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Baking Impossible is Netflix’s new reality competition show and foodies will love it: While many baking competition shows already exist, Baking Impossible adds an element of engineering into the mix for a fresh take on an already popular concept, now coined “bakineering”. Teams consist of a baker and an engineer and together they are tasked to create towering and complex food creations that look and taste good while also withstanding a stress test that changes every week. For example, in an early episode the teams are tasked with creating an edible boat and the stress test is that it must traverse a long tank filled with obstacles without sinking.

⚽ There’s more from the Egyptian Premier League tonight: Al Ahly play their first game of the season, meeting Ismaily at 8pm. Pyramids and Misr Lel Makassa kick off at 5:30pm.

The quarter-finals of the English League Cup will be decided tonight: The headline clash will see Man City — who have earned the trophy for the past four seasons — travel to in-form West Ham. Liverpool’s path to the next round should be fairly straightforward with a game against Preston, while Burnley host Spurs and Leicester play Brighton in the other two all-Premier League fixtures.

A couple of big matches in La Liga: Barcelona will want to recover from their home defeat in Sunday’s El Clasico with a victory against Rayo Vallecano (kick off: 7pm), who sit one point above them in the table. Meanwhile, Real Madrid can overtake Real Sociedad to go top of the table with a victory against sixth-placed Osasuna (kick off: 9.30pm). Also playing tonight: Real Mallorca v Sevilla at 7pm, and Real Betis v Valencia at 8pm.

Over in Italy’s Serie A, here are our picks of the six games tonight: Under-firing Juventus play Sassuolo and fifth-placed Atalanta travel to Sampdoria (kick offs: 6.30pm). Later, Roma are away to Cagliari and Inter Milan face Empoli (kick offs: 8:45pm). Just a reminder that the matches are available to watch on YouTube.

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The Breaking Walls Dance Film Festival is kicking off today, showcasing films about dance from Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Argentina. The event will run until the end of the month and is taking place at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Zamalek.

A creative exhibition titled A Piece of Memory is being held at the Cairo Opera House, with artist Sara Medhat creating collages by drawing on old cassette tapes and floppy discs. The exhibit is running until Saturday.

Lamasatt Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition titled Chess that explores the relationship between the colors white and black and what they symbolize. The exhibit runs through to Saturday.

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Dave Eggers once again questions humanity’s obsession with technology in his newest novel The Every: Egger’s previous book, The Circle, took place in a world where everyone’s personal data is made public thanks to the business model of the world’s most powerful internet company, named The Circle. The new sequel, The Every, sees the company merge with an enormous ecommerce site (ahem ahem Amazon), creating the most powerful tech giant on the planet. The novel follows Delaney Wells, a new hire at The Every, who has a secret agenda to destroy the monopoly from the inside and end its surveillance of humanity. However, as she proceeds with her mission she makes a shocking revelation… maybe humanity doesn’t want to be saved.