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Live coverage from Roland Garros from 10am UK timeKyrgios’s latest injury casts doubt on tennis futureYou can send your thoughts to Daniel via emailI can’t lie, I’d like further detail on the Roland-Garros tattoo parlour. How busy is it? Who’s been? What kind of thing are people getting? Any spider webs on faces or tears beneath eyes?Krueger is playing nicely. Andreeva forces her through deuce in order to endorse, but she get there in the end; they’re both smacking it, but it’s the […]

Whether you want know about starring in hit comedies, raising the roof at awards ceremonies or snogging Elton John, the actor is ready to tell allUnlike the Neighbours/Home and Away route to Hollywood taken by Guy Pearce, Liam and Chris Hemsworth, Isla Fisher and Margot Robbie, Rebel Wilson started her career in Australian comedy series Pizza and spinoff film Fat Pizza, comedy sketch show The Wedge and musical comedy series Bogan Pride. It’s no wonder, perhaps, she went on to a career playing […]

Hywel Williams given 12-month suspended sentence after telling court he ‘deeply’ regretted stealing animalsA Welsh farmer has been handed a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to stealing more than 70 sheep from a neighbour, citing financial stress.At least 73 ewes in lamb were rustled in March by Hywel Williams, of Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, from land belonging to Rhodri Llyr Evans near Llandysul. Continue reading...

From her Academy Award-winning performance in Prizzi’s Honor to the deliciously morbid Morticia Addams, we count down the Hollywood great’s top 10 turnsWielding a Belarusian accent like a weapon, Huston joins the Wickiverse as The Director, head of the Ruska Roma syndicate, who is forced to help Wick when every assassin in Manhattan is trying to kill him. She can also be seen bullying a dancer, a taste of things to come since The Director will be back very soon, in Ballerina, the new Wick […]

Southwark Playhouse, London A droll Dionysos, an ab-obsessed himbo and a waddling ballet for goggle-clad frogs can’t outshine Sondheim’s songs in this rarely seen version of the ancient Greek satireThe interval playlist includes Crazy Frog, which isn’t by Stephen Sondheim. But the composer’s own springy numbers are the best reason to catch this rarely seen musical based on ancient Greek satire.Aristophanes, writing at the fag end of a protracted war, conjures demigod Dionysos, […]

British arm of Maximus is biggest provider of functional assessment services for DWPThe British arm of a US contractor that tests whether some people in the UK should receive disability benefits has reported a 23% rise in profits.Maximus, a Virginia-based business, reported an increase in pre-tax profits for its UK arm from £23.6m to £29.1m in its financial year to the end of September, accounts lodged at Companies House show. Its revenue rose 2%, from £294m to £300m. Continue reading...

Kelly Smith and two others convicted over disappearance of Joshlin Smith, who the court heard was sold to traditional healer for ‘eyes and skin’A South African woman and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her then six-year-old daughter, in a case that has gained international attention since the child went missing last year.Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, and their friend Steveno van Rhyn were convicted of kidnapping and trafficking […]

‘Extinction-level cuts’ to space agency’s spending means labs will close and deep-space missions will be abandonedSome of the greatest mysteries of the universe, such as the possibility of life on Mars, and whether humans could ever live on Venus, may never be solved because of Donald Trump’s proposed “extinction-level” cuts to Nasa spending, scientists are warning.The Trump administration revealed last month its plan to slash the space agency’s overall budget by 24% to $18.8bn, […]

Exclusive: researchers say defence spending boosts across world will worsen climate crisis which in turn will cause more conflictA global military buildup poses an existential threat to climate goals, according to researchers who say the rearmament planned by Nato alone could increase greenhouse gas emissions by almost 200m tonnes a year.With the world embroiled in the highest number of armed conflicts since the second world war, countries have embarked on military spending sprees, collectively […]

When my local club teamed up with the William Morris Gallery to produce the most beautiful shirt in the country, I had to make a film about itIn an address to the Trades Guild of Learning in 1877, William Morris, the Victorian poet, textile designer and soon-to-be socialist, said: “I do not want art for a few, any more than I want education for a few, or freedom for a few.”In an unequal society in which the elites and middle classes had the time and money to spend on the arts, while the […]

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?The Thursday quiz has always been interested in fjords, not least since it was revealed in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that they were the design work of Slartibartfast. However, it is difficult to ask questions about them. What is the longest fjord? Well, where are you measuring from and how are you accounting for curves? How many fjords are there in Norway? Nobody has ever really […]

OVO Hydro, GlasgowDespite some beautiful songs, this anniversary show drags and it seems as though the mature singer no longer feels the words he wrote in his 20s‘Get lifted” is Glaswegian slang for being taken into police custody. It seems unlikely, to say the least, that John Legend knew this when choosing Glasgow to open his Get Lifted 20th Anniversary world tour. Still, his appearance is appropriately arresting, strolling on stage in the sort of dazzling white suit that looked so fine […]

Defence minister says move ‘prevents establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel’Middle East crisis live – latest news updatesIsrael has said it will establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation, after a security cabinet vote held in secret last week.Israel occupied the West Bank, capturing it from Jordan, in the six-day war of 1967. Since then, successive governments have […]

Enjoy barista-quality results without the price tag with our coffee guru’s favourite subscription services, with everything from beans to pods• The best coffee machines for your homeA steaming cup of barista-made coffee is something worth getting out of bed for on a Monday morning. Whether your poison is a flat white, a filter or an oat milk latte, a little treat makes easing into the working week significantly less painful.But habits are changing. More than half of the respondents to a […]

Pacino is somewhat flat and Dan Stevens seems to be waiting for the final curtain as they with a young woman in Iowa apparently possessed by a demonThis low-budget, minor-key and – frankly – dreary horror feature offers yet another dramatisation of the 1928 exorcism of a young woman (played here by Abigail Cowen), known by her alias Anna Ecklund and her real name Emma Schmidt. The real-life ritual, which transpired at a nunnery in Iowa, was overseen by elderly German Capuchin priest Father […]

Single-use grills are ‘the worst form of litter’, says the boss of Keep Britain Tidy, whose own young son was badly burned by one left on a beach. They’re also a terrible way to cook. Should shops stop selling them?Toby Tyler can still hear his son William’s scream. “That will never, ever leave us,” he says, speaking on a video call from the family home in Stockport, Greater Manchester. “But we didn’t understand what had happened. We thought he’d stood on something that had […]

As the price of the precious metal soars to record levels, underground gunfights have erupted in the Andean region of Pataz as the mines’ riches draw in brutal crime cartelsDeep in the mountains of northern Peru, a bloody war is being fought over gold. As its international price sets successive record highs above $3,000 (£2,220) an ounce, criminal gangs, illegal miners and established mining companies battle over the metal.The conflict is not fought out in the open but in a maze of tunnels […]

The league is exploring plans to set up a competition in Europe. But, from playing style to fan culture, it would be a clash of visionsWhile the multibillion dollar behemoth that is the NBA means North America is basketball’s powerhouse, the sport thrives in Europe where raucous crowds give the professional game across the Atlantic a compelling charisma while producing superstars such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Victor Wembanyama, Luka Dončić and Nikola Jokić.The character of professional […]

Foreign ministry hits back at ‘political and discriminatory’ move announced by Marco RubioUS politics live – latest updatesChina has lodged a protest over the US declaration that it will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students studying at US universities.China’s ministry of foreign affairs told reporters on Thursday that it had formally objected to Washington over Wednesday’s announcement by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state. Continue reading...

Brian Mathew concerned terminally ill people will decide to end their lives as they feel ‘they have become a burden’UK politics live – latest updatesA second Liberal Democrat MP has said they have changed their mind over the assisted dying bill and will vote against it at the next Commons stage, in another sign of a wider, if so far slight, ebbing away of support for the measure.In an email to constituents, Brian Mathew, the Melksham and Devizes MP, said that while he had backed the bill […]

Decades-long dispute between council and GMB union resurfaces after report shows 140% rise in missed collectionsThe threat, if not explicit, was thinly veiled. Written in capitals, it had been left on a car parked outside the home of a waste-depot manager. The car’s tyres had been slashed. “Leave the case alone. Brakes next,” it said. “Nice dogs by the way.”It may sound like a scene from a Sopranos-style mafia drama, but the threat was not made in mob-run New Jersey – the note was […]

‘Nationally significant’ status granted to reservoirs in East Anglia and Lincolnshire with seven more planned by 2050The government has ordered the building of two reservoirs, the first to be built in England for more than 30 years.The lack of reservoir capacity, combined with a rising population and drier summers caused by climate breakdown, has put the country at risk of water shortages. The government warned in recent weeks of an impending drought if there was not significant rainfall […]

A chef can taste the favourite foods of the departed, in this debut mash-up of satire, ghost story and slushy romanceReading Aftertaste, I found myself wondering how readers visualised novels before the age of cinema. Now we all have a set of preformed mental images of things we might never have seen – or won’t ever see – in real life, from plane crashes to zombie apocalypses. Sometimes, a novel comes along with a climactic scene that’s so exact a fit for a particular movie’s […]

Brazil Avenue was meant to symbolise progress – today it tells the story of a city at war with itselfWhen Renato Oliveira boarded a bus down Brazil Avenue one morning last October it should have been just another normal commute.Traveling along Rio’s most important motorway, it usually took the 48-year-old meat packer just under an hour to reach his factory – enough time for a nap. “Don’t let me miss my stop,” Oliveira told a friend before nodding off against the window. Continue […]

Defence argues photos taken by police inside Patterson’s home appear to show computers and a phone that were not seized during searchWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?The detective in charge of the investigation into the deadly beef wellington lunch served by Erin Patterson has denied police made several errors in the case, including failing to seize electronic items during a search of her house and wrongly identifying her son on CCTV […]

Ruling from court of international trade in New York comes after slew of lawsuits arguing president exceeded authorityUS politics live – latest updatesA US trade court has ruled Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs regime illegal, in a dramatic twist that could block the US president’s controversial global trade policy.The ruling by a three-judge panel at the New York-based court of international trade came after several lawsuits argued that Trump had exceeded his authority, leaving US trade […]

Dillon often finds his devices are dead because Amber unplugs them before bedtime. You decide if she is guilty as chargedFind out how to get a disagreement settled or become a jurorWaking up to find your phone or toothbrush are out of charge gets the day off to a really bad startI would rather unplug things and live with the slight inconvenience than burn the house down Continue reading...

One of the game’s modern greats still wants to play Tests and is looking forward to the ‘nice buzz’ of an English summerThe world’s third-best Test batsman has made a quiet arrival in London for the beginning of a four-month stint in county cricket. Middlesex made headlines recently by saying they were keen to sign Virat Kohli. Maybe next year. This one, they’ve got his friend and contemporary Kane Williamson who, with his gear stuffed into a Karachi Kings kit bag, was picked up from […]

For her latest exhibition, the Ethiopian photographer drove a minivan around the country, resulting in images that explore identity, gender and conflict. ‘It was a crash course in history,’ she saysGrowing up, Aïda Muluneh moved around a lot. She was born in Ethiopia, but also lived in Yemen, Cyprus, Canada and, for a short time, England. There was a spell in Sunderland for about eight months when she was six: “My mother was dating a guy from the UK,” she says. “I have very distinct […]

If private finance is used for road tunnel, analysis finds it would need to charge £8.10 for cars and £14 for lorriesTolls on motorists to cross the Thames east of London at Dartford could triple if the Lower Thames Crossing is built using private finance, campaigners have claimed.Plans for the £9.2bn crossing were signed off in March and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said the government was exploring options to privately finance the project, which is Britain’s biggest roadbuilding […]

A key a protagonist of the psychedelic counterculture, Rosemary Woodruff lived a life every bit as fascinating as her husband’sOf Timothy Leary, we know plenty. How, in the early 1960s, he gave LSD to his psychology students at Harvard, to the inmates of a maximum-security jail to see whether it would stop them reoffending, to artists such as Charlie Mingus and Allen Ginsberg to map how it expanded their creativity.The Beatles’ song Tomorrow Never Knows was based on his writings. Mick […]

A study of Yorkshire’s rivers is helping scientists understand the impact everyday pollutants are having on waterways – and the results are soberingPhotographs by Christopher ThomondRivers carry more than just water through Britain’s landscapes. A hidden cocktail of chemicals seeps out of farmland, passes undetected through sewage treatment works, and drains off the roads into the country’s rivers. Normally these chemicals flow through unreported, silently restructuring ecosystems as […]

Right now, the monarch’s political leanings appear in sympathy with the mood of Britain. But what if the public moves further to the right?It requires an effort to keep reminding yourself of the sheer historical oddity of monarchy’s healthy survival into the modern democratic age. Yet so rooted is the monarchy in the mental furniture of Britain that most people in our politics barely think about it. This week, however, the modern British monarchy has stood up and demanded to be counted, […]

Earl of Shrewsbury is fifth peer to face an inquiry after Guardian reporting into upper houseThe House of Lords watchdog has launched an investigation into a Conservative hereditary peer who admitted he “erroneously” made claims last year for travel expenses he did not incur. He is the fifth peer to face an inquiry after Guardian reporting into the upper house.The Earl of Shrewsbury is being examined for a potential breach of rules after revelations he received reimbursement for mileage for […]

The opening of the V&A East Storehouse and Sadler’s Wells East mark the transformation of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park into an exciting new creative hub for the capitalThere’s a collective intake of breath as the curator slowly unzips the white garment bag to reveal the treasure within: a white military-style jacket embellished with gold buttons and epaulettes, worn by Elton John on his 1981 World tour. To my left, laid out on a table, are a gold Versace bag and a pair of daintily […]