When Vitor Matos took charge of Swansea in November 2025, concerns around a potential relegation were on people's lips. Yet almost one year on, the Swans sit top of the Championship 10 games into the season.

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SAN ANTONIO -- Spurs coach Mitch Johnson on Friday squashed any suspense going into the season by announcing his three-guard lineup will start in Tuesday's opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Russia strikes Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Volyn and Rivne as Russia presses its campaign against Ukraine’s power grid.

Russian attacks killed at least eight people and injured 60 across Ukraine, hit two shopping centres and cut power to more than a million people, Ukrainian officials have said.

US president’s executive order comes two days before sanctions deadline and a week after diesel deal with Putin.

US President Donald Trump has put on hold a sweeping package of sanctions on Russia that he signed into law last month, telling Congress the pause is in the national interest.

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Mark your calendar to get these special event items

Image: Koei Tecmo, Game Freak/Nintendo, The Pokémon Company via Polygon

Pokémon Pokopia has limited-time events that feature unique items and Pokémon throughout the year. These events are only accessible on specific dates, but you don't need to fret too much about FOMO, as you can time travel to access these.

Miley Cyrus kicked off her “Miley: Bass Persuades – Live at the Hollywood Bowl” shows on Friday night at the famed Los Angeles venue, giving her first headlining performance in years.

A Mexican judge has sentenced three men convicted of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their US friend Carter Rhoad to 158 years and nine months in jail each.

A state court ⁠judge in New Mexico has dismissed charges of child sexual abuse against West Wing actor and director Timothy Busfield, saying the prosecution did not act in a ⁠fair and impartial manner during grand jury proceedings.

Jacob Elordi thought he was going crazy until he saw a classic John Cassavetes film.

“I probably made three movies that I thought were pretty bad when I was young, and I had hopes and dreams of being this kind of terrific, ferocious stage actor. So I was pretty not fond of myself at that time,” explained the Australian actor during an event presented by Cartier Cinema Club at Santa Monica’s Aero Theatre on Friday. “And I watched this movie and it was one of the first times that I saw the creative process of an actor sort of fleshed out in detail. The movie made me feel a lot less insane and alone.”

• Yes, the just-revealed Tesla Roadster astonished the reveal crowd by jumping without a ramp and driving upside down, but how did it do that? 
• The electric sports car was able to lift off using cold-gas thruster technology from SpaceX and 250 kilos of compressed air. 
• We’re not saying any of this will make it to production, but at least we can explain what we saw.

Elon Musk has launched a Tesla Roadster all the way to space, but it was the much lower-altitude stunt reveal of the new Tesla Roadster that showed how much spectacle can still find an audience. While the two highlights—a jump-slash-flip and driving upside down on a half-circle ramp—felt like scenes from an action movie, they were real. Just like the movies, though, a bit of behind-the-scenes magic was needed to make it happen, like out-of-this-world components from SpaceX. Here’s how the new Tesla Roadster defied gravity in Texas.