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  • Liverpool 1-0 Arsenal: Mikel Arteta’s conservative approach ends in more Anfield misery

    Liverpool 1-0 Arsenal: Mikel Arteta’s conservative approach ends in more Anfield misery

    Arsenal replaced Odegaard with Mikel Merino in the number 10 position while Eze was surprisingly kept back until the final 20 minutes, when he showed in flashes what he will offer in the future – as well as what he might have offered had he been introduced earlier, or even from the start.

    Merino was the safe, experienced option.

    The Gunners simply have to find a way to bridge the gap that has been beyond them in recent years, and the manner in which they lost late on here – for all the solidity and organisation they showed – may give Arteta pause for thought that it could need a bolder approach to stop Liverpool retaining their title.

    Arteta said: “It was going to be decided by an individual error or a moment of magic. You cannot dominate here for 90 minutes, it is impossible. At the end of the game, I said we have to find a way to win these big matches.

    “You have to put the ball in the back of the net when you have it. We were much better than last year, much better. We have to put the ball in the back of the net if you want to win the game.”

    He added: “You have to take a lot of positives from the game. I haven’t seen Liverpool at home suffering like they did against us.”

    Liverpool were not at their best, struggling for fluency and frustrated, but “suffering” is certainly a glass-half-full exaggeration of proceedings from the beaten Arsenal manager.

    Arsenal only had the shackles released when they went behind, too late to make a difference against a Liverpool rearguard that performed with the most resistance it has mustered this season.

    Arteta’s side were too passive for too long, new striker Gyokeres starved of service but brushed aside by Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate when he did get possession.

    Arsenal did not play badly, but they played within themselves against a Liverpool team that has offered encouragement this season to those teams willing to take the fight to them.

    It is early days, but Liverpool already have an ominous look – and advantage.

    When Arsenal enjoyed that last win at Anfield back in 2012, Arteta was playing.

    He was not able to change the narrative prowling his technical area. The wait goes on.

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  • Pericoronary adipose tissue radiomics to improve risk stratification for patients with acute coronary syndrome: a multicenter retrospective cohort study | Cardiovascular Diabetology

    Pericoronary adipose tissue radiomics to improve risk stratification for patients with acute coronary syndrome: a multicenter retrospective cohort study | Cardiovascular Diabetology

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  • Venice Film Festival 2025: Movie Scorecard

    Venice Film Festival 2025: Movie Scorecard

    (Photo by Peter Mountain / Netflix / courtesy Everett Collection)

    See the Tomatometer scores for all the movies that screened at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival! Awards Editor Jacqueline Coley previously talked about the 8 must-watch movies at the fest, and now we’re ranking all the titles with TM scores, including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, which currently holds an 84%. Critics say there’s “a poeticism to [the film] that can be appreciated in many individual sections,” and “it should be a slam-dunk Oscar nomination for Clooney.”

    Also on the list is Yorgos Lanthimos’ black comedy Bugonia, starring Emma Stone. According to critics, the collaboration between Lanthimos and Stone “is successful once again” and “just when you thought [the director] couldn’t get any weirder or darker, he’s assuring you he can.”

    But it’s Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice that’s winning over critics, who are praising the film as a masterful work of cinema and saying it’s “the best film in the Venice competition so far.”

    Check out the scorecard below and be sure to visit our Venice Film Festival 2025 gallery to see the stars hit the red carpet in Italy.

    #1

    Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

    Synopsis: When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he [More]

    #2

    Critics Consensus: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are at the top of their game in Bugonia, a bonkers entertainment that applies director Yorgos Lanthimos’ whip-smart method to modern society’s madness.

    Synopsis: Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent [More]

    #3

    Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

    Synopsis: JAY KELLY, the new film from Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach, follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) and [More]

    #4

    Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

    Synopsis: Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings [More]

    #5

    Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

    #6

    Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

    Synopsis: The film follows the boy’s painful journey when a man appears from his mother’s past and he discovers the true [More]

    #7

    Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

    Synopsis: A gripping psychological drama about a college professor (Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when [More]

    #8

    Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

    Synopsis: Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a [More]

     

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  • Snoop Dogg Addresses Backlash Over His LGBTQ Criticism in ‘Lightyear’

    Snoop Dogg Addresses Backlash Over His LGBTQ Criticism in ‘Lightyear’

    Snoop Dogg is responding to the backlash he’s received after he criticized the LGBTQ representation in Disney‘s 2022 animated movie Lightyear.

    The Grammy-winning rapper and hip-hop icon recently wrote in the comments of a Hollywood Unlocked Instagram post, which featured Ts Madison calling him out, “I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons.”

    “All my gay friends [know] what’s up, they been calling me with love. My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6-yr-old. Teach me how to learn. I’m not perfect,” Snoop added.

    Last week, the “Gin and Juice” rapper shared on the It’s Giving Podcast that he was taken by surprise when he took his grandchildren to see Pixar’s Toy Story spinoff, as it featured a montage of two women sharing a kiss and raising a child together. He said this led to a whole bunch of questions from his grandchildren about same-sex couples that he said, “I don’t have an answer for.”

    “They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman,’” Snoop recalled on the podcast, which appeared to remove his comments on the matter from the YouTube episode. “Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’”

    The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” artist remembered thinking at the time, “Oh shit, I didn’t come in for this shit. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.” Snoop said he tried telling his grandson, “Hey man, just watch the movie,” but that he just kept firing off questions: “‘They just said, she and she had a baby — they’re both women. How does she have a baby?’”

    “It fucked me up,” Snoop added. “I’m like, scared to go to the movies now. Y’all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for. It threw me for a loop. I’m like, ‘What part of the movie was this?’ These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.”

    Lightyear, the origin story of the human Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear, included an LGBTQ relationship between Buzz’s best friend and commander, Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba), and her wife, Kiko, with glimpses of their life as a couple and an onscreen kiss.

    Following Snoop’s critique of the animated pic, screenwriter Lauren Gunderson defended her decision to include the queer couple in the film.

    “I was one of a few writers they had on it over the years, which is very common for screenwriting of course. I had very little to do with the final script,” she wrote on Instagram. “But I was proud to see a happy queer couple (even for a few seconds) onscreen. I know they got a lot of shit for this inclusion, but stuff like this matters because beautiful love like this exists.”

    Gunderson continued, “It’s *not* fiction. What IS fiction is Zurg and lightspeed space travel and murderous aliens and a talking robot cat (long live Sox).”


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  • A New Study Shows That Venus May Have Been Struck By Objects The Size Of Mars

    A New Study Shows That Venus May Have Been Struck By Objects The Size Of Mars







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    Venus is often called Earth’s evil twin due to its size, mass, material composition, and density. It even feels like Venus should’ve become a second Earth. However, it ended up being one of the strangest planets in our solar system. Its surface is hot enough to melt lead, its skies rain sulfuric acid, and its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere crushes anything that tries to land. And these are not even the weirdest things about it. Venus spins just like all planets in our solar system do, but it’s one of only two planets that spin backwards (Uranus being the second one). The planet’s rotation is so slow that a single day lasts longer than its year. Also, Venus has no moons, which is unusual for a planet of its size.

    While Earth, our moon, and Mars wear their history in the form of craters, Venus has surprisingly few. It seems as if its surface was wiped clean by massive volcanic resurfacing events hundreds of millions of years ago. It’s like something hit the reset button on Venus, and we don’t exactly know how or why. We know Earth was struck by an object so large that its impact created our moon. Mars’ rugged surface terrain is also scarred by countless impacts. Venus, on the other hand, has always been a mystery. However, there’s a new study coming from the University of Zurich, led by Mirco Bussmann, that explores the idea of Venus being hit by an object the size of Mars.

    The bold new study


    Massive asteroid crashing into a planet
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    Imagine witnessing first hand a momentous cosmic smash-up, Venus colliding with a Mars-sized astronomical object. That’s what Mirco Bussmann and his colleagues from the University of Zurich set out to simulate in their study. They used a powerful tool known as Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), a computational simulation that treats planetary bodies as a swarm of particles. Each particle carries certain physical traits of a planet, so when planetary objects collide, the researchers can see how materials flow, melt, or spread out in space.

    In this virtual laboratory, Venus is not a uniform rock. It consists of an iron core making up about 30% of its mass, cloaked by a silicate mantle comprising the remaining 70%. The scientists then launched various impactors of different sizes. Their massed ranged between 0.01 and 0.1 times Earth’s mass. Then the velocities of the impactors were dialed between 10 and 15 km/s. That means they could observe how the planet would behave if impacted by slow or fast-moving objects. To mimic plausible early conditions of Venus, they varied the planet’s initial rotation rates and thermal states.

    At the end of each virtual impact, they measured how Venus’ rotation period — or length of its day, in other words – was altered and how much debris formed a circumplanetary disk, accumulated matter around the planet from which a moon can be formed. The results helped the researchers pinpoint which scenario would most likely turn Venus into the planet it is today.

    The conclusion of the study


    Isolated image of Venus
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    The researchers from the University of Zurich concluded that a single, massive impact could explain two of Venus’s biggest cosmic puzzles: its slow, retrograde rotation and its lack of a moon. In fact, their simulation showed that a wide range of collision scenarios can lead to Venus spinning the way it does. This includes everything from direct hits when Venus wasn’t rotating to glancing, hit-and-run impacts, with a spinning Venus already in motion.

    And the best part is that these impacts that can alter Venus’s spin typically produce no debris disk that could form a moon. Most of the material generated by such an impact would remain close enough to fall right back into Venus’ terrifying atmosphere that NASA wants to someday explore. That means that Venus not having a moon might be the result of a giant astronomical body crashing into the planet.

    The study also shows that if a Mars-sized celestial body had hit Venus during the planet’s early history, it could have significantly influenced its unique thermal and geological journey. The impact would dump enormous heat on the planet’s interior, disrupting its mantle and stalling plate tectonics. The stage would be set perfectly for planet-wide volcanic resurfacing. This thermal chaos could explain why Venus appears geologically so young.



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  • Petrol price remains unchanged while high-speed diesel slashed by Rs3 per litre – Pakistan

    Petrol price remains unchanged while high-speed diesel slashed by Rs3 per litre – Pakistan

    The Finance Division announced on Sunday night that petrol price will remain unchanged, while the price of high-speed diesel (HSD) will be reduced by Rs3 per litre for the next fortnight.

    Petrol, used mainly in private cars, small vehicles, rickshaws and motorcycles, directly impacts the budgets of middle- and lower-middle-income groups.

    Most of the transport sector runs on HSD and its price is considered inflationary as it is mostly used in heavy transport vehicles, trains and agricultural engines like trucks, buses, tractors, tube-wells and threshers and particularly adds to the prices of vegetables and other eatables.

    A notification from the Finance Division, available with Dawn.com, stated that the new price of HSD was Rs269.99, while petrol would remain at Rs264.61 — the same as the start of August. Additionally, the prices of superior kerosene oil and light diesel oil were slashed by Rs1.46 per litre and Rs2.40, respectively.

    “The government has revised the petroleum product prices for the fortnight starting tomorrow (September 1), in line with the recommendations of Ogra (Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority) and the concerned ministries,” the Finance Division stated.

    Earlier this week, the cabinet’s Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved a financial bailout for Pakistan Television (PTV), a recovery plan for Rs47 billion in outstanding petroleum levy from Cynergico Refinery, and the use of funds collected under the captive levy on gas to reduce electricity rates for all consumers.

    On August 16, the Finance Division announced a cut of Rs12.84 per litre in the price of HSD for the next fortnight, while petrol prices remained unchanged. The prices of superior kerosene oil and light diesel oil were slashed by Rs7.19 per litre and Rs8.2, respectively.

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  • Brendan becomes 3rd Zimbabwe batter to complete 10,000 international runs

    Brendan becomes 3rd Zimbabwe batter to complete 10,000 international runs

    Brendan Taylor of Zimbabwe in action. File
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    Zimbabwe batter Brendan Taylor on Sunday became only the third player from his team to touch the 10,000-run mark in international cricket, marking a big moment in nation’s cricketing history.

    Taylor achieved this milestone during his side’s second ODI against Sri Lanka at Harare. After a duck in the first ODI, Taylor reached the milestone by making a 37-ball 20, without any boundaries or a six.

    Now in 287 matches, he has made 10,009 runs in 320 innings at an average of 33.92, with 17 centuries and 57 half-centuries and a best score of 171. He is now with legends Andy Flower (11,580 runs in 276 matches with 16 centuries at an average of 40.63) and Grant Flower (10,028 runs in 288 matches at an average of 32.03, with 12 centuries) as a part of the 10,000 international runs club.

    In Tests, Taylor has made 2,371 runs in 35 Tests and 70 innings at an average of 35.92, with six centuries and 12 fifties and a best score of 171. He is the fourth-highest run-getter for Zimbabwe in the format.

    In ODIs, Taylor is the second-highest run-getter, with 6,704 runs at an average of 35.28, with 11 centuries and 39 fifties. His best score of 145*.

    Taylor is the seventh-highest run-getter in T20Is for Zimbabwe, scoring 934 runs in 45 matches and innings at an average of 23.94, with five fifties and best score of 75*.

    He became available for selection following the completion of a three-and-a-half-year suspension imposed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) during second Test against New Zealand earlier this month, after he accepted responsibility for breaching both the ICC Anti-Corruption Code and the ICC Anti-Doping Code.

    Since then, Taylor has undergone a thorough rehabilitation programme and has consistently demonstrated a sincere commitment to personal growth, accountability and restoring trust. His presence in the side adds a lot of strength and experience, having played 34 Tests and overall 284 international matches in his career.

    In his comeback Test, Taylor scored 44 and 7 at Bulawayo.

    Coming to this second ODI, SL opted to field first. Ben Curran (79 in 95 balls, with nine fours) and Sikandar Raza (59* in 55 balls, with five fours and a six) fired brilliant half-centuries to power Zimbabwe to 277/7 in 50 overs.

    Dushmantha Chameera (3/52) and Asitha Fernando (2/67) were top wicket-takers. SL needs to chase down 278 to win the series 2-0, after registering a narrow seven run win while defending 299 in the first ODI, thanks to a hat-trick by Dilshan Madushanka.

    Published – September 01, 2025 12:43 am IST

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  • Now or never as the Razer Kishi V3 drops to its best price

    Now or never as the Razer Kishi V3 drops to its best price

    Touch controls are good, but there’s nothing that matches the tactile feel of using a physical controller to play games. And one of our favorites just got an update, featuring a new design and TMR thumbsticks for unparalleled control. The Razer Kishi V3 is a fantastic option right now if you’re looking to grab a new controller. Along with a discount that drops it down to its lowest price, Amazon is also throwing in a $30 digital credit as well. Overall, not a bad deal if you’re looking to buy something new.

    What’s great about the Razer Kishi V3 controller?

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    The Kishi V3 delivers a compact design that can accommodate almost any phone thanks to its universal design. You also get TMR thumbsticks, along with the usual buttons you find on a controller, plus two additional buttons on the rear of the device. While the controller is meant for mobile devices, it can also connect with PCs and laptops as well, making it extremely versatile.

    Razer also offers its own launcher, providing easy access to games, firmware updates, and its PC remote play feature. The great part is that there is no additional fee for this software. For the most part, you can’t go wrong with the Razer Kishi V3 if you’re looking for a game controller. It offers an experience that can really elevate your gaming sessions and comes in at a price that’s below retail.

    In addition, Amazon is offering a $30 digital credit that can be used to purchase other items from the platform. Grab it now before it’s gone.

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  • Woman with terminal cancer makes Ironman comeback

    Woman with terminal cancer makes Ironman comeback

    A woman with terminal cancer has completed an Ironman challenge a month after she was forced to stop the race due to intense pain.

    Hannah Corne, from Leeds, was taking part in Ironman Leeds on 27 July when she was forced to pull out halfway through the cycling section of the race.

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    This weekend, she completed the cycle ride and marathon at Roundhay Park, watched by friends and family.

    She said: “It feels amazing. Ironman was one of the best days of my life. It was such an incredible thing to be a part of and to be able to finish it today is the icing on the cake.”

    Ms Corne completed the remainder of the 56-mile (90km) cycle race on Saturday and then ran a marathon (26 miles or 42km) on Sunday.

    Fifteen months ago she was diagnosed with stage four ocular melanoma, a rare cancer that spread to her liver and was told she had 12 months to live.

    Hannah Corne was joined in the challenge by her friends and family [BBC]

    She said as long as her body continued to allow her she would carry on setting herself physical challenges.

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    “It’s to show that even when you’ve got a devastating diagnosis like stage four cancer you can still live well and enjoy life.”

    She thanked her friends and family for joining her on the route.

    She added: “It’s overwhelming. I didn’t think so many people would be out, but they have all come out in force with snacks and great times and chat. It’s brilliant.”

    Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.

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