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As Messi takes control of UE Cornellà, he joins Ronaldo in Spanish football as club owners in rival roles.(Image via Getty) For the first time since they left Spain, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have both found their way back into Spanish football, not as players but as club owners, placing themselves on different rungs…
Sunita Williams confirms participation in 130th Boston Marathon, returning after running it barefoot as a teenager and later completing it from space/ Image: Bostonglobe.com Sunita Williams will be among the runners in the 130th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 20, with the Boston Athletic Association confirming her participation in the race that stretches 26.2 miles…
Close up of Wu Yize in action during a semifinal on day seven of the 2026 Masters Snooker at Alexandra Palace, in London, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (Adam Davy/PA via AP) Snooker, a popular cue sport now followed across continents and played at the highest professional level, has a history that begins far from the…
Carlos Alcaraz withdraws from Barcelona Open after wrist injury, raising doubts over clay season and upcoming tournaments/ Image: X Carlos Alcaraz’s Barcelona Open campaign lasted one match. Less than 48 hours after returning to the court following his defeat in the Monte-Carlo Masters final, the world No. 2 confirmed he would not continue in the…
In a world where hustle culture dominates, one man in Japan has built a career by doing the exact opposite. Shoji Morimoto has gained global attention for offering a unique service: he rents himself out to strangers simply to be present. Charging around $70 per session, Morimoto accompanies clients to meals, walks or events without…
More than 4,500 years after it was built, the Great Pyramid of Giza continues to puzzle scientists. Constructed during the reign of Khufu, the monument is made up of roughly 2.3 million stone blocks, some weighing several tonnes, all assembled with remarkable precision. For decades, experts have debated how ancient workers achieved this without cranes,…
What began as a bizarre symbol of excess in a drug lord’s private zoo has turned into one of South America’s most unusual environmental crises. Deep in Colombia’s river systems, hundreds of hippos, descendants of animals once imported illegally by Pablo Escobar, now roam freely, far from their native Africa. Their numbers have surged over…
In Saudi Arabia, there have been attempts to redefine the utilisation of water in such regions, whereby the use of treated water has been employed as an innovative way of restoring the environment. In this context, Saudi Arabia’s strategy has helped to establish a continuous green belt through the efforts of transforming the deserts of…
Stanley Milgram’s 1961–62 Yale University experiment tested obedience, where participants believed they delivered painful electric shocks to others under authority. In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The answer,…
The BBC recreated the controversial 1974 Stanford prison experiment in The Experiment to explore human obedience/ screengrab Youtube The idea of recreating one of psychology’s most controversial experiments for television should have been unworkable from the outset. When the BBC announced in 2002 that it would run a controlled prison simulation as a documentary series,…
