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Rio 2016 Olympics: goodbye to Bolt with triple treble, hello to GB hockey gold – live!Thirty golds on another super Saturday: Tom Daley dives, Nicola Adams boxes, Brazil kicks off against Germany, and Mo Farah goes for track legend status -
Rio 2016 Olympics: Usain Bolt clinches ninth Olympic gold as Jamaica win relay – as it happenedUsain Bolt does the triple treble as Jamaica win the men’s 4x100m relay
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Rio Paralympics to be downsized amid disappointing ticket salesThe Rio Paralympics is to be scaled down due to poor ticket sales and a budget shortfall, which have meant venue closures and some facilities being dismantled prematurely
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Martin Rowson on Great Britain's Olympic success – cartoonTeam GB are climbing the Olympic medal table in Rio but all is not golden back at home
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Theresa May’s climbdown on obesity is her first big mistakeThe new prime minister has bowed to the junk food industry over public health. We’re finding out what she really stands for
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Aidan Turner: ‘You take a top off, and then it’s madness’That topless scene in Poldark turned him into a national heart-throb, but Aidan Turner doesn’t know what all the fuss is about. He talks about lies, laziness, and why his hair has its own Twitter account
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I Love Dick review – I can't get enough, please can we have more?Amazon’s pilot season includes Jill Soloway’s skewering of artist types, starring Kevin Bacon as the titular cultural theorist. It shouldn’t even have to audition
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We were at the altar – were his parents about to jilt us?Rebecca Thornton didn’t realise there might be a problem when she fell in love with a man from a traditional Jewish family. Until they began to talk about getting married …
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A letter to … the internet date who messed me around before we’d even metThe letter you always wanted to write
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UK public finances surplus lower than expected in JulyTough decisions for chancellor after income fails to match up to forecasts in month after the Brexit vote
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The post-Brexit pound – how sterling's fall affects you and the UK economyBargain-hunting tourists are flocking to the UK to exploit the plunging pound but Britons are burning money on their summer holiday in Europe
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Critics of No Man’s Sky tend to see games as entertainment products, while fans of this eccentric space exploration sim view it as an experienceNo Man's Sky is Elite for the 21st century. Pointless? Maybe – but also sublime
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'We're just rentals': Uber drivers ask where they fit in a self-driving futureWith Uber set to deploy autonomous cars in Pittsburgh, some drivers for the company wonder if they’ve been expendable all along
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Sea potatoes wash up en masse on Cornish beachMarine experts say mysterious orbs found at Long Rock, near Penzance, are species of urchin stirred up from sandy burrows
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The week in wildlife - in picturesBurrowing owls at the Olympics, a pygmy elephant with very special tusks, and a rare white mynah bird are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
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The state pension top-up that no one seems to wantMore than a quarter of a million people were expected to boost their pension; fewer than 4,000 have signed up so far
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Once you pass 70 you cannot serve on a jury, meaning Britain’s courts are losing the benefits of a wealth of knowledge and skillsAnd the verdict is ... guilty of ageism
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Wild Scandinavia: adventure without breaking the bankThis is a pricey part of the world, but these adventures in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, from the new Wild Guide Scandinavia, are pleasantly surprising in more ways than one
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Night tube: top 10 London clubs – chosen by the expertsLondon’s long-awaited night tube is a gift to the capital’s clubbers. As the Victoria and Central lines start a non-stop weekend service – with other lines to follow in the autumn – we asked the cream of London’s club scene to point us to the party
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Brexit Armageddon was a terrifying vision – but it simply hasn’t happened