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[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the House of the Dragon season three finale.]

House of the Dragon took some big swings away from the book in season three — for example, the entirety of Tumbleton, the besieged town at the heart of the storyline this year. 

There was a fresh look to this Newcastle side in the opening stages and fearless new signing Bazoumana Toure again caught the eye with his pace down the left.

However, Jaissle's team were unable to capitalise on a bright start - spurning a number of opportunities in front of goal - and they looked increasingly vulnerable at the back as the first half wore on.

ByEmlyn Begley

BBC Sport journalist

Lionel Messi is considering his future in football after the death of his father, Jorge.

CBS is developing a new law enforcement drama that hails from two “One Chicago” mainstays.

Variety has learned that CBS has opened a development room for the series, titled “Strike Force” (working title). Matt Olmstead is writing and executive producing the new series, while Jesse Lee Soffer will star and executive produce. Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed also executive produce via Jerry Bruckheimer TV. CBS Studios will produce.

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Stephen Johnson is a senior staff writer at Lifehacker covering pop culture and technology, including the columns “The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People Are Getting Wrong This Week.”

When renowned wildlife producer Mike Gunton approached “The Lion King” director Jon Favreau about collaborating on a documentary, the director, who had never made a doc, immediately said yes.

It was 2022, and Gunton, an executive producer at BBC Studios Natural History Unit, wanted to “supersize” his “Dynasties” series about vulnerable or endangered species, and make a multipart doc focused on one species. At the time Favreau and Gunton were working together on the first season of “Prehistoric Planet,” a natural-history show that tells the last days of the dinosaur using CGI.

If there’s one board game theme that rivals pleasing Renaissance-era nobles in popularity, it’s the works of H. P. Lovecraft. There’s just something about those tentacled horrors from outer space that seems to keep on appealing to tabletop adaptations. Just look at the ongoing acclaim heaped on Arkham Horror: The Card Game.

The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators’ content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used for this AI training by default.

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Halo: Campaign Evolved, the recently released Unreal Engine 5 remake of the campaign half of original Xbox killer app Halo: Combat Evolved, has sold 1.2 million copies across Xbox, PlayStation 5, and Steam, according to estimates from Alinea Analytics.

It is an error that needs correcting that in the near-20 years of plugging recipes into this url, only a few truly star cucumbers — and highly unrepresentative too, given that we are probably eating some format of cucumbers at half the nights of the week with dinner, and snacking on them throughout all of the other days. Crunchy, cold, hydrating, inexpensive, and taking well to any region of ingredients you wish to apply, I don’t need to sell you on their appeal, especially as we slog through our nth heat wave of the summer. I suspect that the lack of cucumber representation in the archives has more to do with the fact that little about cucumber salads brings out my inner obsessive recipe finetuner; usually I’m just throwing it together.