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Championship updates from 12.30pm BST kick-offsLive scores | Latest tables | Relegation lurks for quintetPortsmouth (4-2-3-1) Killip; Devlin, Shaughnessy, Atkinson, Ogilvie; Potts, Lang; Blair, Pack, Murphy; Bishop.Subs: Schmid, Poole, Bramall, Dozzell, Hayden, Gordon, Ritchie, Saydee, O’Mahony.Hull (4-2-3-1) Pandur; Lewie Coyle, Egan, Hughes, McLoughlin; Crooks, Puerta; Kamara, Gelhardt, Joseph; Joao Pedro.Subs: Lo-Tutala, Jones, Lincoln, Burns, Alzate, Drameh, Amrabat, Palmer, Burstow. […]

ALP candidate Ali France ousts Coalition leader from Dickson. Follow today’s news liveAnthony Albanese wins 2025 federal election with Labor on track for majorityWho is Ali France, the Labor candidate who has unseated Peter Dutton in Dickson?Election 2025 results LIVE: Australia votes tracker and federal seat countsListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUnder a perfect blue sky perhaps more reminiscent […]

Premier League updates from the 12.30pm BST kick-offLive scores | Golden Boot race | And you can email JohnRichard Hirst, time-honoured Cottager, gets in touch: “Fulham need to bring Cairney on early then we can channel the 2018 play off final: Sessegnon to Cairney, 1-0. Although there won’t be the added delight of the pass beating John Terry.”Unai Emery spoke to TNT ahead of the game: “We’re so focused to try to get Europe. Europe is the highest ambition we can dream of, and to play […]

Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?Headteachers are taking legal action against Ofsted, England’s schools watchdog, over fears that its new inspection regime is “even worse than before” and likely to harm the mental health of school leaders.The National Association of Head Teachers said it had lodged a claim for a judicial review against […]

‘I’m moving out of the UK – a new life somewhere else’Williams leads Trump 13-11 after morning sessionRonnie O’Sullivan is preparing to start “a new life somewhere else”, revealing he will soon be moving to the Middle East after crashing out of the World Snooker Championship with a heavy semi-final defeat.O’Sullivan’s bid for an eighth Crucible crown ended in a humiliating 17-7 loss to Zhao Xintong with a session to spare on Friday after the Chinese star won all eight frames […]

Championship news, 11am BST start, around the groundsRead the Spin | And you can email Tanya or post BTLFifty on debut for Beau Webster at Headingley, and he lays into his countryman Jordan Buckingham to take Warwickshire into the lead. Warwickshire 215-7, a lead of ten. On this pitch, a lead of fifty or so would be very handy.“Salutations Tanya!” Lovely to hear from you Tim Maitland. ”I’m pondering the ramifications of Jack Leach bowling 30 overs of spin on the first day of a County […]

Live updates from Newmarket on 2,000 Guineas dayPunchestown report/Saturday preview | And mail GregGood afternoon from the Rowley Mile at Newmarket, the historic setting for the 2,000 Guineas, the first Classic of the new Flat season, later today.Eleven runners are due to go to post at 3.35pm BST, and one will take the unique opportunity to add his name to a roll of honour that dates all the way back to 1809. The certain favourite is Field Of Gold, a striking grey, who bolted up in the Craven […]

Lucy and Kyra have accepted that their libidos differ – and their sex life ebbs, flows and evolves accordingly How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyAs it takes Kyra a long time to climax, we usually have sex on the weekend – it takes up a Saturday morning Continue reading...

‘It’s easier to list the things that work than the things that don’t’, said one worker, but customers are impressed by staff resilience and analysts believe the retailer will bounce backUnusual activity on tech systems over the Easter weekend was the first sign of a sustained cyber-attack on Marks & Spencer, which is costing the retailer millions of pounds a day.The group, the UK’s biggest clothing retailer which accounts for a third of underwear sales alongside food and […]

Standing up to the erratic US president will be a key task for Mark Carney, but experts say economic challenges might prove far more testingFor most of his adult life, Mark Carney has thrived in a world where facts matter and logical arguments can suffice.But Canada’s prime minister, who until this week had never held elected office, now enters a domain in which personal slights, ambition and ego often hold more sway than truth or reason. And Carney, who dealt with politicians, some hostile, […]

While many are outraged over the chaos, others have embraced some policies promised on the campaign trail“I’m not a fan of Trump, but he’s delivering a long-overdue kick in the pants to the bloated bureaucracy of the US federal government,” said Martyn, a marketing executive from California. “Seems odd to ask Trump to focus on eliminating corruption, but sometimes you need a crook to catch a crook. It’s been, however, way more chaotic than I thought was possible.”Martyn was among […]

As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of ‘the most contagious human disease’ growsA leading immunologist warned of a “post-herd-immunity world”, as measles outbreaks affect communities with low vaccination rates in the American south-west, Mexico and Canada.The US is enduring the largest measles outbreak in a quarter-century. Centered in west Texas, the measles outbreak has killed two unvaccinated children and one adult and spread to neighboring states […]

Growing up, I had so many questions about Marshall, my hippy older sibling who left home and got embroiled with the Manson Family cult. Years later, I embarked on a quest to find out his true storyOne morning in March 1995, my father and I were having coffee at the kitchen table when somehow the conversation deviated to my brother Marshall. As always, I had questions.“He was tall for his age,” my father said, gazing at the memory of his estranged son, as if he was standing beside us in […]

Olympic medallist not running at Grand Slam TrackThe 29-year-old charged with ‘battery-touch or strike’Fred Kerley, twice an Olympic 100m medallist, has been arrested for allegedly punching the hurdler and his former girlfriend Alaysha Johnson in the face, and the American sprinter will not compete in the Grand Slam Track event in Miami this weekend.The alleged incident occurred on Thursday at a hotel where Johnson, who is listed as a competitor in the Miami event, had an appointment with […]

The president’s little used social media platform offers him a forum for his nonstop haranguing and score-settlingNo political leader has used social media quite like Donald Trump. But his recent posts on Truth Social, the social media platform he founded in 2021, have become increasingly bizarre: the president using the lack of scrutiny afforded by the platform’s small user base to truly let loose.In the hundreds of “Truths” since he took office, Trump has variously used Truth Social […]

Webcam set up to monitor egg-bearing nest atop oak tree guarded by dozens of volunteers in Usk valleyAt 9.15am the male bird took off and soared towards the reservoir in search of a meal. Sixty minutes later he was back, and over the next hour or so he and his mate took turns sharing the fish he had caught and sitting on their three eggs.The appearance of these two ospreys on farmland in the Usk valley in mid-Wales is seen as a milestone in the recovery of the species. Continue reading...

Recording concerts has become a compulsion for many. I’m resolving to put my device away and just dance: I hope others followI’m making a public vow, which I fear I may abandon the moment Lana Del Rey comes on stage at Wembley in July: to stop recording concerts on my phone. Last Sunday, producer and DJ Kaytranada responded to a fan on X who was frustrated at motionless concertgoers with their phones in the air, writing: “I think we have come in this age where everybody’s trying to […]

Soaad Al Shawa had been barred from spending final days with her family, who fled Damascus to settle in GlasgowA Syrian grandmother who is dying of cancer has been given permission to come to the UK to spend her final days with the grandchildren she has never met, after a Home Office U-turn.The government had wanted to bar Soaad Al Shawa, who has liver cancer and has been given just weeks to live by doctors, from travelling to spend her last days with her daughter Ola Al Hamwi, son-in-law […]

The genre-bending cult singer is the subject of an offbeat new documentary where he invites people into a long life filled with ups, downs and LSDSwamp Dogg has only just stopped seeing monsters. Since being spiked with LSD back in the 1960s, which also influenced his distinct take on left-field soul music, the 82-year-old says he could still feel the impacts of it up until just a few years ago. “I was paranoid of crowds and paranoid of being alone,” he says. “I had high anxiety and could […]

People Power party trail in polls in election called after President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed for trying to impose martial lawSouth Korea’s conservative People Power party has picked former labour minister Kim Moon-soo as its candidate for the 3 June presidential election, which was called after the removal of Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed attempt to impose martial law.Kim will face the liberal Democratic party’s candidate, Lee Jae-myung, who has led each of the declared conservative […]

Italian youngster sprung surprise of the season by taking pole for the Miami GP sprint, the youngest F1 driver to do soKimi Antonelli sprung the surprise of the season so far by taking pole position for Saturday’s sprint race at the Miami Grand Prix, the youngest F1 driver to do so.The Italian teenager, just six rounds into his rookie campaign as a replacement for Lewis Hamilton, was born five years after the double world champion Fernando Alonso became the youngest F1 driver to take a pole […]

Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community expected to approve plan to create new cityVoters in a small patch of south Texas are casting their ballots on Saturday in an election that could give Elon Musk a town to call his own. The vote would officially create a new city called Starbase in the area where Musk’s SpaceX holds its Texas rocket launches.A couple of hundred residents of what was previously known as Boca Chica will decide whether to make their […]

The act of labelling journalists ‘foreign agents’ is deliberately chilling. On World Press Freedom Day, be aware of the peril involved in seeking the truthLast month, Georgian president Mikheil Kavelashvili approved a new law inflicting criminal charges, including prison sentences and fines, on any organisation or individual who fails to comply with the country’s “foreign influence” bill.The news didn’t trouble the front pages of the international press and went largely unnoticed, […]

The actor on social anxiety at parties, the gap between her front teeth, and missing the days of video rentalsBorn in Nigeria, Nikki Amuka-Bird, 49, studied at Lamda and began her career with the RSC. In 2017, she was Bafta nominated for her role in the BBC adaptation of Zadie’s Smith’s book NW. The same year, she played the lead in the Donmar’s production of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea. Her recent television work spans Armando Iannucci’s comedy Avenue 5; the action series […]

Focus on Reform or reassure the left – Keir Starmer’s next move could define his premiershipIn a week of difficult local elections, there was a special guest in No 10 to give a pep talk to staff: Arsène Wenger, the former manager of Arsenal, beloved of the prime minister. Keir Starmer has sought his advice before, on the importance of building a team. And they have faced some common challenges, rebuilding their clubs and parties from low ebbs to extraordinary success.Now Starmer may face a […]

Dogs, budgie smugglers and democracy sausages were all part of the 2025 federal election as Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton sought to win votes on the final dayElection 2025 LIVE results: Australia votes tracker and federal seat countsAustralian federal election 2025 LIVE – latest Australia news, updates and results Continue reading...

Barcelona’s 17-year-old forward is a once-every-20-years talent who is causing the internet to spasm with man-worshipThere’s always that guy. Never be that guy. Fight the urge to become that guy, to yearn always for the old, good, safe things, to feel headphone-panic and selfie-disgust, to see moral decay in haircuts. Except, sometimes it turns out you just are that guy, propped up in your easy chair, eyes blazing, smelling slightly of damp laundry, and holding forth on a theme as old as […]

The world No 1 returns at next week’s Italian Open after a three-month anti-doping suspension amid a saga that left players questioning the fairness of the systemJannik Sinner could not help but crack a wry smile when he faced the media before the US Open last year in the aftermath of his anti-doping case, one of the most high-profile in the history of tennis.Sinner, the best player in the world, had been attempting to emphasise just how low the concentration of the banned substance clostebol […]

Growth in the first three months was challenged by Trump’s overhaul plans, and execution of his tariffs created widespread confusion and uncertaintyDonald Trump promised to usher in a new “golden age” for the US economy – one with lower prices, more jobs and greater wealth. This week, his first quarter report card came in, and the new age is off to a chaotic start.Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank for the first time in three years during the first quarter, abruptly turning negative […]

Stylists, dermatologists, aestheticians and nutritionists share the products they return to, time and again• Sunscreen and snail slime: what skincare experts do – and don’t do – to their skinHow often do you come across a beauty product that genuinely changes the game? Not just a nice-to-have, but something that actually works, solving a problem you’d given up on. The shampoo that really defrizzes. The foundation that lasts all day without creasing. The serum that calms, rather than […]

Many jails still in use today were built by the Victorians. Here’s how their 19th-century design is contributing to a 21st-century crisisEngland in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress.Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells.The new prison will be most conducive to the reformation of […]

The local elections showed that voters feel betrayed. But in a party that brooks no dissent, that message isn’t getting throughJohn McDonnell was shadow chancellor for Labour from 2015 to 2020The response from Labour spokespeople so far to the loss of Runcorn and Helsby – and to the election results as a whole – has been especially tin-eared. There doesn’t seem to be any understanding of the deep-seated emotion in the reaction of Labour supporters to the party’s behaviour in […]

When I saw Bill Murray’s classic comedy I realised that I was trapped in my own unfulfilling time loopI didn’t know anything about the plot of Groundhog Day before I decided to watch it 10 years ago. I remember collapsing on to the sofa after work – completely exhausted – and putting it on. My girlfriend was already asleep in the next room. Her drinking had been getting steadily worse that year, but I think we were both in denial about it. Most evenings I’d spend alone, so I’d put […]

Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world It is May 2025, it is 4am, and I am sitting up in bed, sleepless, looking out at a huge moon illuminating the still world.Eighty-five years ago, in 1940, a silently weeping seven-year-old lay on a cracked leatherette sofa in urine-soaked pyjamas, looking through an alien window, praying that that same moon would protect my mum and dad from the killer bombs falling in […]

Cynthia Erivo plays sextuplets! Katie Holmes is an undertaker! And Kumail Nunjiani is the new Tiger King! The super cool, celebrity-packed show is even wilder than everThe best thing about Poker Face is that it doesn’t bother trying to shore up what it knows is a flimsy premise. Fans of the first season will recall that Charlie Cale, Natasha Lyonne’s wisecracking 70s detective homage, has an in-built ability to detect a lie as soon as someone tells it. Instead of trying to explain this gift […]