Kostyuk into Guadalajara last eight without playing a point

Kostyuk into Guadalajara last eight without playing a point. Marta Kostyuk is through to the quarter-finals of the Guadalajara Open even though the top seed is yet to play a point in the tournament.

What happened

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Marta Kostyuk has three career titlesByBen CollinsBBC Sport journalistPublished3 hours agoMarta Kostyuk is through to the quarter-finals of the Guadalajara Open even though the top seed is yet to play a point in the tournament. Kostyuk, the world number 10, is now scheduled to get her tournament under way against the eighth-seeded Liudmila Samsonova of Russia, who edged Kayla Day 7-6 (7-4) 2-6 7-6 (7-5). Photograph: Michael Dwyer/APAnalysisWhy a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI raceJohana BhuiyanFrom Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leaders and scientists had sounded the alarm about a superintelligent AI ending humanity for over a decade.

The result moved Leeds onto eight points, ​four behind champions Arsenal at the top of the ​table. Photograph: Vive Arts and Atlas VReviewPlaying With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworldsSouthbank Centre, London Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installationIt might be the first time that a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms is simultaneously giving another performance in another London venue.

Kostyuk claimed her maiden WTA 1000 title in Madrid in May and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open and Wimbledon this year. Most recently the 24-year-old lost to sixth seed Linda Noskova in the last 16 of the US Open.

The wider picture

Figure caption, Rescuers search for survivors with their bare handsByYolande Knell, Middle East correspondent, Reporting fromJerusalem and David GrittenPublished16 September 2026At least 21 people have been killed, including eight children, after a war-damaged building collapsed in the Gaza Strip overnight, rescuers and medics say. "This was the last place they could turn to, despite the danger. The UN has warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire despite the ceasefire agreed last October, as Israeli air strikes and other attacks continue to hit populated areas, causing casualties and property damage and driving further displacement.

The petition came after OpenAI disclosed that hundreds of its AI agents worked together without the company’s knowledge to breach the security of AI firm Hugging Face. Calvert-Lewin then got on the scoresheet himself ​deep into first-half ​stoppage time, ⁠calmly firing across Hornicek to register his eighth career goal against Newcastle. Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Potentially overwhelming … a VR still from Playing With Fire. Photograph: Vive Arts and Atlas VView image in fullscreenPotentially overwhelming … a VR still from Playing With Fire.

Playing With Fire is an installation that lets the pianist Yuja Wang be in two places at once – or perhaps in two universes.

What has been reported

View image in fullscreenThe future of performance? … Playing With Fire. The Ukrainian received a first-round bye in Mexico and got a walkover in her scheduled second-round match on Wednesday, when Taylor Townsend withdrew because of an illness. Related topicsTennisCharlotte to host WTA Finals from 2027Published20 hours agoMore on this storyLive scores, results and order of playGet tennis news sent straight to your phonePublished28 August Witnesses told the BBC that the six-storey building in Gaza City's Tal al-Hawa area had been left tilting dangerously to one side after an Israeli strike more than a year ago.

Displaced families had lived inside because they were desperate, they said. UN and Egyptian teams joined the search for survivors, which was slow due to a lack of equipment. Initially, rescuers from the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency had to use their bare hands. On Wednesday afternoon, they said they had ended the operation after taking 45 injured people to hospitals.

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Sherif, whose sister was killed, said: "They couldn't find a tent or somewhere to live. They were aware that it would likely end in tragedy. A lack of resources drove them towards certain death. "Image source, ReutersImage caption, Locals said about 10 families had been living in the building despite warnings that it was unsafeA woman living in a tent nearby, Umm Mohammed Bakrun, said she had been talking to her son when the building collapsed suddenly in the early hours of Wednesday.

There was a loud sound and I couldn't stand up. Stones rained down on us and when I looked outside I saw a lot of dust," she told the BBC. "Another witness, Mansour Abu Mohammed, said the building collapsed "in a few seconds".

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