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Cardiff reached the fourth round of the Carabao Cup for the first time since their march towards the final 13 years ago by stunning Premier League Burnley 2-1 at Turf Moor.Goals from Joel Colwill and Callum Robinson handed the third-tier side a deserved win, although they were forced to ensure a nervous finale following Zian Flemming’s brilliant strike. Having elected to change his entire starting XI for the second tie in a row, Burnley boss Scott Parker cannot have been surprised to see his team make a fractious start to a contest being staged in an almost eerie atmosphere. Please…

Diego Gomez scored four goals, including a stunning first-half hat-trick, as Brighton cruised into the Carabao Cup fourth round with a 6-0 win at Barnsley.The Paraguay midfielder, signed from Inter Miami in January, provided an emphatic finish for Brighton’s early opener and followed up with two spectacular efforts to put the game to bed inside the 33rd minute. He slid home his fourth in the second half, with substitutes Harry Howell and Yasin Ayari also on target as the Seagulls, who breezed to a 6-0 win at Oxford in the previous round, reached the competition’s last 16 for the fifth…

Wycombe secured safe passage through to round four of the Carabao Cup thanks to a comfortable 2-0 victory at League One rivals Wigan.The home side had gone into the game looking for a big reaction to Saturday’s 4-1 thumping at arch-rivals Bolton. But Ryan Lowe’s men put in an equally disappointing display at the Brick Community Stadium as Wycombe continued their upturn under new boss Michael Duff. Image: Wycombe’s Donnel McNeilly scored their second at Wigan After a long early stoppage, which saw the assistant referee on the near side having to be replaced due to injury, it was the…

Thomas Fuller | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesDisney on Tuesday unveiled price increases for its streaming subscription packages beginning Oct. 21.The stand-alone Disney+ ad-supported plan will see a $2 increase to $11.99 per month, while the premium no-ads plan will jump $3 to $18.99 per month or get a $30 annual hike to $189.99 per year.The Disney+ and Hulu ad-supported package will increase by $2 per month, and both of the bundles with Disney+, Hulu and ESPN will see a $3 monthly increase. The packages with Disney+, Hulu and HBO Max will also both increase by $3 per month.The NFL+ plans…

Something strange was happening at Jeff Hancock’s work.It was 2022, just after OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT to the masses, and the Stanford professor noticed something was off in the research assignments he was grading. “They looked pretty good, but not quite right,” Hancock tells CNBC Make It. “And then because I had 100 students, I could see that 10 other assignments looked exactly the same with the same sort of not-quite-rightness.”The papers in question seemed to have a lot of text without saying anything substantive to “advance the work,” and they all did so in the same overly wordy style.Kate…

NEW YORK (AP) — As medical professionals react with alarm to President Donald Trump’s unproven statements about Tylenol, childhood vaccines and autism, a different group of Americans is feeling vindicated.For the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement, a diverse coalition that includes supporters of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., anti-vaccine activists and others who distrust the American health care system, Trump’s Monday announcement was a watershed moment.“I think that for the ‘MAHA’ movement, this is like the dark clouds have finally parted and a single ray of sunshine is shining down,” Del Bigtree, Kennedy’s former communications director and founder of…

On its 64th anniversary, the newspaper reimagines its legacy with designs inspired by archives, art and creativity On the occasion of its 64th anniversary, Kuwait Times is celebrating with style. The newspaper has officially launched its first limited-edition merchandise collection, designed to reflect the brand’s history, creativity and cultural presence in Kuwait. The project began with Head of Visual Design at Kuwait Times, Omar Al-Nakib – the filmmaker and visual artist behind the paper’s visual identity. Al-Nakib infused the collection with a distinctive blend of creativity and personal meaning. “We’ve designed two shirts, The 1988 and The Archive, plus one…

CAIRO (AP) — The downtown Cairo apartment of Alaa Abd el-Fattah was filled with laughter and joy Tuesday as family and friends gathered to absorb the long-awaited news: the pro-democracy Egyptian-British activist had finally walked free.Abd el-Fattah was pardoned by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and released Monday after spending almost all the past 12 years in prison. He and five other prisoners had been pardoned after the National Council for Human Rights acted on behalf of their families, urging the president to consider their situations on humanitarian grounds.“I felt a wave of sudden relief as if my body had been clenched…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee House speaker was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after being convicted in a scheme with a onetime aide to win taxpayer-funded mail business from lawmakers after scandals drove the two out of their top leadership roles.U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson in Nashville handed down the sentence for former Republican Rep. Glen Casada, a court document shows. Casada’s former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, was also convicted in the case and received a 2 1/2-year prison sentence last week.In May a jury found Casada guilty of 17 of 19 charges, and Cothren…

KUWAIT: Vietnam and Kuwait have successfully concluded the 5th Vietnam-Kuwait Political Consultation, with both sides agreeing to explore the vast potential for deepening multi-faceted cooperation, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to Kuwait Nguyen Duc Thang. Areas identified for future collaboration include trade and investment facilitation, renewable energy, digital transformation, agriculture, fisheries, food security and tourism. Discussions are also underway on opening a direct flight route, which the ambassador said could mark a decisive step in boosting engagement between governments, businesses and people of both nations.Ambassador Thang made the remarks during the celebration of Vietnam’s 80th National Day, adding: “Our relations with…