• Argentina 24-31 England

• Visitors run in five tries; hosts denied late score by TMO

It has been a long season but England’s well-travelled players can finally head to the beach with some degree of satisfaction. Spurred on by a fine performance from the wing Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, they had to weather a frantic finale to complete an eventful five-try win over Argentina, thus denying their hosts a notable sporting double over their English amigos this week.

Reduced to 13 and briefly 12 men at stages in the second half, with four players sent to the sin-bin along the way, they were ultimately indebted to Marcus Smith and Feyi-Waboso for all-important tries in the final quarter, along with a brace of first-half scores for Ben Earl. England also had to defend stoutly at times, with Ollie Chessum, Ellis Genge and Joe Heyes all showing up remarkably well at the fag end of an energy-sapping campaign.

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Taylor Farms does not specify where products were served or sold, as US braces for weeks more of outbreak

Taylor Farms recalled potentially contaminated shredded iceberg lettuce in 27 states on Friday, including lettuce distributed as recently as Thursday, as cases of cyclosporiasis continue rising in the US.

The US is likely to see at least another two weeks of possible cases, since infections may have happened in recent days. And the expanding outbreak investigation could point to other products in coming days.

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• American two shots clear of Ryan Fox and Kim Si-woo

• Burns playing because wife gave birth earlier than expected

After one of the more fiery 24 hours in Open history, how appropriate that a golfer named Burns leads going into the final round at Royal Birkdale.

While Rory McIlroy directed spicy barbs at Bryson DeChambeau, as the row over the American’s behaviour after he was docked two shots for a rules infringement rumbled on, Sam Burns was coolness personified.

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Even if he does not lift the Claret Jug at Royal Birkdale, the American will still be the player everyone is talking about

Whip, crack, whoosh, Bryson DeChambeau’s opening shot flies into the distance, pitches, skips, and tumbles into the rough left of the fairway. By the time DeChambeau has reached the ball a big crowd has gathered around it, they’re standing on tiptoes, perched on mounds, tilting sideways to peer around the people in front, who are pressed right up against the ropes and even spilling underneath them and on to the playing area where the marshals, hands out, are trying to usher them back.

“Careful Bryson!” someone shouts out as he wades into the rough and, it never takes much, everyone breaks out laughing. Looking around, you notice how many people are watching all this through their phones. I start counting: one, five, 10, 20, 50 – people don’t just want to see DeChambeau play golf, they want to be able to show everyone they know that they’ve done it. Did you even go to the Open if you didn’t get to see him?

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A footbridge with hot spring footbaths crossing over the Ginzan River to the historic Kosekiya ryokan, or traditional Japanese-style inn.

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This shrine serves as the headquarters for all Suitengu Shrines in Japan. Legend has it that this shrine was constructed in 1190 by Azechi no Tsubone, a noble lady of Ise. After the Taira Clan lost the Battle of Dan-no-Ura in present-day Shimonoseki, she escaped to Saginogahara, a field in the area of the Chikugo River.

This was the first location of a shrine venerating Emperor Antoku, enshrined as Suitengu, the god of water. Later, in 1650, during the reign of Tadayori Arima, the second lord of the Kurume Clan, it was moved to its present location overlooking the Chikugo River. As a shrine connected to water, it was said to protect marine transportation, and legend also relates it to the imaginary water sprites called Kappa. Attracting worshippers for both of these reasons, the shrine is now known for housing the Shinto deity of safe childbirth. What’s more, Yasuomi Maki, a samurai who made a name for himself as an imperial loyalist, was also a shrine priest at Suitengu. Within the shrine grounds are his bronze statue as well as a replica of Sanshika, his retirement retreat.

From May 3rd to 7th, when the Suitengu Spring Festival is held, many shrine parishioners and worshippers come to pray for safe childbirth, protection of children, and prevention of water-related accidents. This annual event marks the beginning of summer. Suitengu, the deity enshrined here, is related to the love story of Emperor Antoku and Princess Tamae. The camellia flower, which is emblazoned on the sacred crest of Suitengu, is now represented here in the form of about 18 camellia bushes that surround the main shrine building.

LONDEN (ANP/AFP/RTR) - De aantredende Britse premier Andy Burnham gaat de plannen van de regering voor een omstreden digitaal identificatiebewijs schrappen, meldt een woordvoerder van de nieuwe leider van de Labour-partij.

"Alle tijd en middelen die aan een nationaal identiteitsbewijssysteem zouden worden besteed, zullen nu worden ingezet waar ze het hardst nodig zijn, zoals het verlagen van de kosten van levensonderhoud", aldus de woordvoerder.

Keir Starmer, die maandag aftreedt als premier, kondigde het plan voor een identiteitskaart in september aan in een poging illegale migratie tegen te gaan. Hoewel de kaart niet verplicht zou worden, zou het in eerste instantie wel een voorwaarde zijn geweest om in het Verenigd Koninkrijk te kunnen werken.

De maatregel stuitte op felle tegenstand, onder meer vanwege de hoge kosten voor het systeem. Deze werden geschat op 1,8 miljard pond (ruim 2,1 miljard euro) over een periode van drie jaar. In januari besloot de regering de voorwaarden al te versoepelen.

Lando Norris delivered a magnificent lap to qualify third for the Belgian Grand Prix, but will be demoted to P13 due to a grid penalty.

Chris Medland picks out five key things to keep an eye on when the lights go out on race day at Spa-Francorchamps.

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from final practice and Qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps for the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix.

Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams on race day at Spa-Francorchamps.

Arvid Lindblad secured a career-best result of P8 during Qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Toto Wolff admits that some of George Russell's deficit to Mercedes team mate Kimi Antonelli in Qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix is "not his fault".

Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton believe they can challenge for podium finishes in the Belgian Grand Prix, with the Ferrari duo set to start from P4 and P5.

A fun and short completed fantasy tale from just last year, with a bard/magician without an instrument, a bride fleeing an arrange marriage, and with them a gleefully murderous barbarian lady: John Allison's THE SAVAGE SWORD OF SUSAN

"One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management," reports The Register:


Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository — but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there although the most recent changes were seven years ago. The new project also has a project history giving credit where it's due. The main man behind the revival is Joe Maloney, known on GitHub as pkgdemon. In case his name rings a bell, we've mentioned him before: he put together the Gershwin desktop in GhostBSD. Soon after we covered Gershwin on GhostBSD, he asked the maintainers if he could take over the NextBSD project. He did have a relatively minor role in the original — you can see his list of commits.


The original NextBSD project was started by FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard in 2015 — its Wikipedia article has some of the history. The plan was to port some of the components of Apple's Darwin OS to FreeBSD... [T]he NextBSD plan is to take the FreeBSD kernel, the most capable of the FOSS BSD kernels, but replace FreeBSD's traditional and server-focused userland with the relevant parts of the publicly available Apple code. The rebooted NextBSD-redux is not based on a fork of the decade-old code. FreeBSD has moved on substantially in that time, and so have macOS and Darwin. This is a new project by a new developer, but it picks up the same overall plan, aims to assemble the same puzzle pieces, and shares the same intended goal.


In places, it does draw on a little of the same code, though. The NextBSD-redux README describes what's working so far, with a lot more detail in the porting notes. Although there's no graphical desktop yet, that's underway as well.... For us, perhaps the key aspect of NextBSD — both the original version and NextBSD-redux — is that it isn't an effort to build something completely new from scratch. It's an effort to cherry-pick and combine elements of existing separate FOSS projects, and assemble them into a useful whole.


The Team section of the homepage lists two core developers: Maloney and Anthropic's Claude Code. "From my perspective, AI is a force multiplier here," Maloney told The Register. "It is my team of developers, but I am steering the entire thing."

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They called her the odd one out, asocial, distant. But in truth, she was simply a wild soul that could never fit into that stone-bound chaos into the life people have learned to call success. And only these escapes back to the earth, like gulps of fresh air, help her stay grounded and find balance.

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handwritten on back of photograph, "This is Bobbie's wife Mary Lu school picture"

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