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“In terms of arch support and joint support, it’s not the best style, but people are investing a bit more, getting their flip-flops customised, because it’s something that is just so easy to wear,” Baidoo says.Podiatrist Dr Helen Branthwaite, who is also chief clinical adviser at the Royal College of Podiatry, says it’s “not accurate” to say flip-flops are bad.The problem comes if you go straight from wearing a very structured shoe to wearing flip-flops a lot, she explains. It means your foot is under more strain than normal, which makes you more prone to injury.”The foot does start to…

Chad le Clos says his apartment in South Africa was destroyed by a fatal fire – the night after the swimmer became the most decorated athlete in Commonwealth Games history.Le Clos picked up his 21st medal to overtake Australia’s Emma McKeon as the athlete with the most medals in Commonwealths history, when South Africa took bronze in the men’s 4x100m medley relay in Glasgow last week. It was the 34-year-old’s third medal of the 2026 Games, having won silver in the mixed 4×100 ⁠medley and bronze in the men’s 4×100 freestyle relays.Only days later, Le Clos has revealed that a…

Princess Eugenie has received a message from her former private secretary, Libby Horsley.Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, revealed on Tuesday that they had welcomed a baby girl, their third child together and first daughter.Libby Horsley, who serves as Chief of Staff at The Royal Household, offered her congratulations beneath Eugenie’s Instagram post, leaving three red heart emojis.Ms Horsley has a longstanding professional connection to both York sisters, having served as Assistant Private Secretary to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie between 2020 and 2024 before moving into her current position.The emoji response was among several notable comments from figures connected…

The latest artificial intelligence (AI) tools from Anthropic and OpenAI went to new extremes in trying to undermine a popular platform during testing by the UK’s AI Security Institute.The AISI said on Tuesday that Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s Sol models engaged in a level of “autonomy and deception” it had not seen before.During routine AI safety testing, an Anthropic agent created fake profiles of real people as it tried to trick a person standing between it and access to GitHub, a large platform where technology developers store software code.Anthropic and OpenAI noted in response to AISI’s report that its test…

Carlos Alcaraz has withdrawn from the Cincinnati Open as he continues to recover from a wrist injury.The world number two has not played since he pulled out of the Barcelona Open in April, missing Wimbledon and the chance to defend his French Open title.After winning the event in 2025, Spain’s Alcaraz was due to return at the Cincinnati Open as part of preparations for his defence of the US Open, which begins on 30 August.Instead, the organisers of the Ohio event – which starts on 11 August – said that “an ongoing wrist injury” will prevent the 23-year-old from taking…

Sacha Lewis, sister of England international Rico, has signed her first professional contract with Women’s Super League side Manchester City. The 18-year-old defender follows in the footsteps of her older brother, who also graduated from City’s academy, and became a key figure in the men’s team under former manager Pep Guardiola. She joined City at under-14 level and progressed through the ranks, becoming a part of their matchday squads twice last season as the club won their first WSL title in a decade.The England Under-19 international was also named in the squad that faced Chelsea in the Women’s League Cup…

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A woman who worked as a receptionist at a County Fermanagh hotel has been awarded almost £20,500 after bringing an indirect sex discrimination case. Anna Owens had agreed a fixed three-day working week at the Westville Hotel in Enniskillen that enabled her to balance her work with childcare. But she said she felt “betrayed and deflated” when the arrangements she had verbally agreed before starting work were changed by a new manager. An industrial tribunal found that this working pattern formed part of her contract of employment. In a statement, the hotel said it was “genuinely sorry” that Owens’ “employment…

This time, though, Draper made it on to court, appearing initially nervous – but without the compression sleeve that supported him through recent appearances. He was smiling by the third game, when he read a tricky Atmane serve well and pulled off an unlikely winner to delight the crowd and level the score to deuce.Having failed to break Atmane as the Frenchman won the first set 6-3, Draper began to show glimpses of the glittering 2025 form which earned his number four ranking last June.In the second set, the Montreal crowd whooped as Draper executed a powerful cross-court forehand on…