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Arsenal injury update ahead of Club Brugge Champions League clash Arsenal travel to Belgium this week carrying a growing physical toll that has begun to shape their European campaign. The latest Arsenal injury update confirms a significant triple setback, with three senior players ruled out of Wednesday night’s Champions League tie against Club Brugge. Declan […]

Dr Sophie Newton has shared a simple trick to help avoid picking up colds, flu and other viruses during the cold winter months

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Answers to each clue for the December 10, 2025 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

Hamas still needs to release the body of one hostage as Israel prepares for next steps in the ceasefire with Donald Trump

As the IPL 2026 mini auction nears, several uncapped Indian cricketers are gaining attention following strong performances in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Fast bowlers Auqib Nabi Dar and Ashok Sharma, along with dynamic batters Kartik Sharma, Tushar Raheja, and Anmolpreet Singh, are poised to attract significant bids from franchises seeking fresh talent.

December 10 – Football boss Gianni Infantino is facing a complaint to FIFA’s own ethics committee from a UK NGO over his award of the inaugural FIFA peace prize to Donald Trump and his repeated endorsements of the US President.

Belgium, Denmark, the European Union, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, as members of the International Contact Group for the Great Lakes (ICG), chaired by Germany, issue the following statement on the alarming escalation in South Kivu: The ICG expresses its profound concern regarding the renewed outbreak of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the new offensive of the March 23 Movement (…)

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 9, 2025
European governments and lawmakers agreed to weaken and delay new environmental and human rights rules Tuesday, clearing a key hurdle in a push to unpick EU regulations seen as too burdensome for businesses. The European Council representing member states said its negotiators reached an overnight deal with European Parliament representatives to "simplify" two pieces of legislation hailed by

Sydney (AFP) Dec 9, 2025
Tech giants will apply multiple layers of security to weed out young users under Australia's world-first ban on social media for under-16s. If they fail to take "reasonable steps" to block young teens, the firms behind platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube face hefty fines. Here are the main methods they're turning to as the law takes effect Wednesday: - ID please - It

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 9, 2025
The European Union said Tuesday it will step up checks on agricultural imports, in a move seemingly aimed at appeasing concerns over a trade deal with Latin American countries of Mercosur. The European Commission said it will increase audits carried out on non-EU countries by 50 percent over the next two years, to ensure products entering the 27-nation bloc comply with its standards. Che

Beijing (AFP) Dec 10, 2025
China's consumer prices rose last month at their fastest pace since February 2024, official data showed Wednesday, following an extended period of deflationary pressure in the world's second-largest economy. The consumer price index, a key measure of inflation, rose 0.7 percent year-on-year in November, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The reading was in line with a

Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 10, 2025
Most markets fell Wednesday following a tepid day on Wall Street as investors bided their time ahead of a highly anticipated Federal Reserve policy announcement later in the day. Earnings from tech giants Oracle and Broadcom this week are also in view amid lingering worries about an artificial intelligence-fuelled bubble that caused some panic on trading floors last month. With US centra

Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article in Science argues that the field now stands at a turning point - one that is similar to the early computing age that preceded the rise of the transistor and modern computing. The article, authored by scientists from University of Chicago, Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo

240-page report outlines11 science priorities for future crewed missions to the Red Planet

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2025
Aerospace asset finance firm SLI has signed heads of agreement to acquire two of AscendArc's next-generation Ka-band geostationary satellites, in a transaction valued at more than $200 million. The framework sits within a wider partnership that allows AscendArc to make its GEO spacecraft available on leasing terms instead of requiring customers to fund an outright purchase. Through SLI's f

Boston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through tight spaces larger robots can't reach, while simultaneously dodging stationary obstacles and pieces of falling rubble. So far, aerial microrobots have only been able to fly slowly along smooth t

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
MDA Space Ltd. has arranged a private placement of C$250 million in 7.00 percent senior unsecured notes due 2030 under an underwriting agreement. The company expects the offering to close around December 23, 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. The notes will be issued at C$1,000 for each C$1,000 in principal. The notes will rank equally in right of payment with all existing and

Columbus, OH (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
As intentional and unintentional interference with GPS grows worldwide, researchers have shown that radio signals from commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellations such as Starlink and OneWeb can provide an alternative source of navigation and positioning, especially in regions where GNSS performance is degraded. The new work indicates that passively received LEO signals can be turne

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
MDA Space has secured a $44.7 million contract from Public Services and Procurement Canada, acting for the Canadian Space Agency, to procure and deliver critical long lead parts in support of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission replenishment satellite development. The Government of Canada has also signalled its intention to award MDA Space the full contract in 2026 to build, test, and launc

Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
TRAPPIST-1, a small star about 40 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius, produces flares roughly six times per day, and this activity complicates efforts to evaluate whether its planets could be habitable. A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder used NASAs James Webb Space Telescope together with detailed computer simulations to study how these flares arise and how

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
Kyoto University and Meiji University researchers have used the XRISM X-ray satellite to quantify chlorine and potassium in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, addressing a longstanding gap in how the universe produced these life-related elements. The work examines why current stellar models yield only about one-tenth of the chlorine and potassium inferred from observations across the cosmos.