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for 616 after bowling australia out for a16 on the second day of the second ashes test at lord's. stuart broad took the first of today's five wickets, trapping alex kerry lbw shortly after play resumed. steve smith dug in for australia and reached his 32nd test century from just 106 to nine balls. it was left tojosh tom. ollie robinson made sure they carried through their momentum to bowl out australia and see england into bat before lunch. so the latest score, england are 188 without loss to stop a really good opening partnership between the zak crawley, who is approaching his half—century, and ben duckett. more results on the bbc website. with a few days to go until the start of wimbledon, a former world never one has announced she is coming out of retirement. caroline wozniacki will make a return to the sport but not in time for the grass
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court season. the dane took a step backin court season. the dane took a step back in 20 20 after a 15 year career that saw her win the australian open and be well another one on two separate occasions was up she retired after a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. she annoys her return on socio— media commit saying she still had goals she wanted to accomplish. in football, one of the biggest transfer deals of the summer is closing in after arsenal agreed a fee to sign declan rice. it is arsenal's third bid for rice and the initialfee would equal arsenal's third bid for rice and the initial fee would equal the arsenal's third bid for rice and the initialfee would equal the british record. city had a dealfor rice rejected and have withdrawn from the running. yet to act on the market are manchester united, but talks are respected to take place to resolve the situation with chelsea over their proposed move of mason mount
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to old trafford. chelsea rejected the latest bit of 55 million. the two clubs will re—enter negotiations in the coming days. heavyweight boxers joe in the coming days. heavyweight boxersjoe will face off in september. the brit lost his unbeaten record in the first fight backin unbeaten record in the first fight back in april, as well as his wbo title. the referee stopped the contest in the sixth round after joyce's swollen i had to be twice inspected by the ringside doctor. cycling, and britain's tom pidcock has spoken about the impact of the death of an italian cyclist who died following a high—speed crash earlier this month. his team were competing in the event and the 23—year—old admits the incident had greatly affected him.— admits the incident had greatly affected him. personally, ithink one of the _ affected him. personally, ithink one of the things _ affected him. personally, ithink one of the things that _ affected him. personally, ithink one of the things that hit - affected him. personally, ithink one of the things that hit me - affected him. personally, i think| one of the things that hit me was affected him. personally, i think. one of the things that hit me was it
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happened descending, which is something that i love. it showed me what the concerts can be when it goes wrong, but i never take and calculate it risks when i'm sending and i don't take unnecessary risks, but things can happen. let's take you to america now, where domingo herman achieved the rarest of baseball feeds on wednesday, throwing a perfect game for the new york yankees. he recorded all 27 outs in their 11—0 win over the oakland athletics. he becomes the ready fourth player in major league baseball to do so, at the first in more than a decade. finally, just watch this free kick from the semifinals of the under 17 asian cup, where japan were taking on iran. with his side 2—0, one of the players scored this free kick, it doesn't look incredible but we will show you it again because he and his team—mate couldn't decide
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who to take it, so they played rock paper scissors to decide, universally fair method, i think. that goal means that japan universally fair method, i think. that goal means thatjapan are through to the final of the competition. just as well he scored. that is all the sport for now. back to you. my to you. my kids were to prove, that is how they make all of their life decisions! new figures in the uk show that prices for package holidays to many popular destinations have risen steeply over the last year. the average price of a week with full food and board in majorca in spain is up 21%. prices for tenerife have risen more than 22%, figures from travelsupermarket showed. our cost of living correspondent, colletta smith, reports. when it comes to chat about holidays, in here they're professionals. literally the first thing everybody says at any appointment!
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are you fed up of talking about holidays? when i getjealous, yeah! sophie's just about to jet off, but there's one last thing on the to—do list. come and take a seat. the brighter the better for in the sun. - i like orange when you've got a tan, it stands out. - she's going on holiday to crete with 25 other family members, and this year they've opted for all—inclusive. it's mainly for my brothers . because they've all got kids, so it's so much easier for them to know that they don't have i to take any other money. they can literally get _ what they want while they're there. fabulous. it's no wonder they're thinking about trying to keep a lid on those costs, as travel supermarket told us crete has seen one of the biggest price increases. package holidays are up 9% on average. travel insurance is up 10.5% for an annual multi—trip. airport parking prices are up 9.5% and the only relief is car hire charges, which dropped more than 36% after a massive spike last summer.
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the other thing to bear in mind is the price of everything when you get on holiday. inflation is happening everywhere at the moment. research for the bbc showed the costs of 23 basic items. france came out the most expensive, then spain, then italy, then the uk, so if you're depending on a cheap pint or a cheap loaf of bread, you might be stung for more than you hoped. there's no doubt that some people, you know, it's affecting more than others, but of the people that are managing to travel, they are travelling a little bit smarter. sandra says there are things people can do to keep the costs down. rather than the traditional ia night holidays during school holiday time, then they might go for ten or 11 just to save that little bit. we've also seen an increase of multi—generational holidays where grandparents are taking their children and the grandchildren on holiday. but while plenty are finding ways to get abroad, laura's decided to put her honeymoon plans on pause.
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all of the, like, prices of mortgage payments went up, the prices of utility bills went up, so then you have to look and think, well, where's this spare cash coming from? try and find something which is like a dream honeymoon, it's just not feasible when you've planned and paid for a wedding for two years, is just so expensive. but after saving up and loading up, nothing's stopping sophie now. woo! colletta smith, bbc news. scientists say they've found the first evidence of low—frequency gravitational waves that are thought to be constantly rolling through space. the leading theory is that the waves
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are caused by the merger of supermassive black holes at the heart of distant galaxies, as our science correspondent, pallab ghosh, reports. up in space, at the heart of every galaxy is thought to be a gigantic black hole. here's a real picture of the one at the centre of our own milky way. it's four million times the mass of our sun. it became that big by colliding with other huge black holes inside other galaxies. astronomers atjodrell bank and across the world think they've detected some of these cataclysmic events. pulsars, which are like nature's clocks, really... on the dish of the giant lovell telescope, dr hannah middleton tells me that ideas on how galaxies merge and grow have all been theoretical — until maybe now. we believe that galaxies and the black holes at the centre
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of them grow over time by mergers. but we haven't got evidence for this as yet. so if this is the signature of these mergers, it teaches us about the formation of galaxies throughout the universe. astronomers have made the detections by measuring the signals coming from spinning objects in space called pulsars, which are flashing stars at the end of their lives. pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe, sending out bursts of radio waves at regular intervals. the researchers noticed that something was changing their speed ever so slightly. they think that it's caused by gravitational waves constantly bombarding the earth. and the source, they believe, is giant black holes in orbit around each other, all across space. these are at the heart of distant galaxies orbiting each other. the forces between them are so powerful that they distort time and space and send ripples of gravitational waves across the universe.
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the lovell telescope is among a network of observatories that have picked up these gravitational waves. astronomers want to use them to study the black holes. currently, the signal that we're seeing is a noisy background from all over space. it's a bit like being in a noisy restaurant with people talking all around you. what we hope is that in the near future, we'll be able to zoom in and listen to some individual conversations, take the measurements from individual black holes and be able to really zoom in and study them. the researchers now have a new way to study the cosmos. they hope to learn how galaxies formed and discover new things that may reveal how the universe first came into existence. pallab ghosh, bbc news, at the lovell telescope atjodrell bank. stay with us here on bbc news.
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hello. the weather front that we had to start the day continues to push its way eastwards and for the vast majority of the uk we're looking at fine weather with some sunshine around to take us through the afternoon. that said, there are going to be a few showers popping up, particularly for scotland and northern ireland. and there's that weather front. the dregs of the rain still just about loitering across the east coast. now that front�*s brought i2 millimetres of rain about half an inch of rain in the space of 6 hours. the significance of that is that with more rain than had fallen for the entirety of the month ofjune, so that rain was welcome. still, it has been a particularly dry month across parts of eastern england. now, through the rest of the afternoon, as i say, one or two showers popping up for scotland, for northern ireland, an isolated shower for northern england, parts of the midlands and wales. but for the vast majority of these areas that should stay dry. the weather feeling a lot fresher
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now that that front�*s moved through. so a more pleasant kind of feel to the weather highs between 18 and about 23 today. overnight tonight, well, we're going to continue to see showers working into scotland. and then later in the night cloud will thicken for northern ireland. wales and south west england will start to get some damp weather returning here with some low clouds, some misty conditions and some drizzle. through friday as this warm front moves its way in from the west, that will see a return of more humid air. so we'll feel quite muggy once again, extensive low cloud bits and pieces of drizzle, particularly across western areas. there's probably some low cloud and fog hanging around some of the hillier areas in the west as well. temperatures, though, still reaching the high teens to low 20s and into the weekend. low pressure is going to stay to the north of the uk, bringing rain or showers to northern areas and it will be quite breezy as well. but the winds will be coming in from a west or north westerly direction and those winds will be dragging in much fresher air again on saturday. so it's a day where most of us
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will see bright weather with some sunshine showers, though, for northern ireland, a few for north west england and fairly frequent showers for the north west of scotland. temperatures could still reach the mid 20s and the best of the sunshine in the east for sunday. it's a similar kind of day. again, quite a brisk west north westerly wind, some more prolonged outbreaks of rain working into the highlands, orkney and shetland where we see the best of the sunshine still feeling warm with temperatures by high teens to low 20s. a bit cooler though for the north west of scotland.
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