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1. Djokovic v Musetti live: Australian Open live score updates as Italian retires while two sets up

   Djokovic got ‘extremely lucky’ in his latest bid for a 25th grand slam title before Jannik Sinner faces Ben Shelton

2. ‘Don’t google the Beckhams!’: How to read more, according to Britain’s top authors

   A drastic drop in reading for pleasure has prompted a national campaign to get Britain to fall back in love with books. Leading authors, including Helen Fielding, Salman Rushdie and Tom Fletcher, tell Annabel Nugent how to bring back your inner bookworm

3. Joe Root defends Harry Brook after ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin-inspired beer smash celebration

   Brook mimicked ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin after his century in the ODI-series clinching win over Sri Lanka despite scrutiny over England’s drinking culture

4. Trump’s man in London hits out as UK’s clean energy deal

   The Hamburg Declaration signed by Ed Miliband was described as ‘historic’ by the Department for Energy Security ad Net Zero

5. Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin accused of ‘act of terrorism’ after five killed in passenger train attack

   Zelensky says there was no 'military justification' in Russia’s targeting civilians on a passenger train

6. Thailand screens 1,700 passengers for Nipah virus after India outbreak

   Public health ministry says screening focused on passengers from India’s West Bengal

7. Man who beat four homeless men to death ‘believed he had to kill 40 people to save his life’

   Randy Santos had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he left jail months earlier

8. Minnesota ICE live: Trump claims Ilhan Omar ‘probably had herself sprayed’ after attack at Minneapolis town hall

   The lawmaker was attacked during a town hall Tuesday night

9. ‘I’ve survived war’: Defiant Ilhan Omar hits back after being attacked and sprayed with unknown liquid during town hall

   Video footage of the incident shows the man being tackled to the ground after approaching the congresswoman

10. CBS News chief Bari Weiss tells staff 'we're toast' if they continue on current path

    She said CBS News is not producing a product that enough people want