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Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers will face one another in a best-of-seven series in the Eastern Conference semi-finals of the NBA play-offs.
WEDNESDAY, 06 MAY 2026, 07:26

Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers will face one another in a best-of-seven series in the Eastern Conference semi-finals of the NBA play-offs.

Former broadcasting executive Neil Duncanson and author Alex Fynn, who made remarkably accurate predictions about football’s future in 1994, discuss what the game will look like in 10 years’ time.

The BBC has been speaking to people living in one of England’s poorest communities.
From 5 to 7 May, the Constitutional Court will hear two of the multiple challenges to the National Health Insurance Act. Sasha Stevenson considers what will be at stake in these first, potentially landmark, cases involving the process that led to the act.

The South African singer gave it everything in Saturday’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ semi-final. The votes didn’t go his way, but what a journey it was

The fact that both the flu and RSV seasons are starting at the same time means clinicians could potentially see a high burden of patients with respiratory illness in medical facilities in the coming weeks, warns NICD spokesperson Vuyo Sabani

The bill is tied to the estate left by the firm’s late chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died in October 2020.

Hantavirus concerns may rise after a cruise ship passenger is treated in Johannesburg. Learn how it spreads, its symptoms, and local risk.

Gade says migrants are flooding social services at the expense of locals

Sheina Gutnick was the first person to give evidence at the royal commission investigating the attack.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalised and is in “critical but stable condition”, his spokesperson said
Iran warned that it would consider any US attempt to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz a breach of the Mideast ceasefire, as US President Donald Trump said the United States would begin escorting ships through the blocked waterway.

Firefighters were tackling the blaze that local officials estimated to stretch 558 acres (2.3 sq km).
LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) – Britain is set to enter talks to join the European Union’s 78 billion pound loan ($106 billion) to Ukraine, the government said on Sunday, in a further sign of deepening European defence ties under rising U.S. pressure.
May 3 (Reuters) – Three people have died and three are ill after aNetherlands-based cruise ship was hit by a suspected outbreak of hantavirus, a rodent-borne virus that can cause fatal respiratory illness, authorities and media reports said on Sunday.

While rare, the disease can be transmitted to humans through inhalation of airborne particles from dried rodent droppings.

More than 100 aircraft and 15,000 personnel will be part of the operation due to start on Monday, the US military says.

The scale of these elections looks set to vividly expose the breadth of Labour’s vulnerabilities, Chris Mason writes.

Kimi Antonelli’s first season in F1 showed occasional promise, but nothing that suggested this was going to come next, writes Andrew Benson.

A lack of defence funding and surging costs of a pint of beer are prominent stories on Monday’s papers.

The long-time champion of Trump and former New York mayor is in hospital, according to his spokesman.