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MetLife Stadium to remove 1,740 seats in bid to host 2026 World Cup final | World Cup 2026

MetLife Stadium officials plan to remove 1,740 seats to widen the field for World Cup matches as they hope to host the 2026 final but will retain a narrower surface for this years Copa Amrica. The stadium in suburban East Rutherford, New Jersey, is among the contenders for the final of the expanded 48-nation, 104-game

Once We Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler review a devastating reckoning

A powerful memoir from an acclaimed novelist reveals a past of privilege, violence and possibly murder South African-born Sheila Kohler is the acclaimed author of three short story collections and 10 novels, among them Cracks (1999), Becoming Jane Eyre (2009) and Dreaming for Freud (2014), disturbing explorations of femininity featuring heroines who are in some

Discovered in the deep: is this the worlds longest animal?

A submersible off the coast of Western Australia chanced upon a 45-metre-long deep-sea siphonophore arranged in a feeding spiral, trailing its deadly tentacles In 2020, about 600 metres (2,000ft) down in an underwater canyon off the coast of Western Australia, scientists encountered a long gelatinous creature suspended in a giant spiral. It was like a

Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt review a quietly heroic family drama

In her seventh novel, Susie Boyt sharply picks out the relationship between a grandmother, mother and daughter Susie Boyts slender, intensely felt seventh novel takes its title from an epigraph that a girl named Lily spots in a London churchyard. The wording makes her laugh like the person tried to be loving but the

Mapping the body: fascia

Fascia is a fibrous connective tissue which is distributed throughout the body. It is made from dense bundles of collagen, and looks rather like cling-film. It surrounds muscles, organs, bones, nerves and blood vessels and prevents friction, allowing different structures to glide over each other on movement. For surgeons, it is a gift. Dissecting along