As women’s basketball continues to gain momentum on the global stage, new and unique opportunities continue to emerge for athletes to compete. One format that has gained traction in the last few years is three-on-three basketball, building on the momentum established after the FIBA’s 3×3 sport was featured for the first time in the 2020…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Treasury received more than £500mn towards paying off Britain’s national debt in the last tax year from a fund set up by a banker almost a century ago for that purpose. In the 2024-25…
Ask a young person what they would like to do with their life and increasingly often the answer will be to find fame and fortune online. Fully 57% of Gen Zs in America would like to be a social-media influencer, according to Morning Consult, a pollster; 53% describe it as a “reputable career choice”. Those…
BBC We are now in the era of weight-loss drugs. Decisions on how these drugs will be used look likely to shape our future health and even what our society might look like. And, as researchers are finding, they are already toppling the belief that obesity is simply a moral failing of the weak-willed. Weight-loss…
The 2025 NBA Draft has finally arrived, and there is plenty of intrigue to wade through during Round 1. After Duke’s Cooper Flagg (Dallas Mavericks) and Rutgers’ Dylan Harper (San Antonio Spurs) were selected with the first two picks, there was a dramatic pause until Baylor’s VJ Edgecombe was chosen No. 3 overall by the…
The backlog in routine hospital treatments in England has reached its lowest level for two years. Data for the end of April showed the waiting list dropped to 7.39 million, down from 7.42 million in March. But it is nine years since the NHS has met its target of 92% of patients being seen in…
Jesse RogersJun 19, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. CHICAGO — One of Matt Armstrong’s earliest memories of his son on an athletic field came not on a baseball diamond, but on the gridiron. When Pete Crow-Armstrong was 7, Matt was the head coach…
The skeleton of a sabre-toothed cat chrisstockphotography/Alamy Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have found no clear evidence of any of the species evolving in response to falling temperatures as ice sheets spread across the continent, or to the later warming when the glacial period ended….
Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Sebastian Hansen in “A Minecraft Movie.” Warner Bros. Pictures The Jack Black and Jason Momoa blockbuster hit A Minecraft Movie begins streaming on Max this week. Directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), A Minecraft Movie is based on the classic video game Minecraft, which was released by Mojang Studios in…
Disney+ may boast an embarrassment of riches when it comes to blockbuster sci-fi TV shows – it’s the home of Marvel and Star Wars after all – but when it comes to engrossing, epic action across space and time that the whole family can enjoy, British show Doctor Who ranks as one of the best…
