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Former Arsenal, Juventus and Cardiff City midfielder Aaron Ramsey will continue his career in Mexico.The 34-year-old Ramsey officially signed with Pumas on Thursday, the Lliga MX side announced.Ramsey, who already has a working visa to play in Liga MX, arrived in Mexico City on Tuesday to do a medical before signing his contract with top-flight side Pumas.”I’m excited to play and to be a part of this historic club, I can’t wait to be on the pitch,” Ramsey said at Mexico City’s airport.Aaron Ramsey arrives in Mexico City’s airport to play for Pumas. ESPNPumas is considered one of the four most…

You might have seen the recent headlines on a new study on exercise and cancer recovery suggesting that “exercise is better than a drug” in preventing cancer returning. Cue a wave of commentary pitting “big pharma” against fitness, as if we must choose between pills and planks. It’s an appealing narrative – but it’s also misleading.We don’t need to choose between the two. In fact, the best health outcomes often come from combining medicine with a broader view of health that includes movement, diet, social connection and mental wellbeing.Let’s consider what the study, published in the New England Journal of…

Wycliffe Muia & Kennedy GondweBBC News, Nairobi & LusakaGetty ImagesThe elephant was shot and wounded, but still attacked the two women, police said (file photo)Two female tourists, including a British pensioner, have been killed by a charging elephant while on safari in Zambia, police have told the BBC. The pair were attacked by a female elephant that was with a calf at the South Luangwa National Park, said local police chief Robertson Mweemba. The two tourists were trampled to death by the nursing elephant after efforts by tour guides to stop it by firing shots failed. Both women died at…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Brazil’s UN climate summit chief has defended oil and gas production as being compatible with international efforts to limit global warming, ahead of the South American country hosting the world’s most important climate talks.President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government wants Brazil to become the world’s fourth-largest oil producer. The country last month hosted an auction of oil blocks, including some in the sea close to the mouth of the Amazon river.Almost 200 countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels by…

The head of the US government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is leaving the unit this month to take a job with a quantum computing company, WIRED has learned.Rick Muller’s pending departure from IARPA comes amid broader efforts to downsize the United States intelligence community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees IARPA. A person familiar with Muller’s plans confirmed to WIRED his departure from IARPA.Born during the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, IARPA is tasked with testing AI, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies that could aid the missions of…

The “forgotten” designer of Paris’s most iconic Métro station entrances and art nouveau buildings is to be given his rightful place in the city’s history with a museum dedicated to his work.Hector Guimard left a distinctive mark across the French capital in the early 1900s, creating elaborate and monumental Métro entrances whose fans of iron and glass resembling unfurled insect wings were nicknamed dragonflies.The remaining station surrounds of sinuous cast iron, with lamps resembling lily-of-the-valley flowers and topped with the stylised Métropolitain sign that Guimard also designed, feature in postcards, tourist photos and style books. When installed in the early…

“We spent three months working on the latex coat that closed our show,” explained Richert Beil designers Jale Richert and Michele Beil, as the small crowd of guests slowly left their venue. “We cast every single rose petal by hand and assembled them with precision.” This season, they wanted to focus on the essentials: fewer looks, fewer guests—but all the more thought. Time was their scarcest resource; the pair recently moved into a new studio in a former 135-year-old pharmacy, which they are renovating themselves. “In the mornings, we went to the construction site, then after some hours the actual…

US president Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence.“We have a lot of land there,” said Trump, a UFC enthusiast who has attended several of its mixed martial arts matches in recent months and is close friends with Dana White, the league’s president.Trump announced his plan in Iowa during the kickoff for a year’s worth of festivities to celebrate America’s 250th birthday on 4 July 2026.The Republican president also announced a culminating festival on the National Mall in Washington,…

French air traffic controllers continued strike action for a second consecutive day, causing the cancellation of 40 percent of flights across all Paris airports on Friday and disrupting travel plans for holidaymakers at the height of Europe’s travel season.