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Manchester City defender Ruben Dias has signed a two-year contract extension. The 28-year-old’s previous deal had been set to expire in 2027 but his new deal will take him to 2029, with the option of a further 12 months. The Portugal international joined City from Benfica for a fee of £65m in 2020 and was named Premier League player of the year at the end of his first season.The defender has helped City to four league titles, the Champions League, the EFL Cup and the FA Cup during his five years at Etihad Stadium. “I am incredibly happy today,” said…

A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an artificial intelligence model to think on its own for hours so that it was capable of writing math proofs. Their goal wasn’t simply to create an AI that could do complex math but one that could evaluate ambiguity and nuance—skills AIs will need if they are to someday take on many challenging real-world tasks. In fact, these are precisely the skills required to create artificial general intelligence,…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

President Trump tours “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, on July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP MIAMI — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that advocates said violated environmental laws. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ injunction formalized a temporary halt she had ordered two weeks ago as witnesses continued to testify in a multiday hearing to determine whether…

Some of the US’s lowest-paying large firms increased their CEOs’ compensation by an average of almost 35% over five years, according to new research. Their workers’ salaries did not keep up.As executive remuneration ballooned, the average CEO-to-worker pay gap across the 100 companies in the S&P 500 with lowest median worker pay – dubbed the Low-Wage 100 by the Institute for Policy Studies – widened by 12.9% between 2019 and 2024, from 560 to 1 to 632 to 1.“Median pay increased only modestly, whereas CEO pay really skyrocketed,” said Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute…

The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor. It is a grand total of one paragraph, and can be distilled down to a single sentence: “If the District Court had jurisdiction to vacate the directives, it also had jurisdiction to vacate the ‘Resulting Grant Terminations.’” Jackson, however, chose to write a separate and far more detailed argument against the decision, mostly focusing on the fact that it’s not simply a matter of abstract law; it has real-world consequences. She notes that existing law prevents…

The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled the winners of its 2025 CineLink Industry Days Awards, including the Places Half Empty, a portrait of a queer relationship in Hungary under far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which received the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award. Among other winners is Gorilla, recipient of the TV Drama Vision Pitch Award, which is set in 1960s Paris, where a French movie star and his Yugoslav bodyguard’s brotherhood is threatened by a Hollywood murder. Projects in different formats and stages of development from Southeast Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region were presented in its…

Aug 21, 2025, 04:00 AM ETWelcome to a brand new series of Onside/Offside! The Premier League is back, and with it, new signings and debutants to the league have also arrived. Luis Miguel Echegaray shares his thoughts on some of the biggest names and determines the ones who will immediately shine, and those who might need a little more time to find consistency in their debut campaigns for their respective clubs.Wirtz is one of the most exciting prospects in Europe, and one of the best players in Germany. What makes him special is his ability to find the holes no…

“Getting your tubes tied” is a colloquial way to say that someone is undergoing tubal ligation, a sterilizing surgical procedure that involves closing off the fallopian tubes.In non-medically assisted pregnancy, an egg travels from the ovary to the uterus via the fallopian tubes, also called uterine tubes. Tubal ligation prevents this movement by permanently blocking, clipping or removing the tubes, thus keeping the egg from becoming fertilized. The removal of the tubes, called a salpingectomy, is a type of tubal ligation.The procedure is extremely effective, with a 99% free-from-pregnancy rate. That number rises to 100% for surgeries that use large…

Intense Israeli military shelling and strikes reported east of Deir el-Balah and in Gaza City.