Ray Parlour doesn’t want to see Max Dowman in Arsenal’s starting lineup against Sporting CP despite the teenager’s impressive showing in the FA Cup at the weekend.

Dowman’s performance was perhaps the only positive for the Gunners on Saturday evening as Mike Arteta’s side were knocked out of the FA Cup by Southampton.

The teenager pressed his case for more starts with a lively display in his first appearance since scoring his first Premier League goal against Everton last month.

Arteta has been careful to manage the 16-year-old’s minutes, especially with Bukayo Saka and Noni Madueke ahead of him in the pecking order on the right wing.

And even with Saka set to miss Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg with Sporting, ex-Arsenal midfielder Parlour believes Dowman isn’t quite ready to be starting regularly just yet.

Asked if Dowman should be starting over Saka, Parlour told talkSPORT: ‘No, because you don’t want to give him too much responsibility at 16 years old.

‘We’ve all been there. It’s amazing. I think the only thing we could be celebrating is his GCSE results.

‘He’s got them coming up, which is amazing, really, isn’t it? And you don’t want to be putting too much pressure on him as a youngster.

‘At the moment, he comes on, he’s been playing the FA Cup, he’s brilliant the other night. I mean, his balance he’s got when he goes past players, both feet, and he’s only 16. He’s just turned 16 in December.

‘So, what a career he’s going to have, but you’ve still got to have Saka in his team. I know he’s going through that indifferent form at the moment; he hasn’t been playing the way he can.

‘He’s not been up to his standards. We know that. He’s set the bar high, hasn’t he, with the performances, but every footballer that goes through it, he’s just got to try and work out how to get back to his best.

‘A little bit like Phil Foden, really. Phil Foden’s going through that spell at the moment as well, in his career. But at the moment, Dowman is such an important player going forward, but you can’t put too much pressure on him.

NEW YORK (AP) — Global leaders have been scrambling to contain the rising cost of oil and gasoline since the start of the Iran war, which took a record amount of oil off the market when tankers full of crude were stranded in the Persian Gulf and military strikes damaged refineries, pipelines and export terminals.

Hoping to ease some pain for consumers, President Donald Trump and other heads of state have been pulling on various levers, launching more oil on the market in a bid to calm the chaos.

A group of 32 nations that are members of the International Energy Agency began releasing the largest volume of emergency oil reserves in its history: 400 million barrels. Trump is tapping into oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve while lifting sanctions on Russian and Iranian crude and temporarily waiving the Jones Act, a maritime law that requires ships carrying goods between U.S. ports to be U.S.-flagged.

But despite those maneuvers, crude oil has soared well past $100 a barrel and gasoline is selling for $4.14 a gallon on average in the U.S. While the stopgaps are helping, they’re not adding up to enough oil to replace what’s stranded, experts say.

“They’re all incremental,” said Mark Barteau, professor of chemical engineering and chemistry at Texas A&M University. “You’re talking about these different patches being at the level of maybe 1 to 2 million barrels a day each, and you’ve got to get to 20, so it’s hard to see those actually adding up to the numbers that are needed. And then the question is, how long can you sustain those?”

Trapped oil

Before the war began, roughly 15 million barrels of crude oil and 5 million barrels of oil products passed daily through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, amounting to about 20% of global oil consumption, according to the International Energy Agency.

In addition to that loss, some oil producing nations in the Middle East have halted oil production because they can’t ship fuel out of the Gulf and their storage tanks are full. That’s taken about 10 million barrels per day off the market, the IEA said.

Then there are the eight countries around the Persian Gulf that together hold about 50% of global oil reserves. Under normal circumstances, they coordinate closely to raise or lower their output to keep prices steady, said Jim Krane, energy research fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute. Usually Saudi Arabia steps in to bring spare oil to market and calm things down, he said.

“But all of that spare capacity is also bottled up inside the Persian Gulf right now and it can’t get to market either,” Krane said. “So the main emergency response system that we have is also blocked.”

Trump also temporarily lifted sanctions on approximately 140 million barrels of Iranian oil that was already in transit. But that didn’t add oil to the market — it just widened the pool of potential buyers, said Daniel Sternoff, senior fellow at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy.

Typically, most Iranian oil was bought by private refiners in China, who purchased it at a steep discount, Sternoff said. But with sanctions lifted, others could scramble to buy the oil, which in turn raises its price to the benefit of Iran, he said.

“As soon as you are moving to waive sanctions on your adversary with whom you’re fighting a military conflict, to do something in their benefit, it just shows you that you are running out of options to try to prevent a rise in the price of oil,” Sternoff said.

The decision to lift sanctions on Russian oil could have more impact, because Russia had been storing unpurchased oil in tankers, Sternoff said. “By waiving sanctions, it will allow those barrels to clear.”

Trump’s temporary waiver of the Jones Act to allow foreign ships to temporarily transport goods between U.S. ports could potentially help ease natural gas prices by enabling companies to more efficiently ship liquefied natural gas from the Gulf Coast to New England.

But experts don’t expect the waiver to significantly impact the price of oil or gasoline. “It’s helpful, but not a game changer,” Lynch said.

Why U.S. oil production can’t solve the problem

The U.S. is a major oil producer, and exports more oil than it imports. But like any other oil producing nation, it can’t just ramp up production instantly to fill the void.

“If the U.S. were to try to make up the global shortfall, we would need to nearly double our production,” Barteau said. “We couldn’t drill wells that fast even if we wanted to.”

Increasing domestic production by even 1 million barrels per day, a feat the U.S. accomplished during the shale boom, would be hard to duplicate, Lynch said.

“If we run every drilling rig right now, what happens a week from now when the war is over and the price goes back down $20?” Lynch asked. “People don’t want to develop long-term production based on a short-term price spike.”

Halting exports and using that oil within the U.S. wouldn’t bring down gasoline prices either, experts say.

For one, oil is traded on a global market, so events happening halfway around the globe impact prices for everyone.

In addition, the U.S. doesn’t produce enough of the type of oil its refineries process. It produced about 13.7 million barrels per day of oil at the end of 2025, according to the Energy Information Administration. And refineries processed about 16.3 million barrels per day that year, relying on imports to fill in the gaps, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), a trade association.

That’s because nearly 70% of U.S. refineries are set up to process heavy, sour crude, according to AFPM. But much of the oil produced in the U.S. is light, sweet crude, which was unlocked during the shale revolution.

“They need different crudes than the ones that are being produced right next to them now,” Krane said.

As a result, just 60% of the crude oil processed in U.S. refineries is extracted domestically, according to the AFPM. And retooling domestic refineries would cost billions of dollars, the group said. It also would require shutting down the refinery for a period of time, which generally raises gasoline prices.

“A lot of people like the IEA are making the point that this is the biggest oil crisis ever, which is partly true, partly an exaggeration, depending on how you count things,” Lynch said. “A lot of it has to do with how long does this last … if it goes on for another six weeks we get to be in some serious trouble.”

When a woman was doing some DIY in her home, she never expected to stumble across something explicit hiding on her walls. However, people are very amused by the find

You never know what treasures you might stumble across when you’re renovating your home. From items left behind in the loft to beautiful tiles that have been covered in carpet, the possibilities are endless.

However, no one would have guessed what one woman would find when carrying out some DIY. Em couldn’t believe her eyes when she took a peek behind the old paintwork.

That’s because she stumbled across a sex list scrawled directly onto the wall. A previous owner, who seems to have been an amorous Brit, wished to preserve details of the various women he’d be intimate with.

The jaw-dropping catalogue of romantic conquests included names, ages, locations and a general rating of each sexual encounter. He even included more explicit details – including the duration of each tryst.

The archive also recorded the year each tumble in the hay occurred, with the entire thing covering a span of 36 years, from 1961 to 1997.

The Casanova, believed to be from Leeds, apparently bedded women from Leeds to Nottingham to Colwyn Bay in Wales, a round journey of approximately 143 miles.

He seemed so proud of this achievement that he needed to archive it. So he referred to his conquests by a string of imaginative nicknames – including ‘horse girl’, ‘laundry woman’ and colourful monikers that draw attention to whichever physical attribute he was particularly taken with.

One of the 19 names is simply listed as ‘cousin’, which one would sincerely hope wasn’t meant literally! This was alongside the likes of ‘alchy woman’, ‘tall girl’ and ‘Lionel’s sister’.

Whether the Lionel — or Lional — in question was aware of the apparent liaison between his 18 year old sister and the mystery scribe remains unclear from the wall. Though one imagines he’d have been far from pleased to see it preserved for posterity!

The 65 year old occupying the number 17 spot on the list was evidently a particularly memorable encounter. The randy home owner described it has the “best s*** of [his] entire life”.

Elaborating on his romp with the widow, he later added: “Wow – every man should have one”.

Unsurprisingly, many people have been drawn in by the naughty sex list. Ever since @blondeEm83 posted a picture onto X, people have been leaving cheeky comments.

Many compared the Lothario to Jay Cartwright from The Inbetweeners because some of the sex sessions seemed to be very inplausible.

One asked: “Is that Jay off the inbetweeners’ wall?” A second commented: “That’s absolutely brilliant”.

A third admitted: “I can’t stop laughing at the names.” And a fourth added: “He’s got some age range going on there.”

Sean Wilson was known for his iconic role as Martin Platt in ITV soap Coronation Street, which he played for 20 years. However, the actor is living a very different life now

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Most people know Sean Wilson for his iconic role as Martin Platt in ITV soap Coronation Street, which he played for 20 years. However, the actor is living a very different life now.

Wilson joined Corrie at the age of 19 in his role of Martin Platt. His character was central to many major plots, most notably his marriage to Gail Tilsley (Helen Worth) and being father to David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd). However, he left the role back in 2005 after refusing to film a controversial storyline involving an underage girl. Wilson did however make a brief return in 2018 for David’s male rape storyline.

After leaving his Corrie role, he appeared in dramas such as Waterloo Road, Silent Witness, Casualty, and The Royal.

However, he later underwent a significant career change and became a chef and a professional cheesemaker, founding the Saddleworth Cheese Company.

He has also worked in Michelin-starred restaurants and written several cookbooks. In 2025, he launched a dedicated artist website too, to showcase and sell his artwork.

Wilson toured the UK with celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager in a live stage show called “Posh Teas & Artisan Cheese” in 2025. The show featured a mix of Q&A sessions and live “cook-offs” between the two experts.

Despite his new career, Wilson was scheduled to return to Corrie as part of Gail Platt’s exit storyline in 2024.

However, he was axed mid-filming following an unfounded historical allegation from 1997. Police confirmed in late 2024 that no further action would be taken, clearing his name, but his scenes had already been scrapped and rewritten.

Instead, John Thomson, who played Jesse Chadwick between 2008 and 2010, returned to play a romantic role in Gail Platt’s exit storyline.

Wilson said at the time his “whole world was blown apart” by the allegation, which “ruined” his life “in eight minutes”.

He told The Sun: “I had no idea who had made this complaint or anything about it but I lost my job. It’s been hell. I’ve been low all the way through.”

Wilson has stayed quiet on social media since his failed TV return, however he did take to Instagram in the last week to promote his art.

One fan was happy to see his return, as they wrote: “Great art brother.”

It seems like art is Wilson’s main focus as reports suggest Saddleworth Cheese Company is not actively trading.

Despite this, he still names himself as a cheese producer and actor on his Instagram page and says he’s available for cooking demos.

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2. Used The Easter Egg Hunt To Attack Harris And Biden

3. Gave A Ridiculous Amount Of Information About A ‘Covert’ Operation

4. Threatened To Send A Reporter To Jail

5. Said He Was ‘Not At All’ Concerned About War Crimes

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7. Claimed Kim Jong Un Used A Slur To Talk About Biden

Huddersfield Town struck in the 106th minute to beat Leyton Orient in a dramatic League One encounter on Monday – but Ryan Ledson’s goal was completely missed by ITV’s highlights show

Furious fans have let rip on social media after ITV’s EFL highlights show failed to air Huddersfield Town‘s last-gasp winner at Leyton Orient, instead saying the game finished 1-1.

The League One clash at Brisbane Road looked to be ending all-square after Bojan Radulovic cancelled out Radinio Balker’s own goal just before the break. But Ryan Ledson popped up in the 16TH MINUTE of second half stoppage time to ensure Huddersfield remain in with a chance of making the play-offs.

While Huddersfield’s fans were left celebrating Ledson’s dramatic winner, Monday night’s highlight show inexplicably missed it, with the final score graphic saying the match ended 1-1.

Eagle-eyed fans quickly flocked to social media to tear into the programme, which has been criticised frequently since ITV acquired the rights to show highlights from Quest.

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“The EFL need to find better guardians for TV highlights than this awful ITV programme,” one social media user fumed. “Today, they completely missed Huddersfield’s winner at Orient, announcing that the game had finished 1-1 instead. Absolutely pathetic.”

Another wrote: “That is absolutely outrageous from ITV. Give it to someone who’s cares, the BBC did a great job but was on at midnight. Quest had a superb host and actually gave some decent analysis. Something needs to change because the ITV coverage is worse than amateur.”

Huddersfield’s win means they are three points off Stevenage in sixth, though Alex Revell’s men have a game-in-hand on the Terriers.

Defeat for Orient means their six-game unbeaten run is over with the O’s now just four points above the relegation places.

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Your browsing history, your location, your political preferences. For years, tech companies have found ways to turn personal data into profit. Now, a new and far more intimate frontier is opening: the electrical signals produced by your brain.

This is not science fiction. Nor is it about brain implants for paralysed patients or experimental medical procedures. A fast-growing consumer market of non-invasive neurotechnology – wearable headsets, brain activity-reading headbands, focus-enhancing devices – is already here, already being sold and already collecting neural data from ordinary users. But the legal and ethical frameworks to govern it are struggling to keep up.

A landmark case from Chile shows why this matters.

In August 2023, Chile’s Supreme Court issued the world’s first ruling on commercial neurodata. The case involved Senator Guido Girardi and Emotiv Inc, a San Francisco company selling the Insight wireless headset – a consumer device marketed for focus, meditation and cognitive performance.

When Girardi began using it, he discovered that accepting the terms of service meant granting Emotiv a worldwide, irrevocable and perpetual licence over his brain data. Unless he paid for a premium account, that data would be stored in Emotiv’s cloud with no way for him to access or export his own neural records.

The Chilean Supreme Court ruled that Emotiv had violated Girardi’s constitutional right to mental integrity, concluding: “The data obtained from Insight users … overlooks the preliminary requirement to have express consent for its use for scientific research purposes. Information collected for various purposes cannot be used differently without its owner’s knowledge and approval.”

The Supreme Court ordered the company to delete Girardi’s data immediately and prohibited sale of the Insight device in Chile until its privacy policies were revised. The headsets remain on sale in other countries around the world.

The ruling was a first. But the problem it exposed is global – and the legal pressure is building. In the US, Colorado and California enacted the first state-level privacy laws specifically governing neural data in 2024, and at least six other states are now moving in the same direction.

At the federal level, US senators Chuck Schumer, Maria Cantwell and Ed Markey announced plans in September 2025 to introduce the Mind Act – Congress’s first serious attempt to bring the neurotechnology industry under a dedicated regulatory framework.

A market growing faster than its rules

Emotiv is far from alone. Companies such as Muse (marketed for meditation and sleep) and Neurosity (aimed at software developers seeking focus) have built a consumer neurotechnology sector that is projected to double in value to more than US$55 billion (£42 billion) within a decade. It is attracting investment from some of the world’s wealthiest technology figures.

These devices read electroencephalography (EEG) signals – the brain’s electrical activity – through sensors worn on the head. Some go further, using photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors to measure heart rate and physiological responses. Think of this like a fitness tracker – but instead of counting steps, it is reading signals from your nervous system and, in some cases, inferring your cognitive or emotional states from them.

When fitness trackers first appeared, few people thought carefully about where their heart rate data was going, who could access it, or what it could be used to infer. Neural data raises those same questions – at considerably higher stakes. Unlike step counts, brain signals can potentially reveal attention patterns, stress responses and emotional reactions that users themselves may not be aware of.

Where the law has not yet caught up

We research these issues as part of the interdisciplinary group at Lund University, which brings together law, neuroscience, medicine, ethics and economics.

The Emotiv case turned on Chile’s constitutional protection of mental integrity – a provision the country had specifically enshrined in 2021. Most jurisdictions have no equivalent. The question of how neural data fits into existing legal frameworks remains open.

Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, brain signals could potentially qualify as biometric or health data, both of which attract stronger protections. But consumer neurotechnology, when sold as wellness products rather than medical devices, often falls into a regulatory grey area, sitting awkwardly between health law, consumer protection and data privacy rules.

What remains unresolved across most of the world are the basic questions. What are users consenting to when they accept terms of service for a neural headset? How long can that data be retained? Can it be sold to third parties, used to train AI models, or shared with advertisers and insurers?

The Emotiv case showed that, in one instance at least, a company had retained a user’s neural data for research purposes under anonymisation provisions, without that user having any meaningful awareness of what was being collected or why.

The stakes here are higher than with most forms of personal data. Neural signals are not like a credit card number that can be changed if compromised. Generated by your brain in real time, they can increasingly be used to infer things about you that you have not chosen to disclose – such as emotional responses, cognitive patterns, and other reactions you may not consciously be aware of.

Chile has showed that courts can act. Legislators in several jurisdictions are beginning to follow. The harder question is whether the frameworks being built are moving fast enough to match a market that, in the quest for competitive advantage, does not want to hang about waiting for them.

The four astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission have travelled further from Earth than anyone in human history, in a dramatic lunar flyby that brought spectacular images of the planet from rarely seen angles.

The Orion spacecraft’s crew lost contact with mission control for 40 minutes as they circled behind the Moon, as was expected. With communications re-established, astronaut Christina Koch said: “It’s so great to hear from Earth again.”

The team also witnessed a total eclipse of the Sun as the Moon blocked out its light, before beginning their journey back home.

After the flyby, President Trump spoke to the team and congratulated them: “Today, you’ve made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud.”

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Feeling stuck in climate anxiety? These five small actions can help you feel more grounded, connected, and purposeful

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It’s hard not to feel anxious when all you see is news about the catastrophe ahead, while everyone outside your algorithmic bubble seems oblivious. Remember: what you see has been carefully curated to keep you scrolling. You probably spend more time than you’d like doomscrolling, while the people around you are receiving entirely different information. Audit what you consume and notice what creates anxiety versus what empowers you. Then intentionally curate your feed: keep what sets you up for action and hope, let go of what paralyses you.

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Emergency services including the air ambulance were called on Monday evening (April 6), at 11.02pm.

The patient was taken to hospital for further treatment.

A spokesperson from the Great North Air Ambulance Service said: “On Monday (April 6), our critical care team was activated at 11.02pm to reports of an assault in Darlington.

“We had a paramedic and doctor on a rapid response vehicle, and they arrived on scene at 11.12pm.

“Our team worked alongside the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) to assess and treat a patient.

“The patient was taken to hospital by a NEAS road crew, accompanied by our team.”

A spokesperson from The North East Ambulance Service said: “We received a call at 10.58pm on Monday, April 6, to reports of an incident at a private address in Darlington.

“We dispatched an ambulance crew to the scene and requested support from our colleagues at the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) who attended by road.

“One patient was taken to hospital for further treatment.”

Durham Police have been contacted for more information.