Gauff hits back at ‘insane’ racist abuse after replayed point at China Open

Coco Gauff was targeted online after stopping play during a crucial point in the first set against China’s Sun Xinran.

Coco Gauff says she has received an “insane” amount of racial abuse on social media after the two-time Grand Slam champion beat local teenager Sun Xinran at the China Open in a third-round match, where a replayed point prompted an online backlash.

Lego fraudster among last year's most high-profile insurance scammers

A scammer jailed for making false home insurance claims about supposedly stolen Lego has been listed as one of last year's most high-profile insurance fraudsters.

The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, insurance trade body the ABI said.

LIV Golf: Competition secures potential $300m investment to emerge from restructuring

LIV Golf has secured a possible $300m in financing from BC Partners Credit in order to try to move forward with the 2027 season.

The league filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States in September after Saudi Arabia withdrew its multibillion-dollar funding, starting a court-supervised "restructuring process" that they hope to complete in early 2027.

‘Artificial’ Review: Andrew Garfield and Yura Borisov Shine as Ethical Opposites in Luca Guadagnino’s Riveting Real-World Tech Nightmare

Andrew Garfield is now in his early 40s, but when he lollops around with his rubber limbs flapping every which way and a happy-go-lucky smile plastered across this face — he’s like a goofy Pied Piper trailed by enchanted tech bros — you might swear he’s a teenager. That makes it diabolically clever of Luca Guadagnino, a gay director never shy about exploring queerness, to cast OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as the “demon twink” archetype. Whatever sorcery the makeup or effects department has performed to put the glint of sociopathic madness in Garfield’s eyes, it works.

Israeli ambassador to Australia says he hopes for return to ‘traditional friendship’ on October 7 anniversary eve

Israel’s ambassador to Australia says the third anniversary of October 7 is an opportunity for both countries to return to “traditional friendship”.

But, in the lead-up to commemorations on Wednesday marking Hamas’ terror attack, leaders of Australia’s Palestinian community say the federal government should do more to help the diaspora suffering since the war on Gaza.

Keeping up with the Bolsonaros: Flávio’s surprise first-round election win heralds rise of a political dynasty

The weekend’s elections in Brazil not only put Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Flávio Bolsonaro, in the lead in the presidential race, but also underscored how far the former president has come in building a political dynasty.

A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?

It has been called the world’s most mysterious manuscript: a medieval set of pages filled with botanical drawings, astronomical diagrams, pictures of nude women and indecipherable text. Claimed at various times to be a book in a lost language, a musical score, an instruction manual or just an elaborate hoax, the so-called Voynich manuscript’s true meaning has defied cryptographers and codebreakers for centuries.

2026’s Biggest Blockbuster Games Just Received Their First Major Discounts in Amazon’s Prime Sale, but These 48-Hour Deals Won’t Last Long

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale is now live, and there are a slew of excellent gaming deals to check out as part of the limited-time offerings. These are exclusive to Prime members, with the deals available from October 6-7, so there's only a short window available to find some bargains.

Sportsworld - The Warm UP Track 2026:  Nadine Visser - Good things come to those who wait - BBC Sounds

      <p>Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.</p><p><a href="https://help.bbc.com/hc/en-us/articles/42652680528659-Update-on-access-to-BBC-Sounds-outside-the-UK">Find out how to listen to other BBC stations</a></p><h2>Episode details</h2><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/400x400/p0pf379m.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy" /><p>World Service,·06 Oct 2026,·52 mins</p><h2>The Warm UP Track 2026:  Nadine Visser - Good things come to those who wait</h2>Sportsworld<p>Available for over a year</p><p>Nadine Visser has made the last two Olympic finals in the women's sprint hurdles, finishing fifth in Tokyo and then fourth in Paris.  The Dutch athlete also has two European Indoor titles to her name amongst an impressive collection of medals won since her breakthrough championships, the World under-20s in Eugene in 2014. 

Heading into the 2026 European Championships outdoors in Birmingham, there was something she finally wanted to put right. In three previous finals at the Championships, she hadn’t made the podium. Having so often been the top European finisher at the Worlds and the Olympics, that statistic was especially hard to take. Birmingham 2026 was where Visser finally laid that disappointment to rest. She won the gold medal, but faced an agonising wait for confirmation of that fact as the officials studied the photo finish. She takes us back to that night at the Alexander Stadium, explaining how and why it meant so much. The build up had been marred by injury, and she knew that the Dutch media would be ready to ask her why she’d once again failed to live up to her top billing if the gold slipped away once again. This is a candid sharing of an athlete’s thought process as they prepare for a championships, and everything they weigh up when they consider whether it’s been a success. Nadine Visser has been at the very top of her sport for more than 12 years; and that includes competing for several years as both an elite Heptathlete and a Sprint Hurdler. How has she maintained that level of success from 2014 to now, and what does she believe is still possible? Photo: Women’s 100m hurdles medallists, from left, silver, Pia Skrzyszowska of Poland, gold, Nadine Visser of Netherlands and bronze, Laeticia Bapté of France during day two of the European Athletics Championships 2026 at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England. (Credit: Sportsfile via Getty Images)

F1 Q&A: Hamilton, Malaysia, wet races, Red Bull and Ford and the future of engines

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won his first race of the season in a dramatic rain-affected Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.

Kimi Antonelli finished second in the Mercedes and Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, who fought his way back to the front after an incorrect tyre choice at the start, completed the podium.