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1. Music icons and NFL legends among celebrities at Super Bowl

2. Super Bowl 2026 halftime show live: Bad Bunny frenzy peaks with minutes to go until historic performance

   Puerto Rican superstar could break viewing records when he takes the stage at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, with further performances from Green Day and Charlie Puth as the New England Patriots take on the Seattle Seahawks

3. Winter Olympics 2026 schedule and day-by-day events

   Dates and times of all 116 events across 19 days in Milano Cortina

4. Green Day avoids controversy in Super Bowl performance

5. Charlie Puth silences critics with ‘flawless’ Super Bowl national anthem performance

   Pop star previously promised his arrangement would be ‘one of my best vocal performances’

6. Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai faces sentencing in national security case

   Former Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai is set to be sentenced Monday for his conviction on charges of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under a China-imposed national security law

7. Bernardo Silva feared title race was over before Man City comeback at Liverpool

   City trailed 1-0 with six minutes remaining at Anfield before rallying with a Silva equaliser and Erling Haaland penalty to triumph 2-1.

8. Charlie Puth praised for ‘perfect’ Super Bowl anthem performance

9. UK councils warn they may need emergency bailouts despite new government funding

   Many councils said it will be difficult to set a balanced budget

10. Mandelson-Starmer latest: PM set for showdown with furious Labour MPs as he battles to save premiership

    Starmer's political future hangs in the balance after chief of staff Morgan McSweeney quits over Mandelson scandal