From a golden goal on ice, to Eve Muirhead’s redemption moment and more, here are half a dozen Winter Games classics The greatest show on Canadian ice, and it boiled down to overtime. For the Canada team, stacked with NHL talent, the pressure was immense; a loss in this high-profile...
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
João Pedro stepping up for Rosenior, Arsenal frontmen show their teeth and stretched Liverpool are fighting on João Pedro is enjoying life under Liam Rosenior. The versatile Brazil forward was excellent after coming on at half-time against West Ham. João Pedro, who has five goals in his last five games,...
Familiar tale of two halves haunts Manchester City as Spurs find belated resolve | Jonathan Wilson
City again needlessly threw points away but Solanke showed what Tottenham, with their long injury list, have been missing There are times when football is gloriously silly, times when the logic of your eyes and all your experience tells you one thing is happening, and then it turns out the...
‘Already a legend’: Djokovic’s praise for Australian Open champion Alcaraz
Spaniard beat Serbian to complete career grand slam at 22 Alcaraz also youngest man to win seven grand slam titles Novak Djokovic called Carlos Alcaraz a tennis legend at the age of 22 after the Spaniard became the youngest male player in history to complete the career grand slam by...
Foord sees off Corinthians in extra time to put Arsenal on top of the world
Final: Arsenal 3-2 Corinthians (aet) Smith 15, Wubben-Moy 58, Foord 104; Zanotti 21, Albuquerque 90+6 pen The most decorated women’s club in England made more history in London on Sunday night, Arsenal securing a 3-2 win over the Copa Libertadores champions Corinthians in extra time to see them crowned winners...
Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may reveal how life began, and a Sydney lab is making it from scratch
Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain organic matter Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put...
Do you like cat photos? Are you constantly distracted? You’re probably actually quite good at focussing: 10 myths about attention
Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains, which then efficiently prioritise them. We need to learn to work with the process, rather than against it It’s believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal – “Did I leave the oven on?”. And those...
Transfer deadline day: Mateta, Strand Larsen, Jacquet latest and more – live
⚽ Transfer interactive: deals from Europe’s top five leagues⚽ 7pm GMT deadline | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Daniel It’s strange, really, that Liverpool spent so much money on forwards last summer, the part of their team that was working, and ignored the midfield and defence, which were not....
‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life
We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods;...
Starwatch: Orion the hunter dominates the February night sky
Straddling the celestial equator, the constellation is visible in both hemispheres Orion, the hunter, one of the most recognisable constellations in the night sky, is well placed for observation from the northern hemisphere during February. Straddling the celestial equator – the projection of Earth’s equator on to the night sky...