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NAPA, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 15: Patton Kizzire of the United States celebrates after sinking his putt on hole #18 and winning the tournament during the final round of the Procore Championship 2024 at Silverado Resort on September 15, 2024 in Napa, California. (Photo by Al Chang/ISI Photos/Getty Images)Getty Images The PGA Tour heads to Napa, California, this week, where ten of the twelve United States Ryder Cup members will compete in the Procore Championship at the North Course at Silverado Resort. The bigger story may be the two absentees: Xander Schauffele and Bryson DeChambeau. Schauffele has not explained his decision…

I am alone in a dimly lit room, splayed face down on a table. Megan Thee Stallion’s Mamushi is bumping from a speaker, and on a large screen, two white circles roam up and down an outline of my body.Am I at an exclusive German sex club at 2am?Sadly, no. I am in a suburban shopping complex on a Tuesday afternoon, getting a massage from an Aescape robot.Aescape describes itself as a “pioneering lifestyle robotics company” that is “revolutionizing the wellness industry by introducing exceptional massage experiences”. Put simply, they make robot masseuses: cushioned tables with two large, white, robotic…

Labour has published the first football-style league tables to rank hospitals in England from best to worst since the early 2000s, despite warnings it would not help patients choose where to seek care.Moorfields specialist eye hospital in London tops the table, with the Queen Elizabeth hospital in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, bottom.The health secretary, Wes Streeting, said the move would help banish the “postcode lottery” in the speed and quality of treatment. But health experts cautioned that it was impossible to capture correctly whether any hospital was “good” or “bad” and that the results could prompt patients to avoid seeking help…

The Rock as an Oscar nominee? It’s time to get used to the idea. When Dwayne Johnson broke down in uncontrollable sobs during a 15-minute standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival, it became more than an emotional premiere moment for the wrestler-turned-actor. It signaled the potential birth of one of the unlikeliest Oscar contenders in recent memory, as his transformative turn in Benny Safdie’s moving “The Smashing Machine” could reshape how Hollywood views one of its most bankable stars. Johnson’s plays former amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr in A24’s emotionally devastating drama, representing the kind of…

Tim McManusSep 8, 2025, 07:59 PM ETCloseTim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine’s Birds 24/7, a site he helped create, since 2010.PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles are acquiring running back Tank Bigsby from the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for 2026 fifth- and sixth-round picks, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday night.This is the fifth trade Philadelphia has made since mid-August, a flurry of moves that also brought in receiver John Metchie III, quarterback Sam Howell and offensive lineman Fred Johnson. The Eagles were scheduled to have…

And other travel news you may have missed.This week in travel, we’ve uncovered several stories that might have flown under your radar. Among them: an Olympic swimmer is banned from Singapore after shoplifting; a dancing passenger causes an aborted take-off; and an actress is fined for inadvertently taking flowers into Australia.Dive into these and more as we examine the latest in travel news.NO.1INDIAN ACTRESS FINED $1,300 FOR CARRYING FLOWERS TO AUSTRALIAMalayalam actress Navya Nair recently learned how strict the Australian border forces are about their biosecurity. The actress traveled from India to Melbourne aboard Singapore Airlines with a gajira–a garland…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Nepal’s Communications and Information Technology Minister Prithvi Subba Gurung said the ban was ‘withdrawn’.Published On 9 Sep 20259 Sep 2025Nepal has lifted a ban on social media platforms following mass protests and the killing of 19 people in clashes with security forces, a government minister said.Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Communication and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung said early on Tuesday that the government had rolled back the social media ban imposed last week.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“We have withdrawn the shutdown of the social media. They are working now,” Gurung told the Reuters news agency.At…

The chair of Ferrari and Stellantis has agreed to do one year of community service and jointly pay millions of euros to settle a dispute over inheritance tax in Italy.John Elkann and his siblings Lapo and Ginerva will pay €183m (£159m) to Italian tax authorities, Italian prosecutors said, according to multiple media reports.Mr Elkann’s lawyer said the agreement did not include an admission of liability from the Ferrari chair and his siblings.He said the prosecutors’ decisions were an opportunity to bring “this painful affair to a swift and definitive close”. Mr Elkann, a member of one of the most powerful…

The UK’s elections watchdog says it’s taken three years and at least a quarter of a million pounds to fully recover from a hack that saw the private details of 40m voters accessed by Chinese cyber spies.Last year, the Electoral Commission was publicly reprimanded for a litany of security failures that allowed hacking groups to spy undetected, after breaking into databases and email systems.In the first interview about the hack, the commission’s new boss admits huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.”The whole thing was an enormous shock and basically it’s taken us quite a few…

Hundreds of actors, directors and other film industry professionals have signed a new pledge vowing not to work with Israeli film institutions they say are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”.“As film-makers, actors, film industry workers, and institutions, we recognise the power of cinema to shape perceptions” the pledge reads. “In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror.”Signatories include film-makers Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay, Asif Kapadia, Boots Riley and Joshua Oppenheimer; and actors Olivia Colman,…