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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex share a picture of their daughter Lilibet, calling her “our dream girl”.

Few venues in world cricket are as tied to tradition as Lord’s. The Long Room, the famous slope, the ringing bell before play, strict dress codes and the honours boards all help make the ground unique.Players from around the world speak about the special feeling of walking out at Lord’s. Yet when England take the field against New Zealand, the focus will not just be on the history around them. It will be on the future. England are trying to move on from an Ashes defeat that left supporters frustrated and searching for answers. The contrast is striking. Lord’s represents…

UPPSC GIC Lecturer Admit Card 2026 released, download hall ticket for June examinations online now UPPSC GIC Lecturer Admit Card 2026: The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has issued the GIC Lecturer admit card 2026 on June 4, 2026. Candidates who registered for the Government Inter College Lecturer preliminary examination can now access their hall tickets through the official e-Pariksha portal. The recruitment process covers written examinations scheduled across June 14 and June 17, 2026.Registered applicants are required to download the admit card using their One-Time Registration number, application number, date of birth and gender details. After logging in to…

US spot crypto ETF flows turned sharply negative in a single session, with Bitcoin and Ether ETFs recording a combined $609.3M in net outflows as Bitcoin slid to $65,700 and Ether dropped below $1,900. The two-day total for June has now exceeded $1Bn in Bitcoin outflows alone, making it one of the heavier institutional crypto redemption windows of the year. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust led the selling with $388.6M in withdrawals, nearly 75% of total spot Bitcoin ETF redemptions for the session. Here is the central tension this article unpacks: the biggest names in institutional crypto, BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale,…

Even among the most acclaimed albums ever record­ed, not a sin­gle one is per­fect. That goes more so for the releas­es of what I call the “hero­ic age of the album,” which enjoyed its zenith around the late sev­en­ties. Not coin­ci­den­tal­ly, 1979 was the year that Pink Floyd put out The Wall, a rock opera whose sprawl across two discs deals with themes rang­ing from the bomb­ings of the Sec­ond World War to drug depen­den­cy to fas­cist impuls­es to the iso­la­tion of super­star­dom. This ambi­tion was repaid: The Wall soon became the best-sell­ing dou­ble album of all time, despite hav­ing been…

Jamie Lee Curtis is in mourning, saying goodbye to her sister, Kelly Lee Curtis, who died aged 69.The actress, 67, took to her Instagram account to share a photo of Kelly getting her hair done and smoking a cigarette, penning a long tribute.”A warm aloha to my older sister, Kelly Lee Curtis. She passed away this morning. In her home. In nature. At peace,” she shared.Actress Jamie Lee Curtis’s sister Kelly Lee Curtis has died aged 69. Getty”She was my first friend and lifelong confidant. She was jaw-droppingly beautiful, and a talented actress. She played a mean game of hearts, collected…

Marcia Lucas died of cancer last week at 80. She’s best known to the general public as the first wife of “Star Wars” creator George Lucas who got $50 million in their 1983 divorce settlement. That’s too bad, because she was a great editor in her own right. She worked not only with her husband on the original “Star Wars” trilogy, but on his 1972 debut “THX-1138” and its follow-up, 1973’s “American Graffiti” (her first Oscar nomination for editing, along with her mentor Verna Fields, who won another Oscar for solo-editing “Jaws” one year later). She edited Martin Scorsese’s fourth…

When it comes to economic analysis, price indices are almost everywhere. In fact, the American Institute for Economic Research publishes its own Everyday Price Index. Keeping track of each one would be a full-time job in and of itself. Some, like the Consumer Price Index or the Producer Price Index, receive tremendous coverage and discussion. Others, like the Import Price Index, often go largely unreported and underappreciated. This Explainer seeks to correct this. Once understood, the Import Price Index, with its ability to summarize the changes in the price of imported goods, is one of the most important tools of…

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England head coach Brendon McCullum has provided an important update regarding Jofra Archer’s availability ahead of the second Test against New Zealand. The right-arm fast bowler was not included in England’s squad for the opening Test at Lord’s after spending the last six months playing continuous cricket, including a demanding stint with Rajasthan Royals (RR) in IPL 2026.Archer enjoyed a brilliant season in the IPL, emerging as one of the tournament’s standout fast bowlers. Representing Rajasthan Royals, the speedster claimed 25 wickets in 16 matches and finished third in the Purple Cap standings. The right-arm pacer was not included in…