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The game descended into chaos when Argentina's Enzo Fernandez received a second yellow card for clattering into Pau Cubarsi.

Wayne Rooney said it best on the BBC. He described it as 'crap', explaining: 'I thought the best part was when it finished.' In that moment, Rooney became a man of the match contender.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Los Angeles Times: A federal judge has halted California's groundbreaking "Truth in Recycling" law, which aims to reduce consumer confusion about which packaging can be recycled. [Originally planned to take effect October 4th], California's recyclable packaging law prohibits manufacturers from using a "chasing arrows" recycling symbol on products or materials unless they are actually being recycled in a meaningful way, which the law quantifies... A coalition of farming, forestry, restaurant and packaging organizations sued the state in March, arguing the law violates their right to free speech. They argued that Senate Bill 343 operates as "government-imposed censorship." Judge William Hayes agreed that their challenge has merit, and on Tuesday ordered California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, the defendant in the case, to pause enforcement of the law "until further order of the Court...." Advocates of reducing plastic use disagreed. "The court got it wrong, and I'm confident that the state will ultimately prevail," said Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste. "S.B. 343 does not violate the 1st Amendment; it requires companies to tell the truth when they make recyclability claims. Suggesting that the 1st Amendment protects misleading environmental marketing is inconsistent with the basic principles of consumer protection that states like California have implemented for decades." In January, CalRecycle, the state's waste agency, reported that less than 10% of most single-use plastic materials in the state were being recycled. Even yogurt containers and margarine tubs — made of ubiquitous polypropylene, or No. 5 plastic — are being recycled at a rate of only 2% in the state, the report said. Only 5% of colored shampoo and detergent bottles, made from polyethylene, or No. 1 plastic, are getting recycled... Plastic materials that can't be recycled are typically sent to landfills or sometimes illegally shipped overseas, where they are burned or end up in landfills, rivers and waterways. The bill's author told the Los Angeles Times "All you have to do is look at the numbers. These products are not getting recycled, despite what the industry is claiming. They are just confusing consumers, clogging the waste stream, polluting the environment, leading to higher and higher prices for local governments and ratepayers." He argues the symbols shouldn't be used to "confuse people who see the symbols [on products] and assume they can be recycled." The article also quotes Judith Enck, former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator and president of the nonprofit Beyond Plastics. "Given the long history of the plastics industry deceiving the public about plastics recycling, this is an especially bad outcome. It is a reminder that the plastics industry has enough money to fight even the most modest policy designed to protect people and the planet."

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President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, joined the crowd of about 80,000 spectators on Sunday afternoon to watch the 2026 World Cup final between Spain and Argentina.

Tyler Morgan spent two years working in sales at Apple, where he watched countless customers walk into the company's iconic, minimalist stores to upgrade their iPhones.

Pictures showed the crumpled dockside crane leaning on a cargo ship at the Port of Tyne in South Shields, County Durham, after emergency services were called at 1.02pm this afternoon.

The US military has announced a third service member has been killed in the Middle East by an Iranian drone and tensions between the two countries continue to hit a peak.

The reality star, 36, revealed she is pregnant with her first baby with boyfriend Alan Wallace, less than a year after they began dating following her tumultuous stint on the hit Channel Nine dating show.

Furious soccer fans rushed to social media to reveal the reason they couldn't fully enjoy Sunday's World Cup final showdown between Spain and Argentina at MetLife Stadium.

There was to be no final-day heroic march towards the Claret Jug, not even a finish close enough to eventual winner Ryan Fox for his army of fans to claim he'd been robbed.

Speaking to Fox reporter Jenny Taft shortly before the start of the game, President Trump said: 'Well, I knew you were going to ask me so I thought about it a lot.'

Popular streamer IShowSpeed kickstarted the World Cup final blockbuster with a surprise appearance in the FIFA closing ceremony following a morning of chaos in the buildup to the footb

Cara Delevingne has admitted she 'doesn't think English people like her' as she reflected on why her London shows were the hardest tickets to sell. 

Matty Healy has officially said 'I do' as the rocker wed his model girlfriend Gabbriette Bechtel in a glamorous Hollywood ceremony on Saturday.

Farmers could lose thousands of tonnes of vegetables, and some sectors could see 50 per cent of their annual tonnage wiped out as 40C temperatures ravage farm produce.

Boris Johnson appeared to take aim at the US vice president, branding his comments that immigrants are erasing British civilisation as 'b******s'.

After Cameron Young posted the -9 target after a best-of-the-day 64 a couple of hours earlier, double figures was the aim for those out on the course.

On television on a Saturday and Sunday night, they were always rather an odd couple.

"Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves," reports Space.com: The powerful cosmic titans get really puzzling when astronomers using the JWST spot them before the universe was even 1 billion years old. That's because the mechanisms by which black holes devour matter to grow and then merge to create even more massive black holes should take at least 1 billion years to achieve supermassive status. This is even more confusing because theories also say the most ravenously feeding black holes (and thus the fastest growing) should also push the matter they use for this growth away, in effect putting themselves on a diet. So, with all this in mind, how did supermassive black holes grow so rapidly in the early universe? One explanation suggests supermassive black holes push away gas, starving themselves as predicted, but also that this matter eventually cools and falls back to the black hole. That would allow for another period of feeding and thus growth. This explanation further suggests that as this gas cools down, it forms "streamers," or filaments, of gas just a few hundred light-years wide but which stretch thousands of light-years long. These would fall back to the center of the galaxy and form a swirling disk around its incumbent black hole, once again feeding it and triggering a new period of growth. This would then restart the jets from the black hole, which would again cut off the cosmic titan's food supply, allowing the whole process to begin once more. The process would in essence be a self-regulating cycle of feasting followed by fasting. However, the connection between these filaments and supermassive black holes has been elusive, meaning this mechanism has resisted confirmation. To solve the mystery of feasting black holes, the JWST turned its attention to a relatively close AGN situated at the heart of the central galaxy of the Centaurus Cluster, NGC 4696, located just 145 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope previously studied this galaxy, uncovering a strange, hook-shaped swirl of gas near the central supermassive black hole of NGC 4696. The JWST followed up this discovery by producing a detailed map of gas flowing at the heart of the galaxy. This revealed the hook-shaped feature is around 800 light-years wide and is composed of gas moving at incredible speeds of around 1.3 million miles per hour (600 kilometers per second). More excitingly, the swirl of gas appears to be connected to a vast filament of material falling in toward the central supermassive black hole. The team tested the JWST observations against a computer simulation, finding gas in the infalling filament scenario would indeed take a shape similar to that seen in NGC 4696. "JWST is now showing us the final link of this closed loop," team member Helen Russell of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. said in the statement. "The vast filamentary network of gas flows ultimately funnels gas down to a disk that fuels the black hole." The team's research was published on Wednesday (July 16) in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "We are finally seeing this self-sustaining cycle in action," team leader Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo of the Université de Montréal said in a statement.

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EXCLUSIVE: Essex favourite Bobby Norris has been a firm fixture on screens since joining TOWIE in 2012 and he's now eyeing up a glitzy spot on another hugely popular show