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Advantage Chelsea after Barca blunted in Women’s Champions League semi-final

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Chelsea ended Barcelona’s five-year unbeaten streak at home, to take an unlikely advantage home for the second leg of this Champions League semi-final.

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Lewis Hamilton slumps to 18th in Chinese GP qualifying as Max Verstappen on pole

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Lewis Hamilton’s troubled start to the new season took another desperate twist on Saturday after he qualified a lowly 18th for the Chinese Grand Prix.

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Emma Raducanu beaten by Iga Swiatek but Briton on upward trajectory

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A resurgent Emma Raducanu played some of her best tennis in recent memory but fell short in a compelling quarter-final battle against world number one Iga Swiatek at the Stuttgart Open.

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Israel ‘launched missiles at Iranian nuclear defences’

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Israeli fighter jets fired several missiles at an air defence installation protecting an Iranian nuclear facility during Friday morning’s attack, a senior US official said.

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GB News to axe 40 jobs weeks after revealing heavy losses

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GB News is to cut 40 jobs as the opinionated broadcaster battles to keep down costs amid mounting losses.

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Fix ‘broken’ NHS to get more sick people back into work, Starmer tells Sunak

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Rishi Sunak should focus on fixing the “broken” NHS and reducing waiting lists if he wants to get more people back into work, Sir Keir Starmer has argued.

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Fire and ice in China as trackside flames spark ‘wild’ F1 sprint qualifying

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The Shanghai International Circuit briefly caught fire on Friday as sparks flew onto a patch of grass before heavy rain in the final part of sprint qualifying turned the track into an “ice rink”.

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Michail Antonio hits out at officials as West Ham go down swinging to unbeaten Bayer Leverkusen

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Michail Antonio fired a broadside at the Spanish officials after West Ham’s bid for a third successive European semi-final was thwarted by a second-half Bayer Leverkusen revival.

Emiliano Martinez survives two yellow cards as Villa beat Lille in dramatic penalty shoot-out

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Whatever the occasion, however hostile the environment, Emiliano Martinez is the undisputed king of the penalty shoot-out.

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Iran threatens to build nuclear bomb if attacked by Israel

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