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The IDF said it detected two rockets launched from southern Lebanon towards northern IsraelWe have some images coming through the newswires of Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, speaking with Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, and other officials in Islamabad this morning.Araghchi arrived in Pakistan last night. He wrote on social media that his trip would focus on “bilateral matters and regional developments”. Continue reading...

County Championship news from around the grounds Sign up for The Spin email | Mail Tanya or post BTLMore on working from The Oval, in case anyone is interested. You just buy a normal ticket and go to whichever area has been set aside for that purpose (the function room etc moves according to events). It is first come, first served, for a laptop and power point.A couple of early wickets, leavering out yesterday’s set batsmen – Marcus Harris caught for 146 off Ben Raine up in at CLS; and Jake […]

⚽ All the latest updates from a huge day of football action⚽ Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa | Live scores | Tables | Email BarryPremier League: Ryan Sessegnon scores on the follow-up to put Fulham ahead after Raul Jimenez had his initial effort blocked. Tim de Lisle has the latest …WSL: Well, well. Japanese international Kiko Seike has taken just two minutes of the second half to fire Brighton ahead against Manchester City at the Broadfield Stadium in what could be a major turn-up for the WSL […]

Bundesliga champions score four second-half goals to stun MainzSubstitute Kane’s 33rd goal of the season earns ninth straight winBayern Munich fought back from three goals down to clinch a 4-3 win over Mainz 05 on Saturday as substitutes Harry Kane and Michael Olise led a second-half comeback for the Bundesliga champions. Dominik Kohr, Paul Nebel and Sheraldo Becker scored for Mainz in the first half while Bayern, who had made eight changes to the starting line-up that beat Bayer Leverkusen […]

Brazilian midfielder’s arrival could mean Ugarte moves onSummer wishlist also includes Real Madrid’s TchouaméniManchester United have identified Éderson, the Atalanta midfielder, as a potential recruit to fill the gap left by Casemiro’s summer departure, with the 26-year-old Brazilian valued at €40m-50m (£35m-£45m).United’s director of football, Jason Wilcox, is an admirer of Éderson and is monitoring the Brazil international after drawing up a list of potential replacements for […]

Extra social media checks brought in amid growing threat to politicians from extremistsThe security company that provides bodyguards for MPs has tightened its vetting processes after it sent a bodyguard with far-right links to protect a politician who was under threat from extremists.Mitie, which has a £31m contract for the work, is updating its CPO (Close Protection Operative) vetting processes to include regular social media checks. There will also be random checks on the social media […]

⚽ Premier League updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-off⚽ Live scores | Table | Top scorers | Follow us on BlueskyJonathan Liew begins his new series of Smiths-themed columns with a look at life in north London.(Next week, he asks whether the ghost of Troubled Jô is haunting Everton’s centre-forwards.) Continue reading...

⚽ FA Cup semi-final updates from the 5.15pm BST kick-off⚽ Live scores | York back in EFL after wild finish | Mail ScottSouthampton will wear yellow and blue this afternoon, as they have done in the FA Cup all season, commemorating the 50th anniversary of their victory in the 1976 final. Those were the colours they sported at Wembley as Bobby Stokes scored late on for Lawrie McMenemy’s second-division side, shocking hot favourites Manchester United. The commemorative shirt has the […]

England 62-24 WalesRed Roses run in 10 tries, Wales earn bonus pointThere is an alternate universe in which Meg Jones played the Six Nations clash between England and Wales in a red shirt instead of a white one. The Red Roses captain was born in Cardiff and can speak fluent Welsh but she chose to play for England, being qualified through her mother. That decision is surely one of the most important to England’s current form with Jones an integral and irreplaceable cog in the Red Roses […]

Claim of nefarious plot draws attention of lawmakers and president – but are disappearances and deaths really linked?Are the disappearances or deaths of at least 11 US scientists, each allegedly connected in some way to space, defense and nuclear research, really linked in a nefarious plot: one that involves the Chinese or other state enemies, or possibly links back to UFOs?A conspiracy theory positing exactly that has roared through sections of the US population in recent weeks, spreading […]

Boro thrash Watford 5-1, West Brom 0-0 IpswichCharlton’s 2-1 win and Baggies’ point relegates OxfordMiddlesbrough’s hopes of winning automatic promotion remain alive after they thrashed Watford 5-1 at the Riverside. With second-placed Ipswich drawing 0-0 at West Brom, Boro moved to within a point of the top-two positions with one game to play – although Ipswich still have a game in hand.Boro’s 5-1 victory was their joint-biggest win of the season and came thanks to doubles from Morgan […]

Soomaaliya is one of few cookbooks to examine Somali food and how conflict has reshaped it across the diasporaOn a video call from Brooklyn, between stops on her book tour, Ifrah F Ahmed is drinking ginger-root tea. The smell transports her to her childhood kitchen, where her mother often baked aromatic cardamom cake.“That’s a core childhood memory for me,” she said. Continue reading...

The court sided with a Canadian hiker who deliberately challenged the order imposed to curb spread of wildfiresAs wildfires raged across Nova Scotia last summer, the Canadian province made a simple plea to residents: stay away from the woods.As the situation deteriorated, authorities turned the request into a prohibition: anyone caught hiking under the shade of the forest canopy faced a C$25,000 fine – a figure more than half the average worker’s yearly salary. Continue reading...

Students aged 12 to 15 steered bus to safety and called for help after driver lost consciousness from asthma attackMiddle school students in Mississippi acted quickly to halt their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a highway, prompting the operator to declare: “They saved my life.”The bus in question had just left the Hancock middle school in the Mississippi community of Kiln on Wednesday when the driver, Leah Taylor, suffered an asthma attack and lost […]

Minstermen are back in the Football League after a decade away, but only after a scarcely believable finishFootball, bloody hell. We may never see the likes of it again after York struck an equaliser in the 103rd minute to secure a dramatic return to the Football League at Rochdale’s expense.The hosts thought they had done it when Mani Dieseruvwe headed a 95th-minute goal that would have sent Dale into League Two. A pitch invasion ensued and after a lengthy delay play restarted. But there was […]

Hisham Abugharbieh was arrested after standoff with police and charged with killing Zamil Limon and Nahida BristyThe man who was detained after two Bangladeshi doctoral students went missing from the University of South Florida (USF) has been booked with two counts of murder.Hisham Abugharbieh faces two counts of premeditated murder in the first degree with a weapon in the deaths of Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, the Hillsborough county sheriff’s office announced on Saturday. Continue […]

Kiko Seike and Madison Haley put Manchester City’s title celebrations on hold as Brighton upset the Women’s Super League leaders. Three points at the Broadfield Stadium would have enabled City to take the title as early as Wednesday, if Arsenal were to lose against Leicester that day. But the race could now go down to the final day, which is 16 May.Brighton could have found themselves at least three goals down within 10 minutes after gifting their opponents several chances – the first of […]

She backed the president as he ran millions of dollars in anti-trans ads. Now she’s disappointed her passport has the wrong genderThoughts and prayers for Caitlyn Jenner. It seems that it’s starting to dawn on the Olympian and reality TV star that being a rich, white, Maga supporter doesn’t entirely shield her from Donald Trump’s transphobic policies.What sparked that realization? Was it the millions of dollars spent by the Trump campaign on anti-trans ads during the 2024 election? Was […]

As Maria Balshaw steps down after nine years, her successor at the gallery needs to forge a fresh financial and cultural pathRoland Rudd, the chair of Tate, is in a bullish mood when we meet at his offices in the Adelphi Building, which sits on the Thames between the art institution’s two London sites. “Things have never been better,” he says.It’s a rebuff to any suggestion that the organisation is in flux – and, as if he were expecting the question to arise, Rudd produces a piece of […]

Anti-war, anti-ICE, anti-authoritarian Christians and Catholics are organizing around their faith in opposition to the version claimed by Trump and HegsethThe Trump administration has long tried to wrap itself in Christianity, with Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, invoking warfare “in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ”. Trump even recently posted an AI image of himself as a Christ-like figure (later claiming he thought it was a doctor) and streamed himself reading the […]

Our resident product tester sips and puckers his way through a range of high-street balsamic vinegars• The best supermarket gherkinsThe old adage that you get what you pay for definitely applies to balsamic vinegar, no matter whether it’s an independent brand or a supermarket’s own-label. The best are made in Modena, Italy, and carry at least IGP (protected geographical indication) status. Though that’s not the strictest certification, it’s still a mark of quality, assuring the […]

As AI erases the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder, some gen Z workers skip the entry level to become their own CEOsWhen Ashley Terrell graduated from the University of Hawaii in 2024, she planned to find a job in marketing, maybe for a tech company. She had a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a college résumé that included a student marketing job for Red Bull. But after months of applying, her only offer was to work in the power tools section at Home Depot. “It was […]

Some familiar, arcane terms are returning to the fore as the Tories study the tactics Labour used against Boris JohnsonThe lexicon of a British parliamentary scandal is arcane.As Keir Starmer fights to remain prime minister, he has had to respond to a “humble address”, had his judgment picked over during an “emergency opposition day debate” and now faces the ignominy of a “privilege motion”. Continue reading...

Unhindered by critics who called the $114m project ‘a bridge to nowhere’, a gigantic throughway allowing animals to cross a busy freeway is close to completionAtop a gigantic wildlife bridge in California this week, butterflies filled the air. A red-tailed hawk sailed above as a slight breeze ruffled the 6,000 native plants, including poppies and purple sage. You’d never guess that below the quiet expanse of rocks and plants, a 10-lane freeway ferries 400,000 cars each day.When the […]

Industry figures say that going viral is no replacement for the classic route of apprenticeships and competitionsScroll through your timeline of choice and it won’t be long until you land on a video posted by a social media chef trying to send their recipes viral.Such is the popularity of cooking videos that everyone from Michelin star masters to self-taught beginners like Brooklyn Beckham are setting up tripods on their kitchen counters to capture the perfect cut, cuission or crust on their […]

The economy and public finances were on the right path, bond yields were falling, interest rates likely to drop further … then came the US-Israeli attackDonald Trump’s war on Iran is “folly”; shadow chancellor Mel Stride should be “lined up for the sack”; and the Liberal Democrat Daisy Cooper’s plan for managing fuel shortages is “fundamentally economically illiterate”.Rachel Reeves has always relished a political fight, but in recent days she has been swinging at her […]

Being financially equipped to retire feels like a fantasy. And yet plenty of people who could do so are avoiding it“Retirement.” A word I can hardly spell anymore, it seems so abstract and impossible – like a science-fiction concept from a tattered old novel. In the classic film Blade Runner, “retirement” is the term used to describe the brutal ritual of future cops executing rogue androids called replicants (which auto-correct just tried to turn into “Republicans” against my […]

A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motivesShortly before Christmas 2022, Chakrit Sakunkrit, owner of the Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary on the Thai island of Koh Samui, invited 200 guests to spend a few days celebrating his 60th birthday. One sultry afternoon, Sakunkrit and a small group gathered around a table near the shore, surrounded by the burgundy foliage of Good Luck plants. To his right, dressed down in a polo shirt, sat […]

Dartmoor: We went for a family walk on the moor, and I ended up seeing something really rare and specialIt was a bright spring morning, and I had gone up to Dartmoor with my mum, my brother and my grandma for a walk in the fresh sunshine. My mum suggested that we go off the path to look at some bluebells and everyone agreed. It was beautiful. I could hear the birds singing and see the granite rocks sparkling.My grandma and my brother walked away from us, and I went in the opposite direction […]

The clean geometry of the Iran Mall in Tehran, and the way light moves through it, caught the fine art photographer’s eyeThe Iran Mall in Tehran is the largest shopping mall in the world. Ali Zolghadri recalls it being fairly empty the day he took this image, four months before the US and Israel launched their war on Iran. “This particular spot is in the central atrium. It’s a huge, futuristic space with sweeping curved lines, layered architecture, metallic surfaces and massive […]

Italian newspapers claim singer and actor, who is tipped to be next James Bond, are planning ‘wedding of the year’ in the cityLast July, Dua Lipa shared a series of photos on Instagram while on holiday in Palermo with Callum Turner, the British actor she had become engaged to weeks earlier. In these photos, the pair appeared radiantly in love with each other – and the Sicilian capital.There were pictures of the couple strolling through the city’s vibrant baroque alleys, admiring the […]

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Gloucestershire: I have loved watching the busy nest near our house, now the chicks have fledged and keep coming in the houseSpring is a relief after four months of darkness in my valley. We live on the north side, so the sun doesn’t rise above the tree line for the whole winter. A sign of spring returning is the birdsong, as they call the sun back to our valley. One of my favourites is the robin, which sings all through the year, but I have really noticed them this spring. They are bold and […]

Jets flew from bases in Romania but did not open fire as potential targets stayed within Ukrainian airspaceTwo RAF Typhoons have been scrambled from a Romanian air base to engage Russian drones close to Nato airspace, although they did not open fire.British defence sources said the fighter jets did not enter Ukrainian airspace, contradicting reports that Russian drones had been shot down by the RAF there, an event which would have represented a major escalation in hostilities between the […]

West Midlands police confirm deaths in blaze on Friday eveningTwo young children have died in a house fire in Wolverhampton, West Midlands police have confirmed.Emergency services were called to the property in the south of the city at about 8.30pm on Friday, with first responders attending from West Midlands police fire and ambulance services. Continue reading...