Everton have confirmed the signing of Tyler Dibling from Southampton in a deal worth up to £42m. It is thought the Merseyside club will pay an initial £35m for the forward, who has signed a four-year contract, and Saints have inserted a 20% sell-on fee.
Dibling impressed in the Premier League last season despite Southampton enduring a dismal campaign that ended in relegation. The England Under-21 winger joined Chelsea in the summer of 2022 but returned to Southampton a month later after struggling to settle. “I think I’ve come to Everton at the perfect time and hopefully I can be here for many years,” Dibling said.
The 19-year-old forward considers Jack Grealish, another of David Moyes’s eight summer recruits, one of his inspirations. “I think the manager is perfect for me,” Dibling said. “He’s helped so many players before who were in my position. I’ve spoken to him and I know he’s going to be good for me. There are so many players here to learn from, real quality players like Jack Grealish and Iliman Ndiaye.”
Dibling was tracked by several clubsincluding RB Leipzig, Tottenham and Aston Villa, after his breakthrough at Southampton, for whom he made his debut aged 17. He represented Saints’ under-21s at the age of 15 and sparked widespread attention after scoring a near-identical hat-trick against Newcastle at St James’ Park.
Bournemouth are close to signing Axel Disasi from Chelsea. The 27-year-old is expected to join on loan and become the third defender brought in after the club made almost £145m from the sale of two centre-halves and a left-back.
Disasi’s starts at Chelsea last season came largely in the Conference League and League Cup before he joined Aston Villa on loan in the winter window. He is able to play at centre-back or right-back and has made 44 Premier League appearances since joining Chelsea from Monaco two years ago.
Axel Disasi (centre) scored for Chelsea against Noah in last season’s Conference League before joining Aston Villa on loan. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/Reuters
Bournemouth have sold Illia Zabarnyi, Dean Huijsen and Milos Kerkez to Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid and Liverpool respectively this summer, and brought in Bafodé Diakité andAdrien Truffert as replacements.
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Chelsea have also agreed for Carney Chukwuemeka and Aarón Anselmino to join Borussia Dortmund as they continue their push to clear out fringe players. Chukwuemeka went on loan to Dortmund last February and the midfielder’s return is due to be on a permanent deal. Anselmino, a 20-year-old Argentinian defender, is poised to move on loan.
Leeds have signed the Leicester full-back James Justin in a deal worth about £10m. Justin, who has been capped once by England, joined Leicester from Luton in 2019.
Pakistan ODI skipper Mohammad Rizwan (left) and Test captain Shan Masood. — AFP/PCB/File
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday dismissed rumours regarding the removal of Shan Masood as Test captain and Mohammad Rizwan as ODI skipper.
In a post on X, a PCB spokesperson said that there is no proposal under consideration to remove Masood from Test captaincy, nor was there any plan to appoint Saud Shakeel as his replacement.
Tthe PCB also catagorically rejected reports about Rizwan being stripped of his ODI captaincy. The PCB clarified that Salman Ali Agha is not being considered as the new ODI captain.
The PCB further confirmed that the selection committee has not discussed any matter or proposal regarding a change in captaincy. Additionally, the PCB emphasised that the category of any player’s contract has not been altered.
The clarification was issued after speculation intensified that Shan could be replaced by Saud as Test captain, while Rizwan’s position as ODI captain was also reported to be in jeopardy.
For the unversed, the Tri-Nation series, featuring Pakistan, Afghanistan and the UAE, will be played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium from August 29 to September 7.
Pakistan will open their campaign against Afghanistan at 7:00 PM local time. Each team will play the others twice, with the top two qualifying for the final on September 7.
Following the series, Pakistan will turn its focus to the 2025 Asia Cup, which kicks off on September 9 with the opening match between Afghanistan and Hong Kong.
Eight teams, divided into two groups, will compete for the coveted trophy.
Pakistan has been placed in Group A alongside India, UAE, and Oman. Group B comprises Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong.
The men in green will launch their Asia Cup campaign against Oman on September 12, followed by the highly anticipated clash against India on September 14.
Their final group-stage match will be against hosts UAE on September 17.
Tri-series schedule (all matches at Sharjah Cricket Stadium):
29 August – Afghanistan v Pakistan – 7pm local time
30 August – UAE v Pakistan – 7pm local time
1 September – UAE v Afghanistan – 7pm local time
2 September – Pakistan v Afghanistan – 7pm local time
4 September – Pakistan v UAE – 7pm local time
5 September – Afghanistan v UAE – 7pm local time
7 September – Final – 7pm local time
ACC Asia Cup T20 2025 (Pakistan fixtures, Super Fours and Final):
12 September – Oman v Pakistan, DICS, 6pm local time
14 September – India v Pakistan, DICS, 6pm local time
17 September – UAE v Pakistan, DICS, 6pm local time
20-26 September – Super Fours fixtures (Abu Dhabi and Dubai)
Workers at a Scottish company that distributes fuel to a number of major airline companies are being balloted on strike action over a “miserly” pay offer.
After logistics drivers at Turners (Soham) Limited’s Grangemouth site were offered a 1% pay increase, the Unite union organised a ballot to consider industrial action.
The ballot closes on September 4, and any resulting strike action would likely take place later in the month.
The union believes fuel supplies to major aviation companies including Jet 2, easyJet and Emirates operating at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle airports will be directly impacted if the drivers take industrial action, and it urged the employer to table a better offer.
The union said Turners’ 1% offer comes after the Consumer Prices Index inflation rose to 3.8% in July, and after the company recorded an after-tax profit of £51 million in 2023, its latest public figures.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Unite Turners’ drivers will not accept a miserly pay offer from a very profitable company.
“We will fully support our members in their fight to secure better jobs, pay and conditions.”
Regional officer Lyn Turner said: “The logistic drivers based out of Grangemouth are a key group of workers providing fuel supplies to airlines at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle airports.
“Turners needs to come to its senses and make a fair pay offer to our members.”
Turners, Jet 2, easyJet and Emirates have been approached for comment.
Samsung phones are winning back young buyers in South Korea after years of being seen as the ajeossi phone (Uncle Style Phone). Young people in their teens and in their 20s and 30s are now choosing Galaxy models for design and for new AI features. Social media conversations show a clear change in how the brand is viewed among youth.
Report shows the shift in clear numbers. In a recent survey of people aged 18 to 29, 46 percent said they would choose a Galaxy as their next phone. That marks a rise from last year, when only 36 percent of young respondents favored Galaxy devices. The gap between Samsung and its rivals is narrowing among younger groups.
Product moves are central to the change. Samsung launched slim models and added Galaxy AI to camera and voice features. The Galaxy S25 Edge combines a thinner body with advanced AI tools. The S25 Edge and related models have attracted attention in South Korea and in other markets. These products give young buyers a modern alternative to rival phones.
Foldable phones are now part of the appeal. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is selling strongly among younger men and among early adopters. Reports show that a large share of buyers for the Z Fold 7 come from younger age groups. The rise of foldables has helped change how young people view Samsung as an innovative brand rather than an old-fashioned choice.
Marketing choices have reinforced the shift. Samsung used music stars and short films to reach youth. The company tied high-profile campaigns to product launches. These moves improved visibility among young consumers and made new Galaxy devices feel relevant to youth culture now.
The company now holds momentum in South Korea, and it is gaining ground globally. Samsung has combined material design changes and software upgrades with youth-facing campaigns. The result is that Samsung phones are no longer viewed as the uncle phone, and they are now a clear option for young buyers.
The view of Great Salt Lake’s North Arm from Gunnison Island, which has long served as a nesting ground for pelicans. Credit: Brian Maffly, University of Utah
For thousands of years, Utah’s Great Salt Lake reflected only natural shifts in climate and water flow. But fresh sediment analyses show that in just two centuries, human activity forced the lake into states unseen for millennia.
For thousands of years, Utah’s Great Salt Lake has responded to shifts in climate and water supply. But new research using sediment isotope analysis shows that in just the past two centuries, human activity has driven the lake into a chemical state not seen for at least 2,000 years.
A geoscientist at the University of Utah studied sediments from the lakebed to trace how the lake and its watershed have changed since the time it took its modern form, after the immense freshwater Lake Bonneville receded and left behind today’s Great Salt Lake.
What Sediments Reveal About Ecosystems
“Lakes are great integrators. They’re a point of focus for water, for sediments, and also for carbon and nutrients,” said Gabriel Bowen, a professor and chairman of the Department of Geology & Geophysics. “We can go to lakes like this and look at their sediments, and they tell us a lot about the surrounding landscape.”
According to Bowen’s study, published last month in Geophysical Research Letters, sediment records help place today’s rapid changes in perspective. These natural archives offer crucial insights into the past behavior of terminal saline lakes, which sustain delicate yet essential ecosystems, and they may also guide future efforts to manage and protect them.
Human Arrival Alters the Landscape
This research helps fill critical gaps in the lake’s geological and hydrological records, coming at a time when the drought-depleted level of the terminal body has been hovering near its historic low.
“We have all these great observations, so much monitoring, so much information and interest in what’s happening today. We also have a legacy of people looking at the huge changes in the lake that happened over tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years,” Bowen said. “What we’ve been missing is the scale in the middle.”
That is the time spanning the first arrival of white settlers in Utah, but after Lake Bonneville receded to become the Great Salt Lake.
Isotope Analysis Unlocks the Lake’s Story
By analyzing oxygen and carbon isotopes preserved in lake sediments, the study reconstructs the lake’s water and carbon budgets through time. Two distinct, human-driven shifts stand out:
Mid-19th century – Coinciding with Mormon settlement in 1847, irrigation rapidly greened the landscape around the lake, increasing the flow of organic matter into the lake and altering its carbon cycle.
Mid-20th century – Construction of the railroad causeway in 1959 disrupted water flow between the lake’s north and south arms, which turned Gilbert Bay from a terminal lake to an open one that partially drained into Gunnison Bay, altering the salinity and water balance to values rarely seen in thousands of years.
The new study examines two sets of sediment cores extracted from the bed of Great Salt Lake, each representing different timescales. The top 10 meters of the first core, drilled in the year 2000 south of Fremont Island, contains sediments washed into the lake up to 8,000 years ago.
Evidence Buried in the Lakebed
The other samples, recovered by the U.S. Geological Survey, represent only the upper 30 centimeters of sediments, deposited in the last few hundred years.
“The first gives us a look at what was happening for the 8,000 years before the settlers showed up here,” Bowen said. “The second are these shallower cores that allow us to see how the lake changed after the arrival of the settlers.”
Bowen subjected these lakebed sediments at varying depths to an analysis that determines isotope ratios of carbon and oxygen, shedding light on the landscape surrounding the lake and the water in the lake at varying points in the past.
Tracking Carbon Through Time
“The carbon tells us about the biogeochemistry, about how the carbon cycles through the lake, and that’s affected by things like weathering of rocks that bring carbon to the lake and the vegetation in the watershed, which also contributes carbon that dissolves into the water and flows to the lake,” he said.
Bowen’s analysis documented a sharp change in carbon, indicating profound changes that coincided with the arrival of Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley, where they introduced irrigated agriculture to support a rapidly growing community.
“We see a big shift in the carbon isotopes, and it shifts from values that are more indicative of rock weathering, carbon coming into the lake from dissolving limestone, toward more organic sources, more vegetation sources,” Bowen said.
The new carbon balance after settlement was unprecedented during the 8,000 years of record following the demise of Lake Bonneville.
Oxygen Isotopes and Water Balance
Next, Bowen’s oxygen isotope analysis reconstructed the lake’s water balance over time.
“Essentially, it tells us about the balance of evaporation and water inflow into the lake. As the lake is expanding, the oxygen isotope ratio goes down. As the lake shrinks, it goes up, basically telling us about the rate of change of the lake volume. We see little fluctuations, but nothing major until we get to 1959.”
That’s the year Union Pacific built a 20-mile causeway to replace a historic rail trestle, dividing the lake’s North Arm, which has no tributaries, from its South Arm, also known as Gilbert Bay, which receives inflow from three rivers. Water flows through a gap in the causeway into North Arm, now rendering the South Arm an open system.
“We changed the hydrology of the lake fundamentally and gave it an outflow. We see that really clearly in the oxygen isotopes, which start behaving in a different way,” he said. Counterintuitively, the impact of this change was to make Gilbert Bay waters fresher than they would have been otherwise, buying time to deal with falling lake levels and increasing salinity due to other causes.
Reversing Thousands of Years of Decline
“If we look at the longer time scale, 8,000 years, the lake has mostly been pinned at a high evaporation state. It’s been essentially in a shrinking, consolidating state throughout that time. And that only reversed when we put in the causeway.”
Reference: “Multi-Millennial Context for Post-Colonial Hydroecological Change in Great Salt Lake” by Gabriel J. Bowen, 22 July 2025, Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2025GL116597
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Windows 11 is getting a new feature that lets you seamlessly resume using your favorite apps from your Android phone right on your PC. This new “Resume alert” will appear on your taskbar and, for now, is only available for Spotify.
This new feature is starting to roll out to Windows Insiders in both the Dev and Beta channels. To try it out, you’ll need to make sure your PC is running the latest Insider Preview build. Once you’re set up, you just need to start listening to something on the Spotify app on your Android phone, and a “Resume alert” will pop up on your Windows 11 taskbar. Clicking on that alert will automatically open the Spotify desktop app and continue playing the same track.
To be fair, this is a much more elegant solution than having to manually search for your music again, or even worse, find your place on an hour-long podcast. This looks a lot like Apple’s Handoff feature, so it may be Microsoft’s answer to it, but having a way to connect to other devices is always welcome.
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Setting it up is pretty straightforward. First, you have to turn on “Allow this PC to access your mobile devices” in your PC’s settings under Bluetooth & devices and then Mobile devices. Then, you’ll need to open the Link to Windows app on your Android phone and make sure it’s set to run in the background. After that, you’re all set. You just open Spotify on your phone and start playing a track, and you should see the resume alert on your PC’s taskbar. It’s a gradual rollout, so you might have to be a little patient before it shows up for you.
What’s really cool is how it handles the situation if you don’t have the Spotify app installed on your PC. Instead of just doing nothing, the alert will let you install the app with a single click from the Microsoft Store. It will automatically download, open, and prompt you to sign in to your Spotify account.
Of course, you’ll need to be using the same Spotify account on both your phone and PC for this to work, but that’s to be expected. This makes the whole process of switching from your phone to your PC incredibly seamless, even if your desktop isn’t already prepped with all your apps.
While it’s currently limited to Spotify, Microsoft is already inviting other app developers to integrate this “Resume” feature into their own apps. You can assume this will have the ability to pick up a document you were reading on your phone and have it open instantly on your PC, or continue a game where you left off. It’s an improvement that will make your workflow so much smoother and faster.
In addition to this, the latest Insider build also has a few other improvements. There are new and improved battery icons on the lock screen, which are designed to give you a quick, at-a-glance view of your PC’s battery status. There’s also a new keyboard shortcut for inserting en and em dashes by pressing WIN + Minus (–) and WIN + Shift + Minus (—), respectively.
India’s Lakshya Sen bowed out of the BWF World Championships 2025 badminton tournament after a first-round defeat to world No.1 Shi Yu Qi in Paris on Monday.
Competing at the Adidas Arena, the same venue used for the Paris 2024 Olympics badminton events, world No. 21 Lakshya Sen fought hard but lost the contest 21-17, 21-19 in 54 minutes.
Lakshya, a bronze medallist at the 2021 edition in Huelva, produced a spirited fight in the opening game, trading blows with the top seed in a series of long rallies.
A 52-shot exchange underlined the intensity of the contest but Shi Yu Qi’s precision in attack made the difference as he claimed the opener after 26 minutes.
The second game followed a similar script with the Indian badminton player staying on Shi Yu Qi’s coattails in the early exchanges.
However, Shi Yu Qi upped the ante to bag two straight points from 19-all and sealed the contest. This was Sen’s fourth loss against Shi Yu Qi in five meetings.
The 24-year-old Lakshya Sen has endured a challenging 2025 BWF World Tour season, managing just one semi-final run at the Macau Open and an All England quarter-final.
The Paris 2024 semi-finalist has also suffered two second-round and six opening-round exits this season.
Former badminton world champion PV Sindhu will open her women’s singles campaign on Tuesday against Bulgaria’s Kaloyana Nalbantova. World No.34 HS Prannoy, a bronze medallist in 2023, will also begin on the same day.
In doubles, top seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty received a bye into the second round and will start their campaign later in the week.
India has won at least one medal at every edition of the Badminton World Championships since 2011.
