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The great World Cup rip-off as football fans charged $3.9m for final tickets
FIFA stands to make NZ$4.6m in commission from the four tickets in question if they sell at the price listed.

Artist to sue Sunderland AFC over away kit design
Andrew Small claims the football club infringed the copyright on his 2008 sculpture.

Too many tabs and apps? This free app fixes it
If your desktop feels like a chaotic pile of open tabs, scattered chat apps, and forgotten logins, then let me introduce you to Ferdium. Ferdium is a free, open-source app that pulls all your messaging and productivity services into one clean interface. It puts Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Gmail, Telegram, and practically...

I found the perfect torture test for SteamOS handhelds—and it passed
This weekend I tried the demo for Dead as Disco, a mash-up of the crowd control combat from Arkham Asylum and the rhythm-based bounciness of Hi-Fi Rush. It’s frickin’ fantastic, I can’t wait for the early access release. But playing it in buttery-smooth 240 FPS on my OLED monitor and...

Millwall consider legal action over badge on KKK image
Millwall consider taking legal action after Westminster City Council used the club's badge on an illustration of a Ku Klux Klan member.

The Women's Six Nations is faster and smarter - but is it better?
The women's Six Nations has evolved with coaches and players working harder and playing smarter

Who will win the title? Reporters, fans and pundits make their predictions
Will it be Manchester City or Arsenal for the Premier League title? BBC Sport gets pundits, reporters and fans to predict each of their remaining fixtures - and who will win the league.

Key suspect in notorious Tadamon massacre during Syria civil war arrested
Victims were bound and blindfolded before being shot and dumped in a pit.

We paid our builder £44k - then he had us arrested
Victims tell how Steve Figg left their homes – and relationships – on the verge of collapse.

Four-goal thumping ends forgettable Phoenix campaign
The Phoenix waved the white flag – though against the Bulls it may as well have been red – as they were run over at Campbelltown Stadium.

AMD launched a monster chip. But Intel made the bigger splash
I began writing about enthusiast hardware completely by accident. Picture a street cat wandering into a neighbor’s house often enough that one day it never leaves—that’s pretty much my story. Except in this case, I used to sneak over to a sister publication’s cubicles to look at high-end desktops. Welcome to...

Funny old world: the week's offbeat news

Macron insists European FCAS fighter jet project has not failed

There’s one way Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ Takaichi is struggling to emulate her political hero Margaret Thatcher

Macron says still sees France, Germany developing European fighter jet

EVs more reliable than cars with combustion engines, study finds

Glasgow influencer jailed for smuggling £150,000 of cannabis

Giant to leave Gladiators at end of current series
Jamie Bigg, known as Giant, says his departure "wasn't a decision I made".

Before you blame Windows, check your BIOS
Keep an eye on your PC when you’ve just switched it on. Usually, a screen flashes by before Windows (or Linux, for that matter) starts to boot up. This is a glimpse of the computer’s basic firmware, often referred to as the BIOS, even though all modern PCs use something...

How Lineker and Neville became rival media moguls
BBC sports editor Dan Roan examines how Gary Lineker and Gary Neville became two of the biggest players in a rapidly changing media industry.

Woman trapped in sewage pit for three hours after outback toilet collapses
The woman got stuck waist-deep in a pit latrine in the Australian outback after it gave way.

South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf
The widely circulated image had prompted authorities to move their search operation.

What does the data tell us about immigration in Wales? Search for your area
The population of Wales grew by about 23,000 as a result of net international migration in the year to June 2024.