Monday.

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The first full look at the big-budget December tentpole features returning heroes such as Chris Hemsworth, Patrick Stewart, Florence Pugh and Chris Evans

The first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday has been released online offering a look at Marvel’s big-budget big hope.

“Something’s coming, something we may not be able to deter,” is the first line heard in the new preview which proceeds to bring back multiple characters from various Marvel movies and universes.

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Much of what Rodri does is indefinable – his great skill is simply being, existing in the right spaces

You don’t need to be long in the US before somebody, finding you’re here to cover “the Fifa” as so many Americans so demoralisingly call it, will tell you that the USA would obviously win it all the time if only their best athletes weren’t distracted by more local pursuits: American football, basketball, eating enormous sandwiches and the like. If you’re really lucky they’ll start shouting names at you with a detailed rundown of height, weight, sprint speed, what they can bench and other fascinating statistics.

At which you wonder whether the 5ft 7in Lionel Messi has ever done a bench press. Rodri probably has, but he’s still nobody’s idea of a great athlete. He’s tall without being physically imposing. He’s not quick. He ambles about games being in the right place. Occasionally he leans into people or passes the ball 10 yards. It would be difficult to put together a highlights reel of his performance in the World Cup final that would convince a neophyte that he was the defining player – but he was, and was rightly named player of the tournament as well.

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Microsoft's aging Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has hit "severe degradation," leaving some organizations facing painfully slow synchronizations or timeouts when fetching updates. According to Microsoft, "a buildup of publishing metadata" has meant that "organizations might experience increased synchronization times or sync operation timeouts on WSUS servers." We're told the problem isn't related to the recent Patch Tuesday update, but Microsoft noted "heightened impact observed starting July 13, 2026." Administrators use WSUS to deploy and manage the distribution of updates and features in an enterprise environment. It was deprecated some time ago, but remains a supported part of Windows and, as such, receives fixes and security updates, even though there will be no new features. Microsoft's advice in October 2024 was to move to an alternative, such as one of its cloud-based options. However, administrators tend to opt for an "if it ain't broke" approach and the service was still flagged as supported and suitable for production deployments. However, failed synchronization could delay organizations' ability to test and deploy patches, leaving systems exposed for longer. Microsoft has not yet published a workaround for affected servers. For new and rebuilt installations, it deployed a mitigation on July 18 that restored normal synchronization, noting: "This mitigation prevents newly installed or rebuilt WSUS servers from encountering this issue." For existing affected WSUS servers, though, "Microsoft is working on mitigation steps to help customers safely remove the affected metadata from their environments. We will provide more information when this guidance is available." Microsoft's affected platform list spans pretty much every desktop and server operating system still supported by WSUS, from the newest and shiniest Windows 11 26H1 all the way back to Windows 10 1607 and Windows Server 2012. There isn't much administrators can do at this stage other than wait and see, since the problem appears to be on Microsoft's end. At present, it could be categorized as a headache, and perhaps a symptom of Microsoft's inattention to the service. However, should it linger and begin having a more severe impact on an enterprise's patch cycle, action will be required. ®

Arvid Lindblad believes Racing Bulls maximised the performance of a new upgrade package during the Belgian Grand Prix, as the Formula 1 rookie finished in the points again.

Lando Norris finished seventh in Belgium after starting 13th, which on paper looked a good recovery for the McLaren man. But given he found himself in the lead of the race at one point, it certainly seemed like more might have been possible.

Between April 1 and 10 of this year, NASA’s Artemis II mission made history as four astronauts flew farther from Earth than anyone has ever traveled before. With state-of-the-art technology and numerous cameras onboard, the crew captured some of the most striking images we’ve seen of our planet as the flight path led them around our iconic satellite. Lenses attached to the exterior of the spacecraft, plus numerous photographers stationed on the ground during the launch, documented the literally out-of-the-this world process of rocketing through the planet’s atmosphere and keeping course around the moon.

John D. Boswell, a musician and filmmaker who works as MELODYSHEEP, created a cinematic short film compiled from videos and images published by NASA. His original music accompanies the public domain images and soundbites, providing a uniquely immersive glimpse of the historic mission. See more of his work on his Vimeo and YouTube channels.

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The strikes, one of the costliest attacks on Russia's commercial infrastructure since the start of the war, have hit small entrepreneurs especially hard.

​Het is een spannende dag voor de Britten. Vandaag wordt de premier geïnstalleerd die het land de komende maand mag besturen. Dat gaat gepaard met veel folklore.

"Het is iedere maand weer bijzonder", zegt correspondent Fleur Launspach. "Dit keer is Andy Burnham aan de beurt, die het stokje overneemt van Keir Starmer. Starmer wordt gezien als onsuccesvol, hij heeft in juli weinig verbetering laten zien na zijn eveneens impopulaire voorgangers van dit voorjaar, Jessica McBerrydale, Ji-sung Smith en Rigoberto de la Yorkshire. De hoop is dat Burnham in augustus kan oogsten wat hij morgen zaait."

De nieuwe premier krijgt veel uitdagingen op zijn bord. Launspach: "Maar hij krijgt een volle maand de tijd om ze aan te pakken. De Britten snakken naar iemand die verder kijkt dan de waan van de dag."

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