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Sri Lanka's Dilhari is stumped in bizarre fashion
Sri Lanka's Kavisha Dilhari is stumped by Bangladesh's Nigar Sultana Joty in the most "unfortunate" way as the ball is deflected onto the wicketkeeper's legs before it ricochets onto the stumps.

Salt & Brook set up impressive England win over NZ
England crush New Zealand by 65 runs in the second T20 in Christchurch to give the tourists a 1-0 series lead with one match to play.

Son of ex-England footballer Stuart Pearce dies in tractor crash
Harley Pearce died after his tractor crashed in Gloucestershire last week.

King meets 'hero' survivors of synagogue attack
The King expressed his "sadness" after what he described as a "terrible thing to come out of the blue".

Zelensky ready to join Trump-Putin talks after 'frank' White House meeting
The US and Russian presidents announced on Thursday that they planned to meet in Budapest.

Amazon services 'recovering' as Snapchat and banks among sites hit by outage
Platform outage checker Downdetector said the issues have impacted more than 1,000 different businesses.

This killer Ryzen mini PC with tons of RAM is 33% off and perfect for home
I don’t know about you, but my desk has very little space to spare so I replaced my laptop with a mini PC—and I couldn’t be happier. Not only does a mini PC take up way less room, it’s way more affordable than a comparably specced laptop. Right now, for...

Google’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’ user tracking initiative is officially dead
If I offered you an alternative to conventional tracking cookies on the web, you might be interested, especially if you care about digital privacy. If I told you it was made by Google, the biggest provider of advertising and tracking data on the planet, you might be a lot less...

Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage.

Rangers closing in on Rohl as manager
Rangers close in on appointing Danny Rohl as their new head coach - less than a week after the German ruled himself out of the running.

Watch: BBC shows the steps jewel thieves took to break in through Louvre window
The BBC's Hugh Schofield is outside the museum in Paris where the "extraordinary, daring and brazen" robbery took place.

Deadly Gaza flare-up tests Israel-Hamas ceasefire
The deadliest day of attacks since the truce took effect on 10 October raises questions as to whether it will last.

Pizza Hut to close 68 UK restaurants with the loss of 1,210 jobs
The move will lead to more than 1,200 redundancies, but 64 other restaurants will be saved.

Prince Andrew scrutiny continues despite giving up titles
Prince Andrew faces more scrutiny as the posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre makes more claims.

'It's out of this world': Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again
The results are astounding and a major advance, say surgeons involved in international research using the pioneering technology.

See you next October, champ: Ka Ying Rising bids Sydney farewell
As Ka Ying Rising left Sydney, his trainer and jockey finally celebrated The Everest win with a few expensive bottles of red wine and cigars.

The AWS outage took down my Ring cam, and everyone else’s too
Did you wake up to unresponsive Ring cameras on Monday? Join the club. Amazon Web Services went on the fritz early Monday morning, and it took out a slew of online services with it—everything from Apple TV and Hulu to Reddit and Roblox. Plenty of cloud-connect smart home devices got hit by...

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Windows 11’s Multiple Desktops saved my sanity—even when I missed one big feature
I’ve lived a multi-monitor lifestyle since the CRT days. I’ve since upgraded over the years, most recently to an ultrawide monitor paired with a portrait 1080p screen, and didn’t think much of it… until I decided one day that maybe my fellow PCWorld staffers were right about virtual desktops. Windows has...