Today’s horoscope for August 24 as Leo is close to reaching a goal

Today’s horoscope for Sunday, August 24 sees one star sign grab a new opportunity, as another considers a big move

Find out what’s written in the stars with our astrologer Russell Grant(Image: Daily Record/GettyImages)

It’s Sunday, and one star sign is urged to show their true feelings, as anotherngets paid for their skills.

There are 12 zodiac signs – Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces – and the horoscopes for each can give you the lowdown on what your future holds, be it in work, your love life, your friends and family or more.

These daily forecasts have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant, who has been reading star signs for over 50 years. From Aries through to Pisces, here’s what today could bring for your horoscope – and what you can do to be prepared.

Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 20)

Now you realise what you are capable of and how much you can trust someone, together you will achieve a shared objective with ease. Think about joining forces to purchase some property or start a business together. Building a solid financial foundation will help you relax and sleep better.

Taurus (Apr 21 – May 21)

If you’re struggling with a task you would like to master, think about taking an online course. Learning to read financial statements, earning a professional license or gaining a recognised certificate can all be a good use of your time and effort. A knowledgeable friend will offer helpful tips and guidance.

Gemini (May 22 – June 21)

A professional friend will make you an offer that you won’t want to refuse. This is your chance to join a business from the start. This move could put you on the ladder to success and the role itself will be a welcome change to your usual responsibilities.

Cancer (June 22 – July 23)

Your hard work has attracted the attention of a senior colleague and you intend to make the most of this. Being able to foresee needs, expectations and trends in your industry will benefit you greatly. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself featured in a blog or website. Making an extra effort is indeed noteworthy.

Leo (July 24 – Aug 23)

You’re grateful to have a talented mentor who is willing to spend time with you. They can see how you understand the importance of mastering the fundamentals. Learning the best techniques can lead to some extraordinary achievements. Someone will offer to pay you handsomely for your skills.

Virgo (Aug 24 – Sept 23)

A well-meaning friend or relative will offer some poor advice. You will sense immediately that they do not understand your situation. Be careful about who you take into your confidence. Protecting yourself will lead to greater happiness. Avoid making yourself vulnerable to insensitive people.

Libra (Sept 24 – Oct 23)

Conversations with someone close will lead you to revealing more about your feelings than you usually do. Open up to a trusted friend about your hopes and fears. Their support and reassurance will help you to keep going. You are closer to reaching a goal than you realise. Don’t quit now; you’re almost there.

Scorpio (Oct 24 – Nov 22)

No matter what the circumstances you can trust your conscience to guide you in the right direction. If there are problems in the workplace and this leads to lower pay or you having to carry out jobs other people refuse to do, so be it. Your reward stems from a profound source some people will never understand.

Sagittarius (Nov 23 – Dec 21)

Your friends and family are both excited and supportive about your achievements. They will provide you with the encouragement you need to keep going. Although you might act like you don’t care about other people’s views, deep down, you seek the approval of those close to you. Be truthful.

Capricorn (Dec 22 – Jan 20)

Be cautious of charismatic people who will try to exploit your kindness. They aren’t bothered about the consequences you face for giving them special treatment. Remember, you owe them nothing. Prioritise your own needs over others and don’t listen to anyone who accuses you of being selfish.

Aquarius (Jan 21 – Feb 19)

Don’t hold back when you are offered an opportunity to earn a commission. Grab it with both hands. This will set you apart from the competition. It is time you receive the rewards you deserve for your exceptional skills.

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Pisces (Feb 20 – Mar 20)

Joining a prestigious organisation that hosts numerous meetings, workshops and conferences will allow you to connect with people seeking talents like yours. Make positive use of your networking skills to secure a position at an innovative company.

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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,277

Here is how things stand on Sunday, August 24:

Fighting

  • Russian forces launched a drone attack on a minibus in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing a 59-year-old man and wounding five others, according to a Ukrainian official.
  • A wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kherson also killed a 69-year-old man, wounded 17 people, and damaged a school and an administrative building in one district, local officials said.
  • Russian forces launched 448 attacks on 17 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region in a single day, according to Ivan Fedorov, the head of the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration.
  • Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed its troops have taken control of two more settlements – Seredne and Kleban-Byk – along the 1, 000km (620-mile) front line in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, while the Ukrainian military said its forces had recaptured a settlement further west, on the edge of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
    In Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, damaged an auxiliary transformer and led to reduction in the operating capacity at one of the plant’s units, officials said early on Sunday.

  • Earlier, one person was killed and another injured when they drove over an explosive device dropped by a Ukrainian drone in the village of Kirillovka in the Bryansk region, the local governor said.
  • Another Russian civilian was killed in a targeted Ukrainian drone attack in the Krasnoyarsk district of Russia’s Belgorod region, an official said.
  • Russian forces also shot down a drone flying towards the Russian capital, Moscow, and intercepted 160 drones and four guided aerial bombs in a 24-hour period, the TASS news agency reported, citing officials.
  • The drone barrage forced several airports in central Russia to suspend operations because of concerns over safe airspace, Russia’s air transport agency Rosaviatsia said. &nbsp,

Politics and diplomacy

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on countries in the Global South to support diplomatic efforts to push Russia to agree to end its war with Ukraine, following talks with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa.
  • Zelenskyy announced new Ukrainian sanctions against 139 individuals and legal entities working for Russia’s war, as well as “28 citizens of different countries, who are equally helping the Russians in maintaining the occupation regime on our land and effectively sponsoring the Russian state”.
  • The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that the Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from launching long-range missile attacks on Russia, as the White House tries to get Moscow to agree to peace talks. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the WSJ report, which cited unnamed US officials.

North Korea’s Kim oversees test-firing of new air defence missiles: Report

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the firing of two new air defence missiles, state media reported, announcing that the tests showed the weapons had “superior combat capability”.

The report on Sunday comes a day before United States President Donald Trump meets his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae-myung, in Washington, DC.

North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the tests, which took place on Saturday, showed that the missiles demonstrated a “fast response” to aerial targets such as attack drones and cruise missiles.

The report did not explain the new missiles in any detail, only that their “operation and reaction mode is based on unique and special technology”.

It also did not say where the test had been carried out.

The launches also come as South Korea and the US continue their annual joint military drills and as the South Korean military announced that it had fired warning shots at several North Korean soldiers who had briefly crossed their heavily militarised border on Tuesday.

The United Nations Command in South Korea put the number of North Korean troops that crossed the border at 30, the Yonhap news agency reported.

North Korean state media, meanwhile, quoted Army Lieutenant General Ko Jong Chol as saying the incident was a “premeditated and deliberate provocation”.

“This is a very serious prelude that would inevitably drive the situation in the southern border area, where a huge number of forces are stationing in confrontation with each other, to the uncontrollable phase”, Ko said.

Earlier this month, Kim condemned the US-South Korea joint military drills as their intent to remain “most hostile and confrontational” to his country, pledging to speed up nuclear build-up.

Joint leader Fleetwood has ‘amazing opportunity’ at Tour Championship

Reuters

Tour Championship – round three leaderboard

-16 P Cantlay (US), T Fleetwood (Eng); -14 R Henley (US); -13 K Bradley (US); -12 S Scheffler (US)

Selected others: -9 S Lowry (Ire), -8 J Thomas (US), R MacIntyre (Sco); -6 R McIlroy (NI), C Morikawa (US); -5 L Aberg (Swe), H Hall (Eng); -4 V Hovland (Nor); -2 J Rose (Eng)

Tommy Fleetwood plans to “go out and enjoy” Sunday’s final round of the $40m Tour Championship as he looks to finally win his first PGA Tour title.

The Englishman, who has had 44 top-10 finishes on the American circuit, is tied for the lead with Patrick Cantlay on 16 under par, with the pair two clear of Russell Henley in third.

Fleetwood, 34, joked earlier this week that he would find it “pretty funny” if he were to triumph this weekend to claim the FedEx Cup and a cheque for $10m (£7.4m) in the season-ending event.

And he looked to be in control of his game on Saturday, with a run of four successive birdies on the front nine before he rolled in another on the 13th to move three clear of the field on 16 under.

However, a “terrible” tee shot on the par-three 15th found water and as Fleetwood finally knocked in for a double-bogey five, Cantlay was holing a birdie putt on the last to set the target at 16 under.

“It was so disappointing,” Fleetwood, who has seven wins on the European-based DP World Tour, said on Sky Sports. “But I wanted to bounce back because I had three holes to play, 21 in the tournament and I’m really happy with how I played 16 and 17.”

I’m where I want to be – Cantlay

“The more times you get it wrong or it doesn’t happen for you, you start to not fear it,” Fleetwood said of his chances of winning after narrowly missing out on victory at the St Jude Championship and Travelers Championship earlier this season.

“Experience is something you can’t practise. It’s all to play for and an amazing opportunity.

“Everybody competing this week wanted to be in that final pair on Sunday and I’m one of those guys. Hopefully I am stood on the 18th green with the trophy.”

And on a leaderboard stacked with great potential storylines, US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley is on 13 under after shooting the low round of the day, a seven-under 63 at East Lake in Atlanta.

Bradley, who is currently 11th on the US ranking list, has already said he faces “the decision of his life” as he contemplates naming himself as one of his six picks to complete the 12-strong US team for next month’s contest against Europe at Bethpage Black in New York.

Arnold Palmer was the last playing captain on a Ryder Cup team in 1963 when the contest was not the behemoth it has become.

That call will be made public on Wednesday, 27 August and Cantlay must be in Bradley’s reckoning too.

Cantlay was fifth in the world heading into the 2023 Ryder Cup, where he became something of a pantomime villain over his decision to not wear a cap. Since then, he has steadily fallen down the rankings to 23rd.

And he has missed out on automatic qualification for the Ryder Cup, meaning he needs a captain’s pick from Bradley to make his third successive US team.

The 33-year-old, who won the Tour Championship in 2021, closed with a hat-trick of birdies to cap an impressive bogey-free 64.

“I feel like I’m striking it well and in control of my golf ball,” he said.

“I’m exactly where I want to be going into Sunday and I’ll keep sticking to my process.”

The leaders will also have an eye on world number one Scottie Scheffler, who is lurking on 12 under after a 66.

Scheffler opened with successive bogeys but five birdies in his next eight holes lifted him to 11 under.

However, he missed several other short birdie putts and after a wayward eight-foot attempt on the 16th, he angrily threw his putter at his bag as his frustrations boiled over.

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre looked to be surging into contention when he reached 11 under with a birdie on the 10th but he too double-bogeyed the 15th after hitting his tee shot into water as he posted a 72 to end on eight under.

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy briefly flickered, getting to nine under with a birdie on the 13th but a poor finish with successive bogeys saw him end on six under overall.

Both of those players have secured their Ryder Cup spots but several European players will be looking to give their captain Luke Donald a timely reminder of their quality on Sunday.

Ireland’s Shane Lowry, who looks likely to be knocked out of the final qualifying spot for the European Ryder Cup team by Rasmus Hojgaard at the British Masters, is the highest placed of those at nine under par.

Lowry cannot improve his ranking at the Tour Championship, while Hojgaard, who is 14th at the Belfry heading into the final round, needs to be in the top 29 to nick that final automatic spot.

Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland of Norway are at five and four under respectively and require Donald to give them the nod.

The same goes for Sepp Straka, who is set to finish eighth, above Aberg and Hovland in the qualification standings. The Austrian has won twice on the PGA Tour this year, but has had a poor week in Atlanta and is bottom of the 30-man field on six over par.

You can follow the final round of the Tour Championship via BBC Sport’s live text page from 18:30 BST on Sunday.

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Joint leader Fleetwood has ‘amazing opportunity’ at Tour Championship

Reuters

Tour Championship – round three leaderboard

-16 P Cantlay (US), T Fleetwood (Eng); -14 R Henley (US); -13 K Bradley (US); -12 S Scheffler (US)

Selected others: -9 S Lowry (Ire), -8 J Thomas (US), R MacIntyre (Sco); -6 R McIlroy (NI), C Morikawa (US); -5 L Aberg (Swe), H Hall (Eng); -4 V Hovland (Nor); -2 J Rose (Eng)

Tommy Fleetwood plans to “go out and enjoy” Sunday’s final round of the $40m Tour Championship as he looks to finally win his first PGA Tour title.

The Englishman, who has had 44 top-10 finishes on the American circuit, is tied for the lead with Patrick Cantlay on 16 under par, with the pair two clear of Russell Henley in third.

Fleetwood, 34, joked earlier this week that he would find it “pretty funny” if he were to triumph this weekend to claim the FedEx Cup and a cheque for $10m (£7.4m) in the season-ending event.

And he looked to be in control of his game on Saturday, with a run of four successive birdies on the front nine before he rolled in another on the 13th to move three clear of the field on 16 under.

However, a “terrible” tee shot on the par-three 15th found water and as Fleetwood finally knocked in for a double-bogey five, Cantlay was holing a birdie putt on the last to set the target at 16 under.

“It was so disappointing,” Fleetwood, who has seven wins on the European-based DP World Tour, said on Sky Sports. “But I wanted to bounce back because I had three holes to play, 21 in the tournament and I’m really happy with how I played 16 and 17.”

I’m where I want to be – Cantlay

“The more times you get it wrong or it doesn’t happen for you, you start to not fear it,” Fleetwood said of his chances of winning after narrowly missing out on victory at the St Jude Championship and Travelers Championship earlier this season.

“Experience is something you can’t practise. It’s all to play for and an amazing opportunity.

“Everybody competing this week wanted to be in that final pair on Sunday and I’m one of those guys. Hopefully I am stood on the 18th green with the trophy.”

And on a leaderboard stacked with great potential storylines, US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley is on 13 under after shooting the low round of the day, a seven-under 63 at East Lake in Atlanta.

Bradley, who is currently 11th on the US ranking list, has already said he faces “the decision of his life” as he contemplates naming himself as one of his six picks to complete the 12-strong US team for next month’s contest against Europe at Bethpage Black in New York.

Arnold Palmer was the last playing captain on a Ryder Cup team in 1963 when the contest was not the behemoth it has become.

That call will be made public on Wednesday, 27 August and Cantlay must be in Bradley’s reckoning too.

Cantlay was fifth in the world heading into the 2023 Ryder Cup, where he became something of a pantomime villain over his decision to not wear a cap. Since then, he has steadily fallen down the rankings to 23rd.

And he has missed out on automatic qualification for the Ryder Cup, meaning he needs a captain’s pick from Bradley to make his third successive US team.

The 33-year-old, who won the Tour Championship in 2021, closed with a hat-trick of birdies to cap an impressive bogey-free 64.

“I feel like I’m striking it well and in control of my golf ball,” he said.

“I’m exactly where I want to be going into Sunday and I’ll keep sticking to my process.”

The leaders will also have an eye on world number one Scottie Scheffler, who is lurking on 12 under after a 66.

Scheffler opened with successive bogeys but five birdies in his next eight holes lifted him to 11 under.

However, he missed several other short birdie putts and after a wayward eight-foot attempt on the 16th, he angrily threw his putter at his bag as his frustrations boiled over.

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre looked to be surging into contention when he reached 11 under with a birdie on the 10th but he too double-bogeyed the 15th after hitting his tee shot into water as he posted a 72 to end on eight under.

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy briefly flickered, getting to nine under with a birdie on the 13th but a poor finish with successive bogeys saw him end on six under overall.

Both of those players have secured their Ryder Cup spots but several European players will be looking to give their captain Luke Donald a timely reminder of their quality on Sunday.

Ireland’s Shane Lowry, who looks likely to be knocked out of the final qualifying spot for the European Ryder Cup team by Rasmus Hojgaard at the British Masters, is the highest placed of those at nine under par.

Lowry cannot improve his ranking at the Tour Championship, while Hojgaard, who is 14th at the Belfry heading into the final round, needs to be in the top 29 to nick that final automatic spot.

Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland of Norway are at five and four under respectively and require Donald to give them the nod.

The same goes for Sepp Straka, who is set to finish eighth, above Aberg and Hovland in the qualification standings. The Austrian has won twice on the PGA Tour this year, but has had a poor week in Atlanta and is bottom of the 30-man field on six over par.

You can follow the final round of the Tour Championship via BBC Sport’s live text page from 18:30 BST on Sunday.

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Six Drown, Three Missing As Residents Flee Over Bandits’ Attack

Three people are still missing after a boat capsized in Garin Faji, Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State, killing six people.

As residents attempted to flee an attack by suspected bandits in the early hours of Thursday, a tragedy struck. Another 19 people were saved.

According to witnesses, panic erupted when armed men were spotted advance, forcing nearby bushes-hiding residents to flee into a canoe that later capsized midstream.

The lawmaker who represents Sabon Birni in the Aminu Boza, the Sokoto State Assembly, lamented that many communities have been forced to relocate due to insecurity.

Over 20 people still missing as NEMA wraps up its search and rescue operation.

Search and rescue operations are still ongoing for the missing, according to the Sokoto State Emergency Management Agency, which also confirmed the deaths. Since then, representatives from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), and the Red Cross have formally inspected the community.

Residents of the area say more presence is required as banditry continues to encircle entire communities, despite the fact that security operatives recently foiled yet another attack.

This is the second incident of this nature to occur in less than a week. In a similar accident that occurred in the Goronyo Local Government Area just six days ago, four people died.

In response to a boat accident in Sokoto, NEMA reported that ten people had been saved. NEMA is credited.

NEMA announced last week that three bodies had been found in the Sokoto State boat accident.

There were 25 people who had been rescued, according to the report, out of the boat’s over 50 passengers.

The organization, however, announced that the search and rescue operation was over.

Aliyu Kafindangi, the NEMA’s Sokoto Operation Office head, made this known on Wednesday.

“For the past three days, we have been on a rescue mission after a boat carrying farmers, market men, and women capsized.